The Green Register of Construction Professionals

We are delighted to announce that Green Woods Furniture are now offering discounts to Green Register members!

If you are a member, please log in to the members area to find out how to claim your discount.

Elsevier are delighted to offer a 10% discount (and free postage) on all of their green building books to members of The Green Register

Simply Log In to the members area for full details of this offer!

This years Green Register Social Events are -

London - Thursday 15 May 6pm - 9pm at The George Pub, Borough High Street, SE1
Bristol - Thursday 12 June 6pm - 9pm at Sublime, King Street, Bristol

The Green Register invites you to our NEW Summer Social for an evening of food, drink and interesting conversation. There will be two speakers during the evening, both on the topic of carbon footprinting.

Firstly, Lucy Pedler of The Green Register will be presenting the findings of the research into our carbon footprint, calculated by Steve Tainton of The Converging World. The footprint has taken into account all of The Green Register’s activities including speaker and delegate travel and the results will be of interest to members and non-members alike.

Secondly, Steve Tainton will introduce an exciting new partnership between The Converging World and The Green Register that offers members the opportunity to mitigate carbon through a renewable energy investment which generates funds for social development at home and abroad. This is a unique scheme that does not ‘offset’ carbon but compensates for carbon emissions in a truly sustainable way, addressing economic, social and environmental issues in one beautifully simple method.

This event will also be an opportunity to meet other local Green Register members in a social setting, along with the Green Register team and some of our SBS course trainers. Please do join us for this event and bring your friends!

Cost: £5 for members, £10 for non-members, to include food and drink.

We hope to see as many of you as possible - please contact the Green Register office to reserve your place - 0117 377 3490 or mail@greenregister.org.uk

Our friends at Bristol City Council have passed us details of this exciting event and a special offer that they are making to potential delegates from the Bristol and surrounding region.

BETS Expo 2008 will provide the perfect environment for gaining insight into business support provision, environmental technologies and services to enable greener business growth in the future.

Organised by Bristol City Council’s BETS (Bristol Environmental Technologies & Services Sector Initiative), the business-to-business conference and exhibition will bring together a rich diversity of delegates. It will cut through the ‘greenwash’ and share best practice environmental initiatives that can help turn the UK’s low-carbon challenge into a reality.

BETS are offering regional attendees a special offer of 2 delegates passes for the price of 1 for each of the delegate rates (day one - £100; day two - £90; full two-day pass - £155).

For more information please see the dedicated website, www.betsexpo.com

• Do you have a passion for the environment?
• Do you have excellent PR and marketing skills?
• Would you like to be involved with a very friendly but overworked team in a rapidly expanding not-for-profit organisation?

The Green Register is looking for an inspiring person with PR and marketing skills to work with us one day per week to help promote the wide range of activities that our organisation runs across the UK. 
 
This person will be able to work with a team of three people to make sure our activities and events are promoted in all the major publications as well as those less widely known. If you think you fit these criteria and are keen to get involved with The Green Register, or know of someone who would be interested, we'd love to hear from you.
 
To apply for the position please send a current CV and covering letter including your salary expectations to:
 
Sarah Derryman, The Green Register, The Create Centre, Smeaton Road, Bristol BS1 6XN or by email to mail@greenregister.org.uk
 
Please note that this role is based in Bristol therefore we cannot accept applications from non-UK residents.  Closing date for applications is Friday 6 June 2008.

Good news for members!

RIBA Bookshops have kindly extended their offer of 10% discount to Green Register members on their Sustainable Booklist 2008.

This offer will now end on 31st May.

Any members who missed the details first time around, please do drop me an email for further information - sally@greenregister.org.uk

Members who already have the offer code and booklist can go straight to www.ribabookshops.com to take advantage of the generous offer. Happy shopping!

We have been contacted by Children's BBC - they are developing a new factual children's conservation programme and are looking for a green architect to be their on-screen 'talent'!

This needs to be someone who is knowledgeable about sustainable architecture and who is confident on camera.  Previous on-screen experience would be preferred, but is not essential.  The project will be starting up next year, but CBBC would like to meet people in the next month.

If this is of interest to you please contact Coral Lawson either by email Coral.Lawson@bbc.co.uk or by phone on 020 8225 8639.

Please note that due to unforseen circumstances - flooding at the original venue - we have had to move next weeks Lightweight Vs Heavyweight Construction Seminar to The Zion Arts Centre.

We will be notifying everyone who has already booked a place on the seminar by email tomorrow.

The full address is -

Zion Arts Centre, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester, M15 5ZA

http://www.zionarts.com

Another week, another new benefit of being a member of The Green Register!

Members should have received an email today, containing exciting news of a special limited offer from One Planet Products (www.oneplanetproducts.com).

If any members didn't receive this email, or would like further details, please do contact me - sally@greenregister.org.uk

We also recently developed partnerships with RIBA Bookshops and Ecomerchant, both offering generous discounts to Green Register members. Don't hesitate to contact me for further information!

If you are a Green Register member and have not yet received your member's area login information by email, please get in contact to let us know.

All members should have been sent their unique, automatically-generated username and password in order to be able to log in to the member area, however we believe that some of these emails may have been classified as spam and may not have reached their intended recipients.

The final small issues with the website are being ironed out this week; we really hope you like our new look!