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SS 34,4/5 Special section: COBRA 2015 This part of the journal features three selected papers from the 2015 RICS COBRA conference hosted at UTS in Sydney Australia. The papers featured highlight: the issues around delivering new standards in UK housing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of occupant behaviour; adaptive reuse of heritage in rapidly expanding Chinese mega-cities; and finally the adoption and integration of Building Information Modeling (BIM) into built environment education. As such these papers collectively highlight some of the major issues confronting society in the early twenty-first century. Climate change and adaption to mitigate the impacts in the built environment are crucial if our built environment is to remain liveable. Not only does the built environment collectively contribute 40 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, but as a 2015 reportcommissioned byRICSshows,we face rising costs and growing inequality through distribution of wealth (RICS 2015). Building energy costs and improvements to indoor environment not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs, but also addtoimprovedhealthof occupants. Rapid urbanisation was also identified in the RICS report “Our Changing World; Lets be Ready” (2015) and the pressures this growth places on infrastructure, as well as new and existing
Structural Survey – Emerald Publishing
Published: Sep 11, 2016
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