Free Tickets to the New Designers Exhibition 2009

Gleeds TV has a limited number of free tickets to the New Designers Exhbition held at the Business Design Centre London N1. Visit http://www.gleeds.tv/ to claim your free tickets.

The New designers exhibition showcases the very best in UK graduate design.

New Designers runs for two weeks and is divided into two parts incorporating 9 exciting design zones including two prestigious awards evenings which form an integral part of the event. Nowhere else is it possible to see such creativity across every major design discipline from architecture to animation, furniture to fashion, graphics to glass.

Part 1: 9-12 July 2009:
- Textiles, Fashion & Accessories Contemporary Applied Arts Ceramics & Glass Jewellery & Precious Metalwork One Year On

Part 2: 16-19 July 2009
- Product Design Furniture Design Visual Communications (including Graphic Design and Illustration) Spatial Design One Year On

Visit http://www.gleeds.tv/ to claim your free tickets.

UK Education Sector content: BSF, PsF, BSEC and More

Education is a hot topic in the construction sector - but the world of PFI, BSF, LSC and PsF can be confusing. Where to start?

This week on GTV there is a focus on the UK education sector, highlights include:

Tim Byles, Partnerships for Schools Chief Executive at BSEC 09Biggest Challenges for BSF in the future, including the economic implications of the recession on education, particularly BSF schemes.
http://www.gleeds.tv/index.cfm?video=463


Frank Locker, Transforming Schools Consultant
Honored as Planner of the Year by the Council of Educational Facilities Planners International, Dr Locker has taught the annual school planning course at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and in the UK has been a BSF educational planner for 3 local authorities.

In this talk Dr Locker discusses various website which foster good educational design, these include: www.designshare.com, www.edutopia.org and www.cefpi.org .

Dr Locker also highlights Australia (particularly Western Australia & Victoria) and Minisota in the USA as good examples of leading the way in terms of education design. View the full clip online: http://www.gleeds.tv/index.cfm?video=460

There are alos a series of interviews with Kent County Council (KCC) and the schools and students involved in the first wave of the BSF programme. KCC have been very pro-active in involving students in the design for education process. Keep an eye out for these clips in the next week.

Budget 2009: Impact on the property and construction industry

In line with the 2009 Budget, Gleeds TV has released two budget summary podcasts to evaluate the impact on the property and construction industry:

- Budget 2009 Overview - Gleeds Advisory: Taxation, Grants & Insurance
A summary of the implications of the budget on Budget 2009: Capital Allowances, Grants and construction costs. http://www.gleeds.tv/index.cfm?video=450

- Budget Summary: Public Sector Investment Outlook
An overview of the 2009 Budget, focussing on the implication to public sector investment. http://www.gleeds.tv/index.cfm?video=451


To view the clips visit www.gleeds.tv

Colin Matthews BAA CEO talk at the 'Movers & Shakers' Breakfast

At a recent 'Movers & Shakers' Breakfast, Colin Matthews BAA CEO addressed property and construction industry members to discuss "Modernising Heathrow and why it matters" as the government have now approved the third runway and new terminal.

Rather than just talking about Modernising Heathrow (which he did) the talk seems to be a hard sell for the third runway and new terminal.

Make up your own mind, view the clip at www.gleeds.tv

Boris Johnson addresses Movers & Shakers, the UK's leading Property Networking Organisation

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson addresses the London Movers & Shakers networking breakfast, topics include: the recession, the future of London, the Olympics and of course Ken Livingston but he struggles through some of the Q&A's from London's top property executives.

View the clip here:
http://www.gleeds.tv/index.cfm?video=425

The next Movers & Shakers talk will be a joint BPF event with Francis Salway, Martin Moore, Ian Marcus & Nick Ritblat on Wednesday 6th May, to find out more:
http://www.moversandshakers.uk.com/index.php

Oneplanetoneday: 'Providing greener choice' Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs

Kevin McCloud chairs this discussion on Zero carbon and One Planet Living in retrofit and existing communities, making it relevant to the public, communicating benefits.

Moving away from a focus mainly on new communities to include existing ones, how can we provide products and services which enable people to lead high quality lives within a sustainable ecological footprint?
How we communicate the benefits of zero carbon homes?
How can we build successful businesses offering greener choices?
What is the role of the public sector in this process?

West 8: Adriaan Geuze, Dutch Architecture and Humour

West 8: Adriaan Geuze

This is a funny talk (funny ha ha) as West 8 founder and Principle Architect talks about Dutch architecture and 'Fighting the Sea'. One of the best talks from the RIBA 'International Dialogues: Architecture and Climate Change' talks 2008 season.

for the rest of the talk (another 45 mins or so) visit ww.gleeds.tv

Frank Gehry and London architecture talks

Circa 2007 Frank Gehry and Sydney Pollack did a conversation/talk presenation at the Royal Institute of British Architects to co-incide with the film 'Sketches of Frank Gehry'.

An intersting talk by one of the world's best know architects (he was on the Simpsons!).

This event was held as a part of Architecture week (which has now been scrapped apparently due to budget cuts and the London Olympics) London Festival of Architecture might still be on this year though (not sure) but for architecture events in London New London Architecture http://www.newlondonarchitecture.org/talks.php is a great place to start

Ken Yeang: pioneer of low energy buildings

Ken Yeang is the world’s leading architect in ecological design and passive low energy design and his ‘bioclimatic’ towers have had an impact around the world, fusing high-tech and organic principles.

Ken is orginally from Malaysia but now works for Llewelyn Davies Yeang in London and was touted by The Guardian newspaper '50 people who could save the planet' (January 2005).

His thinking infuses peer group discussions on building form and disposition of the public realm through the objectives of sustainability.

Dr. Yeang was an early pioneer of low energy buildings and an ecological approach to sustainable design- developed through environmental integration, by enhancing biodiversity and working to emulate the systems of nature (Bioclimatic).

View the clip: http://www.gleeds.tv/index.cfm?video=413 (Downloadable)