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Incorporating climate resilience into our towns, cities and infrastructure
Sarah Winne, climate resilience specialist at Ramboll, explores the importance of incorporating climate resilience into planning the design of our homes, buildings and urban environments.
Mott MacDonald appoints head of sustainability and climate change
Sally Sudworth, previously director for the Low Zero Carbon Hub in Wales, has been appointed by Mott MacDonald as its global head of sustainability and climate change.
Reconsidering resilience and infrastructure
Amid great challenges and change, we need to rethink how we look at resilience of critical infrastructure and adopt a whole-life approach.
Mott MacDonald appoints new associate climate advisor
Mott MacDonald has appointed Nikki van Dijk, a chartered environmentalist, as associate climate advisor in its UK water and environment business.
Climate change and coastal flood: Yes, they are related
The possibility of extreme coastal flood events could increase from the current rate of once every 100 years to every year by 2050, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Building Resilience: Rethinking our approach to construction
This report by Asite provides a snapshot of the future trends shaping the industry, the opportunities and issues it faces in 2020 and exemplifies the virtues of a regionally engaged and globally responsive approach.
Covid-19 is ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to tackle global climate crisis
Covid-19 could be an historic turning point in tackling the global climate crisis, says the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), as it calls on ministers to seize the opportunity.
Climate experts help construction prepare for unpredictable weather
MetSwift’s founder and CEO James Banasik explains why weather-tech solutions and climate expertise will enable the construction industry to mitigate against seemingly unpredictable, severe...
Environment Agency calls for stronger resilience against flooding
The Environment Agency has said that while we must continue to build and maintain strong defences to reduce the risk of flooding, communities will also need to become more resilient.
Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: RIBA’s latest release
'Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to Building and Community Design' is the newest release from RIBA.
Danish innovation to improve local flood resilience
A Danish company has partnered with Accelar to investigate the market for its automated flood protection system, Floodframe, in the UK.
The integration of weather and climate data across the construction lifecycle
Integrating accurate weather and climate data into BIM can cut costs for construction projects in the planning and development stage, as well as mitigating the longer-term climate challenges of tomorrow.
UK housebuilders: A Future Homes Standard to tackle climate emergency?
Gwyn Roberts, homes and communities lead at BRE, says UK housebuilders should take the initiative now to ensure better performance through higher quality.
Environment Agency urges new approach to coastal and flood resilience
The Environment Agency has said ‘we cannot win a war against water’ by building higher flood defences and has urged a new approach to ensure coastal and flood resilience.
A new approach to climate resilience planning
Dr Daniel Slade on how the Royal Town Planning Institute is taking a new approach to its research on strategic planning for climate resilience.
Liverpool to develop climate resilience planning policy
The RTPI is working with Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to develop a climate resilience policy for the city region’s 1.6 million residents.
Offsite experts set the record straight on modular overheating resilience
Buildoffsite, The Offsite Hub and Oxford Brookes University issue a response to clarify the concerns on the overheating resilience of offsite solutions, following some of the evidence presented to the Environmental Audit Committee
Extreme storms: International examples of building resilience
After a year of wild weather around the world and with Britain facing the threat of more extreme storms, Anthony Guay of Ramboll UK looks at what we can learn from international approaches to flood protection
Concrete and masonry – Building resilience in the urban environment
Guy Thompson of the Concrete Centre looks at the need to build resilience into the urban landscape and key infrastructure using concrete and masonry
Guidance helps protect Scotland’s traditional buildings from climate change
New guidance has been published by Historic Environment Scotland, setting out how to safeguard Scotland’s traditional buildings from climate change
Preparing Europe’s cities for climate change impacts
Climate change is impacting and will continue to impact Europe. Are cities ready to face rising sea levels and temperatures and more extreme events...
Concrete strengthens resilience to fire and floods
Engineering resilience needn’t be rocket science. The challenge for designers is to be aware of the issues, and to think ahead, as Jenny Burridge...
ULI appoints new UK executive director
The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has appointed Sarah Musgrove as its new UK executive director, Sarah joins ULI from Greystar, where she worked as a senior director.
Heritage ‘Retrofit Toolkit’ launched by City of London Corporation
Launched at an event at the Merchant Taylor's Great Hall, the Retrofit Toolkit aims to enable heritage buildings to be brought up to modern energy efficiency standards.
International Women’s Day: Two of Arup’s leaders reflect on their experiences
Two of Arup's leading figures- directors Becci Taylor and Sowmya Parthasarathy- reflect on the changes they have seen in their combined 50 year careers and predictions for the future.
International green building rating systems to form sustainable finance alliance
Each of the major green building rating systems for the UK, Australia and the USA have announced a first-of-its-kind alliance aiming to unlock sustainable finance for the built environment.