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Charlie Baker, URBED (Manchester), Marianne Heaslip, URBED (Manchester), and Nicholas Falk, URBED (London) are all involved in seminars at EcoBuild Conference 2013. Seminar Details are as follows:

Wednesday 6th March 2013, 10.30 - 12.00

Holistic low carbon neighbourhood refurbishment

URBED Superhome house tours on Sat 16th March 11am - 4pm, booking essential, through the Superhome website

The birmingham masterplan was covered in this week's AJ. Please see here for the full article (requires login). The Icknield Port Loop masterplan's outline planning permission was approved, subject to a Section 106 legal agreement. in October 2012.

Congratulations to David and Fotios for winning the annual 2012 Table Tennis Tournament at the URBED Christmas Party.

A special mention to David who won the prestigious award at the 10th time of trying.

Image below: David and Fotios discussing tactics to tackle the raw aggression of the opposition

We are really pleased and excited to have been selected to work with Edinburgh University School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture as part of the Home Improvements Knowledge Exchange Programme.

As part of the research project we will be colaborating with Design for Homes to map the balance of provision, design and location of parking that leads to resident satisfaction in new-build housing.

Congratulations also to Ash Sakula and Sattellite Architects who were also chosen.

About the Knowledge Exchange

Anfield's community bakery featured on The One Show.

The bakery in Anfield is getting lots of attention at the moment and Jay Rayner is the latest journalist to go an try the bread. Check it out on the BBC's The One Show on Friday 7th December. Watch here until Friday 14th (feature begins at 14.10).