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An overview of responses to VisitBritain’s Consultation: Delivering a Golden Legacy: A Growth Strategy for Inbound Tourism to Britain from 2012 to 2020
Posted on: 13 February 2013
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This report presents a summary of responses to Visit Britain’s consultation paper on a growth strategy for inbound tourism to Britain published in October 2012.
Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area: Development strategies and sustainability concepts
Posted on: 13 February 2013
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In March 2012 the Wuhan Planning and Design Institute hosted an Urban Planning Advisory Team (UPAT) workshop in order to define development strategies and sustainable concepts for the Wuhan East Lake Scenic Area. The UPAT Team of eight ISOCARP members worked closely with planners and executives of the Wuhan Planning and Design Institute, the Wuhan Land Resources and Planning Bureau and the East Lake Management Office. This UPAT report brings together the work of the eight planning professionals who took part in the UPAT Workshop. It takes into account the feedback the team has obtained from representatives of the WPDI and the other Wuhan organizations to three presentations. The UPAT Report seeks to integrate a tourism development of the highest quality with the conservation and enhancement of the East Lake’s beautiful natural environment.
Green Digital Charter Toolkit
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The NiCE (Networking intelligent Cities for Energy Efficiency) project has launched the Green Digital Toolkit to all cities. The Toolkit is an online platform designed to provide cities with a central resource for city-level actions towards the Green Digital Charter. It indeed enables cities to browse and share activities information and tools, exchange with each other, monitor the status in the Charter implementation and compare it with against the Covenant of Mayors reporting procedures.
Climate finance: Challenges and responses
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The Climate and Development Knowledge Network has published its latest policy brief, summarising the thinking on climate finance among CDKN Alliance members and suggesting areas for prioritisation and action by the international community.
Reality, resources, resilience: Regeneration in a recession
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This paper, from Scotland’s Independent Regeneration Network (SURF), looks at how the recession is impacting upon disadvantaged communities in Scotland. It summarises experience and practical initiatives in two contrasting case study neighbourhoods, exploring how communities and partner agencies are responding, and asks what opportunities are presented by the distinct Scottish policy context.
Cities of tomorrow, action today
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The URBACT Secretariat has produced a new issue of “The URBACT Tribune which contains articles written by URBACT Lead Experts. This year, the articles reflect on the state of play in the URBACT projects and present some of the first findings of the URBACT workstreams focusing on challenges that the cities of tomorrow are likely to face and the actions local and national governments need to take today in order to face these challenges.
RE-Block: REviving high-rise Blocks for cohesive and green neighborhoods.
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The main objective addressed by EU project, RE-Block, is to foster efficient regeneration of neighbourhoods comprising high rise estates, making them more attractive and improving their environmental quality, whilst creating an integrated tailor-made approach to combat poverty. Background information and the first newsletter, published in January 2013, is available online.
Green Deal assessment tools
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BRE has released two new versions of the green deal assessment tools it has developed for the Department of Energy and Climate Change. The tools enable qualified green deal assessors to evaluate the energy savings resulting from the installation of one or more efficiency measures and to create and lodge reports on the national registry. The tool for dwellings is based on the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP). The green deal variant, Green Deal Occupancy Assessment Tool, can be used for carrying out an occupancy assessment following the creation of an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). The report generated can then be used to form the basis of an agreement between a householder and green deal provider on the efficiency measures to be implemented. A similar tool can be downloaded for non-domestic buildings and is the only tool currently available for carrying out assessments in commercial premises.
Council of Mortgage Lenders
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The number of first-time buyers reached its largest yearly total in five years, according to new data released by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
BIM Case Study: Birmingham City University
Posted on: 12 February 2013
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As part of the Birmingham City University’s £180 million investment in its estate, two new buildings are currently being completed to expand capacity of the city centre campus. This case study looks at the use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) on this project (including technical details), its challenges and successes, and lessons learned.
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