17:45 - 19:00 12 February 2013
Location: UCL Energy Institute, Room GO1, Ground Floor, Central House
As
the world becomes progressively more urban, cities are a critical
enabler of a sustainable future. At the same time they are challenged by
increased population, changing demographics, environmental change and a
range of resource crunches. City governments around the globe say that
to have a successful future they need to deliver a thriving economy,
great quality of life, and a reduced environmental impact. The problem
is that this cannot be delivered by optimising individual infrastructure
systems. We need to integrate city systems to enable new approaches.
And the big market is existing cities, not greenfield developments.
The
Technology Strategy Board has two programmes tackling this opportunity;
the Future Cities Demonstrator and the Future Cities Catapult. The
demonstrator programme supported 30 UK cities to look at the potential
for innovation in systems integration, and the value it could bring.
From these studies, Glasgow was selected to host the demonstrator and to
try and make their vision a reality. Richard will be reporting on some
of the key findings of the 30 studies, Glasgow’s ambitious programme,
and how we will be making sure what is learned from this programme gets
the widest distribution.
The
Future Cities Catapult will be a world class technology and innovation
centre that is under development. Richard will cover the current plans
for the initial programme and investment and how cities, business and
academics can engage with it.
About the speaker:
Richard is Head of Sustainability at the Technology Strategy Board. He has overall responsibility for developing and implementing a sustainability strategy across all of the Technology Strategy Board activities. He also has direct responsibility for programmes in Future Cities, Low-Impact Buildings, Sustainable Agriculture and Food, Resource Efficiency and Water. Richard is also currently leading the creation of a Future Cities Catapult Centre to support economic growth in this important sector, and developing a large scale Future Cities demonstrator programme.
Previously he developed and led the Low-Impact Buildings Innovation Platform; creating a programme to enable UK industry to meet the challenge of delivering buildings with a dramatically reduced environmental footprint over the next 10 years.
We
expect this event to be extremely popular, and places will be on a
first come first served basis. If you are no longer able to attend
please email energy-events@ucl.ac.uk
The presentation will promptly start at 5.45pm and will be followed by drinks and nibbles at 6.30pm and the opportunity to network.
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