Celebrating 50 Years of Environmental Design and Engineering at The Bartlett

UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND ENGINEERING AT THE BARTLETT

PRIMARY CONTACTS

DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION

DIRECTOR

As the Director of the newly formed UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (UCL IEDE), I’m both proud and delighted to provide this introduction.

Professor Mike Davies E: michael.davies@ucl.ac.uk T: 020 3108 9008 DEPUTY DIRECTOR AND RESEARCH LEAD

Professor Dejan Mumovic E: d.mumovic@ucl.ac.uk T: 020 3108 9024 TEACHING LEAD

Dr Ben Croxford E: b.croxford@ucl.ac.uk T: 020 3108 9007 ENTERPRISE LEAD

Professor Michael Pitt E: michael.pitt@ucl.ac.uk T: 020 3108 9026 EVENTS AND COMMUNICATIONS

Mrs Rachel Cronkshaw E: r.cronkshaw@ucl.ac.uk T: 020 3108 9479

Cover image: The Bartlett Lighting Simulator, one of the most sophisticated in the UK: a 5.2m diameter, hemispherical sky dome, fitted with 270 energy-efficient individually-controlled light sources and a computercontrolled artificial sun that exactly simulates natural lighting conditions for the analysis of architectural models.

The simulator can be programmed to imitate the light from sun and sky at any time of the day and year, anywhere in the world.

For more information, visit:

www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/iede

Although we are a new Institute we have a rich history dating back 50 years. In fact, it was as early as 1960 when Professor Llewelyn-Davies introduced Building Science at The Bartlett. It was not until 1965 though that Professor Hopkinson was appointed the first Chair in Environmental Design and Engineering (EDE).

In 1978 the MSc in Environmental Design and Engineering (EDE) was established and in 1987 there was sufficient support from the outside lighting community to set up a specialist graduate lighting course – the MSc in Light and Lighting (LL). In 1992 the MSc in Facility and Environment Management (FEM), the third component of the IEDE teaching programme, was established. Alongside the building of this excellent teaching programme, emphasis was also placed, of course, on undertaking outstanding research. This is demonstrated by the award of two consecutive EPSRC Platform Grants (2006-2011 and 2011-2016) and thus the recognition of the world leading status of the Complex Built Environment Systems group (CBES).

Our body of 70 academics, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers sit in an excellent University and Faculty.

UCL was ranked fifth in the 2014 THES-QS World University Rankings. In the UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework exercise (REF), The Bartlett Faculty research staff produced the largest quantity of 4* world-leading research outputs of any university submitting to the Architecture, Built Environment and Planning sub-panel.

So after reflecting on our history, where do things stand at present? Faced with the challenges of health, well-being, productivity, comfort, energy use and climate change, we continue to generate and exchange vital knowledge in the sustainable development of buildings and the urban environment and to train the future leaders in the field. The Royal Academy of Engineering has

recently awarded the title ‘Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design’ to the faculties of The Bartlett and of Engineering. As built environment practices and firms come to grips with an age of new challenges and opportunities, our joined-up way of working with other experts and specialists is in increasing demand.

UCL IEDE is in an excellent position to build on our achievements so far.

Our extensive network of alumni are now spread across the world in key roles in the field and I’m particularly pleased by the strides we’ve made in boosting the number of women working in the field of EDE. I’m tremendously excited by the opportunities that we will all have to make vital contributions in the years to come.

The brochure concludes with a range of ways in which organisations and individuals can engage with us. Whether you are a prospective student, potential industry partner or fellow academic, I encourage you to get in touch.

