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SMART, HEALTHY, SUSTAINABLE CITIES

Buro Happold

THE LIVING CITY

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WELCOME

URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE

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BACKGROUND

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GOVERNANCE AND GROWTH

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ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES

THE FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGE FOR MUNICIPALITIES TODAY IS HOW TO DELIVER IMPROVED PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY OF LIFE OFTEN WITH FEWER RESOURCES IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING AND INCREASINGLY COMPLEX EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

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BURO HAPPOLD AND

THE LIVING CITY

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Welcome to our new e-journal introducing Buro Happold’s experience and our approach in the arena of urban regeneration and the seamless integration of Smart technology.

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The current push for Smart Cities is, no doubt, a quickly evolving aspect of the built environment which offers huge potential to at least mitigate some of the impacts that our various societies have on our planet, both now and in a future that is ever more focused on urban living. At the same time, we feel that the term Smart Cities is restrictive in describing and tackling the major challenges that need to be addressed at a city level, and this position is reinforced by the focus that is given to technology as the answer to all ills.

But we acknowledge the label that has been stuck on this field and, of course, we recognise that technology will play a significant role going forward, albeit as only one part of a broader solution.

sense of place, resilience and futureproofing (to name a few) needing equal weight and consideration. We broadly group these issues into the following:

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Environmental Quality Protection and Stewardship

We believe that as engineers we are ideally positioned to provide evidence based advice and design in this field.

But we also believe that the real solutions go beyond pure technology with issues relating to governance, sustainable business opportunities,

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Agriculture and Food

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Waste and Recycling

Governance and Growth •

Governance and Government

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Employment and Growth

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Business Development

Urban Development and Infrastructure •

Utilities and Infrastructure

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Built Environment and Urban Realm

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Mobility and Inclusion

Environment and Natural Resources

Society and Community •

Education and Training

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Health and Wellbeing

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Community

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WE CAN’T SOLVE PROBLEMS BY USING THE SAME KIND

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OF THINKING WE USED WHEN WE CREATED THEM. Albert Einstein

URBANIZATION a defining phenomenon of this century

These groups form the basis of our integrated approach; an approach that seeks to define and deliver solutions that create the Living City, and one that we will discuss in these and subsequent pages.

At Buro Happold, we consider our purpose is to enable our clients to achieve a more sustainable future by creating solutions that enhance their business and enrich people’s lives, harnessing the experience and passion of our people to make places that deliver more but use less. We support this approach by undertaking cutting edge research, either independently or linked to top tier universities, to ensure that the need for design against current policy and delivery of viable solutions is underpinned by forward thinking that is able to anticipate and respond future change.

We believe that this ambition is essential in facing up to the huge challenges confronting the planet as

societies develop, urbanisation spreads, populations grow, climate change impacts on the environment and the reserve of natural resources on which many economies currently depends reduces at an alarming rate. We believe that we can and must all play our part in helping to reshape a healthier, safer and more sustainable future for mankind.

Living Cities is an arena which requires all of the many strengths of Buro Happold to be deployed and engaged in an integrated and holistic way in order to deliver thoughtful, effective and valuable solutions. Technology is moving fast – the last great idea is rapidly overtaken by any number of innovative new ideas clamouring for recognition. To ensure that we stay ahead of the curve we are developing a number of thought leadership white papers in-house and in conjunction with leading academic institutions that aim to guide and lead the way in this exciting new stage of urban development.

We will be publishing our progress in this field periodically through a series of e-bulletins and I hope that we have the opportunity of sharing our urban development experiences and engage with you positively on this critical but exciting journey.

Andrew Comer Director of Environment & Infrastructure

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THE LIVING CITY

BACKGROUND Cities play a dominant role in today’s world. Over half of

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our population now live in cities and this is predicted to exceed 70% by the second half of this century.

Governance and Government

It can be argued that it is now cities, rather than nations, that compete. As faster and easier communication and travel shrink the planet, these nodes of trade and commerce are the economic powerhouses; competing across national borders to attract global businesses, skilled employees and eager consumers. The bases of this competition are broad – access to opportunity via education and available jobs, personal safety and security, effective healthcare, abundant natural resources, efficient transport systems, an attractive physical environment and vibrant communities.

