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Blog Post The good, bad, and ugly: A 700 km cycle journey exposed elements of UK’s infrastructure
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Blog Post How do we shift to a circular economy? It starts with dumping the end-of-life concept
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Published Article Changing how we manage our water assets
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Published Article Mining towards Renewable Energy in the UK
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Published Article Breaking the model: designing streets for the future in Suffolk, UK
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Published Article Delivering pumped hydro storage in the UK after a three-decade interlude
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Whitepaper Transport in the Arc
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Blog Post How is transit responding to reopening?
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Publication Community Connections Edition 4
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Blog Post Best places to produce hydrogen? Look at a topographic map
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Blog Post Climate emergency: How governments around the globe are tackling the crisis
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Blog Post Cleaning up our waters: actions to remove nitrogen pollution from estuaries and coasts
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Blog Post How will Nutrient Management Plans affect UK growth objectives?
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Blog Post Ensuring groundwater sustainability in the face of climate change and a growing population
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Blog Post Beneath every new development is nature we need to protect
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Podcast The SCOPE, Episode 1: Heat Resilient Cities
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Blog Post How can the UK move towards a net zero carbon economy by 2050?
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Publication Community Connections Edition 3
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Webinar Recording Measures of success in catchment management
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Webinar Recording STWL WINEP phosphorus obligations - Opportunity for nature based solutions
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Blog Post Changing our calculations to put carbon reduction first
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Blog Post To incentivise or to tax, or both? How we can reduce carbon in our infrastructure schemes
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Blog Post A call for a global carbon offset banding system
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Published Article Integrated Constructed Wetlands: The Start of a Journey
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Blog Post Passports to a net zero carbon future
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Published Article Waste-to-energy tech could slash carbon emissions, but its promise remains underdeveloped
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Published Article Planning ahead - the importance of waste planning within developments
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Blog Post Evolution – How a systems based approach to asset management is realising new benefits
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Publication Community Connections Edition 2
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Video What is COP26?
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Blog Post Don’t just offset carbon, remove it
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Blog Post Reducing carbon on UK’s road schemes: actions to take for the sake of climate change
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Blog Post Recycle your building: 8 reasons to consider adaptive reuse and retrofitting
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Published Article Applying a carbon lens in evaluating strategic water resource options
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Blog Post How smart cities can become resilient to extreme heat
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Published Article Not all carbon offsets are created equal
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Conference We’re going to COP26 – see you there?
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Blog Post Stantec's response to the Queen’s speech, May 2021
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Published Article Developing strategic resource options to tackle increasing water stress
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Presentation Producing Hydrogen using Hydropower in the US
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Publication Community Connections Edition 1
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Blog Post A new digital tool can help predict landslides, protecting people and infrastructure
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Report Shaping the future transport network for the Thames Valley
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Podcast We need an EV charging renaissance
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Podcast Design Hive, Episode 1: Jonathan Riggall on rewilding the land
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Blog Post More than just cars on the road: Making AVs work for us anywhere and everywhere
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Blog Post Completing the picture: The future of hydraulic modeling is two dimensional
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Published Article What's the outlook for planning and regeneration in Reading?
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Published Article Adopting smart water network solutions across the UK water industry
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Blog Post Lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: Improving urban social equity and wellness
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Blog Post 7 trends and techs—and 3 obstacles—shaping the big picture for an energy transition
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Blog Post 4 reasons why 3D modeling and BIM are the future of infrastructure design
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Blog Post Reducing the spread of COVID-19 in buildings requires a comprehensive approach
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Published Article How can strategic water resource options deliver best value for all?
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Blog Post How can hydrogen fuel a more sustainable energy future?
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Blog Post Why online consultations are a gamechanger for community engagement
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Webinar Recording The new town centre use classes: what are the implications?
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Webinar Recording The new permitted development rights: what do they mean for you?
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Published Article Human perception in a digital world
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Article The challenges to making zero carbon a reality in new housing developments
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Blog Post Does the Chancellor’s Spending Review help us Build Back Better?
