The value of rural amenities

Posted on: 26 October 2012
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This research investigates the complexity of rural housing markets and the impact of rural amenities on rural house prices.

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How to implement and adopt BIM into your practice

Posted on: 25 October 2012
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Stephan Langella, BIM Manager at Rice Daubney shares his thoughts about the specific challenges his company has faced when implementing BIM and the solutions needed to overcome these challenges to develop effective alignment with internal and external business processes.

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IPD Pan-European Logistics Performance Report

Posted on: 25 October 2012
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The first IPD Pan-European Logistics Performance Report monitors and analyses the performance of logistics across Europe. This report provides the basis of a benchmarking service that will enable investors to understand the true performance of the sector compared to the rest of the property market.

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European Logistics Market: 2nd quarter 2012

Posted on: 25 October 2012
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The latest statistics from BNP Paribas suggests that the logistics market in Europe is losing momentum.

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Encouraging innovation in infrastructure

Posted on: 25 October 2012
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Forum for the Future has launched a set of tools to drive innovation in infrastructure and long term sustainable investment. The toolkit is the result of a year-long project to understand what inhibits innovation in infrastructure projects in order to support sustainable city operation. It has been developed and produced in collaboration with six key organisations that have a significant role in delivering the UK’s infrastructure. The toolkit is made up of four elements:

SpacedIn: A guide on getting the most out of your workspace. Can be used to demonstrate to facilities departments, budget holders and senior executives that improving the design of the working environment can enable innovation.

How to engage remote staff: A guide offering practical tips for engaging the large number of remote workers in the infrastructure sector.

Innovation tools: A set of easy-to-use tools based around key elements of the innovation process, from initiating a project to the dissemination of learning outcomes, to promote creative thinking in any organisation.

The little book of innovation: An outline of the key findings of the toolkit project and why these outputs are useful for any organisation in the infrastructure sector and beyond.

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Refurbishment and Development Activity Report

Posted on: 25 October 2012
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This report from BNP Paribas, dated September 2012, looks at the level of development activity in London.

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Mortgage Market Review: Policy Statement

Posted on: 25 October 2012
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The Financial Services Authority has published a Policy Statement which summarises the feedback to its consultation on proposals for the mortgage market, and sets out the FSA’s final rules. This Policy Statement is aimed at lenders or other home finance provider; home finance administrators; firms that advises on or arrange mortgages or other home finance products; those who have a mortgage or other home finance product; or are planning to take one out. The new rules will come into effect on 26 April 2014.  One measure will be activated immediately to help borrowers who might be trapped by today’s tighter lending criteria.

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Planning Advisory Service presentations

Posted on: 25 October 2012
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The Planning Advisory Service (PAS) held eight officer events around the country and one councillor event, on planning reform and in particular the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) during summer 2012. The PAS has collated all the presentations from each of these useful events, along with a brief overview.

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Journal of Information Technology in Construction

Posted on: 24 October 2012
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The Journal of Information Technology in Construction (ITcon) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal on the use of IT in architecture, civil engineering and facility management. ITcon articles are submitted and published electronically only. The Journal is committed to minimizing publication delays, and to promoting maximum flexibility in the ways that readers use the journal for teaching, research, and scholarship while maintaining strict peer-review standards. ITcon is an Open Access journal and its articles can freely and with no charge be read by anybody who has an Internet connection. The copyright of the articles remains with the authors, from the start of 2009. Issues are published on an annual basis, dating back to 1996.

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Challenging Lock-in from Sustainable Energy Systems (CLUES)

Posted on: 24 October 2012
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CLUES (Challenging Lock-in from Sustainable Energy Systems) is a project which aimed to critically assess the development of decentralised energy systems in urban areas in the light of national decarbonisation and urban sustainability goals. Based upon national and international reviews, it examined the range and types of urban energy systems that have been and might have been installed. It further considered the issues raised by the need for such initiatives to integrate with energy systems at urban level in the UK, regional and national scales in order to deliver energy and carbon reductions to 2050 effectively. A tool has been developed for people working at the strategic level in local authorities, and will also be valuable to those delivering professional planning education. The project completed its work on 1 October 2012.

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