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A team of four students from the University of Reading made a triumphant start to the new series of University Challenge last week, beating St John’s College, Cambridge in their first round match. The team, including a mixture of undergraduate … Continue reading →

Research Engineer Howard Darby attended The Sustainable Building Conference, SB13 Munich in April this year and presented a paper on his research into embodied carbon in buildings. SB13 Munich is part of a major international series of conferences that focus … Continue reading →

With summer 2013 setting out to be much more memorable than the wash-outs of recent years, here at the TSBE we are also having a remarkable summer: the first ever TSBE cohort of EngD Research Engineers will submit and graduate … Continue reading →

Current vacancies Evaluating and forecasting weather and climate impacts on telecommunications infrastructure This is a 4 year fully funded research studentship working with the University of Reading’s internationally renowned Department of Meteorology and the R & D team in BT … Continue reading →

Trevor Keeling Chris Knight Victoria Fillingham Stephen Richardson Stacey Waring Samantha Mudie Rosario Nobile Laura Daniels Daniel Saker Marek Kubik Michelle Aghahossein  

TSBE researcher Stephen Richardson is tackling the challenge of the embodied carbon in supermarket construction for his sponsoring company Sainsburys. Stephen’s reasearch looks to develop tools to measure the embodied carbon of Sainsbury’s new stores and to trial new low … Continue reading →

The TSBE Centre is hosting a Business Impact Workshop on 26th June for its Research Engineers to develop their skills and help them identify the opportunities and drivers for the business impact of their work. The workshop is being led … Continue reading →

TSBE Centre researcher, Sahm Sawaf, has been recently elected as the Event Secretary for the CIBSE Building Simulation Group (BSG). His first organised event – “Designing for Better Indoor Environmental Quality Buildings” explored current and future approaches to improving the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) … Continue reading →

China is often portrayed in a negative light in environmental and energy related circles, but despite rampant coal production and polluted cities they are making great strides in the development of efficient buildings and contributing significant funds in the development … Continue reading →