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  • On the level: how climate change could impact development
  • EU directives and UK air quality
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  • Engineering is for girls
  • Designing an education future
  • The more things change…
  • Start your engines
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  • The Thames Valley: already a world-class region?
  • Restoring the UK’s waterways
  • Brexit: an environmental opportunity?
  • Delivering carbon performance in the universities market
  • Hinkley Point C: a long-lasting energy boost?
  • Clean Air Zones coming to a town near you
  • Carbon removal technology key to COP22 Marrakesh 2016
  • Turning transport planning on its head: part I
  • US election result: what does it mean for infrastructure?
  • Transport and travel: the future
  • Transport infrastructure fastracked in Autumn Statement
  • A positive year for STEM outreach
  • The housing white paper: a wish list
  • New year, new start for garden town initiatives?
  • When transport impact is ‘severe’
  • The housing white paper: a review
  • Turning transport planning on its head: part II
  • What does the housing white paper mean for Local Planning Authorities?
  • West Midlands Land Commission report endorses PBA study
  • How might the new five-year land supply calculation work?
  • The Access Project
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  • The rise and fall of Diesel
  • West of England Mayoral election: the impact on Transport
  • Attaining your EngTech qualification
  • Housing need: what can we learn from the new CLG proposals?
  • New licensing policies: great for wildlife – great for business?
  • Garden cities: redefining the principles for modern times
  • City region benefits from Nationally Significant Renewable Infrastructure
  • International Women in Engineering Day 2017 – why did you choose a career in engineering?
  • Garden cities and movement: achieving 'good growth'
  • Garden cities: lighter, faster, cheaper
  • The changing face of freight and logistics
  • The disruptive 4th Industrial Revolution and its impact on Garden Cities
  • Planning policy challenges of the garden city model
  • A new means of capturing land value uplift in Scotland?
  • High Court ups the air quality ante
  • The challenges of post-decision monitoring in EIAs
  • The healthy garden city
  • World Wetlands Day: wetlands and the urban environment
  • Urban Greening and the Draft New London Plan
  • Taking freight underground: Cityology Delivery Systems (CDS)
  • Looking ahead to another year of STEM outreach
  • National Apprenticeship Week 2018
  • Navigating the draft revised National Planning Policy Framework
  • Power poverty: the new paradigm for social and economic inequality of electric vehicles
  • What impact could AI have on the rail sector in the coming decade?
  • Earth Day 2018: end plastic pollution
  • Earth day 2018: actions not words
  • An alumni’s day out: the Global Engineering Challenge
  • Garden cities: do they have a future?
  • New housing numbers and new population projections: all crystal clear now?
  • A strategy for clean air or is it still hazy?
  • The flying menace coming to a city near you!
  • The importance of (women’s) networking
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  • Review of the Year 2017
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  • Town & Country Planning Journal November 2016
  • WestTrans Freight Strategy
  • CIHT Report: A Transport Journey to a Healthier Life
  • Assessing Flood Risk & Flood Risk Modelling
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• Your rewards at PBA

• 'A Transport Journey To A Healthier Life' Report
• 9 Greyfriars Road, Reading
• A228 Leybourne and West Malling Bypass
• A40 West Wales Economic Assessment
• A82 Road Economic Analysis, Scotland
• Addenbrooke’s Hospital Biomedical Campus, Cambridge
• Advanced Forming Research Centre (AFRC), University of Strathclyde
• Aerospace Bristol Travel Plan
• Agar Grove Estate, Camden
• Alconbury Weald
• Amazon office, Prague
• Ansty Park, Coventry
• Arran Distillery
• Arthur Rank Hospice, Cambridge
• Ashton Park Urban Extension
• Aylesbury Woodlands
• Barclaycard Arena, Birmingham
• Barton Park, Oxford
• Battersea Power Station
• Beecroft Building, University of Oxford
• Bells and Mocketts Pumping Station, Kent
• Beneficial House, Birmingham
• Bermondsey Spa, London
• Biochemistry Building, University of Oxford
• Birmingham Connected: Access Strategy
• Bishops Court Quarry, Exeter
• Blackshots Lane Ground Collapse, Essex
• Blenheim Dam, Oxfordshire
• Bletchingdon C of E Primary School
• Blythe Valley Park
• Bodleian Libraries Book Storage Facility
• Bracknell Household Waste Recycle Centre
• Brandenburg Park, Germany
• Bridport House / Colville Estate, London
• Brighton & Hove City Council Personalised Travel Planning
• Bristol & Bath Science Park
• Brooklands Development, Milton Keynes
• Bus Services Strategy, East Sussex
• Buslingthorpe Mills, Leeds
• Castle Green, Taunton
• Center Parcs Reservoir Supervision
• Center Parcs, Longford Forest
• Center Parcs, Woburn Forest
• Chantry View Road Slope Instability, Guildford
• Charlotte Street Campus, University College Birmingham
• Charteris Land, University of Edinburgh
• Christchurch Bridge, Reading
• City Centre Bus Strategy, Southampton
