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Community flood risk management: Improving effectiveness and efficiency. Early lessons from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinders. London, 13 March 2014
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National policy on flood risk management is increasingly focused on the benefit of flood risk management interventions to communities and empowering them to take ownership and work with partners. This presents a challenge to many organisations. The aim of this conference was to explore the details of this approach and by assessing evidence from early lessons from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinders and other projects. Presentations and delegates note are available online.
Environment, Technology and Sustainable Development: Promises and challenges in the 21st century. Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, 2-4 March 2014
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The conference aimed to provide a venue for academics, researchers, scholars, and students, as well as representatives from the NGO and government sectors, to exchange research findings and new ideas on the shifting roles in the 21st century of environment and technology in pursuit of sustainable development. A video of the event is available online.
Northstowe new town
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Plans for the next phase of Northstowe, a proposed new town of up to 10,000 new homes in Cambridgeshire, have been published, and local people have the chance to input into how it could take shape.
Central London Offices: Review and outlook
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Current figures suggest the future of the central London office market looks relatively stable for some years to come.
Building Enclosure Sustainability Symposium and Sustainable Building Conference. Towards net zero. Pomona, California, 24-25 June 2013
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The Building Enclosure Sustainability Symposium (BESS) was initiated in 2009 through a partnership of the Department of Architecture at California State Polytechnic University Pomona and Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. The symposium was designed to bring together professionals from academia, architecture, engineering and construction, as well as students, to discuss state-of-the-art sustainable building enclosure design. Proceedings are available online.
Pushing the boundaries: Net positive buildings. Vancouver, 4-6 June 2013
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This event explored the notion that building design approaches can and should have eco-positive outcomes. Proceedings are available online.
Cultural Metropolis
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The Mayor of London has published an update to London’s culture strategy first published four years ago.
Topic Guide: Land
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This guide provides a summary of the latest thinking around contemporary global land issues in developing countries. It also gives guidance on and evidence for how this thinking can be used in practice; provides signposting to reliable sources that can inform development professionals on issues not covered in the Topic Guide; and highlights where there are gaps in knowledge and evidence.
Global affordable housing report: BRICs plus mortar
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This report investigates how housing systems in Brazil, China and India are changing in response to economic developments. It conducts a review of the following: developments in housing demand and need; the nature of supply systems; responses to demand pressures; significant policy developments; and major housing outcomes. From its extensive analysis it draws some high level recommendations which can direct housing and urbanisation policy in the BRICs nations as well as in the OECD economies. These include the importance of providing the necessary high level support for local housing needs and initiatives, and an alignment between housing policies and the development of city infrastructure.
International Property Measurement Standard for Offices
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Consultation is taking place on the development of an international property measurement standard for offices (IPMS for Offices). IPMS seeks to standardise the way office space is measured around the world, creating transparency and promoting market efficiency and confidence in the minds of all property users. The rise in cross-border property investment and expansion by global corporate occupiers underpins the demand for transparency against the backdrop of many differing national and local measurement practices. A consultation draft was published in January 2014 with the deadline for comments set for 4 April 2014. Feedback submitted during the three-month consultation will be considered and incorporated into the standard by the Standards Setting Committee (SSC), prior to the launch of the final draft in June 2014.
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