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EPSRC Reference:	GR/S18311/01
Title:	SUE Scoping Study:Metrics, models and toolkits for whole life sustainable urban development - a scoping study
Principal Investigator:	Horner, Professor RMW
Other Investigators:	Hardcastle, Professor C Price, Professor A
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Project Partners:	Atkins Building Research Establishment (BRE) Construction Industry - CIRIA
Department:	Civil Engineering
Organisation:	University of Dundee
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 July 2003	Ends:	31 July 2004	Value (£):	207,024
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Building Ops & Management Construction Ops & Management
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Construction Environment
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Sustainability means thinking in terms of whole systems, with all their interconnections, consequences and feedback loops. In seeking optimum solutions to todays complex infrastructure problems, it is necessary to consider environmental, technical, social, political and economic issues, their synergies and the inevitable trade-offs between them. An integrating model and a comprehensive set of tools are required by all who have to make decisions relating to changes in the built environment. The models and tools must help decision makers to understand the complexity of the problems and to find whole life solutions which take account of the effects of change on social structures, values, and the environment, and which ensure that scarce, irreplaceable resources are not frittered away, either deliberately or through ignorance. In this scoping study, we will conduct a comprehensive literature search, establish a web site and conduct a series of workshops to identify the needs of governments. clients. financial institutions, designers, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and facilities managers. We will evaluate the extent and quality of the existing expertise world wide, and establish the scope of work necessary to develop models, metrics and toolkits which will, for the first time, allow rational whole life decisions to be made at both the project and development level incorporating economic, sociopolitical and environmental issues simultaneously. We will also develop the contextual framework for the mian programme of work.-2
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