Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment to 2050

Acknowledgements

Tim Dixon would like to thank all his family for their love, patience and support during the writing of this book. He would also like to thank his colleagues and all the contributors to the book for their hard work, without whom the project would not have been possible. Finally, he would like to dedicate the book to his first friend and mentor at Reading: Professor Peter Byrne, Real Estate and Planning, University of Reading (1946–2015), who had a keen interest in technology applications in real estate.

John Connaughton is grateful for the valuable contributions made by all those involved in this book, both directly – as co‐editors, authors and those involved in production and publication – and indirectly – as supportive family, friends and colleagues.

Stuart Green would first and foremost like to thank his co‐editors who have undoubtedly carried the bulk of the work in putting this volume together. He would also like to thank his colleagues in the School of the Built Environment whom it was his privilege to lead as Head of School from 2010–2017. But if authorship is about anything, it is about creating a narrative around what is already happening and projecting it into the future. Hence the substantive credit belongs with my past and present colleagues with whom we have worked.

Tim Dixon, John Connaughton and Stuart Green, February 2017 (University of Reading).