NGS NEWS January 2014
1-3: AJA Adrian James Architects
Shrewsbury Private School
Writing up Employer’s Requirements from meeting notes
3: 100 more links added to recent page updates added to Homepage
3: Met East of England Funding Agency
5: NGS CPD file updates for CAROE CPD
Specification Development: RIBA Plan of Work 0-7.pptx
Refurbishment Non-Domestic Materials.pptx
Retrofitting SusCon 4 Historic.pptx
Retrofit Materials Methods.pptx
NGS Building Diagrams.pptx
Sustainable Refurb EcoSys.pptx
STBA Guidance Wheel. pptx
6: Oliver Caroe Architects CPD:
Office Specification Stratergy and NBS Software options
7: AJA Adrian James Architects
Shrewsbury Private School
Editing A90 Performance Specification
Reviewing first Specification Draft with design team
9: NGS MANUFACTURER SERVICES
Updated NGS PRODUCT PAGES
9: Grosvenor Estates
Call re grant funding of CAP’EM Extension & NGS 3D VIEW
They will fund a conference this year instead
10: SustMe Top 500
Brian Murphy 368 (up from 390) must try harder
10-13: AJA Adrian James Architects
Shrewsbury Private School
Complete first draft Employer’s Requirements
13: European Commission PEF Product Environmental Footprinting, Training Session: Thermal Insulation, Brussels.
14: Peregrine Mears Architects
Enquiry to write specification for new school buildings
14-15: NGS National Green Specification
Website update
14: Cambridge University IDBE Master’s Programme
Invited to propose and later prepare 2 Hours on
Materials for and Approaches to refurbishment
16-17: AJA Adrian James Architects
Shrewsbury Private School
Complete 2nd draft Employer’s Requirements
19: NGS National Green Specification
130 new links to NGS web pages added to home page
20: AJA Adrian James Architects
Shrewsbury Private School
Team meeting review spec and briefing for final edit of Employer’s Requirements for Tender
21: EC PEF Stakeholder contacts list update
21: TAS ECO SYSTEMS
Hemp and clay suppliers
Approached NGS re hemp product displays and contacts
Discussed setting up NGS SUPPLIER PAGE & PRODUCT PAGES
Prepared NGS BUDGET
£78 minimum 1 SUPPLIER PAGE and 1 Download file
working up to £5000 comprehensive 20 products 10 systems
21-24: AJA Adrian James Architects
Shrewsbury Private School
Specification clause index list for Drawing annotation
Update Specification from briefing notes
21: Update CAP’EM Post-Interreg.pptx
22-23: CAP’EM Steering Committee Brussels
 
24: LSBU Part 2 Year 1 Seminar series:
- Asked to add new material to seminar series
- Created DropBox to show examples to Uni.
- Global Imperative.pptx
- Consequences.pptx
- Resource Efficient Design.pptx
- Asked JUFU to present UHIE
26: GBS GreenBuildingSpecifiction J A90 Performance Specification CPD A02 PDF
Updated and uploaded seminar before showing Monday.
27: Oliver Caroe Architects:
Practice Specification Development meeting
28-31: EC PEF Stakeholder Invitation Document
© NGS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
26th November 2013 – 8th february 2014
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NGS NEWS February 2014
1: 300,000 NGS website page views in 154 days
3: Adrian James Architects
IVF Clinic Programme Specification
4: Start Gemini Adhesives Ltd. CPD Campaign
4: BACA Architects meeting
Specification for one off house interview
4: LSBU Seminar Series
Final planning meeting
5: PEF Stakeholder Calls
5: BCT call re Swift Conservation conference Workshop
5: Healthy Buildings, Healthy People, London ASBP, 17.30-20.00, Cullinans.
http://www.asbp.org.uk/events/detail/?eId=31
6: FSP Steering Group
6: NGS 3D VIEW
Meeting Holistic City Ltd. to discuss possibilities
Potential for EcoBuild display?
