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Valuation – beautiful simplicity?
You probably already know that I value buildings as part of my job. And I have an interest in green buildings – particularly the relationship of ‘greenness’ and value. Valuation can sometimes be...
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The carbon question…
Chris Huhne seems to be in trouble with the Mail on Sunday – who have devoted a number of weeks column inches in trying to bring him down for allegedly getting his wife to take his speeding points. But...
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Copenhagen – looking back
It’s been a busy few days and I have only just got round to putting my thoughts together on Copenhagen. I have had a few days to reflect on our visit to Copenhagen last week. Although I had been to the...
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I’d like to teach the world to see?
You will know, if you are a regular reader of my blog that I have some issues with ‘green bling’. I an all for us finding technologies which can reduce running costs and or ‘carbon footprint‘ (whatever...
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You need Planning Permission – of course Sir….
The Government are currently consulting on a Draft National Planning Policy, by all accounts it’s creating quite a kerfuffle! The document tries to set out some key parameters – one of which suggests...
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SET Conference 2011
I can’t believe it is 12 months since I first went to Shanghai – a year ago I visited the City with Nottingham City Council and The University of Nottingham. I spent a fascinating few days with the...
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Super-green building?
Hot on the heels of my blog post earlier this week comes news of the greenest building in the world! I had a meeting with Juwi – a sustainable energy company in the week and they were keen to tell us...
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A very very green building!
I had the pleasure this week of having a look around a passiv-haus development at Water Meadows Park, just north of Leicester. And this is one of the most sustainable buildings I have ever been in. It...
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Small is beautiful?
A few weeks ago I watched the excellent mini-series on TV presented by Tom Dyckhoff about architecture. It was called the Secret Life of Buildings and one of the programmes set out to show how our...
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The Empire State Building is green…
In all the times I have been to the USA I have never really thought they go mad on green. I think a few years ago, the best they got was lighting the Empire State with green lights – missing the point...
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