School of the Built Environment

Expertise

Architecture: Innovative building design incorporating the latest thinking regarding sustainability.

Building Energy Efficiency: Development of energy efficient building components e.g. advanced glazing, insulation and energy efficient building systems with high temperature heat pumps and thermal energy storage.

Clean Combustion of Fuels: Utilisation of the process simulator "ECLIPSE" developed by the University of Ulster to perform techno-economic evaluations of new power generation systems.

Construction: Advanced procurement methods for the modern built environment.

Highway Engineering: testing of aggregates for sustainable road construction.

Renewable Energy: Development of biomass and bioenergy systems including gasification and bio-oil concepts. Development of solar thermal and solar PV systems and concentration technologies.

River Hydraulics: Evolving methodologies for the accurate predication of discharge capacity and flood depths in rivers during overbank flows.