We are delighted to have won the #SmartSocial Award incentive on Twitter run by @MarketmeTV

The DIEMLtdTV video channel on YouTube at www.youtube.com/diemltdtv has helped us win a Smart Social Award. We both enjoy making these videos and feel it helps us give something back to the global business community.

Making videos can be done with an ordinary digital camera which has video mode and software you can get free with a PC. Why not give it a go.

Videos can also be used for site inspections as well as communicating, so why not give it a try. Please get in touch if you need help with this.

What Twitter has done to me

Having recently been ranked as 1st in The Construction Network's RICS Chartered Surveyors on Twitter, Ive reflected on what Twitter has meant to me:

 

T - Timely

W - Worldwide

I - Instant

T - Transparent

T - Timesaving

E - Economical

R - Responsive

 

Thanks to all who have followed @DIEMLtd

RICS Chartered Surveyors on Twitter #tCnRICS100 list can be found at:

http://www.peerindex.com/tcntweets/group/tcnrics100_top_50_chartered_surveyors_on_twitter?auto=1

“Environment and Waste Management Explained” course 25 May 2012

QHS Solutions and DIEM Ltd  Environmental Consultants, have worked together for several years delivering related services.   Our firms share the same values in the delivery of high quality and cost effective services to Client.

 

We are now offering this new half day   

“Environment and Waste Management Explained”

course on Friday 25th May from 0930 to 1230 in Burnley.

 

Course Aims

This half day course is designed and delivered by Environmental Consultants DIEM Ltd to enable delegates to understand Environment and Waste management systems and legal requirements to help give your business the environmental advantage.

 

Course Content

·         Introduction to the environment –

·         Managing our environment,

·         ISO 14001 Environmental Management and supply chains and includes:·        

o   Winning work with good environmental management

o   PAS 91

o   Sustainable procurement

o   PAS 2030 (including introduction to the Green Deal)

 

Part 1: Environmental management on sites  - Minimising the risks:

·         Noise & vibration

·         Waste (brief overview - full waste training to follow)

·         Contaminated land

·         Water

·         Dust and Air quality

·         Ecology

·         Spill incidents  

·         Organising for site work

 

This section culminates with a short multiple-choice assessment

 

 

Part 2: Effective waste management

·         What is waste?    

·         Duty of care and legal requirements

·         Handling and storage of waste

·         Pricing for waste

·         Reducing the cost of waste within the law

 

This section concludes with a practical duty of care waste transfer note exercise.

 

A Certificate will be awarded following successful assessment.

 

This training will be delivered by David Inman of DIEM Ltd. David is a Chartered Environmental Surveyor, Chartered Environmentalist and Lead EMS Auditor. Across the UK, he supports companies and organizations ranging from widely known “superbrands” to small family run companies in reaching their environmental management potential.

 

Course fees are just £75.00 per delegate (plus VAT) to include course handouts, certificate and refreshments. 

 

We are expecting a high demand for this course to book, please contact Alison on 01282 839 103 or a.stansfield@QHS-Solutions.com

 

We look forward to seeing you there!

Quantity surveyors – construction’s future sustainability stars

The RICS APC (Assessment of Professional Competency) pathway guide for Quantity Surveying describes the discipline as:

 

Quantity surveyors are the cost managers of construction. They are initially involved with the capital expenditure phase of a building or facility, which is the feasibility, design and construction phases, but they can also be involved with the extension, refurbishment, maintenance and demolition of a facility.

 

They must understand all aspects of construction over the whole life of a building or facility. They must have the ability to manage cost effectively, equating quality and value with individual client needs.

 

 

Looking at the term "cost", QSs hold the key not just to costing financially, but in terms of waste quantities and diverting this from landfill plus more critical, carbon accounting right through projects from design and construction to long term maintenance and eventual disposal.  The information QSs hold is invaluable for analysing material, including waste, quantities and carbon.

 

From a Chartered Environmental Surveyor who interprets and manages carbon, waste and materials data for environmental and sustainability reporting, my advice to trainee QSs is embrace the wider sustainability applications which you skills can unlock and you’ll be the stars of the future.

Green Drinks Lancashire - Ormskirk, 25 May 2012

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Green Drinks Lancashire returns!

Friday 25th May 2012

5:30pm

The Green Room

39 Moor Street, Ormskirk, L39 2AA

Come and join us at this free networking event for likeminded sustainability professionals.

5 mins walk from Ormskirk Railway Station.

Adjacent to Ormskirk bus station which also has ample parking.

Email davidinman@diemltd.co.uk for more information.

Event supported by

• RICS Lancashire Local Association
• Lancashire Construction Best Practice Club
• DIEM Ltd
• Profile Consulting
• Fairsnape

Please register at

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/3506769843/autohome?ebtv=C