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BRE – building a better world
For over 80 years, BRE has been the UK Centre of Excellence for the built environment providing advice and guidance for all those involved in the design, construction, performance and management of buildings. The focus of its activities has always been the development and dissemination of knowledge, particularly in regard to the most pressing issues of the day. Today, the big challenge is climate change and BRE’s 500 strong team of specialists, engineers and architects are concentrating their efforts on developing advice and guidance that will help to improve the environmental performance of buildings and large developments.
BRE undertakes major research projects and provides consultancy, testing and certification services for clients here in the UK and around the world. The company is owned by the BRE Trust, a charitable company whose objectives are through research and education, to advance knowledge, innovation and communication in all matters concerning the built environment for public benefit. This ownership structure enables BRE to be held as a national asset on behalf of the construction industry and its clients, independent of specific commercial interests. It protects BRE's impartiality and objectivity in research and advice.
Key areas of work include
- sustainable design – for individual buildings, developments and communities
- the BREEAM environmental assessment method
- energy efficiency and renewable energy
- water management and water conservation
- the environmental impact of construction
- whole-life performance
- construction quality, process and productivity
- building performance - structures, materials and systems
- prevention and control of fire
- certification
- risk science
BRE regularly holds conferences, workshops and training sessions at its Watford Headquarters and regionally. It has offices in Watford, East Kilbride and Port Talbot.
For more information visit www.bre.co.uk
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The Caledonian Environment Centre is part of Glasgow Caledonian University’s School of the Built and Natural Environment. The Centre offers a dedicated team of professionals with expertise in a varied range of environmental disciplines including waste and resource management, sustainability, environmental management and education. The Centre has the advantage of being able to couple sound academic knowledge with responsive, practical expertise, enabling it to carry out valuable consultancy and research in order to provide accurate and up to date information to clients.
The Sustainability Centre in Glasgow managed by the Caledonian Environment Centre is approaching the final stages of a two year project funded by the Scottish Executive’s SEEKIT programme and ERDF to assist small and medium sized (SMEs) construction companies in becoming more sustainable, competitive and efficient http://www.sustainabilityinconstruction.org.
The aims of this project are:
- to encourage the adoption of sustainable business practices by construction SMEs through provision of bespoke advice and wider awareness raising; and
- to produce a framework and toolkit which will allow construction SMEs to identify areas where they can improve their sustainability and provide them the capacity to address these areas.
Services provided include, but are not limited to, the development of an environmental policy statement, the preparation of a site waste management plan, Carbon Footprinting of the company’s business practices and assistance in developing company web sites.
To find out more visit www.sustainabilityinconstruction.org
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CIRIA is a member-based research and information organisation dedicated to improvement in the construction industry. Our members include representatives from all parts of the supply chains of the modern built environment, covering building and civil engineering as well as transport and utilities infrastructure. CIRIA’s work is recognised as being independent, objective and authoritative.
CIRIA provides a means through which the many different stakeholders in the modern built environment can work together to identify, codify, publish and promote the emerging best practice in the industry. In this way, CIRIA continually seeks to raise the standard of excellence in the broad construction sector beyond the lowest admissible acceptability for designers and constructors set by the framework of legislation, statutory regulations and codes of practice.
CIRIA’s primary aims are to improve the quality, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and safety in both the provision and operation of the modern built environment. In pursuit of these aims, we seek to be the leading provider of performance improvement products and services to organisations involved in procuring, delivering, owning and maintaining the fabric of the modern built environment.
To find out more and to join visit www.ciria.org or email enquiries@ciria.org
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Forum for the Future - the sustainable development charity - works in partnership with leading organisations in business and the public sector. Our vision is of business and communities thriving in a future that is environmentally sustainable and socially just. We believe that a sustainable future can be achieved, that it is the only way business and communities will prosper, but that we need bold action now to make it happen. We play our part by inspiring and challenging organisations with positive visions of a sustainable future; finding innovative, practical ways to help realise those visions; training leaders to bring about change; and sharing success through our communications.
For more information visit www.forumforthefuture.org.uk
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Retail Property & Development (RPD) is a full colour magazine that covers the building, development and refurbishment of retail and leisure space on a national and international level.
By focusing on the industry’s clients and their property developments, RPD illuminates the estate management techniques of the world’s most important retailers.
