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On Tuesday evening the first in a series of annual sustainability lectures – organised by leading construction improvement broker, CIRIA – was presented at the Royal College of Physicians, London to an audience of over 100 key stakeholders from across the construction and related industries.
Following a short presentation from CIRIA Chief Executive Professor Tim Broyd outlining CIRIA’s commitment to sustainability, Professor David Fisk, Co-director of the BP Urban Energy Systems Programme, Imperial College addressed the full-capacity auditorium. Professor Fisk – former Chief Scientific Adviser to the ODPM – gave an authoritative, thoughtful and very entertaining hour-long lecture, entitled “Sustainable Construction - one brick too many?”
A summary of Professor Fisk’s lecture will be provided in a forthcoming issue of Evolution, CIRIA’s house magazine, which has a world-wide circulation of more than 30,000.
To find out more about CIRIA’s activities, visit www.ciria.org
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For further press information, contact James Milne, CIRIA, Classic House, 174-180 Old Street, London EC1V 9BP or email: press@ciria.org
CIRIA is a member-owned organisation that works with the construction industry, government and academia to provide performance improvement products and services in the construction and related industries.
It was founded in 1960 and currently engages with around 700 subscribing organisations. Activities include collaborative projects, networking, publishing, workshops, seminars and conferences. About 40 projects are run at any one time, about 100 events are staged every year, and 25 books published per annum.