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Scope of carbon budgets: Statutory advice on inclusion of international aviation and shipping
Posted on: 5 April 2012
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The Committee on Climate Change has published its report on international aviation and shipping emissions, arguing that there is no longer any reason to exclude these from carbon budgets. In the report the Committee conclude that the current approach should be formalised through the inclusion of these emissions in carbon budgets and the 2050 target. Emissions from international aviation and shipping were initially left out of carbon budgets and the 2050 target when the Climate Change Act became Law in 2008, with the decision on inclusion delayed to 2012. A technical report accompanies this advice, out scenarios for how the 2050 target to reduce emissions by 80% relative to 1990 levels can be achieved with international aviation and shipping included.
Proceedings of the CIB W078-W102 Conference: Computers, knowledge, building
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This 994-page report contains the proceedings from a conference held in Sophia Antiplois in France from 26-28 October 2011. It includes proceedings from the 28th International Workshop of CIB W78 Computer integrated construction, jointly organised with the 7th CIB W102 Information and knowledge management in building.
This conference was dedicated to the latest broad achievements in research, development, standardisation and industrial implementation of advanced Computing, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Knowledge Management (KM) in the construction sector and the built environment. The key role of ICT and KM in the facilitation of information and knowledge delivery in collaborative projects and distributed teams is nowadays widely acknowledged, and the construction sector has now is becoming active in the adoption of models, standards and ICT solutions, with the ambition to better manage and assimilate an increasing amount of information and embedded services, throughout the building lifecycle. The objective is also to enhance the potential for productivity and reduce overall life-cycle product costs, and to further support services designed to facilitate management of life cycle performance and to meet changing end user needs, with a clear customer orientation.
HotStats 2012: UK, Europe and MENA
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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This publication contains results of the UK hotel industry’s profit and loss performance with individual commentary on 15 key European and Middle Eastern hotel markets plus sections on London, England, Scotland and Wales. The document also details results for the full year in 2011 and gives a comparison with 2010 performance.
Survey on urban sustainability in cities
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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In order to gauge the sustainability priorities and views of European cities, the European Metropolitan network Institute (EMI) and ICLEI have jointly launched a digital questionnaire on urban sustainability. Cities are asked to fill out the questionnaire before the 23 April 2012 so that results can be used in further developing EMI’s Urban Sustainability Research Agenda. The main aim of this Agenda is to, together with cities, identify new, overarching research questions so that cities can become (increasingly) sustainable.
Transactional Agents Sustainability Toolkit: a guide for commercial property sales and lettings
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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The Better Buildings Partnership (BBP), a collaboration of fourteen of the largest commercial property owners in the UK, in partnership with the Mayor of London, is calling on all agents who are involved in the sale and leasing of commercial property to improve their knowledge of sustainability issues and drive change by helping owners and occupiers to understand the benefits of owning and using greener buildings. To support this, the BBP has developed an easy to use sustainability toolkit specifically for transactional agents.
Working in neighbourhoods, active citizenship and localism: Lessons for policy makers and practitioners
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A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows how neighbourhoods are the key focus for the Coalition’s Localism policies to devolve control over services, assets and decision-making to citizens, and to create a ‘Big Society’. The report argues that while neighbourhood working can help to make devolution, active citizenship and partnership working happen, this can be vulnerable to austerity measures in many local authorities. This report offers lessons for local authorities, neighbourhood practitioners, and communities, drawing on direct experience from practitioners in Bradford, and many other places.
Your right to buy your home: a guide
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This booklet describes the Right to Buy scheme as it works today, taking into account the changes made to the Right to Buy Legislation which came into effect April 2012. The information in it applies only to England.
FutureFit: Financial modelling in-depth findings
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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FutureFit is Affinity Sutton’s flagship project that aims to provide unique insights into how the Green Deal could work in the context of the 56,000 homes they own and manage, and more widely in the social housing sector. As part of the project, Affinity Sutton installed energy efficiency work packages in 102 of their properties with a view to understanding the practical issues and costs of energy efficient building retrofit. This report presents the findings of the technical and financial analysis that was undertaken to understand the potential to finance a stock-wide retrofit programme by capturing the revenue from energy savings, and how Affinity Sutton as a organisation can begin to mainstream low carbon activities to deliver significant CO2 reductions in its existing housing portfolio.
Communicating EU transport research
Posted on: 3 April 2012
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In order to help research project teams to improve the communication, dissemination and promotion of transport research, the European Commission has released a set of recommendations and tips. The publication includes good practices and examples from project coordinators and a checklist for improving communication activities from the start of the project. The publication also provides a list of freely accessible tools that the European Commission is providing for use to raise project profiles.
Mission (im)possible: Branding a city built from scratch?
Posted on: 3 April 2012
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Building a city from scratch is not an easy task, but branding a city which still has to be built from scratch is even harder. This blog considers whether the invented brand will really accord to reality and whether it is possible to regulate urban atmosphere through a images designed by a marketing agency. The blog contains links to Vienna’s urban lakeside; Hamburg’s Hafencity and Copenhagen’s Orestad.
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