Building Green member Ben from The Ecology Consultancy is speaking at the first international green wall conference this week about our very own Madeira Drive green wall.
Further conference information here.
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Next ‘DIY Green Roof’ course is taking bookings now!
We’re on for our next DIY course, following the successful weekend led by Building Green and Organic Roofs last year.
Taking place on the weekend of 18-19 October, participants will ‘learn by doing’ – building their own green roofed bird box to take home, visiting green roof projects in Brighton & Hove, and learning about the history, policy and technology of green roofs from leading practitioners.
Building Green DIY course March 2013
The course is hosted by the Brighton Permaculture Trust – you can make bookings from their site here.
Really nice comment about the course at the weekend
One of the course participants wrote in to say “I just wanted to write to thank you for the inspirational Green Roof course this weekend; I feel ready (and keen) to start my extension roof and confident that I can!
I know that a feedback form will be coming but I just wanted you to know just how much I appreciated all the effort that you put into the course which hit the right note on so many levels.”
Building Green DIY course March 2013
Music to our ears!
A successful Building Green DIY course…
Great weekend, thanks to everyone who took part and to Lee from Organic Roofs and Stephan and Charles from Brighton Permaculture Trust.
Here is a Flickr slideshow with photos from the course – and some of the roofs we visited.
Green roof training course is this weekend!
We are pleased to have had enough bookings to run the training course this weekend, 16-17 March. There will be site visits, presentations, discussion and a surgery with green roof professional and co-tutor Lee Evans of Organic Roofs.
Crew Club Brighton, early stages of colonisation
There are still a few places – if you’re interested book via Brighton Permaculture Trust!
Virtual summit opens soon
Dusty Gedge opens the first virtual green roof and living wall conference, 12 Feb – 13 Mar 2013.
More here.
DIY Green Roof course – coming soon!
The next world famous Brighton & Hove Building Green DIY workshop is in March.
It’s a two-day course run in partnership with Brighton and Hove Building Green, Organic Roofs and Low Carbon Trust, in association with RESET.
Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 March 2013
Book and find out more here!
View proposals and vote for Lively Cities project
Ann Street/Providence Place Gardens (Lively Cities project)
Brighton & Hove Council invites you to view proposals and vote for your favourite
Earlier this year, Brighton & Hove City Council invited proposals to transform an underused piece of open space in Brighton – Ann Street and Providence Place Gardens to make it more welcoming and attractive.
Five different possible proposals to transform the Ann Street/Providence Place Gardens area in Brighton will be unveiled to the public on Thursday, 3 May.
The shortlisted schemes were selected from 38 wide-ranging proposals from architects, designers, artists and events specialists and will be on display at St Bartholomew’s Church on 3 May (12pm to 4.30pm) and 4 May (9am-4.30pm) for people to vote on their favourites.
Other exhibition dates and venues are:
- City College (Pelham Street reception): 9 May 2012 (9am-5pm);
- Gazebo in Providence Place Gardens (the park in front of St Bartholomew’s Church): 11 May (9am-4pm) and 12 May (10am-4pm); and
- Online at www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/livelycities.
The five designs are from the following practices:
- Dallas Pierce Quintero
- Philip Cave Associates
- PiP Partnership
- Plan Projects; and
- Sustrans
Exhibition results will be reported to the Selection Panel in order to inform their choice of a winner at the end of May.
The winning design will be announced in June and given a trial run in September, with the most successful features becoming permanent fixtures.
The Ann Street / Providence Place Gardens scheme is part of the Lively Cities project, which receives financial assistance from the European Union through the INTERREG IVB programme.
Reminder: Green Architecture Day 2012 this Saturday
Always informative and fun, this year’s GAD is on Saturday.
The blurb: Talks by designers, practitioners and professionals run in partnership with Low Carbon Trust and in association with RESET
Saturday 17 March 2012, 9:45am to 5pm
Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade Building, Brighton, BN2 0JY
Building Green is at Ecobuild 2012
James is chairing a seminar on green building at this year’s Ecobuild, and Adam is speaking. It’s the largest sustainable building event in the world, over 2 days at Excel in London.
Get down there – and if you’re around for the seminar, say hello!
We’ll be at the Sustainable Self Build and Renovation stream, South Gallery 21&22, Wednesday 21 March. The seminar is ‘Going for Growth’ at 4.30.
Adam’s presentation is on building biodiversity into new build project design.
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