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Blog Post Big data in transportation: 6 tips for building an effective data program
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Blog Post Harnessing the power of mobile GIS apps to simplify field work and save time, money
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Publication Water Futures +1 – Water Energy and Agriculture to 2035
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Published Article How virtual design changes the way we work
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Blog Post Rules for waste disposal are changing – what you need to know
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Published Article Exploring the diffusion of engineering innovation in UK water and sewerage companies
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Published Article Preserving the condition of ageing assets in the UK water industry
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Blog Post Working 9 to 5 has been a double climate change whammy
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Blog Post Carbon: A common language for change—now is the time to act
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Blog Post Using digital solutions to capture, curate, protect, and analyze vital data
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Blog Post [With Video] Why VR matters in healthcare design
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Article The how and why of measuring your water footprint
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Blog Post The pandemic’s lessons in loneliness and aging in place
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Published Article A system for safety
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Blog Post Did COVID-19 finally push us to completely paperless projects?
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Blog Post Digital data collection for wildlife surveys leads to better—and faster—information
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Published Article A glimpse of the future – opportunities to manage surface water
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Publication Planning Transport & Development
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Blog Post Scanning smarter: Using reality capture on renovations
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Article Digital Impact Assessment: A Primer for Embracing Innovation and Digital Working
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Blog Post From Stantec ERA: Monitoring pipelines from space
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Published Article Time for a Gear Change: Transport policy must evolve post COVID-19
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Blog Post Delivering clean, smart and inclusive growth: Rebooting the transport and places skills agenda
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Brochure Collaboration in a virtual world
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Published Article Published in the Institute of Water Magazine: Tackling the Climate Emergency
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Blog Post The hidden costs of climate change—how to spot damage and preserve your infrastructure
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Brochure Supporting the Water Industry in a changing world
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Blog Post Helping our planning clients adapt to virtual ways of working
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Published Article Published in World Water Magazine: Sustainability to resilience to action
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Blog Post Decoding Transportation Innovation: Exploring the Path to Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility
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Blog Post Well-being can no longer be considered a luxury in a post-COVID workplace
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Publication Places First: Volume 2
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Publication Places First: Volume 1
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Report Charging into the 4th Industrial Revolution
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Publication Creating Garden Communities
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Published Article Published on National Infrastructure Commission: Flexi-ticketing on the Railway
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Blog Post How will energy demand change in the post-COVID-19 world?
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Blog Post COVID-19 is changing design paradigms
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 4): How will cities change?
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Webinar Recording Electric Futures
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 3): New infrastructure
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Blog Post The transformation of engagement: Community considerations for driving online conversation
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Blog Post Extraordinary technology: Satellites can keep your project on track during the pandemic
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Blog Post So, what happens when it’s time to get back to the office?
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 2): Changing perspectives
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Published Article Published: Seize the Moment and Shift the Dial
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Blog Post A global view of design and urban planning post-COVID-19 (Part 1): Pandemic prevention
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Blog Post Disaster preparedness in the midst of COVID-19
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Blog Post How remote VR meetings help design teams overcome the challenges of COVID-19
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Blog Post Healthy airports: What terminals will look like post-pandemic
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Published Article Published: Delivering compliance through effective environmental management
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Video Impact of COVID-19 on water/wastewater utilities
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Webinar Recording The UK digital water utility experience
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Blog Post Can drone technology help us mitigate the impact of future natural disasters? Absolutely
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Published Article Published on WWT Online: Meeting AMP7 leakage targets
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Blog Post FAMS: Optimizing tough financial solutions for utility managers
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Blog Post Coronavirus and the water cycle—here is what treatment professionals need to know
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Blog Post From Stantec ERA: Changing field reporting through technology
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Published Article Published: Rising to the challenge of delivering the largest ever UK national environmental programme
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Published Article Published in Waterbriefing: A new approach to water resource planning
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Blog Post From Stantec ERA: 5 ways 3D modeling is changing the way we design power projects
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Published Article Published in Waterbriefing: Helping the UK water sector deliver net zero carbon emissions
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Blog Post On the leading edge: Decentralized computing can transform smart-mobility infrastructure
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Published Article Transport planning and the need to deliver more housing
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Blog Post Global Asbestos Awareness Week
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Blog Post The largest source of microplastic pollution in the UK—tyre wear
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Blog Post We are at the heart of the climate change challenge
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Blog Post How is our relationship with transport systems changing?
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Blog Post Is the West Midlands Rail on track for economic growth?
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Blog Post Standard method—help or hindrance?
