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Technical Extra (NHBC)
Posted on: 26 June 2013
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The latest issue of Technical Extra, the technical guide to key issues affecting NHBC Standards, is now available. One article highlights how basement claims could have been avoided.
Fires in cavities in residential buildings
Posted on: 26 June 2013
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As a follow-up to the 2011 publication Fire performance of new residential buildings, this report focuses specifically on fire spread within external walls where the cavity between the external façade and the structural frame is incorporated either as a lining material or as a form of insulation (or both). In support of the project, a programme of 21 fire experiments on walls containing various options for sheathing and cavity barriers was undertaken. Guidance is provided for contractors, building control authorities and other building professionals on best practice relating to the installation of cavity barriers and inspection techniques both during and post-construction.
Future Bristol: Low Carbon 2050
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The City of Bristol has developed an online, interactive vision of what the city could look like in 2050. The website presents two hypothetical scenarios, each featuring a different mix of low carbon measures, technology and infrastructure. The aim of the website is to prompt public discussion about how Bristol can become a low carbon city, and in particular, discover how the Bristol community feels about the two different scenarios.
An investigation into the relationship between land administration and economic development
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Land administration theory asserts that land administration activities support the economic, social and environmental development of a country. In this research, the national land titling programme of Thailand was studied as a successful example of this process and the surveying settlement programme in Bangladesh was selected as a detailed comparative case study of a village in the Gharinda Union.
Creating Places – A policy statement on architecture and place for Scotland
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A new national policy on architecture launched by the Scottish Government has stressed the importance of enriching the people of Scotland’s lives through quality buildings and places.
Smart cities: How to build sustainable and resilient environments in an increasingly urbanized world
Posted on: 26 June 2013
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This white paper aims to provide a framework for understanding the definitions, market indicators, key metrics and value propositions smart cities hold for numerous industries. The emergence of smart cities as the receptacle for ideas, thoughts, policies and strategies about the future of the world’s cities is an important milestone because it comes amid rapid innovation, convergence and a redefinition of what it means to live and work in an urban environment in the 21st century.
Cities of tomorrow: Action today
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In October 2011, the European Commission published a report, Cities of tomorrow: Challenges, visions, ways forward, which examined the possible impact of a series of major trends on different types of European cities in the coming years. Six ‘workstreams’, launched by URBACT at the beginning of 2012, examined a theme which corresponds with one of the threats identified by Cities of Tomorrow and, over the period of a year, has brought together evidence from URBACT projects but also from a wide range of stakeholders from all around Europe. Reports on these themes are now available:
From crisis to choice: Re-imagining the future in shrinking cities
This report calls for a new realism with regard to urban regeneration in cities affected by shrinkage.
More jobs: Better cities. A framework for city action on jobs
This report provides a framework for city action on jobs, which aims to help cities support and grow more and better jobs for the recovery. It is aimed at practitioners and policy-makers at the city level, as well as those at national and international levels, concerned with urban employment and skills policy and practice.
Supporting urban youth through social innovation: Stronger together
This report examines how cities can promote social innovation to address chronic social challenges. Although our specific focus is young people, the conditions identified for promoting social innovation have wider relevance.
Against divided cities in Europe
This report intends to provide an overview of the concept of urban segregation and related public policies that have been studied and explored within URBACT. The objective is also to bring forward some of the most interesting practices from URBACT partner cities working on integrated sustainable development, which have implemented innovative policies against segregation.
How cities can motivate mobility mindsets
This report focuses on the ways in which cities can facilitate the transition to a new urban mobility, which is more fundamentally linked to the quality of space, to a new mindset, and is built on integration between policy priorities and multi-stakeholder buy-in.
Building energy efficiency in European cities
This report examines how cities can mitigate climate change by reducing energy consumption in the construction, maintenance and refurbishment of buildings.
Cities of tomorrow: Action today. URBACT II Capitalisation. Key message
This report highlights some of the main points previous six reports make, with a particular focus on those that are relevant for cities concerned with supporting integrated sustainable urban development in the next round of EU programmes.
State of the Nation 2013: Transport
Posted on: 26 June 2013
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The State of the Nation report has been compiled by the Institution of Civil Engineers each year by a panel of recognised experts drawn from the various fields of expertise across ICE’s membership. Its aim is to stimulate debate and to highlight the actions that needed to improve the state of the nation´s infrastructure. The most recent report looks at the state of the UK’s transport infrastructure, to inform government policy and decisions through this electoral cycle and beyond.
How to build a Smarter City: 23 design principles for digital urbanism
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The author presents “design principles” for a city that is considering how their next planning strategy could reflect the impact of the technology agenda.
The importance of trees in the urban landscape
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The latest presentation on the Urban Design Group website.
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