Urban and Built Environment
The consortia working within the Urban and Built Environment cluster are as follows:
IDCOP >SUE1
Innovation in Design, Construction and Operation of Buildings for People
Universities of Southampton, Reading and Greenwich
The aim of the IDCOP consortium
is to find new ways to improve the performance of building envelopes over the
whole building life cycle. Within the research, new technologies and processes
for maintenance and refurbishment of existing buildings are developed and
promoted. The main focus is to develop innovative solutions in terms of
products and processes for maintaining, upgrading and improving existing
buildings for the benefit of people.
Key words: built environment,
user behaviour, energy and comfort, building refurbishment decision making
process, microgeneration, façade technologies, intelligent buildings,
sustainability assessment methods, climate change impacts
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VIVACITY >SUE1
VIVACITY 2020: Urban Sustainability for the 24-Hour City - Development of Design Decision-Making Tools and Resources
Universities of Lancaster,
Sheffield and Salford, University College London and London Metropolitan
University
VivaCity2020 is analysing urban
planning, design and consultation processes to identify when and how key
decisions related to urban sustainability are made. The processes are being
mapped, and a support specification formulated for the development of tools and
resources to enable widened stakeholder participation.
Key words: Urban sustainability
for the 24-hour city: decision-making, form, policy and experience
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CITY FORM >SUE1
The Sustainable Urban Form Consortium
Universities of Oxford
Brookes, Heriot-Watt, Strathclyde, Sheffield, and the Institute of Energy
and Sustainable Development, De Montfort
This consortium will examine and test the claims made
that more compact, high density and mixed use urban forms will be
environmentally sound, efficient for transport, socially beneficial and
economically viable. It will measure the physical design of urban form with
respect to: physical configuration and layout, including links to the wider
urban system; its land uses and functions; the typology and density of built
form and presence of open space.
Key words: Sustainable Urban Form; Social, Economic,
Environmental and Transport Sustainability.
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ReVISIONS >SUE2
Regional Visions of Integrated Sustainable Infrastructure Optimised for NeighbourhoodS
ReVISIONS is an extension of SUE1 project SOLUTIONS - Sustainability Of Land Use and Transport In Outer NeighbourhoodS.?
This four year project (April 2008 to March 2012) aims to provide the knowledge for public agencies and companies to plan regional infrastructure for transport, water, waste, and energy in a more coordinated and integrated way so as to maximise economic competitiveness, reduce environmental and resource impacts, and allow households to live more sustainably with an enhanced quality of life.
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