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Small business property guide
Posted on: 20 September 2013
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This property guide is designed to help small business owners to manage their property efficiently and run their business more profitably. Decisions about premises – buying, leasing, maintaining or extending can be daunting for business entrepreneurs whose main energies are focused on making a success of the business itself. Finding the right solutions to your property needs and dealing effectively with the many issues that can occur while you are in occupation is integral to running a successful business. This guide provides information to support you with the more common decisions and actions that you may need to take, from acquiring a lease to challenging a dilapidations claim. Other vital property-related issues such as valuations, planning permission and the business rates system are also covered.
The URBACT Local Support Groups Summer University. Dublin, 28-31 August 2013
Posted on: 20 September 2013
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This event is conceived as a unique learning experience, primarily aimed at strengthening individual skills and capacities to develop participative action-planning in urban policies. Urban practitioners, policy-makers, representatives of NGOs, civil society and the private sector will come together and experience a combination of training, learning practical exercises and networking. A selection of materials used during the master classes and talks as well as short videos of the event are available online.
Modernising building energy codes
Posted on: 19 September 2013
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) partnered to analyse current practices in the design and implementation of building energy codes. The aim is to consolidate existing efforts and to encourage more attention to the role of the built environment in a low-carbon and climate-resilient world, and to share lessons learned between IEA member countries and non-IEA countries. The objective is to spread best practices, limit pressures on global energy supply, improve energy security, and contribute to environmental sustainability. The webinar presentation is also available.
Passive houses in tropical climates
Posted on: 19 September 2013
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Passivhaus principles are just as good at reducing energy demand in tropical climates as they are in central European ones, as the focus shifts to cooling and dehumidification rather than heating. That is the key conclusion of a new study by Germany’s Passivhaus Institut. Analysing the challenges of heat, torrential rains and high humidity, the study looks at dynamic simulations set in three cities: Mumbai, Singapore and Salvador da Bahia in Brazil. It shows that the essentials for Passivhaus buildings in tropical climates are: a very airtight building envelope; 10-15 cm of insulation; solar control glazing; fixed external shades for the windows; and ventilation with both heat and energy recovery.
City leaders are in love with density but most city dwellers disagree
Posted on: 19 September 2013
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This article from New Geography considers whether measures to increase urban density are accepted by the local population.
Monitoring and evaluation of Nature Improvement Areas year 1 (2012-13)
Posted on: 19 September 2013
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Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs), which seek to enhance the environment on a landscape scale, are making ‘real progress’ in delivering their objectives according to the first NIA evaluation report.
Natural History Museum: design competition
Posted on: 19 September 2013
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A major design competition has been launched to ‘re-imagine’ the grounds around London’s Grade I-listed Natural History Museum.
Access to transport for people with disabilities
Posted on: 19 September 2013
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The Government must work harder to improve accessibility for disabled people across the nation’s transport networks, warns the House of Commons Transport Committee in the findings of its recent inquiry.
Access to and use of buildings – dwellings
Posted on: 19 September 2013
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Parts M and K to the Building Regulations require that people, regardless of disability, age or gender are able to gain access to buildings and use their facilities, both as visitors and people who live or work in them. This guide is intended to provide practical advice to National House Building Council customers on how to achieve compliance with the functional requirements of the regulations and give further guidance on the options offered in the Approved Documents.
BIM and the infrastructure challenge
Posted on: 18 September 2013
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The New Civil Engineer is to hold a web seminar at 1.pm on Tuesday 5 November 2013. The seminar will discuss some of the challenges for BIM in infrastructure and some of the potential solutions, processes, workflows and software from design, through construction and into asset management. You can register for the event online.
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