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Lukshay Beegun Student RIBA Part 1 Year 2 Architecture 2018-2019

• Thanks again Brian!
• And also thank you for this great you, you were an exceptional tutor that made my year special, thanks again!
• And let’s please keep in touch!

Kasia Van’t Hoogerhuijs nee Stasiak Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• GBE just won a LEEDS Leeds Sustainability Institute RISE award 2016 https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk/blog/news/current/daily-updates/2016-daily-updates/gbe-rise-award-2016/ And shortlisted for another later this year
• Brian hi, this is fantastic news and so well deserved.
  One of the best lectures I ever attended and I mean it!
  Will truly miss them!
• Wow praise indeed, it touches my heart, Thank you Kasia.

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Gemma Baird Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• Personally I’ve worked quite heavily on improvements this week so the submission tomorow should be better than what you’ve seen previously – hopefully anyway.
• It’s been a really inspiring course – and a subject close to my heart so I must say I’m looking forward to you having a bigger involvement when I’m back in Studio next year.
• I will not be a full time lecturer next year, but may get more hours.
• That’s such a shame, I feel there’s far to little emphasis in our environmental impact – not just in Architecture but across the board. Fingers crossed you do still get to join us for a bit.

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Liara S Folleto Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• Thanks for the clear and realistic lectures you gave to us!
• I believe when I finish part 2 this will be an area I will be interested to work with  or to learn more about.

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Mustafa Tekman Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• Thank you, I have thoroughly enjoyed this modules lecture series.
• It has given me an eye for detail and a much deeper understanding of the level of detail required to see a building realized.

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Tatiana Kaulmann Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• Again I’d like to Thank you for all your help and support over this term,
  I cannot express how enjoyable your classes were and hopefully after this treatment I will see you again. :)
• And fingers crossed Lilly can get you a position you are content with.
  Would be a shame to let a fantastic tutor like yourself go.

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Stanislava Bazitova Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• Thank you very much for the feedback you gave us this morning in our lecture.
• The fact that we are given back our work with concrete comments on it helps a lot.
  

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Arben Jashari Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• Just wanted to email you to let you know that I think your a great tutor for this subject and that you have a lot of passion for this subject and it makes me feel more passionate about sustainability in Architecture when you show us solutions to building green.
• Also I am enjoying the lectures because I am learning what we can do to change the way we design.
• Looking forward to the rest of the lectures.

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Vishal Baichande Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• I would just like to take a couple of minutes to thank you for the lectures so far.
  
• I have attended a couple of lectures by others, pushing the Green ethos, however none of them seem to deal in clear facts, as yours do.
  Instead they seem to present a more emotional view of the world and they feel like more of a guilt trip and lack any practical advice for change.
  
• Personally, I prefer the much more pragmatic view, hence I have really enjoyed your lectures and appreciate your approach.
  
• Your explanation of us living a “3 planet lifestyle” has particularly hit home with me.
• It would be to every future designer’s benefit to attend such lectures before they go out and design/build.
  
• Thank you very much.

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Vernon Windell Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• I thought that I would just quickly drop you a line to say that I’m really enjoying the lecture series you are giving at LSBU.
• The pace and tempo are great while having to do something every week keeps things focused and concise.
• Look forward to the development of the series and our path of knowledge.

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Gemma Baird student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• Fascinating first lecture – a topic I am very passionate about and I’m looking forward to the course.

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Samael Coco student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016

• Thank you for the energy and enthusiasm that you reserve in education.

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• Emma Kathryn Baugh Hinde ex student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016
• I have stopped the coarse.
• Sorry the information not getting to you
• I attended every lecture last term and felt very annoyed how many never turned up.
• So I think the fact you are not tolerating absence is fantastic and what the coarse needs to become tougher on.
• Maybe in the future I will be able to gain a part time position on the coarse but at the moment I sadly don’t have the time.
• Thanks again for your message and I hope I will be one of your students in the future.
• Come back to tell us about your house self-building experience one day.

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• Mehdi Al-Mussawi
• Student PGDip Year 1 LSBU EREID 2016
• Looking forward to the lectures.

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Lilly Kudic Head of Diploma/M Arch course. 2015 LSBU

• Thanks for the message, and thank you very much for working to the absolute maximum with all our students; it is really appreciated.
• On another note and, informally, would you be interested in being appointed to the university on a one day per week (0,2) permanent basis?
• I am very grateful for your taking the time, and the major commitment you’ve made to delivering the EREID module; it is really appreciated, and I very much hope we can continue to progress this course for the next session.
• I am proposing that you’re appointed to a 0.4 post, i.e. minimum 2 days a week.
• This would involve you in teaching both the BA(Hons)Architecture.

