4CMR has offered a wide array of seminars on the topics of sustainability and climate change. Some of these are provided here for you to download as narrated Powerpoint files.
The formal seminars:
We have offered a seminar series that explores sustainability and climate change topics systematically. The seminar series explores the intellectual foundations of, and the practical execution of, creating sustainable communities in the UK, EU and US, as well as the challenges for the developing world. It is designed specifically for attendees who want to translate academic ideas, theories and methodologies into on-the-ground projects in sustainability of buildings, infrastructure and organisations. It draws on recent experience of moving sustainable, low-carbon projects forward in collaboration with government, developers, asset managers, businesses, local authorities, etc. It examines both strategies of sustainability and reduction of climate change risk in the design, construction, occupancy and demolition phases of a project, and how government policies and market forces impede or enhance progress. The primary issue explored is how to mesh academic and policy analyses with the realities of decisions by specific actors in the built environment.
Weekly Topics (they are generally presented in this order, one Topic per week). The narrated Power Point files containing the lectures themselves can be downloaded. Several have been broken into parts (A, B, etc) because the file size of a narrated file is otherwise too large. Download a narrated file, open in Power Point, show as Slide Show with your speaker activated at close to full volume. Watch each slide as long as you wish and then use the right arrow on your keyboard to advance to the next slide (otherwise, the slide will advance automatically after a few seconds). The narration will follow the slides as you move through them.
Topic 1: How do we build sustainable communities when the world has stopped using the word “sustainability”? Download PPT Part A; Download PPT Part B
Topic 2: Specifying the Metrics and Units of sustainability. Download PPT Part A; Download PPT Part B
Topic 3: Quantifying the environmental impact of communities in regard to Metrics of sustainability. Download PPT
Topic 4a: Creating carbon footprints for organisations, communities and nations. Download PPT
Topic 4b: Continuing with creating carbon footprints. Download PPT
Topic 5: The roles, responsibilities and resources of public and private sector actors in creating sustainable communities. Download PPT Part A; Download PPT Part B
Topic 6: Sustainability of buildings, assessed through BREEAM, LEED, Code for Sustainable Homes, etc. Download PPT
Topic 7: Sustainability of transport, in relation to both mode choice and the spatial relations of community design. Download PPT Part A; Download PPT Part B
Topic 8: Sustainable energy systems for communities (guest speaker, Sarah Cary of British Land). Download PPT
Topic 9: Sustainability and ecosystem natural services. Download PPT Part A; Download PPT Part B
Topic 6: Sustainability of buildings, assessed through BREEAM, LEED, Code for Sustainable Homes, etc. Download PPT
Topic 7: Sustainability of transport, in relation to both mode choice and the spatial relations of community design. Download PPT Part A; Download PPT Part B
Topic 8: Sustainable energy systems for communities (guest speaker, Sarah Cary of British Land). Download PPT
Topic 9: Sustainability and ecosystem natural services. Download PPT Part A; Download PPT Part B
Topic 10: Sustainability, human health risk and the precautionary principle. Download PPT Part A; Download PPT Part B
Topic 11: Climate change adaptation: creating resilient communities. Download Part A; Download Part B; Download Part C
Topic 11: Climate change adaptation: creating resilient communities. Download Part A; Download Part B; Download Part C
The CEM module presentation: This talk was presented at the CEM programme of 2012. It concerns climate change and the built environment.
