British Land is a large UK real estate company that owns commercial property. They commissioned several studies to analyze the carbon footprint of their Ropemaker Place development in London. The studies found that embodied carbon from materials and construction accounted for around half of the building's total carbon footprint over its 60-year lifetime. They also found that operational carbon could be reduced by using biomass heating instead of gas. British Land is now requiring designers and contractors to consider embodied carbon and provide more transparency around materials to help lower carbon impacts from new developments.
A copy of the presentation I gave at the AusIMM 2009 International Uranium Conference. It outlines some testing I conducted on a Brannerite ore to beneficiate it.
A copy of the presentation I gave at the AusIMM 2009 International Uranium Conference. It outlines some testing I conducted on a Brannerite ore to beneficiate it.
Presentation on climate change and the impact the built environment has on global warming. The presentation looks at three companies - CalStar Cement, Zeta Communities, and Serious Materials - that a creating green products in the built environment. The presentation is given by Marc Porat, a leader in the green building field.
This presentation was given as part of the CCS Ready workshop which was held in association with the 6th Asia Clean Energy Forum (20 – 24 June, Manila)
The workshop discussed the range of measures and best practices that can be implemented to prompt the design, permitting and construction of CCS projects when designing or building a new fossil fuelled energy or industrial plant.
The workshop hosted participants of the Asian Development Banks’ Regional Technical Assistance Program who updated the group on the outcomes of their individual projects.
This presentation provides an update on the current project being undertaken under the Asian Development Bank’s Regional Technical Assistance Program which aims to conduct an analysis of the potential for CCS, culminating in a road map for a CCS demonstration project in Vietnam.
Solutions for the Texas Energy Shortage Rick Borry
Ron Seidel, PE, principal at RBS Energy Consulting and Principal Solar, Inc. board member will discuss and answer questions about his recent whitepaper, "Solutions for the Texas Energy Shortage."
Ron's whitepaper is very timely because in the summer of 2011, Texas experienced extremely low reserve margin periods throughout the state... causing average wholesale electricity prices to skyrocket to more than twice their normal level. Given that Texas is expected to add another 14 million to its population between 2010 and 2030, these shortages raise alarms about the state's ability to meet future energy demand. Success will depend upon finding the most effective way to incent the development of more capacity.
Unlike many other states, Texas has had a competitive retail market for electricity since 2001, replacing the traditional cost of a service-based regulated market. The market requires customers to choose a competitive electricity supplier and allows retail suppliers to set their prices without regulatory interference. However, regulatory action has resulted in caps being placed on system-wide wholesale power prices with the intent of protecting consumers. It is these system-wide offer caps that have limited prices, reduced potential profitability for wholesalers and restrained the development of new generation.
Download the complete whitepaper at www.principalsolarinstitute.org/documents.
Presentation on climate change and the impact the built environment has on global warming. The presentation looks at three companies - CalStar Cement, Zeta Communities, and Serious Materials - that a creating green products in the built environment. The presentation is given by Marc Porat, a leader in the green building field.
This presentation was given as part of the CCS Ready workshop which was held in association with the 6th Asia Clean Energy Forum (20 – 24 June, Manila)
The workshop discussed the range of measures and best practices that can be implemented to prompt the design, permitting and construction of CCS projects when designing or building a new fossil fuelled energy or industrial plant.
The workshop hosted participants of the Asian Development Banks’ Regional Technical Assistance Program who updated the group on the outcomes of their individual projects.
This presentation provides an update on the current project being undertaken under the Asian Development Bank’s Regional Technical Assistance Program which aims to conduct an analysis of the potential for CCS, culminating in a road map for a CCS demonstration project in Vietnam.
Solutions for the Texas Energy Shortage Rick Borry
Ron Seidel, PE, principal at RBS Energy Consulting and Principal Solar, Inc. board member will discuss and answer questions about his recent whitepaper, "Solutions for the Texas Energy Shortage."
Ron's whitepaper is very timely because in the summer of 2011, Texas experienced extremely low reserve margin periods throughout the state... causing average wholesale electricity prices to skyrocket to more than twice their normal level. Given that Texas is expected to add another 14 million to its population between 2010 and 2030, these shortages raise alarms about the state's ability to meet future energy demand. Success will depend upon finding the most effective way to incent the development of more capacity.
Unlike many other states, Texas has had a competitive retail market for electricity since 2001, replacing the traditional cost of a service-based regulated market. The market requires customers to choose a competitive electricity supplier and allows retail suppliers to set their prices without regulatory interference. However, regulatory action has resulted in caps being placed on system-wide wholesale power prices with the intent of protecting consumers. It is these system-wide offer caps that have limited prices, reduced potential profitability for wholesalers and restrained the development of new generation.
Download the complete whitepaper at www.principalsolarinstitute.org/documents.
