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Kosice: A hidden tourist gem? Putting a mark on the map
Posted on: 12 February 2013
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Kosice, Slovakia’s second largest city, has remained an relatively unknown destination. Nominated as the European Capital of Culture for 2013, this article highlights the potential of a relatively untapped market that is bound to see growth in the coming years.
Sustainable drainage systems: Maximising the potential for people and wildlife
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the Wetlands and Wildfowl Trust have produced a new guide to Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems for local authorities and developers. This guidance is aimed at local authorities, (and eventual SuDS Approving Bodies (SABs)), landscape architects, developers, engineers, masterplanners and anyone wishing to deliver benefits for people and wildlife through SuDS. It describes how to maximise the biodiversity potential of SuDS and identifies a set of design criteria and the design features required to deliver these benefits as well as their long-term management.
Global perspectives: 2012 REIT report
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This is the fifth edition of Ernst & Young’s Global perspectives REIT report, which is intended to help real estate investment trusts (REITs) and other property investors to make more informed investment decisions with regard to the global REIT market. This year’s report includes: comparisons of six major global REIT markets by size, volume, returns, balance sheet and income measures; and an in-depth discussion of these six REIT markets: Australia, France, Japan, Singapore, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Nordic energy technology perspectives: Pathways to a carbon neutral energy future
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The Nordic region can become carbon-neutral by 2050 through big changes in its energy sector, including a ten-fold increase in wind generation, an end to all use of coal and significant electrification of transport, the International Energy Agency reports in the first regional edition of its flagship technology publication, Energy Technology Perspectives.
Evaluation of investment in solar energy
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This research presents a novel model for the valuation of investments in PV systems for buildings.
District Heating Manual for London
Posted on: 11 February 2013
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A new set of guidelines has been published by the Mayor of London to support the delivery of decentralised energy schemes in the capital. The manual provides practical guidance for developers, network designers and planners with the aim of creating a consistent framework for delivering efficient, interconnecting, district heating networks. It is also designed to help guide local planning authorities.
Metrology challenges for infrastructure
Posted on: 11 February 2013
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Measurement Network has interviewed a range of players in the infrastructure sector to understand where there are challenges and opportunities presented by improvements in metrology (the application and science of measurement). Four high impact applications (building; assessment of corrosion of reinforcing rods in concrete; discovery of underground services; and defence of critical infrastructure) have been explored in depth and the underlying common themes summarised. The key messages are that there are opportunities for improvement of existing infrastructure, and better design of future infrastructure, but that often there is a need for metrology action in terms of identification of signatures of the state of the system and the implementation of convenient and common processes, frameworks and standards for the whole supply and value chain to use. The benefits to the UK economy could be many hundreds of millions of pounds.
Output in the construction industry
Posted on: 11 February 2013
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The estimated total volume of construction output in the fourth quarter of 2012 grew by 0.9% compared with the third quarter of 2012. The small rise in the total volume of construction output halts the decline first seen in the third quarter of 2011. The private housing and infrastructure sectors provided the greatest contribution to the increase in the fourth quarter, growing by 5.9% and 4.2% respectively, but are partially offset by decreases in new public non-housing work and private housing repair and maintenance, which fell by 4.9% and 4.8% respectively.
Encraft’s analysis of likely Green Deal take-up across the UK
Posted on: 11 February 2013
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Encraft have published a briefing document based on the most detailed and rigorous analysis yet of the potential uptake of the Green Deal across the UK. This shows that more than 20,000 installation jobs could be supported by the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation (ECO) nationally, and breaks these jobs down into specific skill sets. The report is supportive of the Green Deal, but is critical of the way the government have potentially oversold the economic potential of the scheme. By comparing the potential jobs in one area of the country with existing employment in the same area, Encraft have shown that in most of the construction skills required, existing companies already employ at least four times the number of people needed.
Broken ladder: The locked out generation
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A paper from the Home Builders Federation reveals how difficult it is for young people to get access to home ownership in England and offer a comparison over the last decade.
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