A combination of exclusive interviews with high profile property people such as Sir Rocco Forte, Terry Leahy and PY Gerbeau to name but a few, and expert comment on the current hot topics, has established RPD as a must read for everyone involved in the increasingly sophisticated retail property sector.
Who is really leading the way in the sustainability debate? How are the major players expanding or contracting their portfolios? And where are the new point of sale trends coming from? RPD provides the answers to all of these questions through authoritative and informed journalism.
RPD is an invaluable resource for those involved in all aspects of retail design, construction, refurbishment, shopfitting and retail services, including display, lighting, point of purchase and security.
With an annual readership in excess of 250,000, Retail Property & Development targets the key decision makers within the retail, hospitality, and leisure sectors throughout the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
For more information visit www.retailpropertyanddevelopment.co.uk
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Sustain Magazine is Lead Media Partner at the Carbon Footprint Construction Summit.
The built environment represents the single most significant physical expression of human social development on this planet. Its sustainable development is fundamental to our future. The challenge for business and government lies in making the link between these lofty principals and the blank page headed Monday in your diary. sustain' magazine bridges that gap: as a bi-monthly B2B publication, it is dedicated to ensuring that public-. private- and third-sector decision-makers are kept fully up to date in the field of sustainable development.
Independent and editorially driven, the magazine is supported by a 40-plus strong Editorial Board drawn from across the spectrum of sustainable development, with those represented ranging from: Land Securities and LloydsTSB, to Sainsbury's and Solarcentury; from Biffa and Feilden Clegg Bradley, to The Carbon Neutral Company and Taylor Woodrow.
The title is of interest to people working in development, design and construction; to those concerned with resource use, re-use and conservation, waste and efficiency; to those with responsibility in areas of environmental risk, social care and corporate governance. sustain' magazine is written for joined-up readers: from architects to fund managers, from engineers to conservationists, from contractors to climate-change consultants, from retailers to policy-makers.
For more information visit www.sustainmagazine.com
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The UK Green Building Council is a partner at Carbon Footprint Construction Summit.
To find out more visit www.ukgbc.org
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Paul Drechsler, Chairman & Chief Executive, Wates Group
John Frankiewicz, Chief Operating Officer, Willmott Dixon
Dave Farebrother, Environment Director, Land Securities
Dr. Peter Bonfield, Leader - Construction Materials, Olympic Delivery Authority & Chief Executive, BRE
Trevor Beattie, Director of Corporate Strategy, English Partnerships
Morag Robertson, Environment Manager for Supply Chain, Sainsbury’s
Tony Mars, Head of Construction, Sainsbury’s
Beverley Lister, Head of Environment, T5, BAA
Claudine Blamey, Director of Corporate Responsibility, British Land
Noel Morrin, SVP Sustainability, Skanska AB (Sweden)
Guy Battle, Founder and Chairman, Dcarbon8
George Martin, Board Member, UK Green Building Council & Head of Sustainability, Willmott Dixon Construction
Paul Sims, Operations Director, Bovis Lend Lease
Andrew Kinsey, Senior Environmental Manager, Bovis Lend Lease
Rachel Woolliscroft, Group Sustainability Manager, Wates Group
Richard O’Connor, Business Improvement Director, Thomas Vale Construction
Thomas Carpen, Senior Strategic Planner, Greater London Authority
Nicholas Gibbins, Thames Gateway Strategy Division, DCLG
Gary Sullivan, Managing Director, Wilson James & Chairman, Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership
Alan McGill, Project Director, Prince of Wales Accounting for Sustainability
Dr Mike Watson, Head of Construction, WRAP
Martin Hunt, Head of Built Environment, Forum for the Future
Neil Kirkpatrick, Associate Director, Arup
Dr Kristian Steele, Principal Consultant, BRE
Jez Cutler, Group Environment Manager, Travis Perkins
Paul Johnson, Managing Director, Model Logic Ltd
David Johnson, Director, Yorkon
Miles Watkins, Director of Group Environmental and Corporate Social Responsibility, Aggregate Industries
Peter Quinn, Managing Director, ScotAsh
Richard Barrett, Managing Director, Barrett Steel Buildings
John Park, Director, Canada Wood UK
Joe McNulty, Managing Director, Integra
Rosi Fieldson, Senior Architect, Simons Design
Barry Smith, Environmental Manager, Simons Group
Deborah Evans, Head of Corporate Reporting and Assurance , LRQA
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