The Foreman

A hoodie's take on recycling - VIDEO

Thanks to DemolitionNews.com for this tip-off: surely a contender for the next X-factor, and one with a serious message about sustainability too. Waste management and skip hire firm Top Triangle are behind the video....

Posted by Will Mann on January 5, 2009 4:56 PM

House builders go green - by building no houses!

This week, sustainable benchmarking outfit NextGeneration let us into a little secret - how the house builders are going greener. The answer was contained in an emailed press release headed "NextGeneration reveals how top 20 UK home builders are tackling...

Posted by Will Mann on November 10, 2008 4:31 PM

BREEAM launches in the Persian Gulf

Good news! I have been informed this week that BREEAM, the environmental assessment method for buildings, is being launched into the Gulf region. This presumably means that we can now better keep track of exactly how green all these brand...

Posted by Will Mann on November 4, 2008 12:12 PM

Our products are sustainable...if it helps to flog 'em

More proof that the credit crunch has not completely killed off companies' urge to bang on about sustainability....

Posted by James Evison on July 30, 2008 11:42 AM

Morgan Lovell worms its way into sustainability

In the world of sustainability I thought I had heard it all. Low carbon company cars, organic locally-sourced lunches and even a mini hydro electricity scheme rooted in a stream near one company's headquarters. But fit out firm Morgan...

Posted by Will Mann on July 7, 2008 11:44 AM

Government confusion over energy numbers

Yet more government blunders this week, but this time from the housing minister's own spin doctors. You would think the professionals paid to minimise the gaffes and screw-ups would get it right. Apparently not. Our government hack expounding on the...

Posted by Will Mann on July 7, 2008 11:27 AM

Sir Stuart Lipton, Baroness Vadera and Rudi Klein in sustainability showdown

The fact that venerable property developer Sir Stuart Lipton is knight of the realm obviously got the better of him last week, as he chaired the launch of the government's Strategy for Sustainable construction....

Posted by James Evison on June 20, 2008 9:43 AM

Its official...this industry is full of SHIFT

Working in the construction industry, I love a good acronym. EPCs, PVs, BREEAM, NHBC, NVQ...bring it on....

Posted by James Evison on May 15, 2008 2:58 PM

Sustainability? It's the beer talking

Like beer? Then save energy. Or so goes the analogy by Jacobs sustainability guru Tim Rogers....

Posted by James Evison on May 1, 2008 4:28 PM

Wool insulation is baaad news for sheep in North Wales

Sustainability. Everyone's bleating about it. And now Black Mountain Insulation has started making natural wool insulation from its factory in North Wales (where else?). To illustrate the insulation's origins, Black Mountain sent me a photo of its product surrounded by...

Posted by Will Mann on April 9, 2008 2:47 PM