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The Project Support Centre is located in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Westminster.

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Retrofit for the future: Reducing energy use in existing homes

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This report shares the lessons from a research project that set the target of cutting CO2 emissions from existing homes by up to 80%. The Technology Strategy Board’s Retrofit for the Future programme explored retrofit innovation through 86 home upgrading projects. The research programme was supported by government and delivered with the support of industry partners including the Energy Saving Trust. The looks in detail at the lessons from 40 of the projects. It identifies six priority areas that provide a framework for successful retrofit: retrofit planning; building fabric; indoor air quality; services; working on site; and engaging residents. 

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100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge

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The Rockefeller Foundation launched the 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge in 2013 to enable 100 cities to better address the increasing shocks and stresses of the 21st century. Nearly 400 cities across six continents applied to be among the 100 cities selected to receive technical support and resources to improve their urban resilience over three years. This website provides updates on the Challenge and what the Rockefeller Foundation is doing to strengthen urban resilience.

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Surveying Property

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This blog considers topical issues in surveying and property related areas and also within the wider construction industry. Readers are encouraged to comment on topics and to make suggestions for future postings.

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An assessment of the impact of the Planning Advisory Service (PAS) plan making support

Posted on: 30 April 2014
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The Planning Advisory Service (PAS) provides plan making support to local planning authorities. This work includes training events, dissemination of best practice and formulation of detailed guidance and checklists to support plan making. PAS also works directly with LPAs to provide bespoke plan making support. This report presents the results of an independent assessment of the impact of PAS direct plan making support to individual and groups of local planning authorities in England.

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Delivering change: Supporting links between universities and high-growth firms in cities

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This ‘delivering change’ paper, supported by Santander, offers a series of case studies in the UK and abroad showing different ways universities, high-growth firms and cities collaborate. Some take advantage of history and brand such as Cambridge, while others build cross-border networks in order to build scale and make greater investments than they could on their own.

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Learning from Typhoon Haiyan: risk and resilience in emerging secondary cities

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The worst storm to make landfall in recorded history hit Tacloban and other Philippine cities, each of which had no more than 250,000 residents yet which had to face an emergency operations challenge daunting even for the world’s largest mega-cities. The author of this blog learns how Tacloban and other secondary cities can improve their ability to cope.

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Applying resilience thinking: Seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems

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The Stockholm Resilience Centre has published this report which presents a set of seven principles that are considered crucial for building resilience in social-ecological systems and discusses how these principles can be practically applied. The seven principles are: maintain diversity and redundancy;  manage connectivity; manage slow variables and feedbacks; foster complex adaptive systems thinking; encourage learning; broaden participation; and promote polycentric governance systems. Each principle is presented along with an example of how it has been applied.

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Exploring a regional approach to EU energy policies

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A new report by the Centre for European Policy Studies explores whether regional energy initiatives are an efficient, effective and politically acceptable approach toward reaching three EU energy policy objectives: competitiveness, supply security and sustainability.

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The London recipe: How systems and empathy make the city

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In this paper, Charles Leadbeater analyses the key ingredients to London’s success. Drawing on focus groups with a range of Londoners, the paper explores how Londoners experience their city and the ways it could be made to work better for them.

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Marine biodiversity conservation in coastal cities: Tales from Singapore

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This article focuses on what the different residents of coastal cities can do to conserve their biodiversity and to prepare themselves for climate change effects by adaptation and mitigation.        

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