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Green Vision in Leeds – Retrofit Reality (including the Empire State Building)

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On Thursday 1st December I’ll be joining Martin Brown (@fairsnape) in providing live blogging for the next seminar in Green Vision Yorkshire and Humber’s autumn networking series on eco retrofit – aka #GVis2011. GVis2011 is a unique series of events hosted by Leeds Metropolitan’s Centre for Knowledge Exchange and the Construction Sector Network, which bring [...]

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How is Architectural Practice changing? Join me in Cardiff on 9 December

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This year the Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW – @ArchitectsWales) autumn Conference is called “Practice Makes Perfect”. We’ll be looking at how the practice of architecture is changing in the UK. The current recession is dragging on and it is now three years since the first swathe of redundancies in UK Architecture, and [...]

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RIBA Housing Conference Live Blog – please take the survey

I’m just back from the live blogging of the #RIBAHousing conference in Cambridge today and would like your help. If you have viewed the live blog, either whilst it was going or since, please take a minute to complete the short survey below for me. It will help me work out how to blog better, [...]

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Workplace Trends Conference 2011 – Property is a People Business

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On 20th October I’ll be live tweeting/live blogging the Workplace Trends conference from the Royal College of Physicians in London. The Workplace Trends conference is dedicated to up and coming ideas about workplace design and operation, and the event has some great speakers including Michael Pawlyn who will speak about Biomimicry in sustainable design, and [...]

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RIBA Conference: Housing: Creating designs for life

Next week (Thursday 13th October) I shall be at the RIBA Housing conference in Cambridge and shall be live blogging the event using CoveritLive. This will be my first outing with CoveritLive, a service which allows visitors to read about an event and participate in a discussion through an interactive console. The system has been [...]

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The Foundation Works – Learning about Letting Go

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Yesterday I was at the Norwich Property and Construction networking event, The Foundation Works, as a guest of the organisers, Daniel Connal Partnership Surveyors in Norwich. This was the second event that DCP have organised and I can see why they are having so much success. For me the key to the value of the [...]

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Talking to Architects: CIMCIG Seminar: The Changing Face of Specification and Selection: Slides and White Paper

Last week I was honoured to speak to an audience of construction product marketers at the Building Centre in Store Street in London, about the role of the Architect in the specification process. I’m grateful to Ross Sturley and the folks at CIMCIG for giving me the opportunity, and for making an ideal forum for [...]

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The Business Case for Collaboration in a Recession – But who buys?

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Yesterday I was in London for some meetings (more about them another time) and I was able to go along to an event organised by Bernie Mitchell in the evening at which Don Ward, CEO of Constructing Excellence, gave a talk entitled ‘Never Waste a Good Crisis’ – a great slogan borrowed from the Obama [...]

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Community Land Trusts – 2011 Conference – Are you going? #CLT11

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Last June I had the pleasure to attend the CLT10 conference and heard Grant Shapps talk about the Community Right to Build for the first time. I wrote at the time about how not for profit development trusts including the CLTs should talk to the construction industry, including architects and developers, about how to make [...]

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Best Architecture Engineering and Construction Social Media Blog

It was announced at the ConstrucTALKs Be2camp event yesterday that Just Practising has won the title ‘Best AEC Social Media Blog’ in the inaugural Be2 Awards, the worlds first awards for social media in construction. It goes without saying I am really pleased about this, not least the huge number of messages which have been [...]

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