martin brown
Improvement advocate in the built environment with a passion for social media, wildness, music, mountains, walking, cycling, astronomy, geostuff, outdoor, inspirations, dark skies, connectivity, edge of chaos, improvement, natural environment, CSR, built environment, virtual worlds, resilience, community enterprise ... and more
Tag Archives: PAS 2030
Innovation Voucher Provision
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is making Innovation Vouchers available worth up to £5000 for construction and built environment companies. Applications are due to open on the 10th of December and close on the 23rd of January 2013. Fairsnape in association with IBE-Partnership is delighted … Continue reading
Posted in benchmarking, best practice, fairsnape, improvement, social media, sustainability, winning work
Tagged benchmarking, bidding, BIM, collaborative working, Construction Carbon, CSR, Customer Management, EFQM, innovation vouchers, ISO14001, last planner, lean construction, PAS 2030, social media, Strategy, sustainability
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FMB to offer Green Deal Installer Certification from Sept 2012.
The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) is launching FMB Certification, a ‘complete solution’ registration and certification service to companies committed to delivering the highest standards of customer service and workmanship in the building industry. The FMB is pleased to be … Continue reading
When our Green Deal and BIM worlds collide
Rushing from a Green Deal event in Lancashire to the ThinkBIM BIM event in Yorkshire has me thinking of when and how these two seemingly separate worlds and agenda will collide. Green Deal, if successful will drive mass refurbishment of … Continue reading
Posted in green buildings, Green Deal, refurbishment
Tagged Green Deal, greendeal, PAS 2030, sustainable construction
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Summary of Green Deal Consultation Responses
A Summary of Green Deal Consultation Responses collated via twitter: The public consultation process for Green Deal closed last Wednesday with DECC reporting over 600 responses. It will be interesting how DECC make sense of all. A quick read through … Continue reading
Green Deal – heading for failure or success?
There has been a spate of interesting “Green Deal will fail articles” recently, for example DECC research suggests Green Deal will flop from Business Green Green deal suffers setback as loft insulations set to plummet from the Guardian and on George … Continue reading
Green Deal PAS 2030 – Necessary Control or Unnecessary Burden?
What may well become one of the most significant UK standards in refurbishment, eco-refits and green deal, possibly up there with ISO 9001 and CDM, PAS 2030, has been released in draft for consultation through the BSi. (PAS is a … Continue reading
Building Down Green Deal Barriers
Themes covered in the Cumbria Green Deal workshop yesterday, both within round table groups and in general discussions were strikingly familiar, being the age old improvement issues that the construction and built environment sector has been trying to address for … Continue reading →