Greening our built environment and integrating plants as part of the building service solution is imperative to meet multiple targets and standards. LSBU’s Chloe Hampton explains.
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You call it networking – I call it ‘casual stalking’…
Bringing together the right people with the right information is easy… or is it? Our Aussie colleague has a unique approach!
A researcher’s experience of Ecobuild 2017
Ioannis Papakonstantinou from UCL took part in our future materials events at Ecobuild – he found it to be a rewarding experience.
Buildings need sustainable operations too…
When a sustainable building is created, it is not necessarily operated sustainably – Jo Harris how best to help facilities managers remedy the situation.
The urban climate – what do we need to know?
Prof Geoff Levermore considers what we need to know and what’s next for tools to help designers create climate resilient cities.
Overheating & sunlight – challenges for central London planners
Doug McNab from the Southwark planning department reflects on what he learnt at our urban microclimate event – and highlights the value of bringing researchers and practitioners together.
Challenges & knowledge gaps for the urban research community
Duick T. Young, Urban Climate researcher, reflects on the recent CIBSE Resilient Cities urban microclimate event and highlights what areas the urban climate community needs to focus on to give their research greater impact in the future development of high density resilient and sustainable cities
Taking it to the streets – mainstreaming research
Our main role is to bridge the gap between academia and research – so we took construction research to the industry at UK Construction Week.
Seasonal health & ageing in urban populations
Investigating the seasonal health and climate change resilience of elderly urban populations for 3 large cities.
What exactly is the benefit of a knowledge exchange network?
EPSRC asked the question, Ian Cooper explored the needs of network members and experiences of the coordination team.