Employment and Growth

Business Development

Education and Training

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Cities strive to differentiate themselves, developing individual brands that emphasise their economic, cultural, physical, even climatic advantages. In addition to getting the core services and infrastructure in place and working efficiently, enhancing the physical aspects of the city helps make it more attractive – more liveable, and this contributes directly to economic success.

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In this competition some cities are falling behind and face problems that come with stagnation and population shrinkage, as residents and businesses move away to find better opportunities and a more attractive environment elsewhere. Many more cities however, are growing rapidly – too rapidly for the infrastructure and services – and are struggling to cope.

Health and Wellbeing

Community

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‘LIVING CITIES’ NEED TO RECOGNISE THE INCREASED CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN PEOPLE AND BUILDINGS, A SENSE OF POSSIBILITY AND OPENNESS AND THE NEED FOR MULTI-FUNCTION GENERATIVE STRUCTURES THAT ADAPT, LEARN AND RESPOND TO THE ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMY AND GOVERNMENT POLICY.

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Steve Lewis Living PlanIT

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Environmental quality, protection and stewardship

Agriculture and Food

Waste and Recycling Utilities and Infrastructure

Built Environment and Urban Realm

Mobility and Inclusion

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Meeting the basic human needs for clean water, adequate waste treatment, energy and food whilst providing a place that is enjoyable to live and caters for the population’s social needs is stretching city authorities to breaking point and this influx of people is continuing. The UN estimates that there will be 40 million new city dwellers in Asian cities every year, and that by 2030 there will be over 2 billion new urban dwellers on the planet.

As the earth’s human population expands further there is broad agreement that urban areas should be more sustainable than less concentrated rural settlements. However, this is currently not the case. Over 50% of the our global population live in cities, yet these cities account for over 75% of the consumption of the world’s non-renewable resources, and create around three quarters of its pollution. We have not captured the benefits of scale and density that city-living offers.

Whilst the problems associated with urbanisation are generally understood from civic leaders to citizens, appropriate mitigation is less well defined. Our Living City approach is straightforward: we need to create successful cities for the future. It is the balancing of social, environmental, economic opportunities resulting from urbanisation through best-inclass planning, design and construction whilst integrating technology to underpin all elements of the urban domain. It is best described by the model shown to the left.

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Over the past decade, through our work with mayors, city planners, architects, developers, technology providers and utilities providers, Buro Happold has been developing its Living City approach to sustainable urban development – sustainable in economic, social and environmental terms.

Jeddah 2030 Plan, Jeddah, KSA Image: Happold Consulting

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OUR BROAD RANGE OF EXPERTS HAVE A FULL APPRECIATION OF THE CITY FROM A VARIETY OF PERSPECTIVES, WHICH HAS SUPPORTED THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR LIVING CITY APPROACH

Find out more Arriyadh Region Project Information System, Riyadh, KSA Image: Happold Consulting

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Urban development is a long-term and complex affair. Success depends upon a sustained commitment by stakeholders to a clear course of action. At its best, it is characterised by unified leadership from the top, defining a clear inspirational vision for the city, combined with a full appreciation of its present and historical context. Focused objectives, strategies and policies are set, which cross departmental boundaries and are clearly communicated across engaged city stakeholder groups.

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The evidence that we have been collecting, based upon our experience and projects, strongly suggests that there are a number of key elements, which need to be integrated for a city to develop in a truly Smart way –

optimising the design and operation of infrastructure systems, technologies and buildings in way that meets the current and future needs of its citizens.

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A true appreciation of current and emerging best practice in the use of Smart systems in different city services, infrastructure, and buildings, and the benefits they can deliver.

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An understanding of the perspectives and interests of multiple stakeholder groups operating at national, regional, community and individual levels together with the creation of an appropriate and ‘acceptable’ governance model.

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Developing business case and economic appraisals to quantify and qualify urbanisation impact with regard to new development.

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A clear vision and set of well defined strategies and objectives covering all elements of sustainability.

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A deep knowledge of urban development, transport and infrastructure strategies and regeneration models.

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A thorough grasp of how technology can be integrated across functions and city departments to create true synergies and new insight.

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Find out more Detroit Works Project, Detroit, MI, USA Image: Google

The national, regional, community, commercial and individual interests and rights also need to be taken into account as the fundamental building blocks of data governance are defined.

Local culture and customs can also have a big influence on what will be acceptable, necessitating a tailored approach. Buro Happold is working with a range of partners to explore and compare the options around the ownership and use of data; funding and return of new (IT) infrastructure; data safety and security and the measurement of success and value.

