Research and consultancy services
The Built Environment Research Group engages in scholarship and applied grant-funded research. This is targeted at underpinning learning and teaching, engaging with research communities worldwide and developing peer-reviewed published outputs.
Research income since 2001 has exceeded £1 million, with recent high profile research including
- an EPSRC project examining design-build tendering, a paper from which attained the premier CIOB '2003-04 Research and Innovation Award' and 'CIOB Medal'
- a HEFCE TCS project 'Development of Energy-Loss Techniques for Buildings'
- a series of projects funded by RICS and industry partners through the Urban Land Use Research Club
High quality scholarship has led to numerous academic and research-based textbooks, peer-reviewed journals and international conference papers, including works acknowledged by the EPSRC and the Emerald Literati Club.
Recent academic consultancy has involved advanced training programmes for Henry Boot Plc, Bluestone and Professional Construction Skills (PCS) Sheffield, while research-based consultancy has been undertaken for Yorkshire Water and the NHS.
We enjoy good links with professional bodies
- The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
- The Royal Institution of British Architects (RIBA)
- The Association of Building Engineers (ABE)
- The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists
and research organisations
- The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB)
- The Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM)
- The RICS Construction and Building Research Conference (COBRA)
Research work is disseminated through these professional bodies as journal papers, conference presentations and industry-specific advisory documents.
Strong international links are maintained with
- Tunku Abdul Rahman College (TARC, Malaysia) through collaborative academic course provision
- Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM, Malaysia) through collaborative PhD staff-development studentship programmes
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University through editorial involvements with refereed journals
We support a range of postgraduate (PhD) programmes with a distinctive feature being the HEI special-initiative career-track research bursary programme (2007-2011). Six new PhD candidates will benefit from a research and teaching and learning PhD development programme which can lead to academic staff appointment upon successful completion.
