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GBE Diary 2014 Q2
GBE Diary April 2014
2-3: CAP’EM Steering Committee Lille France
4: Swift Conference Workshop promotion on NGS website
6-7: GreenSpecPASS preview and assessment
Entrance Matting Systems Ltd.
EverGreen Debris Channel Matting
PASS
7: Swift Conference workshop
CAD file Dropbox and handout
Biodiversity Book Sales Poster
8-10: International Swift Conference, Cambridge,
9: Designing for People and Nature
SCT, RSPB, BCT, NGS
1 day Workshop aimed at Architects, Developers, Planners
Workshop on Biodiveristy Book
BrianSpecMan facilitating
13-14: Innofun populating on-line forms for funding meetings
Innovation Funding event May 21st Peterborough
Submitted Match funding request for CAP’EM Extension
Submitted funding request for NGS ENCYCLOPAEDIA & NGS 3D VIEW
14: Brainwave Innovations
Submitted proposals for:
Cyclepath broken glass clearing requests
Public highway daytime lighting alerts
Peterborough Environmental Products & Services database
Encyclopaedia of Green Construction
16-17: Gemini Adhesive Ltd.
NGS CLASSIFY Sample box
NGS CPD NGS LIVE developing presentation further for summer CPD programme
23: Interview with PhD Student from Cardiff Metropolitan University
Subject: Sustainability Marketing and the cement industry.
“There is a huge drive supported by government legislation to reduce the construction industry’s carbon emissions.
Particularly looking at the barriers and drivers that influence a more sustainable behaviour in the industry.”
23: NGS 3D VIEW internal discussions about 3D model
24-30: NGS 3D VIEW
Brief development after sight of 3D Model functionality and SketchUp capability and exploring schedules of URLs into NGS ENCYCLOPAEDIA
Ambition to bring the equivalent of BIM to the masses
24: Updated and issues Blog for TGR about
Samples reuse and recycling
24: TGR Steering Committee London
25: Added NGS to The Green Map Project
27: NGS FUTURE EVENTS One year on
Anniversery of first public announcement of NGS website’s existence
Come back for NGS WEBSTATS announcement on the day.
27-28: NGS MARKETING
Updating and subdividing existing documents:
- NGS ABOUT
- NGS Manufacturer Services
- NGS Supplier Services
- NGS Manufacturer Page & Example
- NGS Supplier Page & Example
- NGS 6 CORE PAGES
- NGS Manufacturer Services Budget calculators
- NGS Supplier Services Budget calculator
- NGS 6 CORE PAGES & Example costs
- NGS 3D VIEW
© NGS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
26th November 2013 – 14th May 2014
GBE Diary May 2014
1-21: Website open for scrutiny by funders and collaborators
NGS has submitted a number of projects including CAP’EM
1: NGS WEBSTATS significant threshold exceeded
500,000 page reads exceeded today, prompting a campaign to recruit manufacturers and suppliers to the website pages
3: NGS ABOUT update
3: NGS INVITATION TO SUPPLIERS & MANUFACTURERS
4: 6 CORE PAGES
6: NGS SUPPLIERS
Big email push to engage with Suppliers to add products
7: NGS MANUFACTURERS
Big email push to engage with Manufacturers to add products
7: Eco Innovation Centre Peterborough Does Business
Accountability in Business
9: NGS Website SITEMAP Home page
Part of marketing to Manufacturers and Suppliers campaign PowerPoint
13: NGS NAVIGATION for touchscreens started
14: ADAPT Buisiness support call
14: CAP’EM Conference call
15: TGR SGM Subgroup
Planning an Interdisciplinary Sustainable Design Course
15: NGS ENCYCLOPAEDIA & NGS 3D VIEW
Discuss scope of Structual input to project with potential collaborator in Bath
16-23: CAP’EM Lead Partner meeting
- Discuss preparation for Final Claim
- First Level Controller (Auditor) tender for engagement
- Rationalising time sheet diary entries and weekly totals to suit new to me Interreg Time sheet
- Analysing this year’s income for Match funding of CAP’EM extension
19-20: PEF Environmental Footprinting Steering Committee & Technical Advisory Board meetings Brussells
Involved in discussions leading to Voting for Pilot’s
20: CAP’EM Website Google Analytics output added to NGS WEBSTATS
21: INNOFUN INNOVATION & FUNDING EVENT
CAP’EM Extension and NGS ENCYCLOPAEDIA & NGS 3D VIEW
Crowd funding, also business support and grant funds.
22: Attend CITE today
- Discovered natural essence air cleaning with compostable media
- Many precast concrete makers still unaware of their Carbon Dioxide impacts and a few who use GGBS and PFA
- Recycled plastics used in modular underground chamber and duct kits, but one that adds carbon black for UV resistance
- Will introduce Alan Best to offer food grade carbon black replacement
- Manufacturers so secretive about their receipe they won’t engage in any discussion, time to move on.
23: CAP’EM Accounts analysis
24: NGS ELEVATOR PITCH
Following INNOFUN preparing for Crowd funding opportunity
25-26: PEF Thermal Insulation Pilot
Developing a 3 way matrix to compare and score thermal insulation materials
Building Element Application v Attributes, Properties & Performance Requirements
Attributes, Properties & Performance Requirements V Building Insulation Material Properties
Building Element Application v Building Insulation Material choices
Editing continues to 11/06/2014
27-28: CAPEM/PEF Meetings GHENT BELGIUM
29: WRAP Webinar
29: NGS FUNDING
St John’s Innovation Centre Cambridge funding advisor telephone interview
30: NGS SUPPLIER & PRODUCT PAGES
Meet Supplier EcoMerchant at Swindon Self Build Centre
© NGS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
26th November 2013 – 6th August 2014
GBE Diary June 2014
Farnham Surrey
BRE BREEAM REFURBISHMENT training day
11: Peterborough Brainwave Innovation Zero Waste Workshop
Coaching event
17-19: FM SHOW 2014
17-18: Pittsburg Corning (manufacturer of Foamglas)
Pittsburgh Corning’s VIP Sustainable Build Networking Event Belgium
19: Ska Technical Committee Postponed
BrianSpecMan attending for second time
BrianSpecMan Speaking again after the March event in Leeds
25-26: CAP’EM Project meeting Lieven & Rotterdam Holland
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30: VAT accounts
© NGS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
26th November 2013 – 30th May 2014