We believe that consulting engineers are now required, as they once were, to provide strong leadership within the construction industry and to act as the lynch-pin connecting unbiased applied

technology and infrastructure with exemplar city planning and design.

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Clear communication and unifying vision through the whole life cycle between decision makers.

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Integration of Living City principles with policy and governance structure.

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Clear holistic understanding of how data is transferred and captured between technologies and systems and how it is used by decision makers and the social and security implications of this including appropriate mitigation responses.

Buro Happold’s broad range of experts has a full appreciation of the city from a variety of perspectives which has supported the development of our Living City approach. This approach allows us to identify the fundamental issues and challenges, assets and opportunities that will hinder or support the achievement of the city’s vision, and allows us to work with city leaders on sustainable strategic plans, establishing long-term goals and frameworks, and the guiding the delivery of well-aligned economically robust projects.

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Our passionate ambition is always to deliver creative and innovative – yet functional and sustainable – masterplans that meet planning requirements, clients’ objectives and ultimately the needs of the people that will use the places created. We strive to create inspirational but deliverable and flexible plans that allow for new uses and future market opportunities.

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Sackler Crossing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK Image: Buro Happold / Robert Greshoff

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Tun Razak Exchange, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Image: Machado and Silvetti Associates

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Our teams operate across the complete project lifecycle, from assessing the physical opportunities and constraints of a site and considering the viability of different development options to working with planners and developers to design and build the best solution.

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Buro Happold has extensive global experience of sustainable masterplanning and development, ranging from regeneration projects to new districts and even cities. Our integrated, multi-disciplinary approach ensures that all civil engineering and planning aspects are covered, including ground conditions and flood risk, energy, utilities and waste infrastructure and strategies, transport and access, and assessments of the environmental impact, and how to minimise it.

Amongst our numerous development projects a good example of our work

in regeneration is illustrated by the very large number of projects that we have been engaged with over the past decade and more in East London and Tun Razak Exchange in Kuala Lumpur.

London is one of the world’s great cities but has suffered from multiple layers of deprivation and social, economic and environmental stress for the past century and more. Of particular interest are those regeneration projects which extend along the Greenwich Meridian from Greenwich Peninsula itself – the O2 Arena and Emirates Air Line (Thames Cable Car), through Tower Hamlets and Newham Opportunity Area Planning Framework and Meridian Water masterplan taking in Stratford City and the London Olympic Park and Legacy.

Our involvement in this part of London has been broad and deep as can be seen in our project portfolio.

Our work has helped the delivery of a truly remarkable regeneration programme that has transformed one of the most deprived areas of the city.

We have had the benefit of working with the private and public sector as well as other key stakeholders over nearly two decades and this has enabled us to clearly show the benefits of our understanding of the complex urban issues and our integrated, futureproofed approach to planning and design.

On the other side of the globe, we are working with our Malaysian client, helping them to develop and deliver the initial elements of their Government’s vision to create a modern, sustainable society. We are engaged as strategic engineers to help plan and design an exciting new commercial centre in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, the exciting new Tun Razak Exchange. We are providing

URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE THE INTRODUCTION OF ICT TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT URBAN DEVELOPMENT IS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT AND UNDERPINS OUR LIVING CITY APPROACH

Find out more View of East London from Up at The O2, Greenwich, UK Image: Buro Happold

services that cover sustainability and infrastructure engineering and urban masterplanning. A key aspiration for the client is for the development to be future-proofed and Buro Happold has explored the integration of a metropolitan ICT network with an urban operating system that links basic development functions to improve its adaptive resilience.

In a majority of past and current urban development programmes, IT systems have been developed to operate in functional silos, with their own specific hardware and software, often by companies with deep knowledge of that particular field. Each Smart system has its own dedicated control systems and networks of sensors. If a single shared control system was available instead of multiple systems, then not only could much duplication be removed – with huge cost savings – but

a far richer picture could be provided of what is happening, enabling more informed decision-making and rapid deployment of measures to avoid emerging problem situations. There are a number of problems associated with the integration of individual functionally-focused systems, including the lack of common interfaces and operating systems, and the ability to cope with interpreting the vast amount of data that could be coming in every second. However, technology businesses are alive to the potential and a number are attempting to develop integrated City or Urban Operating Systems that aim to take advantage of the enhanced intelligent, machine-2machine connectivity. It is clear that open IT architecture with standard interface protocols and the ability to plug ‘n’ play new applications and hardware would make it much easier

to link systems as well as opening the market up to new entrants with valuable fresh thinking – and we are supporting this approach. Indeed, we are pushing at the boundaries in this field and we will shortly be publishing a journal paper relating to the development of Urban Operating Systems and their deployment.

