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Flood management and governance structure in Lagos, Nigeria
Posted on: 12 November 2013
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A new paper on flood risk management for Lagos, Nigeria recommends a significant push towards decentralised governance in order to respond to more frequent and extreme flood events. The paper, divided into seven parts recognises that strengthening urban governance structures is important in order to build the resilience of a city to environmental risk. It highlights the major flood occurrences around the world in the past 13 years, summarises the potential risks for countries in Sub Saharan Africa and gives specific examples from Lagos, Nigeria. It details the peculiarity of Lagos as a coastal city vulnerable to climate change and other environmental factors.
BIM training video
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This 30-minute video provides a basic introduction to the digital construction age and Building Information Modelling (BIM). It covers key areas that manufacturers should take into account, and includes case studies from the designer’s, contractor’s and manufacturer’s perspectives. The video concludes with an overview of the NBS National BIM Library.
Royal Docks Design Competition
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Registration has opened to find new design ideas for London’s Royal Docks. The Landscape Institute and Ecobuild, with support from the Mayor of London and London Borough of Newham, have launched ‘The Royal Docks Ideas Competition’ to find innovative design proposals that would transform the Royal Docks into a multi-functional, ‘liveable’ space. Comprised of three docks in East London, Royal Albert Dock, Royal Victoria Dock and King George V Dock, the Royal Docks is the largest enclosed docks in the world with a water area of nearly 90 hectares. The judging panel want entrants to incorporate green infrastructure and water sensitive design ideas into their proposals in an effort to make the area more resilient against environmental, social and economic challenges and to transform it into a world class location. The deadline for submissions is 6 January 2014.
Flood force film
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A film on work to tackle flash floods in Newcastle won the Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) short film competition. Drawing on contributions from the local authority, the water company and academics, it tells the story of how collaborative working is reducing the risk from flash floods now and in the future. Alongside the main film, there are some shorter clips providing further insight and information.
Warsaw Climate Change Conference. Warsaw, 11-22 November 2013
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The 19th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the 9th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol. A large amount of documentation is available.
New Revit plug-in helps calculate building life-cycle impact
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The new tool aims to help architects with whole-building life cycle assessment (LCA) calculations for LEED v4 right along with their BIM process. Tally—a new tool that allows designers to track environmental impacts in real time while creating models in the popular building information modeling (BIM) software Revit. Created by KieranTimberlake, PE International, and Autodesk (developer of Revit), the tool is currently being offered as a free public beta release. Video tutorials are also available.
Quality of life in cities
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This survey was conducted at the request of the Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy to get a snapshot of people’s opinions on a range of urban issues. Earlier surveys were conducted in 2004, 2006 and 20091. This survey included all capital cities of the countries concerned (except for Switzerland), together with between one and six more cities in the larger countries. In each city, around 500 citizens were interviewed.
Position Paper on EC Consultation on Sustainable Buildings
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This paper presents the views of the Europe Regional Network on the European Commission’s consultation on sustainable buildings.
Climate Change: The new economy (COP19)
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The document provides information relating to the nineteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 19) to be held from 11 to 22 November 2013 in Warsaw, debating the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Future-proofing the UK water sector
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The future the water industry is under scrutiny in a new report by engineering consultants Atkins takes four plausible future scenarios (graphene, wood, concrete and steel) and 8 themes (population, urbanisation, climate change, sector assets, energy, water quality/availability, workforce, finance) to explore how the industry might plan for its future. Please note that you will be asked to supply your name, job title and email address to get access to the report.
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