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Construction CO2e Measurement Protocol: A Guide to reporting against the Green House Gas Protocol for construction companies
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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The members of ENCORD (European Network of Construction Companies for Research and Development) have developed a measurement protocol, along with partners from other like minded worldwide construction organisations, to detail the method to be used when measuring the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of an organisation within the construction sector. This document will be updated from time to time to take account of any new standards or changes to current methodologies.
The Atlas of Health and Climate
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorological and public health communities. It provides sound scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies arising from extreme weather events and disease outbreaks. They also include environmental degradation, the increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases and the universal trend of demographic ageing.
Options for including disaster resilience in post-2015 development goals
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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This paper, from the Overseas Development Institute, considers options for including disaster resilience in a post-2015 development framework. It sets out potential indicators and targets for a specific goal on disaster resilience, as well as considering the opportunities for building disaster resilience into indicators for other sector goals, and what these might be. It looks at how to measure these, what baselines exist and whether data are available. It also examines options for including humanitarian assistance within a new framework.
Challenges for international professional practice: from market value to natural value
Posted on: 30 October 2012
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New approaches to the valuation, appraisal and management of natural capital and nature’s services, ecosystem services, promise to transform the way we manage land, undertake development, appraise and value assets and pay for a range of goods and services. This will have far reaching implications for the work of chartered surveyors in valuation, estate and property management, construction, property development and environmental services. This paper from the RICS Land Group reviews the current top-rated business opportunities in natural services in the UK and considers recent developments that may affect the work of the professional valuer. Register on the RICS website to access this item.
Tall towers 2012: London’s high-rise residential developments
Posted on: 29 October 2012
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A new report on tall residential and mixed-use towers in London, released by Knight Frank, EC Harris and Barton Willmore, shows how a new wave of residential towers are set to re-define London’s skyline. It examines the unique planning, construction and funding challenges inherent in building tower schemes, including the additional costs of building ‘up’, but also reveals that there can be a clear cost versus value benefit of building higher in certain locations across London’s largely low-rise skyline when the tower scheme is built to the correct specifications.
Growth and Infrastructure Bill (House of Commons Library Research Paper)
Posted on: 29 October 2012
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The Growth and Infrastructure Bill [Bill 75 of 2012-13] was introduced to the House of Commons on 18 October 2012. It seeks to reduce delays in the planning system through various means, including referring certain projects to the Secretary of State to be determined within a 12 month timetable, rather than by local planning authorities. It has provisions relating to telecommunication equipment and energy infrastructure and gas transport. To promote development, the Bill would allow for planning obligations (section 106 agreements) relating to affordable housing to be renegotiated to make a development economically viable again. To promote economic growth, it makes provision for a planned revaluation of business rates in England to be postponed and to create a new employment status of employee owner. This research paper has been prepared to inform the Second Reading debate on the Bill, on 30 October 2012.
Building scientific capacity for development
Posted on: 29 October 2012
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The developing world needs to have the capacity to find their own solutions to their own problems and this requires them to develop home grown scientists and technology, according to a report by MPs on the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee. An important feature raised in the report by the Select Committee was that there had to be more attention paid to ensuring that scientists, especially those trained through UK support, were facilitated in staying in their home country and utilising the skills they had acquired. More support was needed to permit scientists from developing nations to build and develop their early career within in their native country. Only then could programmes to build scientific capacity eventually become self-sustaining. An additional volume contains written evidence to the Committee
Design competitions: Guidance for clients
Posted on: 26 October 2012
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A new practical guide for professionals interested in using a competition to procure a great design for a new building or structure has been launched by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The guide seeks to cut through the jargon, explain the different competition formats, how they work and covers the key points to consider when planning and running a successful competitive process. It includes guidance on how competition programmes should be structured and the cost of organising a competitive selection process taking into account payment of prize money/honoraria to short-listed teams.
High rise hope: The social implications of energy efficiency retrofit in large multi-storey tower blocks
Posted on: 26 October 2012
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This document is a report to Rockwool, who funded this study into the social effects of energy efficiency measures in large multi-dwelling occupancies, using the Edward Woods Estate in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham as a case study. Rockwool is the insulation provider to the £16.13 million low carbon refurbishment of the estate, working alongside ECD Architects, and The Breyer Group (the main contractor). The study was carried out by the LSE Housing and communities is a research and consultancy group within the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) at the London School of Economics and Political Science led by Professor Anne Power.
Building the homes and communities Britain needs
Posted on: 26 October 2012
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The Future Homes Commission was set up in 2011by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to conduct an independent inquiry into the quality of newly-built housing, to ensure that more and better homes become available to house a growing and ageing population. The Commission has issued a final report which makes recommendations in four areas: Internal design; Designing local communities; The housing marketplace; Finance and affordability.
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