The report gives multiple case studies of UK projects that demonstrate our leadership and innovation across many sectors, including: energy, spatial planning, building information modelling, green building and retrofitting, transport, intelligent transport, water, waste, pollution, remediation, health and education.
I also looked at a range of policy approaches, skills and strategies that the UK has developed (or been influential in developing) into global best practice. These included topics like:
- The 2008 Climate Change Act
- Valuing natural capital
- The economics of climate change (e.g. Stern review)
- Circular economy
- Supporting community-led projects and development
- Green belt policies
- Garden Cities and New Towns
- Financial models and risk management (e.g. PPPs & PFI)
- Standards (e.g. PAS 180, 181, 182 and PD8101)
- Innovations in city services through technology
- Open Data and the Open Data Institute
- Applying gaming to city challenges
- Research and innovation
The report features over 30 case studies, including:
- Glasgow smart city demonstrator
- Integrated planning in Jeddah
- Low Carbon Network project
- Stoke-On-Trent smart energy programme
- Urban scale sustainable heating and cooling
- Controlling heating loads and grid balancing
- Birmingham East Side development
- Urban Regeneration in Sheffield
- BIM saves time & money on motorway junction project
- Crossrail: the first European major transport project to use BIM
- Battersea Power Station & BREEAM Domestic Refurbishment
- The Crystal, Sustainable Cities Initiative
- Castleward regeneration & BREEAM Communities
- Crossrail
- Heathrow Terminal 2b
- PRT Pods at Heathrow Airport (Terminal 5)
- Croydon Trams
- Driverless vehicles
- Adaptive Traffic Management
- Intelligent Mobility, Imtech Traffic & Infra
- Manchester’s Customer Smart Programme
- Identifying clean water sources in Sierra Leone
- Flood alert system, GaugeMap
- Energy savings in Welsh Water
- Drone technology and water quality in Swaledale
- Leeds invests in innovation to tackle flood risk
- Integrated waste management in inner-city London
- Congestion Charging Zone in London
- Olympic Park site remediation
- Health District in Adelaide, Australia
- Holistic healthcare provision at Bromley by Bow
- More Independent Tech city stars – developing local talent in London
- BRE Academy shares British expertise and standards internationally
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