The introduction of ICT technology to support urban development is incredibly important and underpins our Living City approach. We acknowledge however, that there are very few working examples of city wide Smart approaches. Advances in ICT though are still providing a significant contribution to city efficiency – particularly in transportation, including traffic management, building and campus management systems and the provision of utilities.

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Natural resources are being depleted at an alarming and increasing rate. Oil has played a big role in determining economic progress of many countries. The advent of ‘peak oil’, which some predict as imminent, will push fuel costs and other carbon based products to much higher levels, increasing transport costs, damaging existing logistics chains and economic models and preventing developing countries from achieving levels of prosperity and opportunity comparable to the developed world.

Wadi Hanifah, Riyadh, KSA Image: ADA

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SMART TECHNOLOGY IS NOW A KEY COMPONENT OF A DESIGNER’S TOOLKIT IN THEIR ABILITY TO PROVIDE EFFICIENT BUILDINGS

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Palestra, London, UK Image: Christian Richters

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At the same time, the exploitation of those remaining oil stocks will mean that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are pumped into the atmosphere at unprecedented levels. The growing acceptance of the damage to the Earth’s atmosphere that these and other emissions are causing has been underscored by the resulting impacts upon the world’s climactic conditions and increasing volatility of weather patterns causing droughts, floods, unseasonal temperature changes and great ranges of wind speeds. Some authorities are already stating that an aim to manage global average temperature rise to less than two degrees Celsius is already a lost cause – and the consequences are likely to impact dramatically on global societies.

It is incumbent on all of us working in the built environment to stop this downward spiral of resource depletion and waste production – and then to figure out how we can begin to repair some of the damage wreaked on our precious environment. A starting point is to identify approaches to urban development which reduce resource inputs and reduce waste outputs – designing buildings and neighbourhoods that for instance require less energy and water than currently the norm and re-use or recycle by-products of heat and dirty water rather than allowing them to escape and add to urban pollution and waste. Smart technology is now a key component of a designer’s toolkit in their ability to provide efficient buildings. Our building teams have

been working in this space for some time integrating cutting edge design with building management systems.

An example of this is the Palestra building in London.

Remediation whether it being ground or water related is also another area that requires particular focus to maximise land value and act as a catalyst for future growth. The Aga Khan award winning Wadi Hanifah is an excellent example of this where remediation of Riyadh’s main Wadi provided the opportunity for flood control and improving its water quality within the confines of a newly constructed water side public realm.

In general the optimisation of generation processes and distribution networks can start

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InnoZ, Berlin, Germany Image: Jens Koch

to improve efficiencies of energy production from primary sources and reduce transmission losses.

And further improvements will flow from introduction of renewable energy sources and recycled water, introduction of closed-loop systems and integrated systems engineering, as well as demand and supply side matching. An example of realising these improvements is by taking a fresh look at the linkage between mobility and carbon emissions. We feel that this is a real challenge to overcome in the future. Our InnoZ project aims to capture renewable energy sources into a Smart grid used to serve vehicles in Berlin. This research project has only just started but optimises our environmental and sustainable approach we refer

to as ‘MEAN – LEAN – GREEN’. This is designed to establish a cost effective and logical process to improve the sustainability of development and to begin to achieve meaningful reductions in carbon and water footprints.

opportunity to introduce technologies to play key enabling roles – in sensing, monitoring, data storage, control and management, in analysis, self learning through machine-2-machine interfaces, and so on.

Of course, to be fully effective, this approach also requires support and strengthening in key areas. Whether it is compliance with good development policy or self-regulation to achieve corporate governance targets, there is the need to monitor actual outputs and encourage ongoing improvements to facilities in use as well as to educate and train and help to adjust behaviours to improve use of facilities.

Importantly, at each point in this type of integrated approach, there is the

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The planet is facing its biggest of several challenges from urbanisation, a phenomenon which over the past fifty years has seen an increasing number of the world’s population move from rural areas into cities.

