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Protected trees: A guide to tree preservation procedures
Posted on: 12 April 2012
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This leaflet on tree preservation procedures in England has been published mainly for the benefit of tree owners, their neighbours and local community groups, answering commonly asked questions about the procedures. This replaces Protected trees: A guide to tree preservation procedures published on 10 March 2010.
Abundance of land, shortage of housing
Posted on: 11 April 2012
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Not enough is being done to reduce the extraordinarily high cost of housing in Britain, according to a new report from the Institute of Economic Affairs. The research looks at how housing costs in the UK have exploded in recent decades, while in many other countries the increase has been much lower and/or largely transitory. It adds that empirical evidence from around the world shows that planning restrictions are the key determinant of housing costs, and criticises the government’s new planning reforms for not doing enough to incentivise growth.
Landscape architecture: a design for clients
Posted on: 5 April 2012
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The Landscape Institute has published its first ever guide for clients. As the dramatic transformation of the once derelict brownfield site in East London is revealed, the Institute hopes to capitalise on the excitement surrounding this flagship landscape project to highlight the diverse work being undertaken by landscape architects both here and abroad. As well as featuring work on the Olympic Park, the guide showcases the extensive skills and knowledge landscape architects bring to projects large and small.
ITB World Travel Trends Report 2011/2012
Posted on: 5 April 2012
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This report covers the main trends in outbound travel demand for the first eight months of 2011 together with estimates for the full year and also contains initial forecasts for 2012. In addition, it highlights several topics, including sustainability, the internet and the rise of China, that will continue to influence the industry significantly in the future.
The Property Ombudsman Annual Report 2011
Posted on: 5 April 2012
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This report details the work of the Property Ombudsman in respect of lettings and sales disputes during the past year.
Reforms to the real estate investment trust (REIT) regime: consultation
Posted on: 5 April 2012
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The government is exploring options of adapting the existing real estate investment trust regime to support the creation of a social housing real estate investment trust business model which may offer social housing providers an alternative source of financing to fund their future housing developments. This consultation seeks views on this issue. Comments are requested by 27 June 2012.
Scope of carbon budgets: Statutory advice on inclusion of international aviation and shipping
Posted on: 5 April 2012
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The Committee on Climate Change has published its report on international aviation and shipping emissions, arguing that there is no longer any reason to exclude these from carbon budgets. In the report the Committee conclude that the current approach should be formalised through the inclusion of these emissions in carbon budgets and the 2050 target. Emissions from international aviation and shipping were initially left out of carbon budgets and the 2050 target when the Climate Change Act became Law in 2008, with the decision on inclusion delayed to 2012. A technical report accompanies this advice, out scenarios for how the 2050 target to reduce emissions by 80% relative to 1990 levels can be achieved with international aviation and shipping included.
Proceedings of the CIB W078-W102 Conference: Computers, knowledge, building
Posted on: 5 April 2012
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This 994-page report contains the proceedings from a conference held in Sophia Antiplois in France from 26-28 October 2011. It includes proceedings from the 28th International Workshop of CIB W78 Computer integrated construction, jointly organised with the 7th CIB W102 Information and knowledge management in building.
This conference was dedicated to the latest broad achievements in research, development, standardisation and industrial implementation of advanced Computing, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Knowledge Management (KM) in the construction sector and the built environment. The key role of ICT and KM in the facilitation of information and knowledge delivery in collaborative projects and distributed teams is nowadays widely acknowledged, and the construction sector has now is becoming active in the adoption of models, standards and ICT solutions, with the ambition to better manage and assimilate an increasing amount of information and embedded services, throughout the building lifecycle. The objective is also to enhance the potential for productivity and reduce overall life-cycle product costs, and to further support services designed to facilitate management of life cycle performance and to meet changing end user needs, with a clear customer orientation.
HotStats 2012: UK, Europe and MENA
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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This publication contains results of the UK hotel industry’s profit and loss performance with individual commentary on 15 key European and Middle Eastern hotel markets plus sections on London, England, Scotland and Wales. The document also details results for the full year in 2011 and gives a comparison with 2010 performance.
Survey on urban sustainability in cities
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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In order to gauge the sustainability priorities and views of European cities, the European Metropolitan network Institute (EMI) and ICLEI have jointly launched a digital questionnaire on urban sustainability. Cities are asked to fill out the questionnaire before the 23 April 2012 so that results can be used in further developing EMI’s Urban Sustainability Research Agenda. The main aim of this Agenda is to, together with cities, identify new, overarching research questions so that cities can become (increasingly) sustainable.
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