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Last week, Kell Jones, EngD candidate and Researcher at Useful Simple Projects spoke at the Green Sky Thinking Event ‘Sustainable Housing: Beyond the Bonfire’, hosted by Max Fordham. Below is […]
Last week, Daniel Raymond, Associate Sustainability Consultant at Useful Simple Projects, attended the topping out ceremony for 22 Gordon Street (previously Wates House), home of The Bartlett Faculty of the Built […]
We are living in the urban age; by 2050 75% of the world’s population will live in cities. Useful Simple Projects’ Director of Sustainability Dan Epstein shares his thoughts on […]
Carrie joined USP in August 2015 as a Senior Sustainability Consultant. Starting a new job whilst in the final throes of finishing a 4 year PhD programme may not sound […]
Why don’t we see a more coordinated approach in the planning of today’s UK infrastructure projects? We could, says USP Director Alistair Lenczner in his latest article for Infrastructure Intelligence. The holistic approach […]
Back sometime early in 2014, the UK Green Building Council approached us with the idea of hosting a conference on cities. This was to be a different to the usual […]
USP Director Dan Epstein has been appointed by the Mayor of London to be one of the new London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC) Commissioners. The LSDC was established in 2002 to advise […]
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Alistair Lenczner as Director within the Useful Simple Trust group, from 1st December. Alistair was most recently a partner at Foster + Partners, […]
Adoption of new approaches to construction: an impossible hurdle? Over the last year, I’ve been working towards a masters at UCL exploring how we might encourage the adoption of more […]
Open-City held it’s first-ever Green Debate this week to launch the Greener City strand of Open House London 2014. The topic of the debate was ‘London: Designed for Healthy Living?’. […]
Today (4th July 2014) is UK Employee Ownership Day. As an employee-owned organisation, part of the Useful Simple Trust, I thought it would be good to take the opportunity to talk about why […]
Over the last year, Useful Simple has been partnering with ICLEI Brasil to stimulate more sustainable waste management in three Brazilian cities, using the upcoming mega sporting events as a […]
