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: sustainability
Built Environment Earthday Inspiration
Today, April 22nd is Earthday. Earth Day is an annual day on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for environmental protection. Earth Day is observed on April 22 each year. The April 22 date was designated as International Mother Earth … Continue reading
Green Deal Guidance for the Property Industry
The Department of Energy and Climate Change has published The Green Deal: Guidance for the Property Industry in Great Britain aimed at property practitioners dealing with domestic or non-domestic properties The Green Deal is designed to help householders and businesses … Continue reading
Posted in Green Deal
Tagged DECC, Green Deal, greendeal, more than just a green deal, Property, Property Industry, sustainability
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From Greendeal to Mindfulness in Sustainability
My More than Just a Green Deal keynote to the Merseyside Construction Conference March 13th 2013, making the case to see Green Deal as part of the Green Build and Sustainability agenda, and the need for doing the right green … Continue reading
Posted in Green Deal, sustainability
Tagged carbon, chouinard, climate, environment, fairsnape, Green Deal, keynote, mindfulness, Route to Zero, survivability, sustainability, think different, winning work
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Construction Localism – how do you compare against benchmark?
Construction ‘localism’ is currently high on the agenda. And set to grow in importance. There is, rightly, much talk and focus on localism within construction projects and frameworks at the moment, based on the principle of keeping project spend local. … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, procurement, sustainability
Tagged benchmark, benchmarking, built environment improvement, carbon emission, constructco2, construction, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, environment, fairsnape, footprint, frameworks, localism, Route to Zero, Social Media Construction, sustainability, sustainable construction
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Managing sustainability knowledge across social media.
After last weeks UCLAN Centre for Sustainable Development, Social Media launch session I was asked how to ‘manage’ and ‘filter’ what you can learn and share across the world of social media sustainability. It was not too easy to summarise in a few minutes … Continue reading
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Tagged Buffer, built environment improvement, Coffee, CSD, evernote, flipboard, google reader, Green Vision, instapaper, Linkedin, Route to Zero, social media, social media clinics, Social Media Construction, support, sustainability, sustainable construction, Twitter, UCLAN
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Have we picked the low hanging fruit of Sustainable Construction?
The mid 90′s saw my first involvement with sustainable construction, as Business Improvement Manager, setting up strategy and awareness programmes for Mowlem Construction, driven it should be noted to address client bid requirements in PFI and Prime Contracting. At that … Continue reading
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Tagged #GVisChat, accommodationalist, circular economy, climate, collaborative working, construction, CSR, environment, green build, Green Vision, Healthy Product Declaration Standard, ISO 14001, Living Building Challenge, mindfulness, Route to Zero, sustainability, sustainability policy, zero
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Are we so oblivious to the ways of nature?
“After 10 generations of industrial society, and with most people in the west removed from a world of soil and sweat, we are so oblivious to the ways of nature that we cannot bring ourselves properly to absorb its vital importance” Mark Cocker author of Crow Country … Continue reading
Posted in nature, reviews, sustainability
Tagged Crow Country, Mark Crocker, nature, reconnecting, sustainability, Tony Jupiter
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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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3 R’s for rethinking built environment sustainability
Its over ten years since rethinking construction became the driving force for improving the construction industry. Back then, in 1998, sustainability wasn’t on the agenda for many construction organisations, and didnt feature in Egans influential report. Now at the close of … Continue reading
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Tagged construction, sustainability, toxic materials, Patagonia, rethinking construction, benchmarkwalks, connecting with nature, resilience, cradle to cradle, benchmarking, Green Vision, GVis2012, design, natural capital, Interface, circular economy, Living Building Challenge, designing out landfill, Earth2.0, re-design, Re-Connect, deep green thinking, One Planet Living, Re-Kindle, nature, Healthy Products Standard, #Givschat, Living Building Challenge UK Collaborative
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A low carbon diet for construction boards
Question for you:who on your board is really championing sustainability and the low carbon agenda? Board members, as Lucy Marcus reminded us at construcTALKs, need to balance continuity with change, to embrace the changes in technology. From my experience in (small-medium) construction organizations, boards are … Continue reading →