Today the Guardian Environment Blog published a piece by Doug calling for the word ‘Sustainability” to be banned from all technical and political discourse as it has become so corrupted as to be meaningless. Read the article
Doug has been invited to give the annual Lignacite Lecture at the Royal Society on the evening of 26th September. ‘Building on Evolution’ will explore the tacit knowledge of historic builders and examine how we could apply it to developing the sustainable buildings of the future. Limited tickets are available from Lignacite, but its first come first served: http://www.lignacite.co.uk/News/lecture.html
Doug will be speaking at the Renewables Event in Birmingham’s NEC on 11th September. His talk will be entitled “Retrofitting renewables – avoiding Eco-bling in low carbon retrofit”
This week’s AJ focusses on architectural education. In a Footprint special feature, five diverse views are presented on how sustainable design should be treated in university education. Doug spelled out his views on the need for interdisciplinary teaching. (no online link yet)
The Royal Academy of Engineering has published a new report on developments in Smart Buildings (available here). Doug contributed to the report to ensure that people remain at the heart of smart buildings and not just machines.