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 Rethinking Professional Services for the Low Carbon Future:

 Action on the Low Carbon Innovation and Growth Team Agenda for the Professions: Buildings

 Thursday, 16 September, 9am-4.45pm

The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT

The Government’s Chief Construction Adviser, Paul Morrell, will this autumn publish the results of an enquiry commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills into the readiness of the construction industry for the low carbon future. The interim findings point to many challenges to clients, consultants and constructors if we are to deliver on the commitments made for 2050. This conference will look at the challenges which are aimed particularly at the professions. We ask: “what are the changes needed in professional culture and skills to meet these challenges?”

The propositions in the IGT report ask professions to:

• Build new knowledge and best practice on a rapid timescale to help practitioners  create truly low carbon  buildings and infrastructure;
• Develop a consensus method to assess carbon dioxide equivalent in embodied and operational  construction;
• Reform industry structure and practice to collaborate better and to deliver good-value, whole-life performance, with feedback as normal;
• Decarbonise their own businesses, to learn and to demonstrate to others;
• Overcome the professional institute silos to provide integrated policy, knowledge management and CPD.

This is a free event, to register, please click here to complete the online registration form. We believe that the  IGT report will galvanise recovery in the construction industry by making the case for new demand and for new business models.  For a provisional agenda, click here .

If you experience any problems please contact Tamara Dale by email: tdale@cic.org.uk.

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ABE 48th Annual Conference & Exhibition – Olympic Impact

11th – 13th November 2010

Venue: Hilton Hotel, Docklands

With the creation of the London 2012 Olympic Park reaching its halfway mark, the Association of Building Engineers’ 48th Annual Conference will look into the groundbreaking sustainable technologies and resources used in its construction.

Contact: Full details can be found at http://www.abe.org.uk/news/olympic

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