view email in browser | visit our site | unsubscribe | update your profile | forward to a friend

Editorial

 
CESW FF Director Tom Harper writes: 
How can we deliver change in industry performance more effectively, at lower cost and accessible to the widest possible audience? This requires ‘smart strategies’. In the last three months some of our dynamic new approaches to delivering change have started to bear fruit: two remarkable new films for clients are helping to spread good practice ‘top down’, and a major new initiative with LABC is working at local grassroots level to Read more

South West Built Environment Awards Dinner

Despite fears of swingeing cuts and a ‘double dip’ recession, Bristol Marriott Hotel City Centre was once again full for the SWBE Awards Dinner on Friday 11 June – with representatives from all sectors of the construction industry celebrating its very best achievements, and glad to make the most of a valuable networking opportunity. Read more

Client Health & Safety Film Launch

A great evening in the beautiful surroundings of Bath saw the launch of our first film for construction clients. This health & safety DVD is the perfect initial briefing tool for any client – for example, head teachers, estate managers, supermarket chains, and local government. The red carpet was put out for our film stars  Read more

Putting Sustainable Procurement into Practice

Christos Vidalakis writes: The role of construction clients as agents of change is crucial in terms of encouraging necessary changes towards more sustainable construction. Indeed, clients, at an early stage in the process, create the conditions for other players involved in the construction and long-term management of the finished project. Thus, clients adopting sustainable construction procurement (SCP) practices can play a major role in Read more 

Whole Life Carbon Film for Clients – it’s in the can!

Mark Wray is seen here being filmed at the exemplar Okehampton Business Park development. Mark was explaining a retrospective study that has been carried out by SWRDA on the whole life carbon performance of three recently completed buildings and SWRDA guidance for clients called 'Carbon Compass'. Three days intensive filming in Devon and Bristol has produced Read more 

Update on Demonstration Projects

Christos Vidalakis of CESW and Jon de Souza of the CE national team sort out the details for the demonstration programme which is being re-established in the South West and other regions. The Demonstration Programme was initiated in 1998 in response to Read more 

Ten Tips for Design Health and Safety

As RIBA prepare their next CPD programme, Paul Clark of Provelio has worked with HSE and CESW to prepare the training content and put together a ‘Ten Tips for CDM’ from a designer’s perspective. Read more

Building Control Officers’ Safety Update

CESW are working in partnership with HSE and the Working Well Together Campaign to give local building control officers a workshop on the topic of better coordination of health and safety. Pete Creese of ISG Pearce has toured the region on our behalf. Pete has a knack of making health and safety interesting. Read more

Sustainable ‘Tick’ for Local Small Builders

If we seriously want to achieve carbon reduction in our existing housing stock then we have to mainstream low carbon upgrade of existing homes. This means training the local builder. CESW are embarking on a region-wide training initiative with LABC to do this. Read more

Insulation Man – the Martin Chandler story

Martin Chandler has worked in construction all his life. Some years ago he moved to Spain. He bought some land and decided to build his home himself rather than leave it to Spanish builders. The hot Spanish weather makes insulation essential. Many years later when Martin returned to the UK he noticed that his heating bills were literally going the roof and walls of his home. Read more

Construction Carbon Footprinting Survey

As part of a prgramme aiming to assess the feasibility of identifying a widely acceptable method for construction contractors to effectively measure and report their project-based carbon footprints to clients and principal contractors,  CIRIA, HVCA and ECA are surveying approaches to carbon footprinting buildings as products until 30th June. Read more

view email in browser | visit our site | unsubscribe | update your profile | forward to a friend