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PAS 1192-3 Specification for information management for the operational phase of assets using building information modelling (BIM)
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The British Standards Institution has published a document as a part of the government’s Level 2 guidance for Building Information Modelling (BIM). The document is a companion to PAS 1192-2, which specified an information management process to support BIM Level 2 in the capital and delivery phase of projects. In contrast, PAS 1192-3 focuses on the operational phase of assets irrespective of whether these were commissioned through major works, acquired through transfer of ownership or already existed in an asset portfolio.
Six major event sustainability issues and how to solve them
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This blog looks at six sustainability issues that are common to many events, including possible objectives you may want to set, best practices you could follow and tools you can employ when addressing them through an event sustainability plan.
Corruption in Construction Seminar. London, 18 March 2014
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The aim of the seminar, organized by the Construction Industry Council, was to explore the nature of corruption in the construction industry and how to go about protecting construction businesses against it. The relevance of corruption to the construction industry was illustrated by a recent European Commission report that singled out “Urban Development and Construction”, along with “Healthcare” as specifically vulnerable sectors across the EU. CIOB surveys, carried out in 2006 and 2013, show that approximately half of its members believe that corruption is common within the UK construction industry. Presentations are available online.
Carbon reduction in infrastructure
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The Institution of Civil Engineers’ Low Carbon Life Panel have developed a slide pack to enable carbon to be considered as early in the project as possible, reducing cost, enhancing resource efficiency and reducing carbon.
UNWTO Annual Report 2013
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The latest annual report of the World Tourism Organisation highlights its work during 2013.
Integrating the environment in urban planning and management: Key principles and approaches for cities in the 21st Century
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With over half of the global population now living in urban areas, cities are increasingly facing the challenge of ensuring decent standards of living for their inhabitants. Demand for a higher quality of life is increasing despite growing pressures on natural resources and ecosystems. In this context, a new report launched jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Cities Alliance finds that the rapid pace of urbanization represents an opportunity to build more sustainable, innovative and equitable towns and cities, and to use the world’s natural resources more efficiently.
The Urban Infrastructure Initiative: Final report
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The World Business Council for Sustainable Development Urban Infrastructure Initiative (UII), a major 3-year global project, has published its final report, demonstrating the value of early collaborative engagement between cities and business for sustainable development. The UII mobilized multi-sector, expertise from 14 leading companies to help 10 cities around the world identify innovative and effective solutions to realize their sustainability visions. While the UII was a pilot project that worked with a relatively small number of leading cities, this new report summarises the evidence, particularly the perspectives of city leaders, that suggests that the early strategic involvement of business can be of real benefit to any city administration aiming to advance sustainability.
How Vancouver invented itself
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In terms of both aesthetics and livability, Vancouver is one of the world’s most widely admired cities, a place where the skyline has been painstakingly designed to preserve striking views of the mountains and harbor, where high-density residential neighborhoods are mixed with green space to create a walking-scale environment in which cars are an afterthought. But while planners and developers elsewhere seek to copy the salient features of what has come to be known as “Vancouverism,” those involved in the shaping of modern Vancouver caution that there is more to it than just view corridors, slim towers juxtaposed with mid-rise development and bike paths, or the breathtaking natural environment. Instead, they say, the real secret of Vancouver’s success has been its deliberative, values-driven evolutionary process, in which local government planners, developers, and the citizenry have labored over the past few decades to form a consensus vision of what their city should be like, and then come up with creative solutions for achieving it. This article outlines this process.
Strategic infrastructure: Steps to operate and maintain infrastructure efficiently and effectively
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This report from the World Economic Forum is intended to serve as a “roadmap” for directing governments and other stakeholders to the critical success factors in infrastructure operations and management. It does so by providing a comprehensive framework, actionable lessons learned and more than 200 real-life examples and case studies. The framework and recommendations can be applied broadly in developed and developing economies, and across many sectors of economic and social infrastructure. The best practices are collected from infrastructure assets that are delivered under public or private modes, or under public-private partnerships (PPP), and can likewise be applied to all kinds of delivery modes. The report is not a compendium of the whole infrastructure life cycle: it excludes initial design and construction, and takes those decisions as a given; and, its focus is exclusively on operations and management and end-of-life-cycle decisions of existing assets (including rehabilitation, upgrade and replacement), as project origination and preparation have been covered in the initiative’s previous reports.
Leading a public debate focused on homelessness in Warrington
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The Warrington Homelessness Commission has set out a strategy to eradicate homelessness in the town by 2018, providing ten recommendations to implement this strategy. These include a single gateway approach, with all agencies involved working closely, a strategic review in the way homelessness services are commissioned, managed and delivered and identifying more effective methods of future commissioning and delivery of services. It also recommends a multi-agency group is developed to lead all homelessness work in the town and that a borough-wide strategy with a medium term, three to five-year, delivery plan is created.
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