Infrastructure challenge
Infrastructure challenge
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Geologists make it easy to see the world beneath our feet
The Mendip caving community has discovered a multitude of caves over the years. And they’re hunting for more – a mission aided by the host of maps, photos and other data available from OpenGeoscience. This groundbreaking web service has beendeveloped by the British Geological Survey’s Knowledge Exchange Programme, drawing on a range of work across the organisation including the LWEC-accredited Geoscience Technologies Programme.
Climate science leads to capital benefits
Keeping London high and dry thanks to LWEC-accredited climate programme.
Since 1983, the Thames Barrier has insured London against the risk of serious flooding. But keeping the capital safe for the next hundred years will mean coping with rising sea levels and with extreme weather events likely to become more frequent and severe due to a changing climate.
Safeguarding suburbia from a changing climate
Learning what needs to change to prepare neighbourhoods for future conditions.
86% of the UK’s population live in suburbs. But how can these neighbourhoods cope with the consequences of climate change, such as rising temperatures and increased flood risk?
A Cooler Day at the Office
Practical steps to adapt council buildings in Cornwall to projected climate change.
The 1960s were a cultural turning point – the decade that redefined ‘cool’. But in terms of the built environment, their legacy poses some real challenges.
Taking the Heat out of Hospitals
Vulnerable people to benefit from health/research collaboration on climate change.
Preparing UK Infrastructure for Climate Change
Tools and advice to future-proof investment in large scale projects
As befits one of the UK’s largest civil engineering research programmes, the new Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium is thinking big. Pooling the expertise of seven universities, the consortium aims to develop and demonstrate a new generation of simulation models and practical decision-support tools.
Biofuels Executive Research Board
The Biofuels Executive Research Board brought together Chief Scientific Advisors from across government to monitor and
How Green are Marine Renewables?
Natural, plentiful, inexhaustible – there’s no doubting the appeal of wave and tidal energy.
Cutting Carbon by Design
Innovation in building design reduces carbon emissions.
Low Impact Buildings Innovation Platform
What is an Innovation Platform?
Innovation Platforms are designed to address major society and public policy challenges and where a government department is taking specific action through policy, regulation, procurement or financial measures to tackle the problem.
The importance of Low Impact Buildings