There is a buzzword in building these days – a green, faintly fishy word. BREEAM. It’s an acronym for an international, sustainable standard of construction: the altogether less memorable, Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method. At SOAS – as anyone who studies or teaches here will know – we care about the environment. And over the last few years the School has set itself the goal of being greener. We’ve
SOAS was on to a winner when Mace was selected to provide project management and initial design services to the North Block Project back in August 2012. They’re the contracting world’s biggest over-achievers – green and squeaky clean – with a bursting trophy cabinet to prove it. Mace has won Building Magazine’s Major Contractor of the Year seven times straight. And this year they added the Women in Construction Award
The walk from Vernon Square to the SOAS main campus takes just over twenty minutes. The journey, give or take some variation in your route, is a mile long. So, over the course of a year, it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that you may walk five hundred miles between the two campuses to get to lectures or meetings. The Proclaimers were prepared to travel five hundred miles twice
