The New Normal: Skills and Roles for a Sustainable Future Martin Brown From Facilities Managers as ‘Wellness Officers’ to Building Service Engineers who (RE)Design buildings as power stations, we will require new and widespread sustainability skills, if we to move from Thousands of green buildings to Billions (as set out in the recent World GBC […]
Thank you to everyone who came along to the London Specifi landscape event, and for contributing so generously to the Think Tank and the presentation. The discussion continued during the meal, and one person mentioned an important point that I’d missed. When I spoke about valuing (Landscape Architect) work I focused on confidence and self-belief, […]
Think Tank: London Beyond the New Normal Martin Brown and Claire Thirlwall Exploring the role and influence of the (landscape) architect. Following the think tank from earlier in the year we updated and recapped on the London National City park movement, the London Plan and how landscape architects can contribute to the emerging rethinking of […]
In my talks I emphasise that the government and other forward-looking client businesses are demanding wider changes to how the industry works. The January 2018 collapse of Carillion is just one sign of a deeper malaise within the UK construction sector – and a succession of government and industry-driven reports (McKinsey’s 2017 Productivity report is […]
Health and Wellbeing Sustainability – the New Normal Specifi keynote talks and network discussions regularly feature the emerging sustainability standards that are rapidly gaining in popularity. These are the Living Building Challenge Standard, Well Build Standard and Fitwel, standards we are starting to see as the ‘New Normal’, and will undoubtedly become more significant in […]