Mike Davies Professor of Building Physics and Environment and Director of the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering

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CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND ENGINEERING AT THE BARTLETT

TIMELINE 1960

1967

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Richard LlewelynDavies joins The Bartlett

Richard LlewelynDavies’ planning practise works on the design of Milton Keynes

Wates House opens

John Musgrove is appointed as Haden-Pilkington Professor of EDE

Pat O’Sullivan is appointed as Haden-Pilkington Professor of EDE and Head School and Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment at The Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and Planning

MSc in Facility and Environment Management is launched

EPSRC Platform Grant (2006-11) awarded for the Complex Built Environment Systems project

MSc EDE is awarded Happold Brilliant award for best accredited course

by CIBSE

The UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering is established

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Distribution Photometer

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MSc FEM Singapore graduation 2014

MSc EDE Students

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1969

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1992

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2009

2011

Ralph Hopkinson is appointed as first Chair in EDE

Ralph Hopkinson receives RIBA Honorary Fellowship for establishing lighting as a core architectural skill

MSc in EDE is launched

MSc in Light and Lighting is launched

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The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies is founded

May Cassar establishes the Centre for Sustainable Heritage

Tadj Oreszczyn establishes the UCL Energy Institute

EPSRC Platform Grant (2011-16) awarded for The Unintended Consequences of Decarbonising the Built Environment project

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EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN AND THE BARTLETT

HEADS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN & ENGINEERING

Lord Richard Llewelyn-Davies 1960-1975

Professor Ralph Galbraith Hopkinson 1965-1976

Professor John Musgrove 1978-85

Richard Llewelyn-Davies joined The Bartlett in 1960 as Professor of Architecture and Head of School. His academic aim was ‘trying to bring architecture into closer touch with developments in the natural and social sciences’, and to provide a stronger link between the professions and academia. He based it upon his previous research into the planning and the architecture of hospitals which he conducted at the École des BeauxArts, Paris, then the Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton (a first for an architect) and at the Nuffield Foundation, London. In bringing The Bartlett forward from a Beaux Arts tradition, that he was well versed in, it produced a dynamic that continues to this day with organisational changes along the way. On a professional level, he integrated practice with his academic work from the start. He founded a planning practice in 1960 that was responsible for planning the innovative new town of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire in 1967. His work was recognised in 1969 with his appointment at as Professor of Urban Planning of the newly named Bartlett Faculty, School for Environmental Studies. He presided over the transition of The Bartlett from the Pearson Building to the newly built Wates House.

Ralph Galbraith Hopkinson was invited by Richard Llewelyn-Davies in 1965 to occupy the first chair of Environmental Design and Engineering, a post he held until 1976. The new professorial chair, funded by GN Haden and Pilkington Brothers had a long lasting influence over The Bartlett and EDE, enlarging the scope of architectural education to incorporate environmental and human factors.

John Musgrove was Haden-Pilkington Professor of Environmental Design and Engineering 1978-85 and Head of The Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning 1980-85. There were a number of academic questions that he, in common with fellow colleague Bill Hillier at The Bartlett and with other peers in the Welsh School of Architecture and elsewhere were grappling with.

The gestation of EDE was during the dynamic cauldron of post war Britain. From the beginning in 1960, the teaching of architects was revolutionised to include a wider range of environmental topics and a stronger academic base. The changes were quickly phased in over the following years and, as Llewelyn-Davies’ first end of year letter to students shows, there were also plans for postgraduate courses. By 1965 there were distinctly different audiences for The Bartlett’s work that helped draw academic undergraduates and professionals together. With a direct appeal to mature candidates, the MSc EDE also helped the social mobility of 1960’s Britain. It provided a stronger academic foundation to practicing architects and especially 4

building engineers to help deal with newer, more sophisticated building systems and architectural constraints. The offering of an MSc to part-time students was also innovative for the times, a continuing characteristic of the way that the EDE course has developed to this day, in its appeal to a worldwide audience and addressing emerging issues, informed by research.

Richard Llewelyn-Davies had a strong vision for groundbreaking Masters programmes which would bring science into architecture through evidence based design. This statement is taken from his inaugural speech: “….Finally, in every [department] except architecture, post graduate studies and research is vigorously pursued. It is through these studies that the subject is advanced, new knowledge is developed and future teachers are trained.….”. The record of UCL EDE alumni speaks for itself.

Alan Penn, Dean of The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment said that the establishment of UCL IEDE marked “the coming of age of ideas about built environment research first pioneered by Richard Llewelyn-Davies at The Bartlett in the 1960’s, but under the radically different context that we see today where globalisation, new technology and the challenges of climate change and sustainability create real urgency and a widespread perception of the centrality of the built environment to the future of the planet, economy and society at large.”

