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Meetings Outlook
Posted on: 17 February 2014
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Meeting Professionals International has launched Meetings Outlook, a special quarterly report that replaces the bi-monthly Business Barometer which offers a unique insight into the future of the meeting and event industry.
Chinese tourism growth: Impacts for the UK Hotel market
Posted on: 17 February 2014
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This special interest report from Savills examines the projected growth of Chinese tourism to the UK and what this could mean for the hotel market.
Rethinking the global agreement for disaster risk reduction
Posted on: 17 February 2014
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The Climate & Development Knowledge Network has launched a new blog series Rethinking the global agreement for disaster risk reduction. The first blog in the series is Katie Peters’ New disasters agreement must learn from peace-building and state-building.
Greener skills and jobs
Posted on: 17 February 2014
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This report from the OECD suggests that the role of skills and education and training policies should be an important component of the ecological transformation process.
Development progress
Posted on: 17 February 2014
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This provides a hub for ideas, debate and resources on how the world is doing on international development goals.
Flooding
Posted on: 14 February 2014
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The Institution of Civil Engineers provides a range of information sources on the issue of flooding.
Roadmap on the future research needs of tall buildings
Posted on: 14 February 2014
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This report aims to identify priority research topics and research gaps in the field of tall buildings. The main objective of the Roadmap is to create a guide for the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, UNESCO and all those involved in tall buildings to assist in the planning of future research and the pursuit of funding, in order to advance the typology to its optimum level. The Roadmap identifies ten important interdisciplinary findings that constitute the research agenda for moving the Tall Building concept forward in terms of the social sustainability and energy performance of tall buildings.
The business value of BIM for construction in major global markets
Posted on: 14 February 2014
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McGraw Hill has conducted a worldwide survey into the use of BIM. This report reveals the value contractors find in their use of BIM in nine of the largest global construction markets: Australia/New Zealand, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, U.S. and U.K. It offers insights, both overall and by market, into the profile of contractors using BIM, the benefits and return of investment derived from their BIM investments and the critical activities and practices for which they are using BIM. Specific snapshots of the contractor responses by region also provide additional understanding of the current use and future potential of BIM globally.
Resilience and the built environment
Posted on: 14 February 2014
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This special issue of the journal, Building Research and Information, is devoted to the issue of resilience in the built environment.
Review of property conditions in the private rented sector
Posted on: 13 February 2014
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This discussion document considers how best to tackle rogue landlords, without negatively impacting on good landlords. Responses are requested by 21 March 2014.
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