EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - Implementation of emerging government and other urban regeneration sustainability policies

Implementation of emerging government and other urban regeneration sustainability policies

Introduction

Construction and the use of buildings represent a very significant element in achieving sustainable communities—for example, 49% of CO2 in UK comes from building construction and use. The construction industry in the UK is large and fragmented, and there is an urgent need for clear policy requirements and implementation of sustainable construction.

Description

This UrbanBuzz project - Implementation of Emerging Government and Other Urban Regeneration Sustainability Policies – consisted of a series of seminar-based discussions on how recent Government sustainability initiatives for construction could best be implemented or effected. The aims of these seminars were to share knowledge and critique how best in practice:

to promulgate and facilitate the adoption of recent and emerging
government policies relating to sustainability in the built environment sectors;
to identify and comment on practical difficulties in implementing
government sustainability policies;
to help feed emerging government sustainability/construction policies into universities to inform and stimulate their research and teaching;
and to input relevant academic thinking into development of government policies in this area.

Methodology

Seminars were held in several regions: the South West (Bath), the East(Cambridge), Scotland (Dundee), the South East (London), the North East (Newcastle), the East Midlands (Nottingham), and the North West (Salford). As a result of these original seminars a series of follow-on events, locally funded, have been, or are due to be, held within the regions. 175 people attended the seminars, drawn from the senior levels of local, regional and national government, industry (developers, consultants, house builders, contractors and suppliers), and academia.

Contact info

UrbanBuzz
University College London, 27 Fitzroy Square
W1T 6ES London
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 20 7554 4064
d.gilbert@uclb.com
David Adamson (Consultant)

Publication date

10/04/2008

Researcher

David Adamson and Peter Morris

Links

Click here to visit the UrbanBuzz website

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Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy > Urban environment

Keywords

Environmental sustainability