New video helps explain BLP's Butterfly low carbon design & decision tool


  • Date: 06/06/2012

In response to the government’s agenda for sustainable design – in particular the TSB call for design and decision tools for low carbon construction – BLP has created project ‘Butterfly’. BLP is collaborating with Willmott Dixon, UCL Energy Institute and University of Cambridge Centre for Sustainable Development to create this IT aid to calculate life cycle cost and the environmental impact of the design and components for both new build and refurbished residential buildings.

Butterfly will help to simplify the approach to two of the key issues facing our industry, reducing carbon and energy use and the drive towards Building Information Modelling, both of which are key Government targets.

View the Butterfly video here

Chauncy Maples - Lake Malawi's Clinic

Chauncy Maples is the oldest floating ship in Africa. Built in Glasgow in 1899 she was carried in pieces to Lake Malawi in Central Africa. The Government of Malawi is renovating her back into a mobile clinic bringing basic healthcare to 500,000 lakeside people. More info.

Please help us raise the £2m (US$3m) that will make this happen.

Our thanks to
  • ITF Seafarers' Trust - Special Founder
  • Resolve Marine Group - Supporter
  • The Swire Charitable Trust - Supporter
  • The Sammermar Trust - Supporter
  • Smit Salvage - Supporter
  • Fairsky Shipping & Trading - Supporter
  • Harley & Lela Franco - Supporter
  • Harley Marine Services - Supporter
  • V Ships - Benefactor
  • Witherby Publishing Group - Supporter

Chauncy News

Renovation starts in earnest for Chauncy Maples.

Read about the developments in 2012 here

RAISED TO DATE: £1,191,000
STILL NEEDED: £809,000