Hopkinson drew on his research experience from the Building Research Station, Garston, into visual comfort in buildings, together with his previous work on lighting at the pioneering Hirst Research Laboratories, Wembley, of the General Electric Company to develop the design of lighting of schools, hospitals and roads in the UK. His work in establishing lighting as a core skill of architects was recognized by RIBA in 1969 via an appointment as an Honorary Fellow.

The principal question was how to address the disparity between the high quality, readily available research into the avoidance of building problems, and the poor performance of buildings being designed and erected at that time. Potential solutions lay in bridging the gap between an increasingly codified approach to design adopted by professionals and a potential approach being advocated based on a quasi-scientific, holistic process for design.

The resulting influential RIBA Research paper postulated a suitable design process. The cross-disciplinary MSc EDE aimed to help professionals to bridge that gap and ensure that all factors had been considered. Hence, over the years, the course has evolved from considering the integration of building specific architectural, engineering, technical, human and legislative issues to include wider scale sectoral and infrastructural effects.

He was later Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, 1972-74. His own engineering-architectural cross-over underpinned the development of EDE and its cross-disciplinary appeal.

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HEADS OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN & ENGINEERING

Professor Newton Frank Watson 1986-88

Professor Pat O’Sullivan 1989-1999 Pat O’Sullivan was appointed in 1989 as the HadenPilkington Professor of Environmental Design and Engineering, Head of School and Dean of the Faculty of the Built Environment at The Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Environmental Design and Planning.

He had previously held the Chair of Architectural Science at the University of Wales from 1970.

Photometric Bench

Newton Frank Watson was Haden-Pilkington Professor of Environmental Design & Engineering and Head of The Bartlett School of Architecture & Planning (1985-88) and Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies, (1986-88).

He had a long architectural academic career commencing in the late 1950’s as Resident Fellow, Nuffield Foundation Division for Architectural Studies.

After a spell as lecturer in Architecture, Polytechnic of North London he joined The Bartlett in 1957 as lecturer and was to have a long association with it. With occasional spells as a visiting professor in the USA, he was for many years its Professor of Architecture (1969-85). He lectured Bartlett undergraduates on lighting in the mid 70’s and combined academic work with consultancy on innovative projects that led to his receipt of an award from the Illuminating Society of America for his lighting design of the London Stock Exchange (1974), and the Tate Gallery (1980).

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By profession an engineer, he was also invited to advise significant public and private organisations, including the Houses of Parliament, the BBC and a range of Mechanical and Electrical specialist companies. The 90’s were a challenging time both in the direction and funding of education in the UK that, in common with many other heads, occupied many an hour. He kept an arm’s length, strategic overview of EDE and occasionally lectured, providing high level insights into client perspectives of building services and design issues. He encouraged the cross-over between academia and professional work and promoted the adoption of external visiting lecturers, peers in their fields.

During his tenure, EDE staff including Tadj Oreszczyn, Chris Hancock, Alan Young, Casimir Iwaszkiewicz and others contributed to the success of an innovative government funded initiative, the Energy Design Advice Scheme. It provided independent energy design advice, drawing on best practice and research, to a wide range of significant building projects and clients. These included commissioning clients as well as internationally respected architects and engineers. Its pioneering work impacted on many building sectors including commercial, heritage, educational and industrial buildings, both on a project and strategic level. The experience of practice and research continue to feed into the EDE course to this day.

Professor Tadj Oreszczyn 2000-2009 “Pat was a great political mover… a mover and shaker.”

Professor Emeritus Michael Corcoran

Originally appointed by Pat O’Sullivan in the late 80’s, Tadj lectured on energy and building environment including condensation risk and mites. With a background in physics and cold bridge analysis he had an ability to convert numbers and energy concepts into readily understandable issues.

His in-depth knowledge of energy interactions in buildings was well regarded by government departments and EDE students were occasionally willing guinea pigs for testing out new building regulations. In the mid 90’s he was director of one of the government funded Energy Design Advice Scheme centres based at The Bartlett, providing energy advice to architects and engineers as well as to building clients.

