After just a couple of years of using GIS, it has become an indispensable part of Peabody’s planning and redevelopment capabilities. Peabody’s environmental services department maintains over 1.5 million square meters of public space in the Thamesmead area, including lakes, canals, bridges, concrete walkways, tarmac areas, car parks, shrub bedding, horse-grazing paddocks, 35 playgrounds and…
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Pictures of meaning
On 24 June 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte crossed the River Neman into Russia, with Moscow in his sights. Starting with an army of nearly half a million men, marching 700 miles through forests, across dirt roads and uneven, unfriendly ground, the French invaders arrived in Moscow on 14 September 1812. Moscow was empty and denuded of…
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Purpose reigns
Should all projects follow a recognised methodology? Having recently become a Prince2 practitioner, I was convinced that yes, they should. And, as the saying goes, if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail, in the blinkered view I had at the time I was sure that the project methodology of…
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Tenant empowerment starts from within
What does it mean to empower tenants today? This is one of the key questions raised by industry reports such as the Hackitt report and the Social Housing Green Paper. Those reports highlight how tenants have little power around the quality and safety of their own homes; their voices aren’t heard when it comes to…
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Net-zero or zero-net?
Net-zero greenhouse gases by 2050? To my mind, that sounds like a very reasonable and important target and it seems like the government is actually taking action for once. Most of us would probably agree that we should do whatever it takes to ensure our planet is a healthy and pleasant place to live. It’s…
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Hybrid cloud – The best of both worlds?
Public cloud is gaining traction with more housing-sector deployments each year, but potential cloud customers have the difficulty of justifying the costs and risks of moving from their existing on-premise infrastructures. Private-cloud IT infrastructure takes significant time, risk and cost to deliver, and over time will have received many upgrades through software and hardware improvements…
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