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Nasser Abdel-Naeim Aly Ahmad, LSBU PGDip 2015 Student 28/08/2015

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Nick Humphries LSBU PGDip 2014 Student

• Hi Brian, hope you are having a good weekend.  Thanks for the course, good to see you again on Friday.

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Sara Burton LSBU PGDip 2014 Student

• Thank you very much for the wonderful and informative lectures you gave us.

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Darta Viksna LSBU 2013 & 2014 Student

• Ok, thank you! I know the work is really poor and I apologise as I really enjoyed the module and your lectures.
  My poor coursework doesn’t anyhow reflect my interest in the subject. (52% passed)
• Renata Krzos Student & Student Rep LSBU 2013
• by the way thank you for helpful feedback
  

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Paola Sassi course leader at Cardiff University MSc in Theory and Practice of Sustainable Design:

• Brian, Thanks for coming and getting the students all worked up, it was great! 

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Darren Woodhouse Student on Architectural Technology Course AT4 Sheffield Hallam University:

• Thanks for the lecture on NGS it really has changed the way that I will spec projects in future very impressive, and be advised we were in awe afterwards of your technical knowledge during our student presentations of materials and their specifications, truly impressive.
• At the same time has given me new impetus to carry on developing sustainable cellulose – based product that I have had on the blackboard for a few years now – hopefully one day you’ll select it for GreenSpec!

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Rick Alston Student on day release at University of Central Lancashire and HPA architects in Lancaster.

• I found your talk very interesting (if a bit of an ‘eye-opener’) although it has galvanised me into focusing on this area, I am 23 years old so I am sure this is going to be a huge topic in my professional life.

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London South Bank University RIBA Part 1 Full time Part 1 Year 2 & Part time Part 1 Year 3

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Michael Robins Course tutor Studio Leader 2006/07/08:

• Yesterday was beyond the call of duty, thank you so much.

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Robert Hankey Part time Part 1 Year 2 2006/07:

• Hi Brian I’ve just finished the second year at South Bank Uni – handed in my portfolio yesterday.
• I just wanted to send my thanks for all your help, information and enthusiasm with our last project.
• It was great to talk to someone who really knew the ins and outs of green design/building.
• I was really inspired.

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Students 2007/08 London South Bank University 

• RIBA Part 1 Full time Year 2 & Part time Year 3 (12 lectures) (112 registered only 86 turned up)

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• Massimiliano ‘Max’ Caristo 
• Full time Part 1 Year 2:
• Excellent speech … thanks!!
• Unfortunately there is just two hours a week for us to be with you and enjoy the lesson!!
• I’ve got to say that I agree with you when you ask us to be successful and aim to achieve hundred per cent in attending your course and understanding in full your briefs.
• However, despite I put few hours doing my PowerPoint presentation and sending them to you few days before the dead-line, I found my results at just 58%.
• I just want to say that this is not what I want and apologize for not being at the top of the green list as I was hoping to be!!
• Thank you very much fore the prize book and the time you spent with us.
• I hope we will see you again soon.
• Please do not bin this email address… I enjoy your emails.
• I certainly miss your tech 2 lectures, you can talk to people man and I always liked your style!!
• 2 years later: I wish to see you at LSBU at some point in the future.  I miss your lectures
• As usual you are my best reference for some of my work.
• Thanks a million for your help and really wish you all the best life can give you, you deserve it!!
• Have a fantastic week

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• John Kennedy
• Full time Part 1 Year 2:
• In response to your recent emails can I first say that no apology is necessary for the lecture on Friday, we all have off days and the mood of some of us is not down to you just inattentive pupils.
• On behalf of myself and all of the second year students I would like to thank you for all of your hard work and for your honest and open approach to the problems that have arisen.
• I hope that all will be well and you have triggered an ethos and attitude within us and it will be cultivated over the coming years by the school and ourselves.

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• Ms Iwona Dorau 
• Full time Part 1 Year 2:
• I should also say all of your lectures are so interesting, that nobody should not miss any of them.
• I wonder, why do they do it?
• I do appreciate your way of teaching us, students.
• I have learnt a lot, so far – especially jargon busting in architecture environment.
• I hope to learn much more.
• Thank you for your last e-mail.
• You always know, how to treat people, especially your students.
• I am very grateful for all your quick replies to my queries and opinions.

