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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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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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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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Community Land Trusts: Lets start Talking to the Enemy

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If there’s one thing I know about Community Land Trusts now it is that they are made up of people who have got off their backsides and done something. If you put aside your prejudices, that’s pretty much the model of the entrepreneur property developer, really. Something very interesting is going to happen to the [...]

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Delicious Bookmarks for September 15th to September 23rd

These are my Delicious Links for September 15th through September 23rd: Twitter 101 for Business — A Special Guide – Twitter (yes those people) have written their own guide to business use of twitter. Here it is. How to write a corporate Twitter strategy (…and here’s one I made earlier) – Neil Williams, Head of [...]

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Delicious Bookmarks for July 20th to August 18th

These are my Delicious Links for July 20th through August 18th: House 2.0: New Homes Too Small – "Doesn't it start at planning stage where there appears to be a basic assumption that smaller is more acceptable? We build small homes, then the ones next to them cannot be seen to 'dominate' the street scene, [...]

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PassivHaus – its about saving energy

When I was studying to be an architect in 1990s Liverpool our design tutors gave us a project. We were to choose a method of generating renewable energy by the Mersey, and then design a ‘theme park’ ride that would be powered by this energy. Now it’s worth remembering that as a design project in [...]

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Where is the business case for Sustainability?

Three unconnected events have got me thinking. Constructing Excellence recently launched their Essex Club in Chelmsford and I attended. The stated objective of CE is to demonstrate that long term, integrated collaborative working in the UK construction industry is better than going lowest-cost, a route that many contractors currently fear we are returning. CE aims [...]

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A Timeline for the Code for Sustainable Homes

For my talk on GreenGauge Homes this week, I tried to find a visualisation of the compulsory introduction of the Code for Sustainable Homes, which came into use in 2007, and the Ecohomes rating which it superseded. When I couldn’t find one, I decided to make one myself.
Here it is:
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What is your experience of dealing with the Code? Is it hard to find information? Are you using assessors to advise you, and are they helping? Lets share our experiences and suggestions.

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