News
March 2007
Academy For Sustainable Communities
05th Mar 2007Your contribution is urgently needed The Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC) needs your help to complete a major study into the skills gaps that exist in the sustainable communities field. Information available on the skills and knowledge of professionals is generally accepted to be partial, anecdotal and not focused at the regional level. We have therefore commissioned Arup to investigate generic and technical skills shortages, with a view to evaluating skills gaps and people shortages, both by sector and region. Better understanding of current and future trends in supply and demand will inform the work of the ASC and help organisations become better equipped to respond to the complex demands of the sustainable communities agenda.
Building Sustainable Communities for the Future
13th Mar 2007The Landscape Institute and Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC) have launched a joint initiative to put landscape at the heart of the debate about sustainable communities.
Strategic Forum for Construction announces next Chairman
14th Mar 2007The Strategic Forum for Construction has announced that its next chairman will be Mike Davies, Non-Executive Chairman of Marshalls Plc and former Vice President of the Construction Products Association.
Kinnear Landscape Architects shortlisted for ODA public walkway design contract
19th Mar 2007The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has confirmed the five design practices that have been short-listed for a contract to design a key public walkway that runs through the Olympic Park.
London Energy Partnership launches studies on wind power and planning policy at annual forum
23rd Mar 2007Two studies are published today (22 March) at the annual London Energy Partnership Forum in City Hall. One of the London Energy Partnership reports identifies the feasibility of large-scale wind and biomass (1) plants in London, and the second is a resource guide for the construction community for implementing energy related planning policy in London.
Landscape architecture and challenges in global planning and design
26th Mar 2007Leading landscape architect Jason Prior is to highlight the renaissance in the profession of landscape architecture in a lecture at the Royal Society for Arts on Wednesday, 28 March.