Orange County Great Park, Irvine, CA, USA Image: Ken Smith Landscape Architect

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The High Line, New York, NY, USA

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The predicted scale of continued urban drift is startling – with already 50% of seven billion human beings living in cities, that figure is set to rise by about a further two to two and a half billion urban dwellers over the next 25 years. Set in context, we will need to build ten cities the size of London each and every year over that period of time simply to accommodate this migratory trend and the increasing population levels.

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The reasons behind this mass movement are manifold but the primary driver is undoubtedly economic opportunity. There are, however, other factors at play, including access to better education and health facilities, greater communal safety and individual self-expression, improved accessibility and mobility,

and so on. Whilst these perceived benefits seek to improve personal situations, the realities are not always so helpful and can place great stress on individuals, communities and the wider society. In many cities, this is revealed by the growing gap between the wealthy and the poor, by the growth of ghettos and shanty towns, by marginalisation of individuals and groups, and the increase in many urban areas of crime, disease, lower educational attainment, and mortality rates.

One aspiration must be to broaden the base of those people with access to a lifestyle that provides a common level of decency; to provide access to education, training and jobs, to improve the quality of the environment and thus health and

well-being, and to live in conditions of reasonable safety and security.

And we shouldn’t forget the rural communities – currently still half the world’s population is to be found outside of cities and need support.

Projects such as the High Line in New York and Orange County Great Park in Irvine, California highlight our ongoing contribution to improving both the urban and rural environment through high quality public realm.

How do we capture the benefits of urban living, where scale and density will make it easier to develop smart, technology-based progress, and share with more isolated communities? In the field of education, free software in open-source format and free, online tutorials is enabling broader areas of society to access improved

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Find out more PlanIT Valley, Porto, Portugal Image: Buro Happold

quality of teaching aids and achieve higher standards. A focus in some cities on design to improve mobility is achieving significant and necessary improvements to lifestyles and thereby health. The growth in access to data and improved communications will also provide the opportunity not only for citizens to interact with one and another with more efficiency and to the greater benefit of all but also to establish greater transparency between them and those that manage communities, town or cities on their behalf. PlanIT Valley is one such urban development focussed on bridging the link between hi-tech and urban living. Buro Happold is a platinum development partner to the project providing multi-disciplinary engineering design advice as well as business and economic planning.

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THE MAJOR URBAN CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY INCLUDE THE RAPID

GROWTH OF MANY CITIES AND THE DECLINE OF OTHERS... EVIDENCE FROM AROUND THE WORLD SUGGEST THAT CONTEMPORARY URBAN PLANNING HAS LARGELY FAILED TO ADDRESS THESE CHALLENGES.

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Ban Ki-Moon Secretary-General of the United Nations

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Urbanisation presents something of a dichotomy – the city form represents the most sustainable model for a large human population to exist on the planet and yet these very same cities, where 50% of the world’s population lives (and set to rise dramatically), account for three-quarters of the global carbon footprint.

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With climate change threatening many cities through rising sea levels, increasingly volatile weather patterns and diminishing water resources, the governments of both developed and developing countries face the demand for greater resilience, improved social conditions, better economic prospects and healthier and more environmentally sound city form.

The need therefore to ensure that the infrastructure and buildings that create cities are highly sustainable, energy efficient and low impact in terms of depletion of resources is placing a great emphasis on provision of accurate, accountable and objective professional advice relating to commercial viability, engineering and applied technologies.

We believe that there is a need to create ‘layers of smartness’ and that a future city model should aspire

to; one embracing not just resource efficiency but promotion of good health, economic stability, a sense of shared community and with an ability to adapt to future challenges. In short, we need a more sophisticated and universal language.

The projects that we undertake under the Living City approach are wide and varied. As we have highlighted, they range from a complete city solution covering infrastructure, transport, governance, business, economic and land use planning and digital masterplanning to individual projects whether building, campus, district or public realm. A common thread across all however is an acute understanding of how professional services are interrelated and the opportunity of bringing them together to work more efficiently through the application of technology. This is typified in the

work that we undertook for the ADA in Riyadh with a custom built technology application to support their desire for better integration between agencies.

