Tag Archives: greenbuild

Powering the Green Deal

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

How social media can help drive the Green Deal programme. Great to see our interview article in latest issue of GreenBuildNews. (Page 16, special report) The original interview with Stephen Kennet can be found on 2DegreesNetwork The Be2 Social Media … Continue reading →

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Ten tips: building green for contractors on a budget

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

Ever-changing regulations surrounding environmental policy require contractors to re-examine business practices on a regular basis. Unfortunately, contractors are left to interpret a great deal of industry regulations on their own. Among these confounding regulations are those concerning environmental protection. Guest … Continue reading →

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US Green building may follow EU model …

Posted on January 27, 2009 by

Heres an interesting article that Google alerts brought to my attention:  Future green construction may follow European models in the Portand Journal of Commerce. As the building industry searches for the next big thing, the likelihood increases that builders, developers, architects … Continue reading →

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affordability and sustainability

Posted on November 21, 2008 by

As I was delivering a bid to win workshop yesterday we covered the issue of project prices and costs, and as usual had the debate about the high cost of low price.  The trick is to break the cycle of … Continue reading →

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Green build goes big in San Jose

Posted on April 2, 2008 by

Over 13000 delegates, 100 speakers and 380 exhibitors are expected at West Coast Green, the world’s largest residential green building conference, in San José this September. The event, that will be a green zero-waste conference, will also include live blogging, … Continue reading →

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sustainability – barriers or opportunities?

Posted on February 26, 2008 by

As expected a number of mixed and potentially confusing announcements made at Eco Build question progress towards zero carbon construction, question the defintion of carbon zero while setting more targets for (non domestic) zero carbon construction by 2020. Founder of … Continue reading →

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