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UK Spec – Sustainable Development
Jambo’s comment on A Blog on Blogging below has actually given me the inspiration for my first blog!
Working over in the ‘freest country on earth’ sustainable development just hasn’t come up as an area to gain experience. In order to be so free Americans avoid Federal Government ‘meddling’ as much as possible leaving it to the states and individual counties, which business then takes advantage of. Examples can be easily found in H&S as well as environmental impacts of how this can cause a race to the bottom in certain areas.
The only time I have seen sustainable development is a tick box form to question if light bulbs meet minimal efficiency standards and if the manufacturer uses sustainable methods where Unknown was an acceptable answer. This form was a requirement as it is a government contract however nobody was interested in the answers, just that the form was complete.
How are others getting on with this competence?
Is sustainable development taken seriously in the UK and Aus, or just individual projects (if at all)?
@bnrbwoods, I expect BP aim to have buzzwords like sustainable development covered off to help with their image? Is this realistically a tough sell?
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year all!
A blog on blogging…
The PET Blog so far for me has been a scary place, full of complex Civil treatises about mud and concrete. So I questioned – what do PEW want from a blog?
Now that I have moved to Phase 3, I’ve discovered a similar concept at Arup. Called ‘Yammer’, it seems to be an avenue for the sharing of short dits that could be useful across multiple project disciplines, or to succinctly frame a problem and ask for advice from across the company. Being a much larger organisation (c.14,000 personnel), the blog is split by discipline/area and includes Project Management, Building Services, Bicycle Users Group etc etc.
Arup blog examples from ‘Yammer’
It has made for some interesting reading and has demonstrated, at least for me, how useful a blog could be as a knowledge sharing device. The short, quick nature of their posts takes little from their day, but the benefit is obvious. I also think that keeping it short promotes involvement from a wider audience. But this is just their way of doing things.
I’d be interested to hear what you guys think about what the PET blog should be – What do we want from it? Is it being used in the best way? How should we be using the blog? Should we set Cheese and Groom a word limit?
Have a good Christmas and NY! Back to the beach…
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