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East of England Partnership to develop the supply chain
Constructing Excellence in the East of England is working with BRE, Inspire East, Build East, ConstructionSkills, Renewables East, CWC, CCG, AUEE and Smartlife to put together a combined programme to work with the industries clients to reach the large numbers of small companies in the supply chain. Significant levels of help are planned with tools to improve supply chain performance. Triple bottom line performance improvements are planned while protecting business during the hard times and opening low carbon growth opportunities. Government funding is being sought to make the programme possible.
London 2012 Work – Register free for CompeteFor
A free 2012 online dating agency puts small organisations in touch with appropriate opportunities on London 2012 and much more. It is really easy to sign up for the free service. click
East of England Construction Training Awards 2009
This year Constructing Excellence in the East of England is working with Construction Skills. Where categories fit the winners from the region will be entered into the Constructing Excellence national awards.
Preparations for the 2009 ceremony have begun. The event will take place on 1st October 2009 at the Radisson SAS Hotel, Stansted and will be attended by Sir Michael Latham, Chairman of ConstructionSkills. The event will culminate in presentations to award winners in twelve categories.
Withstanding the Impact of Climate Change
Guidelines to help developers and planners to build properties to withstand the impacts of climate change have been produced by ABI see http://www.abi.org.uk/Newsreleases/viewNewsRelease.asp?nrid=17224
Low Carbon Refurbishment of Buildings
Carbon Trust launched a guide to help reduce carbon emissions from existing non-residential buildings a copy of the report, can be found at click
Wind Turbines
A Carbon trust report on small scale wind energy says “Turbines in some rural locations could provide cheaper electricity than the grid, but it appears that in many urban situations, roof-mounted turbines may not pay back their embedded carbon emissions.” click
Strategic Forum – Construction Commitments
A two-card set of Construction Commitments and Construction Targets issued by the Strategic Forum for Construction (SFfC) is available, sign and showing your commitment.
Sign at www.strategicforum.org.uk/cc.shtml
Six Guides go with the Construction Commitments designed as Clients Commitments but useful for everyone as we are all clients at some level in the supply chain. To down load click
Green Guide
The new version of the Green Guide to Specification is now available online at www.thegreenguide.org.uk
BREEAM 2008 Update
BREEAM 2008 came into force on 1st August 2008 for further information and to down load the manuals click
Renewable Energy Report
Essex CC released a consultation that is a good source of all the possibilities see click
Waste Wood - NISP
Wood re-processors have been identified covering most of the region, if you have ANY waste wood, regardless of volume, frequency and quality, please contact Antony Gough, 0845 094 9523 www.nisp.org.uk
Business Link
Business Link provides a considerable range of information for smaller companies see http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/east
SMARTWastePlan
Free BRE software for measuring and benchmarking waste now includes subcontractors and multi-levels of access see www.smartwaste.co.uk .
See CPD Events web site http://www.cpdevents.org.uk
Inspire East Calendar http://www.inspire-east.org.uk/eventscalendar.aspx?
RITP - http://www.rtpi.org.uk/item/592/23/5/3
An Advisory Board provides direction to Construction Excellence in the East of England. Members include:
To be added to the East of England ENews distribution email john.hall@constructingexcellence.org.uk with your request.
Further information email john.hall@constructingexcellence.org.uk or phone 01268 569190, mobile 0776 860 7014.
John Hall
Director
Constructing Excellence in the East of England
Page last up dated 30th November 2008