Sustainable Built Environment
SUSTAINABLE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
STUDYING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT
A strategic research cluster bringing together researchers from spatial planning, architecture and civil engineering to tackle some of the world's most pressing urban challenges.
- Fostering strategic partnerships with other leading research centres;
- Engaging with key research users and maximising impact;
- Supporting our best early career researchers.
Our research is guided by the challenges of:
- Environmentally Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development;
- Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Prosperity and Opportunities for All;
- Technological Innovation; and
- … a need to meet Sustainable Development Goals for cities, climate, environment and communities.
Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) Research Cluster - Staff and Projects
Academic Staff |
Key Interests |
|---|---|
| Dr D Adlakha | Healthy cities; active living; sustainable lifestyles; urban transformations |
| Dr G Boyd | Architectural design; militarization; infrastructure and architecture; the architecture of coal; architecture of the supermarket; economics and architecture |
| Mrs T Brooks | |
| Prof G Ellis | Health and built environment; energy transition; environmental policy |
| Dr W Flannery | Marine and coastal planning; stakeholder participation; flood risk management |
| Dr L Fox-Rogers | Power and politics of planning; neoliberalisation; flood risk preparedness; creative economy |
| Dr J Gunning | |
| Prof T Jefferies | |
| Prof G Keeffe | |
| Prof A Long | |
| Mr K McAllister | The built environment …. + autism; children; fear; health and well-being; inclusivity |
| Prof M McEldowney | |
| Prof M McGarry | |
| Dr S McKay | Regulation; practice; resilience |
| Dr J Mariotti | Energy efficient cities; socialist architecture and urban planning; urban governance; urban centralities |
| Dr X Meng | |
| Mr C Moore | |
| Mrs C Mulholland | |
| Prof B Murtagh | Social economics; urban regeneration; contested cities |
| Dr S Nanukuttan | Civil infrastructure management; testing and modelling |
| Miss Rachel O'Grady | |
| Prof W Sha | Alkali activated binders/concretes; fly ash; ground granulated blast furnace slag; microstructure; durability |
| Alkali activated binders/concretes; fly ash; ground granulated blast furnace slag; microstructure; durability; high performance fibre reinforced concrete; impact and blast resistant structures; the effect of temperature on early age strength development (maturity functions) | |
| Mr Niek Turner |
Architecture and media; cinema and space; computer vision and new visual research methodologies; augmented and mixed reality |
Research Fellows
| Dr S Cullen | |
| Dr L Ferguson | |
| Dr A Grounds | Ethical property development; social economy; urban regeneration |
| Dr A Jenkins | |
| Dr C Kelly | |
| Dr J Kwasny | Alternative binders; lightweight materials; CO2 curing of concrete; CO2 sequestration in cementitious materials; concrete mix design and rheology |
| Ms S Maatta | |
| Mr J Miller | |
| Mr R Wade |
Example Projects
|
Re-Use and Recycling of Decommissioned Composite Material Wind Turbine Blades |
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| Reuse and Recycling of Materials and Structures in Energy Efficient Prefabricated Elements for Building Refurbishment and Construction | http://www.re4.eu/ |
| Low Carbon Footprint Precast Concrete Products for an Energy Efficient Built Environment |
https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/geopolymer/lowcoprecon/ |
| Geopolymer Research | https://blogs.qub.ac.uk/geopolymer/ |
| Blast and Impact Resistant Concrete | |
| By-Products for Building Materials | http://bybmproject.com/ |
News
Latest News
UK–Ireland Planning Research Conference Report 2017
16 March 2018
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2017-2018 Planning Seminars Announced
30 January 2018