| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S20482/01 |
| Title: |
SUE Scoping Study: Feasibility Study toward Adopting Birmingham Eastside as a Regional Demonstrator of Sustainable Urban Redevelopment |
| Principal Investigator: |
Rogers, Professor CDF |
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| Department: |
Civil Engineering |
| Organisation: |
University of Birmingham |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 May 2003 |
Ends: |
31 December 2004 |
Value (£): |
190,910
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Assess/Remediate Contamination |
Building Ops & Management |
| Construction Ops & Management |
Energy Efficiency |
| Urban & Land Management |
Water Engineering |
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| Construction |
Environment |
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Sustainable regeneration underpins the ten-year masterplan to transform Birmingham Eastside into an exciting, new, multipurpose city centre development. This proposal concerns research into the enablers of and constraints to implementing sustainability by considering the three main pillars of sustainability (economy, environment and society) in this real urban regeneration programme. Sustainability is considered in its widest sense, making the issues necessarily multidimensional, multidisciplinary and highly complex. A feasibility study is proposed to provide the basis of a fully investigated, holistic proposal to EPSRC's Sustainable Urban Environment Programme to adopt Eastside as a Regional Demonstrator of Sustainability in the Urban Environment. Ideas ranging from incremental improvements to blue skies concepts will be tested by a multi-disciplinary team of research fellows, academics and users to determine their feasibility for inclusion as detailed research studies in the Regional Demonstrator Project. Research outputs will include 1) identification of universal enablers of and constraints to implementing sustainable technologies and approaches into a real urban regeneration programme, 2) recommendations of where and how sustainabifty issues might best be approached, 3) recommendations for further research on how best to exploit enablers and overcome barriers to sustainable development, 4) establishing a framework of cross-disciplinary knowledge and key partnerships with users.
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.bham.ac.uk |