The New Normal: Skills and Roles for a Sustainable Future Martin Brown From Facilities Managers as ‘Wellness Officers’ to Building Service Engineers who (RE)Design buildings as power stations, we will require new and widespread sustainability skills, if we to move

Thank you to everyone who came along to the London Specifi landscape event, and for contributing so generously to the Think Tank and the presentation.  The discussion continued during the meal, and one person mentioned an important

Think Tank: London Beyond the New Normal Martin Brown and Claire Thirlwall Exploring the role and influence of the (landscape) architect. Following the think tank from earlier in the year we updated and recapped on

In my talks I emphasise that the government and other forward-looking client businesses are demanding wider changes to how the industry works. The January 2018 collapse of Carillion is just one sign of a deeper malaise within the UK construction

Health and Wellbeing Sustainability – the New Normal Specifi keynote talks and network discussions regularly feature the emerging sustainability standards that are rapidly gaining in popularity. These are the Living Building Challenge Standard, Well Build Standard and Fitwel, standards