Bere Admin June 30th, 2009

Wolfgang Feist, founder of the Passivhaus Institute, teaches at AECB national conference, June 2009 and gives masterclasses at bere:architects

Wolfgang Feist came to the UK to provide a series of lectures over two days at this years AECB national conference at Oxford Brookes University. As a physicist and a university lecturer, his talks are always clearly presented and illustrated by graphs based on robust data derived from the monitoring of hundreds of completed projects around Europe and further afield. He explained the fundamental principles of Passivhaus design over a number of packed sessions. Even for those who were already familiar with these advanced techniques, there was much to benefit from hearing them direct from Wolfgang and to be able to hear the answers to questions from the audience.

After the conference, Wolfgang came to London where he spent a long day with invited guests at my home, the Muse. Continue Reading »

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Bere Admin June 17th, 2009

In an ideal world the police would be impartial upholders of all fair and just laws; of course with the proviso that the legal system, based on logic and reason, can challenge unjust or outdated laws.

However many people who have experienced a burglary, a theft, injury by dangerous driving or been a victim of countless other crimes will have concluded that the police were too busy or disinterested or even incapable of helping. The usual reason given is that the police were too busy to cope. That is effectively an admission that cases are prioritised according to an agenda. But who lays down that agenda? Is it senior police officers or is it left to the conscience of the individual police officer? If anyone who knows would tell me, I would be interested to hear from you. Continue Reading »

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