School of the Built Environment

Welcome

The Centre for Sustainable Technologies undertakes multidisciplinary research to design, create, develop, improve, demonstrate and evaluate emerging, existing and alternative sustainable renewable energy, building design, construction materials, transport and environmental modification technologies.

Professor Neil J Hewitt is the director of CST which incorporates aspects of the Northern Ireland Centre for Energy Research and Technology (NICERT), the River Hydraulics and Hydropower group, the Highway Engineering Research Group (HERG) and Construction.

CST would like to acknowledge the work of Professor John McMullan, Professor Brian Norton, Professor Philip Eames and Professor Alan Woodside in the development of CST.

A Living Lab is about experimentation and co-creation with real users in real life environments, where users together with researchers, firms and public institutions look together for new solutions, new products, new services or new business models.

The Centre for Sustainable Technologies is a partner in the BioMara, Sustainable Fuels from Marine Biomass project.

BioMara, the Sustainable Fuels from Marine Biomass project, is a €6 million joint UK and Irish initiative that aims to demonstrate the feasibility and viability of producing biofuel from marine algae. With the European Parliament calling for 10% of road transport fuel to come from renewable sources by 2020, sustainable, industrial-scale biofuel production has become an urgent challenge.

BioMara has received €4,874,414 from the European Union's INTERREG IVA Programme, with additional funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Crown Estate, Northern Ireland Executive and the Irish Government.

The Sustainable Fuels from Marine Biomass project, BioMara, is a new UK and Irish joint project that aims to demonstrate the feasibility and viability of producing third generation biofuels from marine biomass.