O enfoque deste Workshop está na demonstração das oportunidades de intervenção que resultam da actual conjuntura no âmbito da CERTIFICAÇÃO ENERGÉTICA E DA QUALIDADE DO AR EM EDIFÍCIOS, dando relevo ao CICLO DE VIDA no Planeamento Urbano e no Edificado. O Workshop é dirigido a todos os decisores que influenciam a qualidade de construção do meio edificado.
Neil Blundell, Jeremy Wagge & Russel HaydenVikki Jacobs
Case study - Bristol Cathedral Choir School: 'The sky is the limt' - Overcoming the litations of time, space and money through quick and smart conversion
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
2. Agenda
Why do we care – the drivers from a client perspective
A quick review of the Ropemaker studies
What we‟re doing now..
Our expectations as a client
Challenges for the industry
2
3. Who is British Land
Large UK REIT
– Owned portfolio valued at £8.5 billion
– Publicly listed FTSE 100 company
Prime Portfolio
– London Office
– Out of Town Retail
– Minor other
Corporate Responsibility – partnership approach and customer focused
3
5. Development Footprint
2009-2010 Development Carbon Footprint
100%
2,252
90%
80%
70%
60%
38,489
Site Activities
50%
Materials
40%
Transport
30%
20%
10%
4,505
0%
1
5
6. As a „gateway‟ to further understanding
Energy use
Materials procurement – responsible sourcing
Structural efficiency
Flexibility over time
Aligning building component lifetimes
6
8. Ropemaker Place
BREEAM rating of “Excellent”
30,000 sq foot green roof and gardens
Rainwater harvesting system
Design reduced the energy needed for
cooling by up to 27% compared to a
flat façade.
1,200 kW biomass boiler, solar thermal
and photovoltaic generation.
32.7% Improvement on Building
Regulations Part L2 2006
8
9. But what about the carbon footprint...
Assumes 60 year life, with refurbishments at 25 and 45.
Ropemaker:
– 2.435 tCO2e/m2 of GIA
– 196,873 tCO2e
Estimated Carbon Footprint of the London 2012 Olympics:
– 3.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents (3.4MtCO2e)
Running the Tube for 1 year:
– 518,8157 tCO2e traction electricity
Ropemaker Compares:
– Approx 98 years of energy consumption at British Land’s HQ York House
– 1/12th of the 2012 Olympic Games.
– Just over 1/3rd of the Tube ‘s annual footprint
9
10. 2 methods, 3 studies
Carbon Footprint
December 2006 - Arup Carbon Footprint Assessment
– Design stage information
March 2010 - dCarbon8 (now Deloitte) Lifecycle Carbon Impact Assessment,
– As built information
Carbon Profiling
January 2010 - Sturgis Carbon Profile
10
11. Embodied vs Operational… and Part L vs actual predicted?
tCO2 e/m 2 of
GIA 100%
4.000
3.733 90%
27%
3.500 42%
80%
1.018
3.000 70%
2.435 60%
2.500 Embodied
Carbon
50% Embodied
2.000 1.018 Carbon
40% 73%
1.500 58%
2.716 Operational 30% Operational
Carbon Carbon
1.000
20%
1.418
0.500 10%
- 0%
Ropemaker Place Ropemaker (predicted Ropemaker Place Ropemaker (predicted
(BER) consumption) (BER) consumption)
11
12. Maintenance…
tCO2 e/m 2 of
GIA
1.200
100%
1%
1.018
90%
1.000
80% 39%
0.800 End of Life 70%
End of Life
60%
Maintenance 3%
0.600 6% Maintenance
50%
Onsite Activities
40% Onsite Activities
0.400 Delivery
30%
Delivery
51%
Raw Materials 20%
0.200 Raw Materials
10%
- 0%
Ropemaker Place Ropemaker Place
82,263 tCO2e or 1.018 tCO2e / m2 of GIA 12
17. Lessons we‟ve learned…
Embodied: It‟s bigger than we thought it was… and makes up 60% of what we
„control‟ at a building level, 50% per year across our company.
Grid decarbonisation …. Will make it even more important.
Materials specification… and estimated lifetimes
– Win/wins for planned refurbishment?
As an industry, go beyond SBEM?
Both landlords and tenants….. it‟s more or less a 50:50 influence on the total
carbon footprint over its life
17
18. What we‟re doing now..
Prioritising steel and concrete
Requiring our architects and structural engineers to begin to think about
embodied carbon in design
– Back of envelope calculations and detailed models
– Relation to whole life (building in-use)
– Identifying carbon saving opportunities through hot spot studies
– Options evaluation: Compare embodied impact alongside cost and programme implications
Requiring our contractors to measure, record, and report on steel and concrete
– Discussions on the best way to do this
Continue to „estimate‟ our corporate carbon footprint
18
19. What we‟d like to see
From design teams - understanding and pressure on suppliers
– Core calculations are fairly approachable and easy to do
– Carbon in it’s own right and as proxy for responsible procurement
– Where are your materials coming from? So you want to use anodised aluminium?