This example of crossing over research and best practice into industry was in the long established tradition of The Bartlett. Tadj was for many years the head of the UCL Energy Institute and is now the head of the new The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER), of which UCL IEDE is a part.

Reverberation Chamber

Professor Mike Davies 2010-Present

The Bartlett Lighting Simulator

Mike began his research work looking both at very specific areas of interest – multi-dimensional heat flows and shading devices - but also whole building performance. Via the monitoring and modelling of building performance Mike is now seeking to understand how buildings can optimally minimise their production of CO2 whilst maintaining healthy and comfortable conditions.

He is Professor of Building Physics and Environment at UCL, and acts as the Director of the Complex Built Environment Systems (CBES) Group. CBES is an EPSRC Platform Grant funded group with a major focus on the ‘Unintended Consequences of Decarbonising the Built Environment’. The work of CBES has impacted on a range of relevant key national and international policy formulations.

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DEVELOPING TEACHING IN THE FIELD OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND ENGINEERING Environmental Design and Engineering at UCL had from the start combined its core cohort of lecturers with external visiting lecturers.

Dr Kevin Mansfield – Light and Lighting

These visitors included leading consultants and researchers such as Michael Humphreys (Human Comfort) from the 70’s to the early 90’s, Joe Lyons and Lou Beddocks (Lighting). Full time staff included Ron Hawkes (Acoustics), Jimmy Longmore (Thermal), Ted Rowlands (Lighting), David Loe, well-respected leader and founder of the MSc in lighting at The Bartlett from ’87, as well as Professor Bill Bordass who went on to lead with independent research and consultancy into improving the performance of buildings.

Originally a student of architecture in 1974 at The Bartlett School of Architecture, Building, Planning and Environmental Studies, Kevin became course director of the MSc Light and Lighting in 1995. Together with his colleague at The Bartlett, Peter Raynham (President of Society of Light and Lighting, 2011) they lecture EDE on lighting and daylighting and their impact on human psychology, physiology, architecture and the available design tools. Over the years, students have been able to visualise daylight and lighting on physical models that they have tested in an artificial sky as well as using computer models to predict the effects on architecture and building services of different orientations and surface finishes.

In addition, in the early years, when physical modelling was undertaken in laboratories at Wates House, the course had the benefit of skilled support staff to build equipment, expert craftsmen as well as precision tool-makers such as Chris Malet, Richard Grant, Gordon Pfeifer and Francis Milson.

“By 1987 many of the staff were lighting specialists and there was sufficient interest in The Bartlett and support from the outside lighting community to set up a specialist graduate lighting course—the MSc Light and Lighting.”

Dr Kevin Mansfield, Lecturer in Lighting, UCL IEDE.

Mr Peter McLennan – Facility and Environment Management Appointed by Professor of Facility Management, Bev Nutt, Peter joined The Bartlett in 1994 as a Research Fellow. Peter entered the field of Facility Management through his MSc at Cornell University after his undergraduate studies in Interior Design and Art History at the University of Connecticut. Peter became joint course director of MSc FEM alongside Bev Nutt in 2001.

With the launch of the MSc FEM Singapore in 2009, Peter became course director for the London offering.

Artificial Sky (mirror type)

Dr Alan Young – Environmental Design and Engineering Anechoic Chamber

The MSc FEM programme has helped to develop the FM sector internationally through our graduates for twenty years.

Course director from 1987 to 2007, Alan joined as a ‘young and fresh faced lecturer’ in the early 80’s and retired from the post of Senior Lecturer in the mid 2000’s.

His physics background had brought him through building services design and research to The Bartlett.

He was able to select and develop a balanced cohort of students, providing an exciting learning environment.

The mix of full and part time students had an additional benefit of bringing a wide range of experience to the pool of knowledge shared by all. As a result of that continuing tradition, EDE alumni are able to work confidently in mixed teams around the world at the earliest and most critical stages of design development and avoid pitfalls that could otherwise occur.

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FACILITIES, LABORATORIES AND EQUIPMENT

Wates House

Central House

Our Alumni

Wates House opened in 1975 for The Bartlett Faculty of Environmental Studies, which had moved from the Pearson Building.

