Entries for August 2007

“Contractors haven’t got the skills to engage in a flourishing market for new environmental technologies. Contractors don’t benchmark so they don’t know their strengths and weaknesses.” Andrew Brister, Electrical Contractor, 31 July

The long-awaited Housing Green Paper was finally unveiled, as large swathes of the West of England and the Midlands were engulfed in the biggest British flood for half a century.

Small RIBA registered or chartered practices (10 staff or fewer) are invited to submit their Small Achievable Sustainable Idea for a live pitch to an expert panel at the RIBA Guerrilla Tactics conference on 18 October.

RIBA has announced a competition to design new visitor facilities for the Brockholes Wetland and Woodland Nature Reserve near Preston in Lancashire.

The Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland (RIAS) has announced the winners of the 2007 Irish Architecture Awards

Carmody Groake has won the RIBA competition to extend the Sheffield Showroom Cinema and workstation creative business centre.

A-EM Studio Limited and Audley English Associates has won the competition for a mixed tenure housing development on the site of Eltham Baths, London SE9.

The London Development Agency (LDA) in the process of selecting a team of consultants to design and deliver the Legacy Masterplan Framework for the Olympic Park site in the Lower Lea Valley.

Wakefield College is seeking a number of consultants to develop the design of a new college building on the existing Margaret Street campus.

Huntingdonshire District Council is looking for a planning consultant to develop an Investment Framework to accompany its Local Development Framework.