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Friday, December 19th, 2008
This year at our annual Christmas Conference, in amongst round-ups of the year, we crowned our very own "One Team" IES Apprentice. Each team had to come up against our very own Sir Alan, Nick and Margaret. They had 45 minutes to create ways that we could advertise for recruitment, there were a huge ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
As the dust settles from the recent US presidential elections, the US emerges with Barack Obama as the President Elect. He will be officially taking office on January 20th, 2009 and will start to move ahead on some of his objectives that he supported during his campaign road. One objective ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
As an employee of IES who is looking at sustainability from the architecture and design point of view, I know how important it is to think of the energy consumption of a building before you finalize, or even start, a design. Thinking ahead to a green mechanical system is not ...
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Hello,
In the UK this week The Energy Savings Trust announced that half of us would be greener if we had a bit more time in our day! To help us with this they have provided us with three useful tools to help us manage our time;
The first is an “Energy Saving ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
An integrated design process is proving to be the key to achieving high-performance, sustainable buildings. By bringing all of the project stakeholders to the table at the early conceptual stage of the process, the team can set forth with a common set of goals. The result is that sustainable strategies ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
I had the great pleasure of launching what might be best termed a “Green Blitzkrieg” last month as we landed in 9 US and Canadian cities and over 70 design firms from coast to coast. Many thanks to all those who hosted us – we hope you stay tuned via ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
This problem of making a sustainable world is one of the most challenging that the world has ever faced. Although a number of people still actually debate whether CO2 comes from anthropogenic sources, I accept that humans are indeed having an impact. Making the change to a more sustainable built ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
I’ve got a workflow conundrum for you today:
I’m using SketchUp or Revit and I’ve delved into the Full <Virtual Environment> made some changes to the Templates in the Full <Virtual Environment>. I’m happy with the analysis. I now want to go back to the original model in SketchUp or Revit ...
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Friday, September 12th, 2008
Hi there,
The FT today posted a map of CO2 emissions on their website. It gives a geographical and US state-by-state snapshot of carbon dioxide emissions and a timeline of major events in climate change negotiations. Really interesting to look at the per capita figures, there are certainly some of us ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
I was reading today about the presentation that Ed Mazria gave at the National Clean Energy Summit last month, it was really great to hear him pushing how important reducing a buildings energy consumption is as part of the mix required to create carbon neutral buildings.
"We tend to rush toward ...
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