UCL IEDE students and researchers have access to a range of exceptional facilities that are the envy of other universities.

Environmental Design and Engineering enjoyed state of the art environmental, acoustic and lighting laboratories from the beginning. The facilities adapted over time to suit: changing requirements, the increasing capabilities of computer simulations and to house the state of the art Lighting Simulator.

We are now based in the recently refurbished Central House (2014), walking distance from Euston, St. Pancras and King’s Cross train stations, and few hundred meters from the British Library. The Bartlett Learning Hub, based on the lower ground and ground floors of Central House, incorporates The Bartlett Library, quiet study zones and meeting rooms for group work and tutorials.

Our support for our students doesn’t stop when they complete their studies.

It continues throughout their career through our alumni network.

UCL IEDE’s Kevin Mansfield gives an account of Wates House as he experienced it:

“When we moved to Wates House — I was a UCL architectural student at the time — the building was an architectural expression of the environmental education of the architect as devised by Llewellyn-Davies and Hopkinson.

Thus you had open-plan architectural studios on the upper floors with the environmental laboratories in the basement — the wind tunnel, the thermal chamber, the artificial sun and sky, the acoustic labs, the bench photometer and distribution photometer, a fully equipped workshop and the photographic darkrooms.

The environmental education of the architect was embedded in the undergraduate programmes and at Masters level in the signature MSc Environmental Design and Engineering programme. At the time attention in this Course was equally divided between thermal, acoustic and lighting considerations.”

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22 Gordon Street (formerly known as Wates House) 2016

In the early years up to the 80’s, when the yearly cohort could be counted on one hand, much of the teaching was tutorial based and located in Wates House. In the early 90’s, with the expansion of students and courses, teaching moved with The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies to newly refurbished premises at 1-19 Torrington Place (formerly known as Philips House), then to Central House. Wates House, now known as 22 Gordon Street, is undergoing a complete revamp for its 40th anniversary, ready to accommodate an increased range of students and courses.

That circle of former students extends around the world and is helping to shape the built environment of today and the future.

It includes a large number of senior figures in the industry and founders of well-known firms. Around one third of the UK’s worldleading lighting design community completed the MSc Light and Lighting that is now a UCL IEDE programme. We’re delighted to regularly welcome many of these high-achievers back to UCL IEDE at alumni events and as guest lecturers.

“Would I do the MSc EDE if I had the time again? Yes, Yes …..Yes! The issues that the programme covers are of particular importance to the world…”

Professor Emeritus Michael Corcoran, Strathclyde University, Professor of Building Services Design

“There’s nothing like The Shard in London, in terms of the number of uses under one roof.

It’s a fantastic opportunity to be involved here and I think it’s in the main because I brought together all of my experience within the MSc and moved into tower properties that I’ve ended up here – so I give the MSc FEM course a big tick. It crystallised my career experience and introduced a structure to the way I think and work.”

Paul Hanrahan, Estates Director, London Bridge Quarter

Our lab equipment includes The Bartlett Lighting Simulator, as depicted on the cover of this brochure; a large, walk-in environmental chamber; 2 full weather stations; and a large range of probes and equipment to measure, for example, thermal comfort, heat flow, CO2 and carbon monoxide levels, ventilation rates, moisture levels and sound levels.

Notable alumni include David Hughes (EUR Ing, CIBSE President 2006); Professor Maria Kolokotroni (Leader, Resource Efficient Future Cities, Brunel University); Jackie Fox (Head of Sustainability, ISG); Saud Muhsinovic (Eur Ing, Partner, Mott MacDonald);

Bukky Bird (Programme Director, Tesco Stores Ltd); Professor Louis Caldas (Berkley University); Dr Steve Pretlove (Associate Prof, Greenwich University); Professor Mark Gillott (Nottingham University); and Prof Louis Caldas (Berkley University).

“The MSc L&L course changed me completely and opened my eyes up to the many different facets of lighting design. It covered the technology and lighting calculation side of things that I knew about, but also explored how the eye-brain works, daylighting design and architectural lighting, and how we are affected by light both physically and culturally. Now I’m here, living on the Palm in Dubai, commuting to Abu Dhabi, and setting out the lighting standards and design guidance for, effectively, an entire country.”