• City of London Primary Academy
• Co-op Foodstores
• Cockenzie Masterplan, Scotland
• Colindale Office, Barnet
• Collegelands Student Housing Development, Glasgow
• Combined Colleges Boathouse, Cambridge
• ComCity, Moscow
• Cooper BMW MINI, Reading
• Corpus Christi College: Oldham and Jackson Buildings
• Crossdykes Wind Farm, Dumfries and Galloway
• Cycle-Friendly Award Scheme, Scotland
• David Russell Hall, University of St Andrews
• Desborough Solar Farm, Northamptonshire
• Development Consent Orders: Energy Projects
• Development Infrastructure Funding Study, Old Oak Common
• Devonport Vision, Plymouth
• DIRFT III A5 Weir Works
• Docksway Landfill, Wales
• Down Ampney Estate, Cotswolds
• Drake Circus Leisure, Plymouth
• Earth sheltered dwelling, Staffordshire
• Ebbsfleet Garden City, Mixed-Use Development
• Economic Advisory Work, Plymouth City Council
• Economic Assessment, West London
• Economics strategy and masterplanning, Elgin
• Eden Walk Shopping Centre
• Edinburgh Healthcare
• Edmonton Energy from Waste Facility
• Elephant Park, London
• ELI Beamlines International Laser Research Centre, Prague
• Elthorne Park High School, London
• Exxon Site Development, Scotland
• Falkirk and Grangemouth Infrastructure Planning
• Farm building conversions
• Filton Airfield, Bristol
• Floating Hotel, London
• Former Carless Oil Refinery, Scotland
• Freight Strategy, Ayrshire
• Galloper Wind Farm, Suffolk
• Grange Farm, London
• Green Park Biodiversity, Reading
• Green Park Business Park, Reading
• Green Park Station, Reading
• Hampton, Peterborough
• HB Villages Developments
• Houghton Regis Urban Extension
• Howe Barracks, Canterbury
• Inclusive Design for Getting Outdoors
• Infrastructure Charging Mechanism Research, Scotland
• Jersey Electricity Substation, St Helier
• Jesus College, Cambridge
• John Lewis at Home, Ashford
• Jubilee, Northern, and Piccadilly lighting upgrade
• Killingholme Drainage Strategy and Pumping Station
• Kilnwood Vale, Crawley
• King's Cross Central, Granary Square
• Kings Hill, Kent
• Land north of Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire
• Laurencekirk Rail Station Evaluation
• Layden House, London
• Leigh Road Bridge, Slough
• Lewisham Gateway, London
• Lincolnshire Lakes
• London 2012 Olympics
• Lowton, Wigan
• Lymington Fields, London
• M4 Junction 11, Reading
• Main Library, University of Edinburgh
• Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square, London
• Marsh Leys Flood Storage Reservoirs
• Mass Rapid Transit, Reading
• Meadowhall Shopping Centre, Sheffield
• Melton Mowbray car and coach parking study
• Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
• Moxy Berlin Ostbahnhof
• Moxy Hotels, UK & Germany
• New Addington Town Centre, Croydon
• Newlands Park, Luton
• NewRiver Retail
• Nexus 25 Local Development Order
• Nightingale Estate Regeneration
• Nine Elms Construction Logistics, London
• North West Cambridge Development
• Nova Victoria, London
• O2 Arena extension, Prague
• Oban Bay Public Realm Casemaking
• Old Road Campus, University of Oxford
• Opencast Coal Site, Ffos y Fran
• Orkney Air and Ferries Infrastructure Study
• Paradise Birmingham
• Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston University
• Pepper Lane, Wigan
• Pewterspear Green Road, Warrington
• Pinner Wood School, London
• Plymouth City Council Personalised Travel Planning
• Plymouth Coach Station
• Plymouth University Travel Plan
• Port of Leith Masterplanning, Scotland
• Power Court, Luton
• Prescot town centre masterplan
• Prime Energy
• Princess Royal Centre for the Performing Arts
• Public Transport Delivery Plan, Solent Transport
• PureGym
• Quayside and Blackfriars, Gloucester
• Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, University of Oxford
• Reading Borough Council LSTF
• Reading Station Area Regeneration
• Red Gap Wind Farm, Hartlepool
• Reddingmuirhead Remediation Site
• Regent's Canal Bridge, London
• Residence Kaiserin Augusta Allee, Berlin
• Ronald McDonald House, Glasgow
• Royce Road and Leaf Street, Hulme
• Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Scotland Freight Fares Review
• Shaldon flood alleviation scheme
• Shetland Inter-Island Transport Study
• South Thamesmead Masterplan, Bexley and Greenwich
• Station Road, Reading
• Strategic Travel Plan, University Of Glasgow
• Streatham Park, London
• Sutton Bridge Tidal Sluice
• Sutton Harbour, Plymouth
• Temporary flood defence deployment plans
• Tetley Brewery, Leeds
• Thames Tideway Tunnel
• Thames Tower, Reading
• The Curve, Slough
• The Helix, Falkirk
• The Landing, Maidenhead
• The Rookery Energy Park
• Thorpe Park and Green Park, Leeds
• Tithebarn Green
• Transport Business Case, North Whiteley
• Transport Economic Cases, Medway Council
• Transport Modelling, University of Surrey
• Trinity Pier, Plymouth
• Twin City Sever, Bratislava
• Urban Extension, North Horsham
• Urban Freight Strategies, London and Oxford
• Walpole Landfill, Somerset
• Water freight planning
• Waterbeach Barracks and Airfield, Cambridgeshire
• Waterside Campus, University of Northampton
• Wavertree Technology Park, Liverpool
• Webb’s Hole Pumping Station
• West Cambridge Campus, University of Cambridge
• West Hendon Estate Regeneration
• West Langlands Gas Works, Kilmarnock
• Wichelstowe, Swindon
• Windsor Drive Sinkhole, Hertford

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