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Blog Post Continuing the corridor vision
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Blog Post Review of BEN Oxford to Cambridge Corridor Development Conference
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Blog Post World Water Day 2019
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Article International Women's Day 2019
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Blog Post World Wetlands Day 2019
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Blog Post World Cities Day: Here’s how we can build a better urban life for future generations
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Blog Post Next steps for artificial intelligence in the remote sensing digital evolution
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Publication Community Futures: Think globally, act locally has never mattered more
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Blog Post The hidden climate impact of the Internet of Things
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Blog Post Creating communities through citizen science
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Blog Post Taking our mental health advocacy to new heights across the world
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Blog Post The Internet of Environment: digitally twinning the planet
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Published Article Published in the Institute of Water: Delivering change through research-led innovation
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Published Article Published: Could Project 13 deliver a step change in efficiency for the UK water sector?
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Blog Post Climate change emergency: approaches to action validation
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Published Article Published in World Water Magazine: Embracing change delivers SMART technologies
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Published Article Published in Waterbriefing: What next for PR19?
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Published Article Published on WWT Online: The robots aren't coming... they’re already here
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Article Predicting the unpredictable: How a Stantec toolbox helps us understand future flood risks
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Blog Post Climate mitigation, adaptation or revolution?
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Published Article Published in World Water Magazine: Need project insight? Ask Alexa
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Published Article Published in WET News: In Focus — Social value and procurement
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Published Article Published in Infrastructure Intelligence: The Project 13 initiative—engineering behavioural change
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Published Article Published in The Institute of Water Magazine: Developing with our water environment
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Published Article Published in WET News: Making the outcomes-based approach to delivering infrastructure work better
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Published Article Published in CIWEM Environment Magazine: Creating a flood-resilient future for Yorkshire
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Published Article Published in Waterbriefing: Innovation and integration will help prevent global water crises
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Published Article Published in WET News: Focusing on what matters to customers
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Blog Post Blockchaining ecosystem services to provide natural capital accounting
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Blog Post Budget 2018: A development & infrastructure view
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Blog Post Planning for life beyond HS2
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Blog Post BREEAM New Construction 2018 – Part Two
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Blog Post Are we keeping pace with climate change?
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Blog Post Are you too busy for BIM?
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Published Article Published in Water Briefing Global: David Smith on the benefits of resilient megacities
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Blog Post BREEAM New Construction 2018 – Part One
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Blog Post Clean Air Zones—driving the wrong way?
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Blog Post Our changing relationship with transport
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Blog Post Putting Places First
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Published Article Published: Making The Most Of What You Have—Optimisation Of Assets In Water And Energy
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Blog Post The Road to Zero or the Road to Roadworks?
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Article Stantec supports ICE Scotland to Build Bridges to Schools
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Blog Post The flying menace coming to a city near you!
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Blog Post New housing numbers and new population projections: all crystal clear now?
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Blog Post Garden cities: do they have a future?
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Blog Post Earth day 2018: actions not words
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Published Article Collaboration Re-Defined: Positioning for Success at PR19
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Blog Post What impact could AI have on the rail sector in the coming decade?
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Blog Post Power poverty: the new paradigm for social and economic inequality of electric vehicles
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Navigating the draft revised National Planning Policy Framework
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Published Article Knowledge sharing in the water industry
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Blog Post Taking freight underground: Cityology Delivery Systems (CDS)
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Blog Post Urban Greening and the Draft New London Plan
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Blog Post World Wetlands Day 2018
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Blog Post The healthy garden city
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Blog Post The disruptive 4th Industrial Revolution and its impact on Garden Cities
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Blog Post The challenges of post-decision monitoring in EIAs
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Blog Post Garden cities: lighter, faster, cheaper
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Blog Post Garden cities & movement: achieving 'good growth'
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Blog Post City region benefits from Nationally Significant Renewable Infrastructure
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Blog Post Housing need: what can we learn from the new CLG proposals?
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Blog Post Vehicle for change
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Blog Post Planning policy challenges of the garden city model
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Blog Post The changing face of freight and logistics
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Blog Post Garden cities: redefining the principles for modern times
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Blog Post Turning transport planning on its head: part II
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Blog Post Turning transport planning on its head: part I
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Blog Post Adaptability = energy efficiency
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Blog Post Explaining the case for infrastructure projects
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Interactive What would it take to rewild Europe?
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Interactive The Four Pillars of Successful Offshore Wind Development Consent Orders
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Interactive Coastal resilience by the numbers
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Interactive Can pumped storage fuel a more sustainable future?
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Interactive You have an energy transition or climate action plan, but is it integrated?