It’s great to see the Design Commission for Wales organising this debate about the future of Cardiff. Cardiff is a good place to live and work but, like everywhere in these uncertain times, it has many problems to address and no clear plans about how to do this yet.

I have been invited to be on [...]

The spacebar on the keyboard is still cooling after responding to the consultation on the definition of zero carbon, which closed today. The Welsh Assembly Government issued a set of documents today inviting comments on the National Energy Efficiency and Savings Plan. The deadline is 5 June 2009.
I haven’t had time to examine the contents [...]

The German standard for low energy buildings, Passivhaus, is flavour of the month in the UK at the moment. The very first SuDoBE project was a collaboration with BRE Wales to discover the best ways to disseminate the knowledge and information the construction industry in Wales would need to meet the aspiration for new buildings [...]

Robert Kyriakides has an interesting post about the Welsh Assembly Government’s consultation document on biomass in Wales, PDF available at:
http://wales.gov.uk/docs/desh/consultation/090224bioenergyconsultationen.pdf
I am not expert enough to assess the quality of his argument against relying on biomass as a central plank of carbon reduction plan, but it certainly invites further scrutiny. He concludes that it would be [...]