Research projects within the Centre for Architecture and Built Environment Research
The Centre for Architecture and Built Environment Research (CABER) have projects in facilities management, conservation, sustainable buildings and related studies. See how our current and past projects make a difference.
Current projects
Achieving urban flood resilience in an uncertain future
The project aims to enable the co-ordinated planning, design and operation of closely coupled urban water systems necessary to achieve transformative change in urban flood risk and water management.
It investigates how planning, design, operation and organisation of both existing and new urban water systems might be envisaged and transformed in order to deliver multiple benefits (including flood resilience) under flood, normal. This includes UWE Bristol research that explores citizens' interactions with blue-green and grey infrastructure. Specifically to demonstrate how citizens’ priorities and the reality of their lifestyles, communities, and neighbourhoods affect their understanding of and support for B/G+G (Blue-Green and Grey) innovation.
Achieving Urban Flood Resilience
Chopping shopping
Research on the past and future of retail real estate investment.
Critical Urban Buildings Emergency Response (CUBER)
CUBER is an intelligent decision support system to support critical built facilities emergency preparedness and response to extreme urban buildings emergency response.
Delivering municipal services through effective procurement of local infrastructure
The purpose of this research project is to investigate the capacity building needs of government agencies to achieve value for money, transparency and sustainability in the procurement of local infrastructure for the delivery of essential municipal services in Nigeria.
Heating controls: International evidence base and policy experiences
A systematic evidence of review of the energy and cost savings potential of heating controls in domestic settings.
Heating controls: International evidence base and policy experiences
Immersive BIM-based approach for Furniture, Fixture and Equipment (FFE) design for buildings
Research explores the application of immersive technologies within the Furniture, Fixture and Equipment sector.
Immersive BIM-based approach for FFE Design for Buildings
Improving design for safety
A web-based design for safety capability maturity indicator (DFS-CMI) tool for the construction sector.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Placing a valuation on the UK's fishery
Scotland’s fisheries have been given to a few big operators due to lucrative quotas. Experts on property law have called for new legislation, otherwise these operators will continue selling the rights to foreign firms.
Learn more about the valuation project via The Times.Reducing floodwater ingress rates in buildings
This study provides experimental insights of replicated and repeated field tests that compare floodwater ingress rates through masonry walls of domestic buildings, before and after preparation with different water repellent impregnating fluid treatments.
Reducing Floodwater Ingress Rates in Buildings
Residential building energy demand reduction in India (RESIDE)
The RESIDE project will help support the improvement of living conditions for millions of Indian citizens through establishing the knowledge base to develop a residential building code for high quality, low-energy housing across all five climatic zones in India. Residential buildings make up the majority of building energy use in India - using nearly 6.5 times more than commercial and public services sector, and consumption is expected to grow four-fold by 2030 due to an ever-increasing GDP, the number of urban households increases, alongside a greater penetration of electrical appliances. This offers tremendous scope and untapped potential for energy demand reduction in this sector.
Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM)
This project involves smart heritage building performance measurement for sustainability. In other words, measurement techniques that allow for the repurposing and modifying of occupied heritage buildings.
Past projects
- Arbor-Reality
- Best Practice in Partnering: development of guidance on professional practice in partnering for registered social landlords (RSLs)
- Built Environment Appropriate Technology for Learning (BEATL)
- CEME Consortium Project
- Concept to Completion: Design tools for sustainable buildings
- Construction Excellence South West and Future Foundations
- Construction Towards the Millennium: A Study of major construction projects in the greater Bristol area to 2005
- Designing Healthy and Inclusive Public Outdoor Spaces For Young People
- Evaluation of Bristol Play Pathfinder Programme
- Facilities Innovation in the Workplace
- HORTONET - A network of European historic gardens
- Modules for International Countryside Conservation, Protection and Management, by Distance Learning (MICPAM)
- RAPID 2000
- Student Accommodation Survey
- The emerging structure of the UK Facilities Management Sector
- The Virtual Construction Site: A decision support system for construction planning
- Valhalla
- VirtuAL
- Wells 2000 Record.