Built Environment News

Business and Enterprise Minister Michael Fallon, has opened Europe’s most advanced facility for creating energy efficient glass and met with leaders of businesses working on low carbon technology during a visit to the University of Salford today (19 October).

An engineer who took technology from the aerospace industry and applied it to the construction of the iconic Beijing Olympic stadium has been appointed as a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Innovation at the University of Salford.

Music originally played on the occasion of a visit by Queen Victoria in 1851 to Salford is to be heard for the first time in 150 years as part of an exhibition of finds and memories from Worsley New Hall.

The University of Salford is looking for people in the Stockport area to excavate a stately home belonging to two brothers who fought on opposite sides during the English Civil War.

The University of Salford is behind a global student design competition, backed by UN Habitat, to find the best ideas for a sustainable green space on a giant car park in Turin.

The University of Salford is to work with the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities on a project which will find new ways to trace and communicate with the owners of 930 empty homes across the region.

New University of Salford research carried out among businesses in Cockermouth in Cumbria following catastrophic floods in 2009 has found that only a very few have taken flood-protection measures – despite an average 1,750% rise in insurance excesses being reported among the businesses surveyed.

The University of Salford is looking for volunteers to help them excavate historic Chadderton Hall as part of Greater Manchester’s biggest ever archaeological project.

Following a major community dig in Radcliffe, University of Salford archaeologists have catalogued a number of finds that bring the lives of the 19th Century residents to life.

The University of Salford is part of a Europe-wide project to develop technologies which will allow buildings to optimise how they consume energy and resources, using wireless sensor technology and data mining methods that learn to optimise energy consumption, but maintain user comfort.

Today (18 July), the University of Salford has awarded honorary degrees to two leaders in the construction sector.

The University of Salford is looking for volunteers to help them excavate the historic centre of Radcliffe as part of Greater Manchester’s biggest ever archaeological project.

The North West construction sector celebrated the achievements of the region’s best and most innovative projects and organisations at last night’s annual awards ceremony, which was held at The Palace Hotel, Manchester.

Archaeologists from the University of Salford have acted as supervisors to a group of volunteers involved in the excavation of one of Tameside’s most historic sites.

A researcher at the University of Salford is looking for people to share their memories of Worsley New Hall, the Victorian mansion built for the Earls of Ellesmere and demolished after the Second World War at the end of the 1940s.