So the iconic landmark of the BBC Television Centre is now empty – well almost, we know that some administrative staff and redevelopment project teams remain. The creative and technical juice is squeezed out.
The “doughnut” as it became affectionately known was the brainchild of the architect, Graham Dawbarn CBE (Norman & Dawbarn). He doodled an open question mark on an envelope (now held by the BBC Written Archives Centre) while thinking about the design of the building, and realised that it would be an ideal shape to use the area covered by the site.
Seems like yesterday we were all saying “Happy New Year” – by the way, when is it time for us to stop New Year salutations? Well . . . etiquette allows us to make the choice up to, but not including, the 1st February.
February – the month of choice and plans then. The month we really understand if the resolutions we made are now able to be put away for another year, the month when the longer days make us look forward and upwards. That’s the theory.
You've got yours I hope? Got mine . . . well, I had it somewhere on the 1st January . . . After all the excess of the holidays, we resolve to be better people for the new year.
Philippa Perry, psychotherapist and author, positions the ritual for us.
"The tradition of a New Year resolution helps us to focus in the days beforehand on how we are going to carry out our new behaviour, so we can plan and be less likely to forget. Because of this tradition, other people will be in the same boat as us so we will have some support and, because everyone will be asking us around this time of year what our new year's resolution will be, we have an extra incentive to stick to our resolution because we will have told other people about it and may not want to look weak in their eyes."
A few weeks ago we looked at energy efficiency issues in hotels, one of the most energy intensive building types in the world. This month, Smartcool's work improving the energy efficiency of air conditioning chillers in hotels has been featured in the CiBSE Journal.
The special supplement by the Chartered Institution for Building Services Engineers (CiBSE) covers results of several Smartcool projects with major hotel brands around the world. Here are the highlights:
Autumn is upon us, the season when our personal energy levels fall as our body prepares to conserve resources. At the same time, utility energy consumption rises as the costs increase.
As we focus on the bleak months ahead of us, so our business perspectives of assessment of costs and increased utility prices loom large in our thoughts.
I was thinking about resilience in my blog last time and now I want to get you to reflect on energy and resilience in your business for a moment. Checking levels we’ll call it for now...
We’ve seen enough energy reflected in the Olympics this month - but I mean the energy you need to do business – human capital energy and utility provided energy to power your hardware. I promise that’s the only reference to the O word in the blog this month, by the way.
Vancouver, BC. November 27, 2012, Smartcool Systems Inc. (TSX-V: SSC) has filed its Financial Statements and Management Discussion and Analysis for the third quarter and first nine months of 2012. Smartcool has narrowed its focus to target primarily direct sales to major accounts in Europe, a...
Vancouver, BC. September 10, 2012, Smartcool Systems Inc. (TSX-V: SSC) is pleased to present a new program promoting better energy efficiency for homes and businesses through Smartcool retrofits. Full details are available at the new ECO3 Energy Evolution site: www.smartcooleco3.com. Smartcool’s E...
Vancouver, BC. August 21, 2012, Smartcool Systems Inc. (TSX-V: SSC) is pleased to announce the successful completion of an ECO3 air conditioning energy efficiency pilot project for Internet Solutions a division of the Dimension Data, NTT group. This 18-month pilot project achieved 14% energy saving...
Vancouver, BC. May 9, 2012, Smartcool Systems Inc. (TSX-V: SSC) has reported its audited fourth quarter results for the three months and the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. The year ending December 31, 2011 was a challenging year for Smartcool where expectations for revenue growth did not mate...
Vancouver, BC. February 2, 2012, Smartcool Systems Inc. (TSX-V: SSC) continues to see superb results from 2M Energy Solutions, the leading distributor of Smartcool’s products in Malta. Since the beginning of its Smartcool distribution agreement in February 2009, 2M Energy has continued t...
Vancouver, BC. January 24, 2012, Smartcool Systems Inc. (TSX-V: SSC) is pleased to announce that the company has experienced the anticipated growth in its business and achieved profitability during the fourth quarter of 2011. In this quarter, Smartcool achieved the most revenue earned in...
VANCOUVER, BC. January 17, 2012. Smartcool Systems Inc. (TSX-V: SSC) announces that further to its news releases dated November 15, 2011 and December 6, 2011, the company will not proceed with the closing of the final tranche of the private placement as initially announced on November 15, 2011. The ...
So the iconic landmark of the BBC Television Centre is now empty – well almost, we know that some administrative staff and redevel...
Seems like yesterday we were all saying “Happy New Year” – by the way, when is it time for us to stop New Year salutations? Well...
You've got yours I hope? Got mine . . . well, I had it somewhere on the 1st January . . . After all the excess of the holidays, we...
A few weeks ago we looked at energy efficiency issues in hotels, one of the most energy intensive building types in the world.&nbs...
Autumn is upon us, the season when our personal energy levels fall as our body prepares to conserve resources. At the same t...
I don’t think I have ever appreciated a hotel as much as I did during a trip to Houston for a cleantech tradeshow Smartcool was ex...
Did you know supermarkets have a dark side? And it’s not just the impulse-buy section at the checkout where you pass innocently by...
In our last post in this series, we looked at the massive energy consumption of data centers and how Smartcool can help reduce thi...
I was thinking about resilience in my blog last time and now I want to get you to reflect on energy and resilience in your bu...
A data center has a massive demand for electricity to run all of its servers 24/7/365. A typical data center uses the same amount ...
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