Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

EP/C009649/1

Title:

KNOWLEDGE MAPPING AND BRINGING ABOUT CHANGE FOR THE SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT TRANSITION PROJECT

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Demaid, Professor A	Atkinson, Dr AR	Green, Professor K
Guthrie, Professor PM	Quintas, Professor P	Morton, Mrs B

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Dr M Akhavan Farshchi	Dr HJ Cruickshank	Dr R Greenwood
Mr D Hoy	Ms C Lessard	Dr H McCoach
Dr A Monaghan

Project Partners:

BSRIA	Caledonian Shanks	Centre for the Built Environment
Dearle & Henderson	Laing O'Rourke Ltd	Sustainability Centre in Glasgow

Department:

Sch of Engineering & Built Environment

Organisation:

Glasgow Caledonian University

Scheme:

Standard Research (Pre-FEC)

Starts:

25 April 2005

Ends:

24 October 2005

Value (£):

134,446

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Construction Ops & Management

Urban & Land Management

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Construction

Related Grants:

Panel History:

Summary on Grant Application Form

The consortium's EPSRC funded scoping study on SUE-KM is now drawing to a close, and funding running out on 31 October 2004. The Consortium has also submitted the main Core-plus SUE bid, but EPSRC will not be in a position to start funding the main programme until 1 May 2005. Our consortium has therefore been invited by EPSRC to submit this transition (Bridging Fund) project to provide sufficient funding to keep the research team in place at least until the result of the main bid is known. The transition project will also take the scoping study one step forward, especially with regard to the areas that were not able to be exploited in the scoping study due to the constraints of time. The transition project will appraise the options (i.e. tools) for dynamic approaches to modeling and mapping knowledge, which consider the flow of knowledge for sustainability - how it is created, distributed and accessed; develop a structured assessment to evaluate these knowledge mapping tools against stated study requirements and produce recommendations for use by the main core-plus study; the project would test and refine the generic model of knowledge mapping for sustainability, which would form the basis for the main study; use the opportunity of the transition project to work with industrial collaborators (assembled for the main core-plus project) to select appropriate case projects needed to be investigated during the main bid. The main outputs guidance document the different k-mapping tools, indicating the strengths and weaknesses of each in differing contexts ; a structured assessment protocol for evaluating knowledge mapping tools; tested generic model on KM for sustainability to form the basis for the main programme (Core-Plus); organization of a workshop of industrialists, academics , users and producers of sustainability knowledge; identification and selection of appropriate case studies/projects to be used for the main programme (core and plus); a 5-page pamphlet which should be useful in disseminating the importance of sustainability knowledge to the wider SUE consortia and to the users and producers of sustainability knowledge; and a final report on the transition project.

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