Built Environment News

Researchers at the University of Salford are teaming up with homelessness services and businesses in Stoke-on-Trent to forge new partnerships that will create opportunities for homeless people in the city.

Energy Minister, Charles Hendry, visited Salford yesterday to see how the University is combining training and cutting-edge technology to meet the UK’s carbon emissions targets and reduce fuel poverty.

One of the first students to complete the Carbon in Homes Driving Licence jointly run by the University of Salford and Property Tectonics Ltd will be using his new-found skills to reduce fuel poverty in around 3,000 Welsh homes.

Experts from the University of Salford are at the head of a new academic network funded by the European Union to improve disaster preparedness in cities worldwide.

The University of Salford and the low carbon business support company, Envirolink have joined forces in creating a major new initiative to deliver cutting-edge skills to people working in the energy and buildings industry.

In a major new initiative, eight UK universities led by the Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE) at the University of Salford have made over 2,000 hours of built environment learning materials available online, free of charge.

A panel of leaders in sustainability last week spoke of the opportunities for a more creative and partnership-based approach to sustainability in Greater Manchester – despite cuts to public sector services.

University of Salford archaeologists will be helping people in Tameside to excavate the grounds of one of their historic gems, thanks to funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Housing practitioners across the board are being given the opportunity to undertake a university backed online learning programme on reducing carbon in homes.

Greater Manchester’s biggest ever archaeological project is ready to get underway as the first sites are revealed from a series that will eventually encompass thousands of people exploring every borough in the region, as well as Blackburn with Darwen.

The first of a series of unique education sessions on building information modelling (BIM) for Balfour Beatty’s managers was organised at the MediaCityUK campus of the University of Salford recently.

From text messages to turnpikes, and from Morse code to mass media, the full range of communications will be explored at a public conference on 3 March as part of Manchester Histories Festival.

The University of Salford Retrofit 2012 conference concluded today (26 Jan) with a detailed focus on the challenges of the large-scale behaviour change needed in the UK if the government is to achieve its carbon reduction targets.

The University of Salford’s North West Construction Awards are now open for entries as, for the sixth year, businesses around the region are invited to showcase and promote the achievements of the sector.

A study led by The University of Cambridge in collaboration with the University of Salford has uncovered serious flaws in the process of building for the arts.