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Call for “carbon transparency” at first UN buildings summit

Commercial buildings07 Mar 2024

Arup and the WBCSD warn that without understanding where carbon comes from, it will be impossible to make the scale of cuts needed to meet the Paris Agreement.

Most extreme urban heat island hot spots revealed in study

Climate action18 Aug 2023

Using AI and satellite images, Arup’s Urban Heat Snapshot mapped the most extreme hot spots in a 150km2 sample of the urban centres of a range of cities.

Arup to monitor and evaluate UK decarbonisation programme

Road travel01 Aug 2023

The consultancy will assess the progress of the Adept Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Local Roads programme that focuses on local highways infrastructure and assets.

How to bring nature back to the cities

Parks and green space25 Apr 2023

City mayors unveil a rewilding guide for cities, based on research by C40 Cities and Arup, which aims to reverse biodiversity loss and tackle climate change.

Neom partners with Atkins to realise The Line smart city

Greenfield sites23 Feb 2023

The global engineering, planning, design and architectural company has been awarded a five-year contract to help create the car-free, linear city in Saudi Arabia.

C40 Cities partners with Arup for urban climate action

Climate action13 Feb 2023

Arup will work with C40 to overcome barriers to climate action in cities and help develop new and innovative approaches to increase climate resilience.

Microgrid to power electric buses in Washington region

Electric vehicles02 Nov 2022

Brookville Smart Energy Bus Depot is part of a public-private partnership and aims to provide uninterrupted charging availability for the bus fleet at all hours.

Arup and Matidor to co-create smart city modelling tools

Planning and redevelopment26 Aug 2022

The tools will focus on energy optimisation and planning and will allow cities to model multiple urban planning scenarios and calculate energy efficiency in real time.

Auckland ranked as ‘spongiest’ city

Resilience22 Mar 2022

The New Zealand city emerged as the most able to absorb heavy rainfall, according to a study on seven major global cities, which revealed London as the least sponge-like.

Neighbourhoods urged to use 15-minute city principles to become greener

News13 Sep 2021

Arup and C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group have published a guidebook for city authorities, developers and communities to help deliver net-zero at neighbourhood level.

New York City plan to make last-mile freight delivery safe and sustainable

News20 May 2021

The plan provides a blueprint for enhanced freight management and includes 32 initiatives to improve efficiency, foster safety, enhance equity and promote the responsible movement of goods.

Martha’s Vineyard Transit Authority launches microgrid

News18 May 2021

The microgrid aims to establish a resilient, independent energy source using on-site solar power and battery energy storage for its growing fleet of
electric buses.

Work begins on Greater Manchester's active neighbourhoods

News01 Mar 2021

The project aims to prioritise the movement, health and safety of people over cars and includes using modal filters such as benches, planters or bollards to reduce traffic on residential streets.

Tool could help cities realise their EV charging goals

News22 Dec 2020

City has ambitious plans to scale up environmentally-friendly vehicles and has been assessing its current charging infrastructure.

36 cities chosen to chart a course towards the future

Demographic change18 Nov 2020

The World Economic Forum has chosen the cities to pioneer a global policy roadmap developed by its G20 Smart Cities Alliance for the ethical and responsible use of data and technology.

City of Providence unveils “unified vision” for downtown public spaces

Inclusivity16 Nov 2020

By creating a single cohesive vision for the public spaces that compliments both the existing uses and future conditions, it will help foster increased business activity, and attract visitors.

UK transport sector urged to make cycling more inclusive

News28 Jul 2020

Report warns the needs of many disadvantaged and marginalised groups have been ignored and urges the transport sector to raise its ambition and commitment to make cycling more inclusive.

Cardiff Council works with city design specialist on reopening plan

News11 Jun 2020

Council leader wants to adopt the same “one-city” approach that has seen the public sector, communities and businesses pull together throughout the pandemic to “build back better”.

Digital transformation can improve your City Resilience IndexSponsored by AVEVA

Opinions10 Mar 2020

AVEVA’s W. Jarrett Campbell shares five examples where cities have improved their sustainability and resilience, or maintained current levels of resilience while lowering costs.

Dubai progresses on the road to happiness

News30 Jan 2019

The results of Smart Dubai’s Happiness Index for 2018 reveals that citizens are 90 per cent happy with their interactions with public and private sector organisations

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