In addition the opportunity to quantify the revenue resource from the infrastructure developed for cities is an important consideration. This starts to adjust the economics of investment choices and has the potential to deliver even greater values to promoters and investors in infrastructure, opening up prospects of a major step change in city performance. A great example of this is the High Line project in New York where this one project has transformed a blighted area of the city and been the catalyst for approximately $2bn worth of private investment, adding thousands of new residential units, thousands of new jobs, 1,000 new hotel rooms, and new restaurants, galleries and shops.

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URBANISATION IS HAPPENING AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE AND WILL AFFECT US ALL NO MATTER WHERE WE LIVE. AS A BUSINESS BURO HAPPOLD IS COMMITTED TO HELPING CITIES DEVELOP THROUGH SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES.

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Andrew Comer Buro Happold

Some of these future proofed solutions are exciting and hint of new ways of approaching urban development. But, a number of challenges need to be considered and addressed if genuine progress is to be made. Some of these may be summarised as follows: •

What types of governance models are appropriate for Smart Cities and how do you measure their success?

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Who funds the investment required to provide the backbone of infrastructure necessary to enable Smart Cities to be created and how does the funder derive acceptable returns on that investment?

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What guarantees are there of security of the network and safety in use?

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How do we drive out the most from Smart grids by linking and developing an integrated systems type approach?

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Who owns the data accumulated via the Smart grids and networks?

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How do systems adapt to the vagaries of human behaviour and still deliver the promise of very high efficiencies?

Through viewing these challenges as opportunities and through the collaboration with our academic, technology and project partners we hope to provide you with periodic updates of our progress via our Living City e-bulletin and through our published white papers.

We welcome – indeed, encourage – your thoughts on the topics raised in this document and we are keen to publish and debate some of these in future editions of our e-journal (any contributions can be forwarded via the email address below). I do look forward to sharing our experiences and working with you in the future.

Andrew Comer Director of Environment & Infrastructure living.city@burohappold.com

We hope that the introduction to our Living City approach is of interest.

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OUR TEAM Andrew Comer BSc (Hons) CEng FICE FIHT Director – Environment and Infrastructure Andrew is a member the UK Government Innovation and Growth Taskforce for Infrastructure and leads Buro Happold’s Urban Development sector.

Padraic Kelly BA BAI MSc FICE FIStructE FRSA Managing Director – Happold Consulting Padraic is Managing Director of Happold Consulting and has played leading roles in large scale planning and infrastructure, transport and environment projects. He lectures on planning at Harvard University and has co-founded ‘The Working Group on Sustainable Cities’ there.

Greg Otto BSCE BArch MEng Director – Buildings

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Greg leads the Buildings team in our LA office and has been focused on collaborative working between the architect and engineer and the potential for innovation. His current research is directed toward computer modelling and analysis, and manufacturing methods that bring the architect, engineer and fabricator into a more collaborative and innovative environment.

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Robert Moyser MBA MEng CEng MICE Project Director – Environment and Infrastructure Robert leads the city wide masterplanning workstream within Buro Happold.

A key advocate of integrating technology to support urban regeneration he has led a number of Living City projects on behalf of Buro Happold.

Andy Keelin BEng MIMechE CEng MCIBSE Low Carbon Consultant Director – Buildings Andy leads the buildings services team in London. His work covers all sectors and is a leading voice in the practice with regard to the design and implementation of building management systems (BMS).

Paul Rogers BSc (Hons) CEng MIStructE Managing Director – Buildings Paul leads the practice in Central Europe and he understands the value of applying a breadth of knowledge and innovation to a challenge in order to find its most ideal solution. He is currently leading the InnoZ eMobility project in Berlin.

Dr Jim Coleman MA MSc PhD Head of Economics - Happold Consulting Jim is a highly experienced economist: specialising in local and regional economic development, urban regeneration, labour market analysis, business & sector competitiveness, inward investment, knowledge transfer & innovation, poverty alleviation and urban governance.

Paul Goff Dip (MS) CTS MIET MBCS Head of ICT – Environment and Infrastructure Paul leads our ICT team within Buro Happold. He specialises in voice and data networks for outside plant and the integration of technology with infrastructure to facilitate Smart City developments.

Colin McKinnon BA MPhil Innovation Director Colin leads our innovation and R+D department and co-ordinates our links and research papers with academic institutions such as Harvard.

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Contact: Andrew Comer Director of Environment & Infrastructure Tel: +44 (0)20 7927 9700 Email: andrew.comer@burohappold.com

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