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• Andrea Benedettini
• Full time Part 1 Year 2:
• Looking forward to your next class.

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• Peggy Le Cren
• Full time Part 1 Year 2:
• I am sorry to hear you are leaving us I have learnt a lot from you

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• Bethlehem Tewoldemedhin
• Full time Part 1 Year 2:
• It was really good having you during the first semester and we hope to seeing you in the coming months or year.
• Thanks for being a very kind and a very friendly teacher.
• God bless you for that forever.

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• Trevor Taw
• Full time Part 1 Year 2:
• By the way, I think the Jargon Buster exercise is a fantastic idea, its a great way of getting us to actively learn a piece of knowledge (however small).
• The amount of green techniques/materials out there is obviously vast and when you’re faced with that as a student it can be difficult to know where/how to start expanding your knowledge.
• The list you provided is also a great help as you’re able to pick something that you are interested in and maybe want to use in your project work.
• That’s my 2p anyway.
• I consider your input at least as useful (probably more interesting) as any other of our tutors/lectures.
• I like to think of myself as a fairly good example of (moving towards at least) a green lifestyle, but I think you’ve inspired some and maybe even converted a few with the lecture series thus far.
• In this day and age, surely no education program should be without some kind of green lecture series, the knowledge and awareness raised is so valuable and, as bad as it sounds, without this kind of exposure it’s often the case that caring for the environment just sits at the back of the mind pretty redundantly.

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• Ahmed Youssef
• Full time Part 1 Year 2:
• I would like to thank you Brian for everything you’ve done with us.
• Your class was lovely and I really enjoyed your lectures so much.
• It was of great help and it made me know loads I had no idea of before.
• I hope that my future in my career becomes as bright as yours.
• It’ll be great if you can keep sending me all your emails, conferences, exhibitions, talks, and all those stuff which you send us.  It’s great to be able to go to whatever I can.
• Thank you again Brian, and I’ll personally really miss your class.
• You’re a highly respectful man, so I guess, everyone has to respect you back.

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• Miguel A Sanchez
• Part time Part 1 Year 3:
• Thanks for the superb quality of your lectures.

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• Ali Javadian 
• Student Part-time Part 1 Year 3:
• Thanks for your responsibility and your kindness to give us more time to update our missed tasks.
• This is a grate opportunity for me to have a lecturer like you to not just learning from your knowledge but also from your character.
• I really concerned that you are a much organised person and try to encourage us not just as an Architect but as a human, not just think about our self, think about our planet and all the people live in different part of this world and work together to have Green World.
• This is why I am trying to be organised and learn more from you.
• At the end I want to say I really wish you stay with us and continue for next semester and following years because you are wonderful person and excellent lecturer.
• For me you are a good example of professional Architect with high knowledge and responsibility of nature and human being.
• You open new door to me for Green Design and Green Building and be a Green person and I want to follow this way for my future.

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• Eddie Godden 
• Part time Part 1 Year 3 (joined course late):
• Thanks for you efforts in bringing me up to speed, much appreciated.
• I thought the lecture was excellent on Friday; its good to have some technical based lectures and work to get my teeth into, particularly from an environmental angle, so it’s definitely worth the trip.
• Thanks Brian also for the excellent series of lectures you gave us…really worthwhile.
• Your efforts with regards to improving the standard of education is hugely appreciated as well.

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• Sarah Farmer 
• Part time Part 1 Year 3:
• Thank you for the scores.  I missed Friday because of a back problem so I am really sorry I missed your last lecture.
• I wanted to thank you for this term, and say that I think it is a real shame that we don’t get proper technology lectures with you in smaller classes because the information and knowledge you have is incredible, and I don’t think there can be any doubt that, as a group of prospective architects, we definitely need more tuition in this area before we are let loose.
• I am still utterly shocked that we were in a class of that size (especially when you think that we all pay for our modules) both for our sake, in that it is not a great way to learn a subject, and for your sake, because who should have to mark the work of 60-80 odd students!?!
• Anyway, I hope that you can feel relieved at having us out of your hair, I think what you have done with us has been a mammoth task and I hope it hasn’t been a waste of your time altogether.
• I hope that we see you again soon.
• I just wanted to say thank you for you responses and for begin so proactive on our behalf.
• We have no communication from the college apart from a results sheet and, I think I could speak for all of us, your responses are a reassurance that somebody out there cares.
• I wish I could say this is all a shock.. but it isn’t.

