#buildingbettercommunities

[constructem]

How do our takeoffs and estimating services cater to the unique needs of public construction projects ❓ ✔ We help contractors form accurate bids for projects ✔ We help project builders stay within budget and save their pockets ✔ We help them all save on wasted materials and deadlines So, let's collaborate and create lasting legacies together ❗

[vethelp]

New friends! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🥦🥦❤️❤️❤️Veterans and Community Housing Coalition #vchc and #pitneymeadowscommunityfarm are joining forces to #EndVeteranHunger stay tuned !!!!!!! 🥗🌰🌽🥦🍋🍊🍏🍓👨‍👧‍👦👩‍👦‍👦👩‍👦👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 #BuildingBetterCommunities #BuildingStrongerCommunities #FeedingVeterans #EndingHunger #NutritionalFoods #ittakesavillage (at Veterans & Community Housing Coalition - Vethelp) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKotbofJMiN/?igshid=4vpgrx9ppqbt

[arlenegcanete-blog]

A little but genuine act of kindness this MARCH... No matter how small or big... It's not about how much you give it's about doing something in return when you have much. #teamvirtualahan #empoweringPWDS #empoweringdiversity #workfromhome #buildingbettercommunities https://www.instagram.com/p/Buc8KQOlZma/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1h2k2080p3da0

[smallstudiodesign]

Flashback Friday:
Proud of My UBC: Leaders & LEED-ers in #ecofriendly #greentechnology on a global level. Building Review with #timelapse #video produced by Naturally: Wood re: #construction of Brock Commons Tallwood House - an 18 storey, LEED GOLD target #leedgold , 404-bed STUDENT RESIDENCE building located at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver. #innovative #tallwood #brockcommons #hybridbuilding * The site is narrow & gently sloping - located in front of Walter Gage Building * Built in one of UBC’s newest #studentresidence areas, formerly acres & acres of asphalt surface parking lots for cars (so think about that!) * UBC is located at the tip of Point Grey peninsula just beyond the western city limits of Vancouver . * UBC is a public research university with other campuses: Robson Square, in downtown Vancouver & Okanagan Campus, City of Kelowna in fruit/wine region of Okanagan Valley in B.C.’s arid Interior. * UBC (established 1908); * Endowment: CAD$1.63 billion (2017) * Motto: Latin: “Tuum Est”. (English: “It is up to you, It is yours”) #green #woodconstruction #sustainabledesign #architecture #buildingbettercommunities #futuredesign #architecturevancouver #smallstudiodesign (at UBC Brock Commons)

[bandofbuilders-blog]

Well we have only gone and done it! Well done to #bandofbuilders very own Addam Smith for bagging the #50k trade hero award at #jewson #buildingbettercommunities awards. This money on account with #jewson will change lives. 👏🏼👏🏼 #tradehero #jewsontradehero #togetherstronger #wearebandofbuilders #winner #charitywinner #bob #bobfamily #wabob #thankyouforyoursupport

[bandofbuilders-blog]

Can we all please vote for Addam to have the chance of winning 50k on account with Jewson (building better communities). If he wins the money, it will be used on renovations carried out by the Band Of Builders to make people's lives in their hour of need that little bit better. Click the link in our bio. Even Nick wants you to vote 🛠🛠👏👏👍 2 clicks and it's done, simples👉https://www.buildingbettercommunities.co.uk/trade_hero_entry/addam-smith-260/ #vote #voteforus #award #tradehero #hero #buildingbettercommunities #jewson #tradeheroaward #construction #carpentry #nickknowles #diysos #diy #builder #bandofbuilders

[pidginperfect]

Future Forfar Follow Up

We’d like to thank everyone who participated in the Future Forfar follow up event on the 28th of January. The event outlined the vision (see below) for Forfar Town Centre arrived at through the series of conversations activities and events undertaken in the form of a charrette between Sunday 22nd and Tuesday 24th November.

You can find a copy of the full presentation here documenting the vision.

The purpose of the lunchtime and evening meetings on the January 28th was to build on momentum generated during the charrette in November. There was a fantastic turnout over the two sessions held at the Canmore Rooms with plenty of new faces who weren’t able to attend the events back in November. It would also seem that there were lots of new connections made and from the people present there was a definite eagerness for community led action. In fact a petition started by locals for a new Community Council has already received the required signatures to trigger the next phase.  

Alongside the follow up event an action plan indicating the next steps was presented and received a huge amount of important and useful comments. Please do feel free to send your further comments to us over the next week at [email protected] (or comment directly on the Facebook post). The opportunity to comment further will be open till Friday 12 February, after which they will be incorporated into the final report which will be completed by the end of the month.

Please continue to follow the conversation and provide comment on the Future Forfar Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. Visit our Storify for a full record of all the Future Forfar story so far!

@FutureForfar #FutureForfar

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https://storify.com/pidginperfect/future-forfar

[pidginperfect]

A-Z Community Advent: I is for Irvine

Pidgin Perfect worked with North Ayrshire Council in partnership with Architecture + Design Scotland to develop a visual brief for an 80 unit, new supply affordable housing development in Irvine, Scotland. The project aims to be exemplary in terms of design quality and sustainable development at local and national levels, as well as in terms of urban extensions and new neighbourhoods. The visual brief, for the John Galt site, sets out a statement of the qualitative ambitions for the development and was comprised of three elements:

Project Mandate: developed by North Ayrshire Council, this establishes key project requirements and design ‘non- negotiables’;

Design Ambitions: a summary of a multidisciplinary planning workshop, including diagrammatic summaries of design principles discussed at a variety of scales: Neighbourhood, linking to planned strategic investments; Street organisation; and Home, the relationship between the house and its environs;

Technical Appendix: this supporting document outlined considerations in best practice and lessons for John Galt from experience elsewhere and research around the themes emerging from the multidisciplinary Planning Workshop.