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Interesting feedback from my post last week on the energy performance of Portcullis House. Casey Cole, a green blogger based over In Italy pronounces it a clear fail, concentrating on how much the building emitted from 2005-2006. He reckons the building uses 50% more electricity and 60% more gas than a bog standard 1990s office block. I think I'm going to do some further digging on this by speaking to the architect Hopkins and engineer Arup. It certainly raises some questions.
Is there a tried and tested method for post occupation evaluation? If so what is it and are enough clients using it? As an interesting aside to this a written parliamentary answer informs us the method the Ministry of Justice uses to track the carbon footprint on its estate. However the last line of the answer is disturbing -
"The privately operated prisons and the secure training centres were delivered under the private finance initiative and have no official methodology."
Buildings built under PFI may be built by the private sector but remain inherently public. Surely there needs to be an agreed methodology for PFI schemes?
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