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• Richard Crane 
• Student Part time Part 1 Year 3:
• Sorry to hear that you are no longer going to be lecturing our group, your environmental slant on technology is I believe most invaluable, so I personally will be sorry to see you leave.
• Nice speaking to you and good news that you are now teaching again at South Bank, they need someone like you and thank you for agreeing to look at my project.…….. Any Ideas or pointers would be truly appreciated.
• Thank you for your very complimentary comments. I’m very flattered and encouraged. Thank you also for so much info and so many ideas to follow up on.
• Thanks for taking the time to impart your knowledge. Hopefully we can catch up some time

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• Cleo Ibberson 
• Student Part time Part 1 Year 3
• Joined course not knowing if she would aim to become an architect
• I for one would like to say that you are obviously very knowledgeable, and it would be great to feel that we were benefiting from that knowledge more than I feel we are.
• Maybe ….. it would be more valuable to the majority to be inspired by your expertise and passion for your subject.

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• Mary Moran
• Student LSBU, Part-time Part 1 Year 3:
• I hope to see your future involvement in the course.
• Thanks for the book prize, I’ve started leafing through!  The last time I won anything for academic achievement was when I was 8 and won the Ladybird book ‘Rumpelstiltskin’ for spelling.
• Doubtless we’ll be seeing you again at another training session somewhere.
• We realized you had knowledge on construction and environment but were pleasantly surprised that you also had lots to say on design issues too.

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• Karla Fox
• Part time Part 1 Year 3: Architecture
• Thank you for finding out and letting us know, much appreciated.
• I fear that if we hadn’t questioned you and you hadn’t cared enough to make the effort we would not have been told any of this and subsequently would’ve wrongfully failed
  
• Karla Fox
• Interior Design degree:
• I don’t know if you will remember us having a little chat around this time last year.
• I was contemplating leaving the part time Architecture degree at South Bank and transferring onto an Interior Design degree.
• Your advice helped my decision and I did leave South Bank and I am enjoying studying Interior Design in Southampton.
• So again, thank you.
• I also wanted to let you know that the GreenSpec website is highly recommended by the tutors at Southampton Solent University and some use it a resource for lecture material.
• Indoor Air Quality brain download written for Karla whilst considering subjects for Dissertation

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• Steve Bickell
• College of Estate Management Reading University:
• Following the success of the Sustainability and the Built Environment workshop, I would like to personally thank you for presenting and participating in this event.
• I have received very positive feedback from the attendees and I look forward to working together in the future.

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• Michael Herrmann
• Senior Lecturer in Sustainability, Kingston University School of Architecture & Landscape:
• The web resource is quite amazing – I think I’d come across it before, but not taken the time to delve in deep.
• I’ll also bear your services & CPD syllabus in mind as I work out whether we can effectively deliver all the content of the ‘new, improved’ undergrad architecture & landscape architecture curriculum.
• However we manage it, it’d be wonderful to have you along at some point
• I’ll discuss possibilities with colleagues as and when the opportunity arises.

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• Neil Cowdrey
• Responsible for setting up eco construction course, Weymouth College, Construction Department:
• Hi Brian, you’re just the man I needed to talk to, just from our short chat,
• I know you are very passionate and knowledgeable about the green subject,
• I can see you being a great inspiration for me and others.
• It would be great to get you involved in the new courses, ideas, lectures and workshops that I plan to set up.
• It would be good to meet up at some point and have a proper chat.

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• Wendy Colvin,
• Senior Lecturer, Programme Leader, PGCert Professional Practice & Management in Architecture
• School of Planning and Architecture University of the West of England, Bristol:
• Thank you for your lively talk last Wednesday.
• The students have given very positive feedback about the afternoon session, so, too, our guest from RIBA.
• On Friday, we had a Visiting Board from the RIBA, who will be recommending Candidate Status for Part 3.
• This is good news, and moves us one step closer to a fully accredited course!

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• Laura Kuhakoski
• Student Full Time 1 LSBU 2010:
• I’m really enjoying your lectures.
• Very exciting things and times!
• Thank you  so much.

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• Elvis Philip
• Student LSBU 2010:
• Thanks for your lecture on last Friday in South Bank Uni.
• It was very educational and enjoyable.

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• Fabio Palvelli
• Student LSBU 2009 corresponding in 2011:
• Hopefully still your favourite ECOLOGICAL architecture student
• Hope life is good and that people are starting to see thing a bit greener!
• I am studying my master in building science in Vienna and I am blessed that we did those lecture on green building already together!

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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
16th December 2012 – 14th December 2019