Annual Hotel Conference 2011. Manchester, 8 November 2011

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This event contained thought provoking topics delivered by industry experts to over 300 hospitality professionals. There were presentations on: how hospitality is affecting the economy; a market overview of the UK’s hotel performance; the benefits of mobile marketing; and how to uncover lost profits. Presentations are available online.

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Cities, health and well-being. Hong Kong, 16-17 November 2011

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This event provided an opportunity to explore the relationships between the built environment and urban health at a regional and global level. Its core objective was to identify and showcase evidence of projects and initiatives that have improved the well-being of urban dwellers as a result of innovative planning and design practices. In particular, the conference focused on the health and well-being implications of urban density and its planning and design. The conference combined a focus on Hong Kong with comparative analysis and policy learning from other cities including Cape Town, Karachi, London, Maputo and Vancouver. Videos of conference presentations and discussions are available online.

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The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus: Solutions for the green economy. Bonn, 16-18 November 2011

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The primary objective of the conference was to bring together a broad range of stakeholders from the water, energy and food sectors in an effort to improve understanding of the interdependencies and develop a joint perspective on the common challenges. Discussion focused on options and solutions as well as on enabling environments and incentives for change. The event provided a showcase for innovative solutions and help forge a common policy agenda to address the water, food and energy challenges. Its deliberations applied the Nexus perspective. This requires sectoral decisions to reflect the consequences for other objectives and exploit potential productivity and efficiency gains within every sector. Furthermore, unavoidable trade-offs between competing objectives must be entered into consciously on a well-informed basis. The objectives of the conference were to: develop policy recommendations based on multi-stakeholder consultations and adopting a nexus perspective; position the Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus perspective as a key dimension of the Rio+20 process; launch concrete initiatives to address the Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus in a coherent and sustainable way. A large amount of information is available, including presentations (access through the Programme link); and draft policy recommendations; a backgrouind paper; hot topic seminar papers; and daily summaries (access through the Documents link).

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Towards Intelligent Construction Conference. London, 30 November 2011

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The Conference title was chosen to reflect the need for the construction industry to adopt new and more effective ways of working, in order to offer better construction solutions and to deliver much better value for clients and customers. It is not about suppliers making minor modifications at the margins but rather the need for a fundamental reshaping of the technologies, processes and relationships that are applied within the industry. This includes smarter build solutions including the increased use of offsite solutions, the application of the principles of design for manufacture and assembly, the use of lean production techniques to eliminate process waste and the increased and intelligent use of Building Information Modelling. The Conference featured two significant Case Studies, the first being the British Land project at 122 Leadenhall Street in the City of London. Commonly referred to as the Cheese-grater, this stunning and technically challenging development is being constructed by Laing O’Rourke and will be completed 6 months ahead of schedule through the application of intelligent construction techniques, including the use of Building Information Modelling, with the use of offsite manufactured components accounting for 85% of the building. The second Case Study featured the development programme of elective surgery hospitals by Circle Health Properties. This substantial investment programme is characterised by the requirement for excellence in design, excellence in construction, excellence in use and excellence in customer experience. The expert client in collaboration with their supply chain is constantly challenging what it does and why it does it, as well as taking the learning points from each hospital project and applying the lessons to their next projects. This process ensures that tangible benefits in terms of more effective design and construction techniques, reduced cost of ownership, provision for adaptation, and the development of clinical and customer services are being achieved in a way that also ensures that waste in all its forms is being eliminated. The client’s supply chain is deploying Building Information Modelling both to manage the overall design and construction process and to drive efficiency in the building form. Presentations featuring both case studies are available online.

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Cities in transition: 10th Metropolis World Congress. Porto Alegre, 23-26 November 2011

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The 10th Metropolis World Congress represented a unique opportunity to exchange and establish contacts among more than 850 delegates and urban experts from more than 150 countries around the world.  The event presented various solutions for governance, urban planning, participatory democracy, innovation, the fight against climate change, sustainability, peri-urban agriculture and renewable energies, and set forth the new guidelines for Metropolis for the next years. Presentations are available online under the following themes: Metropolis Women International Day; Innovative knowledge sharing in the southern countries; Urban growth and planning; Peri-urban agriculture and renewable energy; Metropolitan governance; The future of urban investing in Latin America; Cities and the third sector; Participatory democracy and citizenship culture; Integrated urban governance; urban innovation; International participatory budget experiences; Global Fund for Cities Development.

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Contested regions: Territorial politics and policy. London, 25 November 2011

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The Regional Studies Association Winter Conference considered current debates on emerging new territorial dynamics and politics. This event also provided an opportunity to establish the need and nature of future research in this field and to address the concerns, and  challenges confronting practitioners and policy makers. Presentations are available online on the following themes: New sites and forms of regional conflict: inter-regional, intra-regional and in-between regional; Remapping of regions and localities and the implications of this for multi-level governance, policy success and policy failure; Models of regional and metropolitan governance.

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Intelligent clients, intelligent suppliers. London, 25 November 2011

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The Annual Convention of the Constructing Excellence movement brought together all those associated with the work of Constructing Excellence to review and discuss what makes an intelligent client, and what constitutes an intelligent response to this, which a particular emphasis on sustainable low carbon solutions. Presentations are available online.

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Low carbon design: The power to deliver change. Bristol, 22 November 2011

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This RIBA event provided an opportunity to consider how we put into practice the latest thinking on sustainability, retrofit and low carbon technology, and the role of architects and built environment professionals in shaping the policy framework in which we work. A brief overview of the issues discussed is outlined in the twitter diary written by RIBA Yorkshire’s Ruth Donnelly.

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Integrating multiple facets of river corridor development. Sheffield, 17-18 November 2011

Posted on: 18 November 2011
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The last of the URSULA (Urban River Corridors and Sustainable Living Agendas) conferences  provided a forum for the presentation of a wealth of research conducted during the URSULA project.  Topics included how the River Don affects Sheffield’s microclimate, how the river could be harnessed to deliver hydropower, the effect of weirs in river ecology, the effect of biodiversity on wellbeing, as well as the approach developed in URSULA to design sustainable urban river corridors. Presentations are available online.

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Climate change and the water sector: Integrating adaptation and mitigation in practice. London, 17 November 2011

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The aim of this conference was to take stock of current thinking on climate change, the developing evidence base on emissions and risks, and in covering both adaptation and mitigation and their inter-relationships, to look at how this thinking is being put into practice in response to the major drivers. Presentations are available online.

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