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Transactional Agents Sustainability Toolkit: a guide for commercial property sales and lettings
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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The Better Buildings Partnership (BBP), a collaboration of fourteen of the largest commercial property owners in the UK, in partnership with the Mayor of London, is calling on all agents who are involved in the sale and leasing of commercial property to improve their knowledge of sustainability issues and drive change by helping owners and occupiers to understand the benefits of owning and using greener buildings. To support this, the BBP has developed an easy to use sustainability toolkit specifically for transactional agents.
Working in neighbourhoods, active citizenship and localism: Lessons for policy makers and practitioners
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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A new report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) shows how neighbourhoods are the key focus for the Coalition’s Localism policies to devolve control over services, assets and decision-making to citizens, and to create a ‘Big Society’. The report argues that while neighbourhood working can help to make devolution, active citizenship and partnership working happen, this can be vulnerable to austerity measures in many local authorities. This report offers lessons for local authorities, neighbourhood practitioners, and communities, drawing on direct experience from practitioners in Bradford, and many other places.
Your right to buy your home: a guide
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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This booklet describes the Right to Buy scheme as it works today, taking into account the changes made to the Right to Buy Legislation which came into effect April 2012. The information in it applies only to England.
FutureFit: Financial modelling in-depth findings
Posted on: 4 April 2012
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FutureFit is Affinity Sutton’s flagship project that aims to provide unique insights into how the Green Deal could work in the context of the 56,000 homes they own and manage, and more widely in the social housing sector. As part of the project, Affinity Sutton installed energy efficiency work packages in 102 of their properties with a view to understanding the practical issues and costs of energy efficient building retrofit. This report presents the findings of the technical and financial analysis that was undertaken to understand the potential to finance a stock-wide retrofit programme by capturing the revenue from energy savings, and how Affinity Sutton as a organisation can begin to mainstream low carbon activities to deliver significant CO2 reductions in its existing housing portfolio.
Communicating EU transport research
Posted on: 3 April 2012
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In order to help research project teams to improve the communication, dissemination and promotion of transport research, the European Commission has released a set of recommendations and tips. The publication includes good practices and examples from project coordinators and a checklist for improving communication activities from the start of the project. The publication also provides a list of freely accessible tools that the European Commission is providing for use to raise project profiles.
Mission (im)possible: Branding a city built from scratch?
Posted on: 3 April 2012
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Building a city from scratch is not an easy task, but branding a city which still has to be built from scratch is even harder. This blog considers whether the invented brand will really accord to reality and whether it is possible to regulate urban atmosphere through a images designed by a marketing agency. The blog contains links to Vienna’s urban lakeside; Hamburg’s Hafencity and Copenhagen’s Orestad.
Changes to the Energy Performance of Buildings Framework
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These documents describe the April 2012 changes to the Energy Performance of Buildings framework aimed at making it easier for consumers to save money on their fuel bills.
Legal framework for energy-efficient renovation
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This document, covering the theme of legal framework for energy efficient renovation is the 2nd in a series of 6 mini-guides for the CASH project, a network of 11 partners which seeks to reduce the energy consumption of buildings and in buildings http://urbact.eu/en/projects/low-carbon-urban-environments/cash/homepage/. Availability of affordable and energy efficient housing is not only a technical or financial matter. European Directives, national/regional/local laws, decrees, ordinances and policies are forming the framework for cities to work within. This mini-guide describes the existing legal playing field for CASH partners from 9 European countries at the local level and shows how they can manoeuvre within the given possibilities to enhance energy performance of affordable housing for social landlords, low income owners or tenants. It also highlights the gaps, barriers, local needs and the potential solutions for a bottom-up approach more in line with local context.
Spreading the net: The multiple benefits of energy efficiency improvements
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In this report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) describes the wider socioeconomic outcomes that can arise from energy efficiency improvement, aside from energy savings. The report enumerates many of the most prominent multiple benefits of energy efficiency and, although the list is not exhaustive, it provides a rich menu of the variety of the benefits that may be of interest to policy makers. Based on a review of existing literature, this report summarises the significance of each of these potential outcomes of energy efficiency measures.
Passivhaus ventilation: It’s not a lot of hot air
Posted on: 3 April 2012
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Mark Siddall, architect and Certified Passivhaus Designer, does a little myth busting and sets some facts straight, before exploring some areas where neither natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation, nor even the Passivhaus standard, have absolutely all the answers.
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