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New Centre for Doctoral Training launches: Energy Resilience and the Built Environment (ERBE)
5 April 2019
The 果冻影院 Energy Institute, together with the Energy and Physical Sciences Research Council, Loughborough University and Ireland's Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy, has set up ERBE to train future leaders and innovators in the field of energy and the built environment.
On Thursday 28 March 2019, the 果冻影院 Energy Institute听welcomed academics, industry partners and government officials from the UK and the Republic of Ireland for the launch of a new joint Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT): the EPSRC Centre in Energy Resilience and the Built Environment 鈥撎鼸RBE. The collaboration also includes our听fellow departments at The Bartlett:听the听果冻影院 Institute for Sustainable Resources and the 果冻影院 Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering.
What is ERBE?
The 听Centre in Energy Resilience and the Built Environment (ERBE) has been created to train students in the research and workplace skills needed to take leading roles in the transformation of UK and Irish energy systems. ERBE will take systemic, radical and interdisciplinary challenges, equipping its听graduates with the leadership skills to effect change.
ERBE will provide a unique training experience, producing graduates who understand听the whole energy system before specialising听in one aspect of it.
Speaking of the partnership with Ireland鈥檚听Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy (MaREI), Jenny Crawley, 果冻影院 Academic Manager for ERBE,听said:
The collaboration with Ireland is going to be exciting. We have been working to develop collaborations and understand each other鈥檚 research strengths. We also share similar national contexts. One of MaREI鈥檚 aims is to empower industry to enable sustainable economic development in Ireland, while 果冻影院 and LU are responding to the challenges set out in the UK鈥檚 Clean Growth Strategy.
ERBE addresses a national priority research area focusing on the interactions between energy supply systems and buildings 鈥撎齛nd the need to create healthy and productive home and work environments.听
Students at ERBE will attain a depth of understanding only possible when听cohorts work and learn together. An integrated, four-year programme will provide the knowledge, research and transferable skills to enable outstanding graduates in areas from physics to social sciences to pursue research in one of three themes:
- Flexibility and resilience:
The interaction between buildings and the whole supply system, through new generation and storage technology, enabled by smart control systems and new business models.听 - Comfort, health and wellbeing:
Buildings and energy systems that create productive work environments and affordable, clean, safe homes. - Technology and system performance:
Demand reduction and decarbonisation of the built environment through design, construction methods, technological innovation, monitoring and regulation.
Working with industry partners
The prominent听role of industry in co-creating projects will keep the ERBE CDT aligned to the current national research priorities.
To take advantage of this听unique opportunity to co-develop research projects of technical and commercial significance with talented and enthusiastic students,听please get in touch with one of the ERBE team:
Elinor Kruse (果冻影院), Partnerships Manager for the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources
elinor.kruse@ucl.ac.uk
Tel. 020 3108 9044
Professor Bob Lowe (果冻影院), ERBE Centre Director
robert.lowe@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Kevin Lomas, ERBE Centre Co-Director, Loughborough University
K.J.Lomas@lboro.ac.uk
Dr Cliff Elwell (果冻影院), ERBE Centre Deputy Director
clifford.elwell@ucl.ac.uk
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