Briefing: Speeding up innovation by better ‘first use’ reporting

Ainger, Charles

doi:10.1680/ensu.11.00010

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“…"[w]hat we call 'sustainable engineering' today is more than just good engineering, but it is less than what good engineering will become in future decades" (Keaton, 2017, p. 1). By embedding transformation within an evidence-based and repeatable process that encourages innovative approaches for positive additionalities, the LCM overcomes some of the reasons engineering innovation is 'hard and slow' (Ainger, 2015) and contributes to the 'systemic approach to engineering sustainability' called for by this Journal in 2014 (Mayfield, 2014), a call which continues to be relevant today.…”

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The Liveable Cities Method: establishing the case for transformative change for a UK metro

Leach

Rogers

Ortegón-Sanchez

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering

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There is currently great interest in the creation of sustainable and liveable cities, both in the UK and globally. While it can be argued that good progress is being made in thinking about the needs of future cities, meeting these needs and aspirations in practice poses major challenges of understanding and measurement (what is meant by these terms and how can progress towards their achievement be measured?), complexity (cities are complex systems of systems with many interacting parts) and resilience (will interventions made today be relevant and effective in the future?). The Liveable Cities research programme created a systematic decision-making method for improving urban sustainability and liveability: the Liveable Cities Method (LCM). The LCM prioritises four criteria – individual and societal well-being, resource security, resource efficiency and carbon dioxide emissions as a proxy for environmental harm – in an interconnected framework and assesses the need for, and the resilience of, interventions designed to move cities towards improved sustainability and liveability. This paper illustrates the LCM through an example intervention made to the city of Birmingham, UK, and highlights how addressing sustainability and liveability in this way offers unique opportunities for the UK civil engineering profession to lead thinking among urban professionals.

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The Liveable Cities Method: establishing the case for transformative change for a UK metro

Leach

Rogers

Ortegón-Sanchez

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering

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“…However, if we are to make the kind of progress necessary to deliver on the sustainable development agenda we have to act far faster. These themes are developed further in the second briefing of this issue which presents a framework that can help speed up the systematic reporting of performance data and information, and through which the profession can benefit from the essential lessons learned by the 'innovators' (those engaged in the 'first use' projects (Ainger, 2013)). A fitting finale to this issue is presented in the discussion paper by Corker and Dean (2013) who re-emphasise the need for us to recognise that our civil engineering solutions exist within a non-technical context and only through the sharing of information will we be able to foster truly effective decision-making.…”

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