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Planning practice guidance for renewable energy
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The guidance addresses genuine issues some communities have when it comes to developments such as onshore wind and solar farms, and ensures environmental considerations like landscape and heritage are given proper weight when determining applications.
Updated national waste planning policy: Planning for sustainable waste management
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This consultation seeks views and comments on the draft of updated national waste planning policy for England, Planning for sustainable waste management.
Closing the gap between design and as-built performance – New homes – Interim progress report
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The Zero Carbon Hub has published an interim report looking at how to close the performance gap in new homes. The report is based on a continuing collaborative industry project led by the hub. It involves 140 industry experts across 90 companies, who are participating in the executive committee, steering group and working groups. The initial report highlights issues that could influence the gap between intended (as-designed) and as-built performance, and some early findings.
Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery in new homes: VIAQ final report
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The government needs to step in to help ensure good performance of mechanical ventilation with heat recovery (MVHR) systems in homes, a task group led by Zero Carbon Hub has concluded. The hub’s ventilation and indoor air quality (VIAQ) task group says concerted government-led action is needed to develop and promote good practice and ensure public health and safety, with new research informing future Building Regulation requirements.
Human Dimensions: Magazine on the human factor in the global environmental debate
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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been shaping the global development agenda for over a decade. With the target date of 2015 fast approaching, determining a new development agenda has become an urgent priority for the international community. Following an agreement by Member States at the Rio+20 summit in 2012, a process has been launched to develop a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a successor framework to come into effect after the MDGs expire. The new goals are to address the multiple crises facing humanity through a more inclusive process, aiming for equal treatment of the economic, social and environmental dimensions in the implementation. This issue of Dimensions contributes to the debate on the SDGs and, as always, offers a platform for discussion and opinions.
The NBS BIM Roundtable Legal Discussion: July 2013. Part 2: Technology, Procurement Methods and Processes
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In the second part of the RIBA Enterprises construction experts’ roundtable on the BIM Protocol, the discussion covers electronic data integrity, suitable forms of procurement and the role of the RIBA Plan of Work 2013.
Green Deal Code of Practice
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This code of practice is issued by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change under regulation 10 of the Framework Regulations and sets out requirements for those persons acting as Green Deal Providers, Green Deal Assessors, or Green Deal Installers, or Certification Bodies. It substitutes and revokes the Green Deal code of practice issued on 25th January 2013.
Making the most of your heritage assets: The future of local historic environment services
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Aimed at local authorities and, in particular, Heritage Champions and Portfolio Holders, this report demonstrates the vital role of local authority heritage services (both archaeological and historic building conservation) in the conservation and promotion of their local historic environment. Through a series of case studies the document shows how local authorities are supporting their heritage services, looking at new models of service delivery, working with the voluntary sector, embedding the historic environment within local priorities and contributing to the growth agenda. It also highlights the need for local authorities to have access to appropriate levels of expertise so that decisions affecting the historic environment are based on sound and well informed information.
Easy access to historic landscapes
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The aim of this guide is to help property owners and managers provide easier access for all their visitors, whatever their age or level of ability. It will also be of value to designers, planners, and others working to open up historic sites to a wider audience.
Improving historic Soho’s environmental performance: Practical retrofitting guidance
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This guidance, commissioned by Westminster City Council and its partners English Heritage and Soho Community Environment Fund, considers the opportunities and challenges of retrofitting in this context through four stages: case studies, ‘The Elemental Approach’, building typology and community based interventions.
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