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Useful websites
Academy for Sustainable Communities - a national centre for delivering the skills and knowledge needed to deliver sustainable communities.
Business in the Community – dedicated
to challenging and supporting business in continually improving its positive
impact on society
Commission for Architecture and the Built
Environment (CABE) – a public body dedicated to the development of a
better built environment
Considerate Constructors Scheme is a
code of practice to minimise local nuisance and disruption caused by construction
sites
Constructing Excellence
promotes innovation, best practice, productivity and engagement
Construction Client’s Group,
promotes the use of the Client’s Charter
Engage online - the one stop shop for employee engagement for companies and community organisations, NGOs, brokers and business intermediaries (this is run by the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)
New Economics Foundation, an independent
organisation focussed on improving quality of life by promoting innovative
solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and
social issues
Office of Government Commerce, works with
government to improve procurement and project/programme management and has
published a series of Achieving Excellence best practice guides for construction
clients
SHINE - the learning network for sustainable healthcare building - provided support to NHS Trusts and PCTs to help them incorporate sustainability into their building projects. SHINE activities include guidance and case studies, outreach and training events, and mentoring and other support
Sustainable Building
Task Group was formed in 2003 to identify specific, cost-effective, improvements
in the quality and environmental performance of buildings
The Department of Communties Local Government (DCLG)
– information about communities and local government's ministerial team, the board and agencies and non-departmental public bodies
The Good Homes Alliance (GHA) is a group of sustainable housebuilders and other leading professionals who are delivering a step change in the sustainability performance of new homes. The GHA supports these developers by providing technical assistance, research & guidance and education events
Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) - a dynamic organisation focussing spatial planning issues i.e. location and quality of social, economic and environmental change.
Useful publications
BRE
(2004): Thinking Business Space- benefiting from more socially responsible
decisions (free downloadable booklet)
Brundtland, G (ed) (1987): Our common future:
the World Commission on Environment and development, Oxford University Press
CABE (2002): The value of good design
CIRIA (2001): Sustainable construction
procurement (C571)
CIRIA (2004): Buildings for all to use
2 (C610)
CIRIA (2005): Investing in tomorrow’s
company. Improving sustainability communications between real estate and construction companies and the investment community (C636)
Egan (2004): Skills for Sustainable
Communities
Pearce, David (2003): The social and economic
value of construction. A report for nCRISP
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