Cities and Sustainable Development

The opportunity: the world is rapidly urbanising with some 75% of global population projected to be city dwellers over the next 30 years. Cities are the engine-house of the global economy with the world's metro-regions generating some 80% of the world's wealth while occupying 2% of the worlds surface.

Whether it is new city masterplans, low carbon urban transformation programmes or precinct scale developments, we have extensive experience in formulating strategic responses to urban growth challenges, ranging from policy development to efficiency programmes based on the principles of the circular economy, to demonstration best practice sustainable development pilots and projects.

We focus on strategic planning led approaches to de-risking investment, creating and sharing wider economic benefits and social value.

What we do: we work at early stages of project inception, making the strategic case and supporting the outline business cases, engaging with government and private sector stakeholders, and developing visioning processes and shaping the delivery frameworks and briefs that guide detailed execution and delivery.

Our Experience: our experience ranges from leading zero carbon city development in the middle East, to urban transformation and growth plans for emerging cities in Africa, to low carbon transformation plans for mature European cities and rapidly growing cities in Asia.

Peter's leadership, vision, credibility and his ability to drive business development and build the right relationships will be crucial to the success of our programme... There are very few people who make the positive type of impact I've seen Peter make

Karen Tooley,
Global Director of Growth Strategies, Deloitte
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Dubai Green Building Regulations

Led the development of Dubai's green building regulatory Framework at WSP for the Municipality of Dubai, including authorship of Building Codes and Standards, Technical Guidance Documentation, Approvals and Consents Process and impact analysis with policy recommendations.

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Smart Cities and Precincts

Our experience includes new Smart City, Precincts and Campus development around the world including:

Masdar City, Abu Dhabi: played a leading role as part of the WSP team in orginating the winning concept masterplan and phase one delivery with Foster + Partners for this zero carbon, zero waste city of 40,000 people. Masdar was the largest laboratory in the world to road test One Planet Living concepts, setting new standards for sustainable urban design.

Cities for the Circular Economy, China: Played a leading strategic planning role with the China US Centre for Sustainable Development and the ministry of Science and Technology PRC for new urban growth models for Wenling, Ningbo and Miyun.

Harvard University, Alston Campus Masterplan: Lead role with WSP in developing a sustainable infrastructure and green campus masterplan for the new campus expansion, south of the Charles River.

Masdar City is a city that points towards the future, that will set standards, not only for the region but worldwide. Germany is very proud to be able to participate in all areas of renewable energy and waste management

German Chancellor Angela Merkel,
Visit to Masdar City, 2010
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Strategic Plan for Soweto, South Africa

Together with the Soweto Development Foundation, Peter lead an extensive community engagement and stakeholder consultation process to create a vision for a better Soweto, a spatial plan and articulating the strategic case to the regional authority to support investment and transformation of the city.

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City Low Carbon Transformation Strategies

Leading role in various low carbon city and sustainability transformation plans including:

Jakarta Low Carbon Strategy Plan
Project lead for IFC funded Smart & Sustainable City project for Jakarta to design a strategic delivery framework and road map for transformative technology and governance projects for Jakarta, with WSP. Planned future stages will require economic appraisals of preferred technology solutions and targeting funding and delivery partners

Carbon Roadmap for Jakarta

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Project examples have been delivered by Fhoras or as part of other project teams in Short Ford Associates, WSP or Deloitte.

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