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Blue Green Dream Forum greens London’s vision

On Tuesday, Sept 30th at The Gallery, Farringdon, Pollard Thomas Edwards and Farrer Huxley Associates co-hosted, in collaboration with Imperial College London, a forum on the Blue Green Dream.

Well over 50 professionals from local authorities, government agencies, urban planning, architecture and landscape design practices, plus NGOs, attended this timely event.

 

 
At the open Q&A with the guest speakers, the barriers to implementing Blue Green infrastructure in London and the case for the Thames Tideway tunnel catalysed a vigorous and probing debate.

 

 

 

Chairman Noel Farrer (Farrer Huxley Associates) introduces proceedings:

Prof. Cedo Maksimovic (Imperial College London) lays out the Blue Green Dream vision

Tom Dollard (Pollard Thomas Edwards) gives an architect’s perspective on Blue Green infrastructure

Michael Henderson (AECOM Design & Planning) outlines different approaches utilised by AECOM to assess the economic benefits of the Blue Green approach

Peter Massini (Greater London Authority) describes the policy challenges in expediting the greening of London.

 

Accord reached with National Taiwan University on joint development of BGD-BIM module

1st September, 2014; Teipei; Taiwan

Prof. Čedo Maksimović, leader of the Blue Green Dream (BGD) project and head of Imperial College London’s Urban Water group, has reached an agreement with the National Taiwan University (NTU) in Taipei to collaborate on the development of a BGD, Building Information Management (BIM) module.

BIM is a system – various software applications and components exist – employed to digitally represent buildings and civil infrastructure in not only the three key spatial dimensions of width, height and length but also, the 4th dimension: time.

The development of a green infrastructure (BGD) module, enabling not only the visualisation of BG Solutions such as living walls, green roofs etc, but also, the simulation of their effects on building energy performance, is a landmark development.  Equipping BIM with this functionality will facilitate recourse to green infrastructure during the building and civil infrastructure design and planning process.

Prof Maksimović is visiting Taiwan between the 1st and 6th of September for a series of lectures and meetings to strengthen collaboration with local BGD partners, including NTU, Taiwan’s Construction and Planning Agency and the Water Resources Planning Institute.

For further information please contact BGD Project Manager Dr Karl M. Smith: kmsmith@imperial.ac.uk