Martin Valentine, Lighting Expert for the Municipality of Abu Dhabi

“The MSc EDE course has a wide range of modules that covered the main aspects of environmental design and engineering in the built environment. That, in addition to the university facilities (libraries, labs, tools) are amazing sources for learning and applied research.”

Anis Abou Zaki, Partner, Environmental Design and Sustainability, Foster+Partners

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LEARNING EVENTS FOR EVERY LEVEL

ABOUT UCL IEDE Partnerships

IEDELearn

IEDELearn Lecture Series

IEDELearn Seminars

As part of our 2015 celebrations of 50 years of Environmental Design and Engineering at The Bartlett, we have launched IEDELearn; IEDE Lectures, Events and Research Networks. Within IEDELearn there are three programmes of events, IEDELearn Lecture Series, IEDELearn Workshops and IEDELearn Seminars.

Monthly lectures dedicated to inspiring the debate, discussion and advancement of current EDE professional practice, hosted by a UCL IEDE academic staff member with talks from external experts. IEDELearn Lectures cover a diverse range of themes and have so far included titles such as ‘Healthy Buildings, Healthy People’ and ‘Glare’. Each lecture is followed by an informal wine reception. All lectures are free and open to all, but advanced booking is required.

Weekly seminars each covering one of three themes for 2015: Designing for Sound, Industrial Symbiosis and Social Sustainability, providing invaluable support to the Institute’s taught MSc modules. This series brings in external speakers from a wide range of industries, education and research institutions from architects to violin consultants. All seminars are free and open to all, but advanced booking is required.

Most of our lectures, seminars and one-off events are filmed and posted on the UCL IEDE YouTube channel. Please visit the UCL IEDE website for the latest events in the programme.

IEDELearn Workshops

A Photovoltaics workshop

Monthly introductory talks given by IEDE PhD and EngD Researchers and staff.

These workshops offer essential practical experience for early career professionals and MSc students.

As part of the 2015 Designing for Sound seminar series, Benjamin Hebbert introduced a full house of students, staff and external guests to performance space and sound from a violin-making perspective.

The event included live performances on 17th Century violins.

The Bartlett Faculty is built on enterprise.

The same is true of the UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering – the enterprise of our own outstanding thinkers, researchers and academics and the enterprise of our many partners in business, government and education.

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships In Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP), firms employ UCL IEDE Associates on specific, strategic projects. This gives firms the opportunity to boost their competitiveness, productivity and performance.

UCL IEDE Associates in turn benefit from KTPs, picking up professional development and training. UCL IEDE’s partners on KTPs have included Max Fordham and Philips Electronics.

Research and Development Partnerships Longer term projects lend themselves to Research and Development (R&D) Partnerships. These partnerships allow organisations to form durable, fruitful working alliances with UCL IEDE. Many partners are attracted to our ability to add value to their organisation.

The partnership can be a mixture of consultancy and research focused on specific, often complex challenges identified by the company.

IEDELearn Seminar: ‘Inside the Instrument: A violin-making perspective on performance space and sound’. Image courtesy of Paul Bavister

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ABOUT UCL IEDE

Partnerships

Teaching

Consultancy

Research Engineers /EngD

Continuing Professional Development Training

We offer companies a world-class source of sustainable building design expertise.

We’re passionate about using our skills, expertise and state-of-the-art resources to deliver robust advice and sustainable solutions to clients.

An Engineering Doctorate (EngD) allows a PhD-level UCL researcher to work with an industrial partner on an extended research project. EngD students gain the skills to become an outstanding Research Engineer.

UCL IEDE offers a range of accredited, competitively priced CPD courses and short training courses. Courses are tailored towards chartered built environment professionals.

CPD courses cover sustainability topics such as noise control, retrofitting homes and smart energy systems. They can be generic or bespoke, and are often taken in the form of individual modules that are offered on our MSc programmes.

Industrial partners benefit from a highly focused, gifted individual, working with the regular supervision and advice of experienced UCL IEDE academics.

