Another year, another Ecobuild, new venue, new chapter.  The switch to Excel will no doubt be hailed as a success and the organisers will cite more exhibitors, more seminars and more visitors as their yardstick. But as others have suggested, it felt like there was something lacking at Ecobuild this year. The journey over was surprisingly trouble-free though and afforded a panoramic view of our Ferrier Point tower block retrofit in Canning Town to the north of the DLR.

ECD’s Ferrier [...]

I can scarcely believe it but Ecobuild has somehow managed to get even bigger in 2010. For those who remember its modest beginnings barely five years ago when there could have been no more than a few dozen exhibitors in the lobby at the QEII conference centre, its exponential growth is testament to the rise in interest in all things ‘sustainable’ in the ensuing years – or more likely to the ability of the mainstream construction industry to rebrand itself in a greener [...]