School of the Built Environment

Introduction

The Centre of Sustainable Technologies at the University of Ulster is an inter-disciplinary research centre challenging many aspects of sustainability associated with the built environment. Typically consisting of over 30 academics and researchers, it seeks to undertake ground-breaking activities in such areas as architecture, building energy efficiency, clean combustion, construction, highways engineering, sustainability, renewable energy and river hydraulics. While all these areas are critically important to a rapidly changing built environment reacting to climate change, the dominant research activity in terms of income and activity is energy.

Energy in the built environment benefits from a strong understanding of building systems and design principles. CST takes a research inspired lead in the BEng Hons Building Service and Energy Engineering undergraduate degree programme and the PgD MSc Renewable Energy and Energy Programme (by distance learning).