Our specialisms reflect our research themes, as listed on page 16. Our services have ranged from advice on investment to literature reviews and expert witness testimony.

Previous consultancy clients include AEDAS, BuiltOff Site, CoreNet, DECC, DCLG, DW Windsor, Philips, Thorlux, WSP. In the last 10 years we have collaborated with over 60 companies.

MSc EDE trip to Wales, 2014.

“Working with my industrial sponsor, CIBSE, the EngD programme has tailored my research towards practical applications and it has been interesting balancing the academic and industrial requirements. The practical focus of the research is rewarding as it means that my work could potentially influence the design process.”

The MSc EDE is accredited as suitable further learning to meet the academic requirement for Chartered Engineers (Ceng) by both the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) and the Energy Institute, as well as the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Students are not just taught; they’re involved in ground-breaking research as it’s happening.

Our research degrees, MPhil and PhD, cover a wide range of built environment disciplines in accordance with our research themes.

UCL IEDE partners with UCL Engineering in a national network for Sustainable Building Design. The Royal Academy of Engineering named this partnership as one of four Centres of Excellence. It demonstrates and exchanges best practice in teaching and research for a more sustainable built environment.

Our Engineering Doctorate (EngD) is offered from the UCL Engineering Doctorate Centre in Virtual Environments, Imaging and Visualisation (VEIV). This enhanced PhD was designed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to provide a new generation of outstanding research engineers.

Our postgraduate programme offers three distinct degree choices:

Current EngD sponsors include AEDAS, Bently Systems, BSRIA, BRE, Buro Happold, CIBSE, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, FOSTERS & PARTNERS, HAWKINS BROWN, HCP Social Infrastructure, MODUS, Natural Building Technologies, NHS, PLP Architecture, Price & Myers, Skanska.

Dane Virk, UCL IEDE EngD student sponsored by CIBSE 14

We also design short training courses for groups within organisations. These focus on raising awareness and knowledge on specific subjects.

We explore exciting, emerging themes in built environment study and reflect the joined-up, interdisciplinary ways of thinking, communicating and working that are increasingly in demand in industry. We do this at the centre of London, an inspirational world capital of the building design industry.

• MSc Environmental Design and Engineering • MSc Light and Lighting • MSc Facility and Environment Management.

Our MSc Facility and Environment Management is also offered to students in Singapore.

“Being a research student at UCL IEDE is one of the most valuable experiences. As a part of The Bartlett, one of the largest and most multidisciplinary faculties of the built environment, UCL IEDE is obviously evolving to meet future demands for innovative researches and to provide a range of resources and assistance to researchers.”

So Hyun, UCL IEDE PhD Student

The Light and Lighting MSc is accredited by CIBSE. Visualisation and Projection Party in celebration of 10 years of UCL EngD VEIV

The FEM programme is accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and the International Facility Management Association (IFMA)

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ABOUT UCL IEDE Reseach

The UCL IEDE’s body of 70 academics, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers are carrying out some of the world’s leading research in the field of sustainable building design and engineering, and making a valuable contribution to culture and society.

Wind simulation around urban London

Research at UCL IEDE is always original, always influential, and always relevant to the biggest challenges facing mankind. To do those things, it always crosses disciplines, drawing knowledge, wisdom and inspiration from across The Bartlett and UCL. We create exciting interdisciplinary collaborations that seek to address UCL’s Grand Challenges in Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction, Wellbeing and Global Health.

The quality of our research has been recognised by the prestigious award of two successive EPSRC Platform Grants and success in the recent 2014 REF exercise.

Our research is split into four research themes:

Housing as seen through an infra-red camera

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Building Performance and Processes

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The Built Environment – Health, Wellbeing and Performance

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Built Environment Systems Thinking

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Human-Building Interaction

Our research is currently performed using four main methods:

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Measurement, monitoring and testing

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Performance modelling and analysis

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Big data, GIS and data analysis

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Participatory research

Contact us for further information about UCL IEDE E: iede@ucl.ac.uk T: 020 3108 9479 Follow us on Twitter @UCL_IEDE

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UCL Institute for Environmental Design & Engineering Central House 14 Upper Woburn Place London, WC1H 0NN

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