7: LSBU Seminar Semiar Series start
7-10: Adrian James Architects
IVF Clinic Specification first draft issue
11-12: CAP’EM COMPASS FAQ
Review and Correct 14 pages of FAQs
12: ASBP members meeting, 14.00 – 17.00 at UCL
14: LSBU Seminar
21: LSBU Seminar Low
Energy Demand Building
Design to reduce waste
24: Oliver Caroe Architects
Practice Specification Strategy
B04 Scope of Work > B04 Schedule of Work
24: NGS Website: 5000 document downloads in 119 days
25: FSP Conference Call
Planning FSP Summit 2014
27: ANTHESES & BEST FOOT FORWARD
Launch Private invitation
28: LSBU Seminar JUFU UHIE
Urban Heat Island Effect Primer
© NGS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
26th November 2013 – 12th March 2014
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NGS NEWS March 2014
1-3: Designing and creating display material
Assembling Exhibition stand at Excel
4-6: RESOURCE exhibition Circular Economy, Excel
NGS attended and exhibited NGS ENCYCLOPAEDIA & NGS 3D VIEW
Public response was overwhelmingly popular with almost all of the delegates
the fee reservations: Architects in fear of their job, but most Architects asked when can I use it.
4-6: EcoBuild
Seminar stream: Sustainable by design
Date: Wednesday 5 March 2014
Session times: 14.30 – 16.00
Seminar title: Incorporating nature in our buildings for multiple benefits
Incorporating nature into our buildings is important if we are to enhance local biodiversity and take advantage of a range of other benefits such as: improving the environmental performance of buildings through intelligent use of shading, managing water etc… Covering design considerations for improving biodiversity, living walls, green roofs and a vision for connecting both climate and the landscape to the built environment, this session debates the win/wins of incorporating nature considerations into building design.
Talk title: Designing for biodiversity
Dusty Gedge and Gary Grant speaking
Kelly Gunnell BSc MSc Ecology Service Manager Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
0207 938 8185 kelly.gunnell@rbkc.gov.uk
 
7: LSBU Seminar Semiar Series
CEREB visit & Resource Efficient Design
8: Refecting on overwhelming success of EcoBuild
- Visitor Feedback was fantastic,
- met some past aquaintences and friends,
- recuited potential partners in the projects
- discussed potential Interreg Funded Project
11:NGS Website: 2000 document downloads for 1 manufacturer in 130 days
11-12: CAP’EM Steering Committee London
Quaker Freinds House London
13: CAP’EM London to HUDDERSFIELD
Special Train laid on from St Pancras
Investment Building visit and launch
14: LSBU Seminar Semiar Series
Embodied Carbon & Energy calculations
14: CAP’EM visit BRE to discuss haow CAP’em data might get into BRE systems
14: Meeting with Edith Colomba to discuss adding Home Improvement to NGS website
18: NGS Website: worst page views total 650 in a day on day 200
19: CAP’EM COMPASS, WSCP, Leeds,
BrianSpecMan speaking
19: Creating Healthy Buildings, UK BCSD & IEMA & WSCP
@ Steelcase Solutions, 7 Brewery Place, Brewery Wharf, Leeds, LS10 1NE.
Directions
Contact: victoria@bcsd-uk.co.uk
BrianSpecMan Speaking
- Professor Lynn Jack, Royal Academy of Engineering Centre of Excellence in Building Design
- Sarah Payne, Heriot Watt University. Healthy Buildings for Healthy people
- Nigel Sagar, Skanska.
- Brian Murphy, NGS: REACHing a moving target: Healthy Health Building Details.
- Scott Johnson, Jacobs. Health in master planning of residential and mixed use developments’
- Emma Skaviero, Steelcase Solutions. Wellbeing at Work – an introduction.
20: NGS website 400,000 page views in 202 days
20-21: CAP’EM PEF Stakeholder Meeting Brussels
21: SustMeme top 500 rankings published
BrianSpecMan climbing the rasks in 3 tables
22-23: NGS CPD Updating many Seminar files
Refurbishment & Retrofit for Cambridge University week
23: Ska Technical Committee Preview
Questions for Carbon Trust about ECA & ETL drivers
Related to NGS PASS Group Comparison for Electic hand Dryers
24-29: Cambridge University IDBE Master’s Programme
Invited to propose and later prepare 2 Hours on Materials for and approaches to historic refurbishment/demolition
Cambridge University Newham College buildings.
Project extended to Joint Couse Leader with ian Cooper: lectures, project briefing, site visits surveys, guidance and progress reviews. final project reviews and comment.
24: BrianSpecMan Need for Retrofit: Global Context
24: BrianSpecMan Construction Materials Workshop
27: Ska Technical Committee
BrianSpecMan‘s first attendance
28: LSBU Seminar Semiar Series ends
Seminar about Passivhaus, AECB’s CarbonLite, EnerPHit, Passivhaus Case Study, Passivhaus Accredited products
© NGS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
26th November 2013 – 29th March 2014
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