Oxford Brookes UniversityNews
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March 2012
RICS South East Region rewards high achievers on RICS accredited courses at Oxford Brookes University
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) South East Student Awards 2012 have rewarded the efforts of the best students on each of the six degree RICS accredited programmes run by the Department of Real Estate and Construction at Oxford Brookes University.
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27 March 2012
OISD Report on Low Carbon Cities Launched
Stoke-on-Trent, Coventry and Wolverhampton are leading the way when it comes to reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report commissioned by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) from Oxford Brookes University.
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14 March 2012
Samira Ahmed visits Oxford Brookes to give a talk about British journalism
The freelance journalist and former Channel 4 News presenter, Samira Ahmed spoke about aspects of British journalism in an open lecture entitled, From Hograth to Hackgate: Does British Journalism have an attitutde problem?
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1 March 2012
OISD Participates in Guardian Discussion on Sustainable Cities
Director of OISD, Professor Tim Dixon was recently invited to participate in an online panel discussion, with question and answers, by the Guardian Sustainable Business Built Environment Hub.
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1 February 2012
Jones Lang LaSalle Education Trust International Award 2011/2012
This academic year, the Jones Lang LaSalle Educational Trust International Award has been given to Dang Kim Oanh a student on the MSc International Real Estate (IRE) programme at Oxford Brookes University.
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5 December 2011
Oxford Brookes University Professor of Real Estate appointed to the professional board of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC)
The IVSC is an independent, not-for-profit, private sector organisation that aims to strengthen the worldwide valuation profession.
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19 November 2011
New research and knowledge transfer: reducing the energy costs of commercial property in the UK
OISD is partnering with Brunel University and Oxford University to develop new research and knowledge transfer activity which will help reduce the energy costs of commercial property in the UK.
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18 November 2011
RICS to publish OISD report on Low Carbon Plans for UK Cities
Funded by RICS Education Trust, the research was carried out in 2011 to analyse how UK cities are engaging with the low carbon agenda.
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11 November 2011
OBREMS Second Annual Dinner at the Royal College of Surgeons in London, a resounding success
The second annual dinner of the Oxford Brookes Real Estate Management Society (OBREMS) was held on Thursday, 10 November at the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields in the city of London.
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1 November 2011
Oxford Brookes/OBREMS rugby team wins charity match against Reading University
Oxford Brookes Real Estate Management Society (OBREMS) is a Brookes alumni association of graduates mainly Chartered Surveyors who have studied Real Estate Management at Brookes and now work in the industry.
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October 2011
Oxford Brookes Real Estate Management Society (OBREMS) awards best overall students on 2010/2011 MSc Real Estate programmes
OBREMS have rewarded the efforts of the two best postgraduate students on the MSc Real Estate programmes at Oxford Brookes University. The prizes are based on their overall performance on their respective degrees.
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29 September 2011
Director of OISD gives keynote at launch of Berkeley's 2011 Sustainability Report
The keynote and the accompanying paper both review best practice in post-occupancy social sustainability metric systems, based on recent research undertaken by OISD on Dockside Green in Vancouver, and they identify the key operational issues in mainstreaming the concept within major mixed use projects.
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26 September 2011
RICS Green Gauge 2010 Results Published
The second annual global survey of RICS members' attitudes to sustainability was published this month. The results show that sustainability remains high on RICS members' agendas despite the impacts of the recent recession.
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15 April 2011
Senior Lecturer in Real Estate and Real Estate Law wins Outstanding Paper Award
Dr Sally Sims of the Department of Real Estate and Construction at Oxford Brookes University has won the Outstanding Paper Award at the 2011 Literati Network Awards for Excellence for her paper 'The cost effectiveness of refurbishing Polish housing stock: a case study of apartments in Olsztyn', published in Property Management.
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17 March 2011
RICS London and South East regions reward high achievers on RICS accredited courses at Oxford Brookes University
This year's RICS London and South East Student Awards have rewarded the efforts of the best students on each of the four RICS accredited degree programmes at Oxford Brookes University.
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22 December 2010
OISD:RELP at Anglo-Japan Symposium on Brownfield Regeneration 2010
A major symposium on the shared experience of bringing brownfield sites back into use in England and Japan was recently held at Osaka University. The symposium was held on 10-13 December 2010 and was attended by some 30 invited delegates from academia and practice in both countries.
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22 November 2010
New Book - Urban Regeneration & Social Sustainability: Best Practice from European cities
A new book co-authored by Professor Tim Dixon (Director of OISD, Co-Director of OISD: RELP and Professor of Real Estate) and Dr Andrea Colantonio (formerly of OISD and Dept of Real Estate and Construction, and now based at LSE) has just been published. The book, which is based on research which was funded through the EIB EIBURS research programme in OISD, examines social sustainability and analyses its meaning and significance – an area of research which has, until now, been comparatively neglected in the sphere of urban studies.
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15 November 2010
Valuation Colloquium hosted by Clemson University and Oxford Brookes University an international success
The three-day event held in Greenville, SC, USA from 11-13th November brought many prolific and recognized American and International real estate academics together to address a variety of aspects of valuation perceived from within the profession.
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26 August 2010
OISD Awarded Major EPSRC Grant on Retrofitting Cities to 2050
OISD has helped secure a major £2m research grant from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) under the recent Sustainable Urban Environments 'Integration Across Scales' Call. The research will explore a range of future-based scenarios which can help key stakeholders achieve a more sustainable urban environment at a 'city region' scale in the UK by 2050.
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25 August 2010
New Research Reveals the Lessons of Japan's 'Lost Decade' in a 'Tale of Two Cities'
New research from OISD: Real Estate and Policy Group suggests that other cities can learn from the recent experience of Manchester and Osaka in bringing brownfield sites back into use. The research was led by Professor Tim Dixon, Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development at Oxford Brookes University, in partnership with Osaka University.
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June 2010
OISD:ILM researchers win Best Paper Award
Dr Esra Kurul, Prof Joe Tah and Dr Franco Cheung from the Department of Real Estate and Construction at Oxford Brookes University have won the Best Paper Award for Innovations in Sustainability at the 6th International Conference on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction at Penn State University in the USA.
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June 2010
First RICS Green Gauge Survey Results Published
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has recently published the first results of its Green Gauge Survey, which was carried out by OISD.
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April 2010
OISD Wins Funding from Oxford University's 'Future of Cities' Programme
A team of researchers from OISD led by Dr Ramin Keivani has won funding from the Future of Cities Programme based at Oxford University to develop a research network.
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31 March 2010
RICS London and South East regions reward high achievers on RICS accredited courses at Oxford Brookes University
This year's RICS London and South East Student Awards have rewarded the efforts of the best students on each of the four degree programmes at Oxford Brookes University. The prizes are based on their performance in their respective degrees.
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5th February 2010
Brookes Real Estate Management graduates found networking group
Two Brookes alumni have established a networking group aiding members of the surveying profession to cope in the difficult market.
