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Sustainability in the Built Environment
Research in this theme is represented by 3 Research Groups:
Sustainble Urban Environments
Research Group Leader: Dr Rohinton Emmanuel
The group aims to inform policy and practice through a research led approach to whole-life sustainability of built assets, from design to demolition and eventual reuse, at scales ranging from individual buildings to neighbourhoods and cities. The group's expertise includes:
- Building performance
- Energy performance for building rehabilitation
- Sustainable building materials
- Fire risk and risk analysis
- Social and economic performance of cities
- Impact of climate change on buildings
- Urban climate
- Sustainability assessment and knowledge
- Process management to deliver sustainability
Construction Management and Economics
Research Group Leader: Prof James Sommerville
The group is centred around construction projects and how they are delivered. Specialisms include:
- Planning of projects
- Management of resources
- Protection of human life
- Process design and control
- Health, safety and environmental management
- Quality approaches and defects minimisation
- Materials and logistics control
- Building design and utilisation
- IT systems for construction
Environmental Technology and Management
Research Group Leader: Prof Jiaqian Jiang
The group's research includes extensive expertise and experience that ranges from advanced environmental remediation technologies and policy and regulatory impact assessments. Research projects and activities focus on:
- Treatment of water and waste water
- Oxidation and sorption: enhance removal of micropollutants
- Nutrients and heavy metals
- Microbiological evaluation
- Eco-toxicity assessment of micropollutatns
- Low-cost treatment for drinking water supply in developing countries
- Management of nutrient loads in agriculture
- Stabilisation/solidification and composting