Green Vision Leeds

Just back from a full day of presentations on sustainable construction at Green Vision in Leeds. Not many simple solutions or quick wins to report but came away with a number of useful information resources and websites to follow. Will try to attend "retrofit for the future" on Thursday

Low Carbon Innovation Bulletin

This is a weekly bulletin I signed up to a few months ago that does a good job of pulling together organisations and case studies relating to lowering carbon emissions

Browne Smith Baker's Carbon Challenge scheme

We've started talking to one of our customers, Pickering & Ferens Homes about developing a standard house type specification. I think this is a great opportunity for us to find out how much a zero carbon Code Level 6 home will cost. I went to a presentation  by local architects Browne smith Baker a few weeks ago and was surprised at how cost efficiently they delivered it - would be interesting to know if anyone has achieved similar results on smaller schemes

J Z Flowers

We're looking at ways to measure carbon at our J Z Flowers site at North Cave. Starting with a proposal to use LED lighting. We've commissioned a feasibility study and will let you know the results in due course