Category Archives: sustainability

Excellence Award: TSBE Centre Manager – Jenny Berger

University of Reading June 2018 The University of Reading Students Union (RUSU) have awarded Jenny Berger, the manager of the Technologies for Sustainable Built Environment Research Centre (TSBE), the Support Staff Excellence Award at this year’s RUSU Partnership in Teaching … Continue reading

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TSBE Centre Researchers set to shine at CIBSE’s Build2Perform Event

TSBE Centre researcher Saadia Ansari  been working towards CIBSE’s Build2Perform event that is happening this week (Tuesday and Wednesday) with the CIBSE Young Energy Performance Group. Here is a link to view the seminar programme and to register: http://www.build2perform.co.uk/seminar-programme/ Saadia … Continue reading

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Too Many Cooking-Appliances Spoil the Broth

Too Many Cooking-Appliances Spoil the Broth Blog post October 2017: Sam Mudie TSBE Centre Research and Impact Fellow, Dr Sam Mudie, has published a further journal article, the 4th from the successful EngD Project “Energy Use and Reduction in UK … Continue reading

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Electric Vehicle Conference

TSBE hosted an electric vehicle industry forum at Henley Business School. This exciting conference, “Power System Benefits of Electric Vehicles”, brought together experts on the integration of electric vehicles within power systems, and provided a forum for networking and knowledge … Continue reading

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Wireless charging in the latest iPhones could be a watershed moment for the technology and lead to its adoption in other sectors, industry bosses have claimed.

Professor Ben Potter of the TSBE (Technologies for Sustainable Built Environments) Centre, University of Reading was recently interviewed for the above article; Read it here: I phones and electric vehicles. The TSBE Centre are currently working with and Anthony Simpson on … Continue reading

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TSBE Centre Researchers attend Sustainable Technologies Conference in Bolgna

Last month we attended the Sustainable Energy Technologies conference in Bologna Italy representing the TSBE centre at the University of Reading.  The 16th SET conference was held at the Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna in the Department of Architecture … Continue reading

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Electric Vehicles – BBC Radio Berks

Today Dr Phil Coker from University of Reading was interviewed by  Bill Buckley of BBC Radio Berkshire about government plans for electric vehicles by 2040.  When asked about how the increased demand for electricity will be met,  Dr Coker explained … Continue reading

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TSBE Conference Papers 2017

The papers  written and presented by the doctoral students of the TSBE Centre at the latest conference are available on our website https://www.reading.ac.uk/tsbe/NewsandEvents/Events/tsbe-events-engineering-doctorate-conference.aspx An overview of our research can be seen by watching our short video http://www.closeupresearch.com/tsbecentre/ .

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TSBE Centre Conference 2017

The conference buzzed with the TSBE Centre’s sustainability research developments, with presentations ranging from’ virtually manipulating landscapes to assess ecological impacts from large infrastructure’ (Katie McCausland & Costain) to ‘Energy storage in power distribution networks by Max Zangers’. The winner … Continue reading

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Decision making in complex world – from Royal Marine Major to TSBE EngD students

EngD students at the TSBE Centre had a unique opportunity to gain an insight into the diverse experiences of a Royal Marine and learn how military grade decision making techniques are applied to solve complex situations. Gareth Tennant is a … Continue reading

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