– QS firms are well placed to do summaries and comparisons with other firms
Concrete mixes
– Contractors, suppliers and structural engineers working together
– Rules of thumb for weighing programme, cost and carbon implications
Components and individual products
– Be easily labelled with information on carbon, source and production
19
20. Challenges for the Industry
Understanding the barriers to the big wins
Moving from LCA to a component level approach
99% accuracy or 75% accuracy
Transparency down the supply chain
Industry knowledge
– Cost, carbon and product ‘books’
Is regulation the next step?
20
22. Carbon Footprint
Definition:
Total Set of Greenhouse Gases Caused by an
organisation, event or product.
Calculation approach: Lifecycle Assessment
Standard (BS EN 1SO 14040).
Assumes 60 year life, with refurbs at 25 and 50.
Split into ‘Embodied’ and ‘Operational’
Estimated Carbon Footprint of the London 2012
Olympics:
– 3.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents
(3.4MtCO2e)
22
23. Arup Study – December 2006
Based on information available at concept design.
Not just building operation:
– includes an estimate of commuting and business travel by future tenants.
Assumes a 58 - 42 split for landlord–tenant control of electricity, total landlord control of gas.
The main findings:
725,005 tonnes CO2e for the natural gas baseline and 704,573 tonnes CO2e for the local biomass
option
93% of footprint arises from operation of the building.
Landlord controls 40% of overall footprint and may influence a further 7%.
Commuting, business travel and consumables used by the tenant accounts for approximately 20% of
the total footprint.
Electricity use comprises 68% of carbon footprint.
Use of locally sourced biomass results in a 3% reduction in the total footprint, compared to natural
gas.
23
25. Dcarbon8 Study – March 2010
As-built information about the building design and construction process
– Provided by MACE
Excluded business commuting, travel and consumables.
Ran 3 scenarios
– Part L energy consumption predictions vs. design team predicted consumption
– Biomass vs Gas for heating source.
– Current grid electricity carbon factors vs proposed decarbonisation of the grid,
Investigated how „embodied‟ aspect of the footprint could be reduced through
materials specification
Assumes a 39- 61 % landlord-tenant split of electricity consumption, full landlord
control of gas or biomass.
– based on the EP&T review of our existing portfolio.
25
26. Scenario 2: Biomass vs Gas Heating
Baseline where approximately 85% of the heating load is provided by a biomass boiler, vs.100% of this energy is
provided by gas, shows a 10% increase in operational carbon and 6% increase in total carbon under the BERb
scenario. And a 4% in operational carbon and 3% in total carbon under the AApredb scenario.
tCO2 e/m2 of
100%
GIA
3.000
90%
2.583
2.435 6% 80% 39%
2.500 42%
70%
2.000 1.018
1.018 60%
Embodied Embodied
Carbon 50%
Carbon
1.500
40%
Operational
30% 61% Carbon
1.000 Operational 58%
1.566 Carbon 20%
1.418
0.500 10%
0%
- Ropemaker baseline Ropemaker (0%
Ropemaker baseline Ropemaker (0% biomass) (75% biomass) biomass)
(75% biomass) 26
27. Tenant & Landlord Control
900000
800000 774,026
700000
600000
52%
500000
Tenant
400000 Landlord
311,439
300000
49% 208,844
200000
48%
42%
100000
51%
58%
0
Arup Initial Study dcarbon8 study (AApred) dcarbon8 study (BER)
27
28. 900,000
800,000
774,026
700,000
600,000
500,000
Operational
720,983
400,000 Other Embodied
311,439
300,000 Construction
208,844
200,000 229,176
126,581
100,000
40,509 40,509
66,334 41,754 41,754
-
-13,291
Arup Initial Study dcarbon8 study dcarbon8 study (BER)
-100,000 (AApred)
28
29. Arup dcarbon8: BER Dcarbon8: AApred
Total (nat gas): 750,005 tonnes CO2e 208,850 tCO2e under 311,439 tCO2e under
BER () AApred
Total annualised: 156.5 kgCO2e/m2/y. 43.05 kgCO2e /m2 64.21 kgCO2e /m2
/year based on a 60- /year AApred
year lifetime under
BER
()
Operational (w/out 10914.1 tco2e/year 126,580 tCO2e or 229,176 tCO2e or
travel): (nat gas) 26.1 kgCO2e /m2 47.24 kgCO2e /m2
/year under BER /year under AApred
()
Construction 1109.2 tco2/year (60 0.516 tCO2e/m2
year annualised) under BER (8.61
kgCO2e /m2 /year)
Other embodied 126.1 (no fit out?) 501 tCO2e/m2 under
BER (8.35 kgCO2e
/m2 /year) 29