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Leaping into SuDS. Nottingham, 29 February 2012
Posted on: 17 April 2012
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This seminar provided an update on the latest legislative changes related to Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) and an opportunity to discuss the implications for developers, practitioners and unitary authorities alike. It focused on the practicalities of putting the new policy into practice and the challenges which lie ahead. Presentations are available online.
Water & Environment 2012. London, 20-21 March 2012
Posted on: 17 April 2012
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The annual conference of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) addressed multidisciplinary issues across all areas of the global water and environment sector. Abstracts are available online.
Planning Act 2008: Consultation on proposed changes to the suite of guidance documents for the major infrastructure planning regime
Posted on: 16 April 2012
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This is the consultation document for the light touch review of the suite of six guidance documents which underpin the Planning Act 2008. It outlines the context and aims of the consultation as well as the main changes proposed in each of the documents. It also lists the consultation questions for each document. Comments are requested by 6 July 2012.
Paving the way for climate resilient infrastructure: Guidance for practitioners and planners
Posted on: 13 April 2012
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As part of UNDP’s support to El Salvador, an international conference on strategies for adapting public and private infrastructure to climate change was organized in San Salvador on 30 June 2010. The conference highlighted many of the issues related to increasing the climate resilience of infrastructure. Proceedings of the conference have been made available in a publication from the UN Environment Programme.
International Workshop on Measuring Investment in Transport Infrastructure. Paris, 9-10 February 2012
Posted on: 13 March 2012
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This workshop provided a platform for statisticians and stakeholders to discuss and better understand transport infrastructure investment and maintenance data. The aim was to bring together data providers and users to share their experience with the methodology, interpretation and limitations of transport investment data. The workshop allowed for comparison and discussion of practice and examined the experience with harmonising definitions and methods. In doing so, opportunities for data quality improvement were identified. Presentations are available online, covering the following themes: Measuring infrastructure investment and maintenance; Combining data from public and private entities; Harmonisation of international data collections; Matching needs and identifying gaps.
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) Collection
Posted on: 13 March 2012
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The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham has published a guide to the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), listing legislation and guidance, together with a number of questions and answers.
Minor measures, major results: Fine-tuning the major infrastructure planning system
Posted on: 12 March 2012
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Further improvements need to be made to major infrastructure planning in the UK to help accelerate investment and speed up decision-making, according to a new report from the CBI. The CBI urges the Government to reduce uncertainty at the pre-application stage, simplify the non-planning consent landscape, and introduce more flexibility and a sense of urgency into the system.
Assessment tools on urban sustainability
Posted on: 3 February 2012
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CIB Working Commission W101 on Spatial Planning and Infrastructure Development, held its annual meeting on 20 October 2011 in Helsinki. The main subject of the meeting was to start a comparison of “Assessment Tools on Urban Sustainability”, which is considered one of the most competitively progressing technological fields with diversity among research groups internationally, in relation to the subject of urban planning and sustainability. In the meeting, three specific tools were taken up for comparative study and discussion, which are: HEKO, CASBEE-City and the NILIM tool. A full meeting report with a description of these city sustainability assessment tools is available online.
Electricity transmission costing study
Posted on: 3 February 2012
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The Institution of Engineering and Technology has published the findings of research which analyses the whole life costs of installing and maintaining new high voltage transmission circuits under the ground, under the sea and over ground. The report’s remit purely relates to engineering costs. Although it does acknowledge the aesthetic, human and environmental impacts, it makes no analysis of these areas.
Railways: Thameslink Infrastructure Project
Posted on: 27 January 2012
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This note describes the Thameslink infrastructure project, including information on how the scheme got off the ground, construction issues and the policy of successive government towards the project. It does not deal with the controversial Thameslink rolling project to purchase new trains to run on the route.
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