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Two recent reports by the Public Accounts Committee highlight the important role the CESER led iBUILD Infrastructure Business Models Research Centre has to play in facilitating infrastructure delivery. The first, on Integration across government and Whole-Place Community Budgets highlights the benefits … Continue reading
Professor Richard Dawson, Director of the Centre for Earth Systems Engineering Research named to the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) - a team of international climate scientists pledged to help cities. Professor Richard Dawson has been named a key member … Continue reading
iBUILD is a £3.5m programme, funded by two UK research councils, following a request in the 2011 National Infrastructure Plan. The programme is led by Professor Richard Dawson at Newcastle University. www.ibuild.ac.uk iBUILD focuses on local and urban infrastructure, and … Continue reading
SHOCK (NOT) HORROR is an EPSRC-funded project that, over the past two years, has been looking at how ‘shock’ events can provide opportunities for learning about and transformation of infrastructure systems. On Friday 22 November (10am to 4pm) we will … Continue reading
As part of the British Science Festival 2013 being hosted at Newcastle University, researchers, staff, lecturers and students were invited to contribute to a comic being developed and designed by local comic enthusiasts. The comic was officially targeting children between … Continue reading
The hosting of the British Science Festival 2013 by Newcastle University gave staff and researchers of the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences a chance to “show off” some of their research to the general public, whilst also gave the … Continue reading
This week the British Science Festival is being held in Newcastle. CESER researchers are involved in a number of activities: David Alderson and Hayley Fowler have both contributed to the Newcastle Science Comic. David worked with Terry Wiley to produce … Continue reading
Luke Smith won best paper by a young author at the International Conference on Flood Resilience held at the University of Exeter this week. Luke’s paper, ‘A flexible hydrodynamic modelling framework for GPUs and CPUs: application to the Carlisle 2005 … Continue reading
Find the full job description and apply at: http://tinyurl.com/okwe545 Based at Newcastle University in the School of Civil Engineering & Geosciences, you will use your advanced computer programming and web skills to develop new and innovative approaches to making cutting-edge … Continue reading
A new map reveals how prepared UK cities are for climate change. The ability of cities to combat the cause of climate change and to adapt to future weather patterns depends on where we live in the UK, new research … Continue reading
A few months ago, long time CESER collaborators, Bruce Beck and Rodrigo Villarroel Walker wrote a piece on Growing Blue to Grow Rainbow and posted it at www.growingblue.com (November, 2012). It was prompted by Laurent Auguste’s blog of 5 July, 2012, “Blue Is The New Green”, in which … Continue reading
One year after the #ToonMonsoon, the film is released at the Tyneside Cinema. The film is the result of a winning idea submitted to the first LWEC short film competition by Northumbrian Water and Newcastle University. ‘Flood Force: finding solutions … Continue reading
Oliver Heidrich and Jane Gibbon participated in an expert group (North East Sustainability Roundtable) for the Insider magazine, the UK’s leading regional business publication which is distributed to around 8,000 businesses in the North east, discussing challenges of Sustainability and business. … Continue reading
Over 100 stakeholders attended the event to hear the findings and “play” with the computer demonstrator to explore infrastructure interdependency issues. The Resilient Futures project which emerged from an EPSRC/ESRC sandpit in 2010 has been studying interdependencies between infrastructure and … Continue reading
The U-Café initiative has been awarded the Newcastle University, Best Environmental Initiative of 2013. U-Café was designed to gauge a range of possible perceptions around notions of waste, value and utility. The interdisciplinary team of researchers and students from CESER, School of Civil Engineering and … Continue reading
Visit www.ibuild.ac.uk for more information. Understanding how our key infrastructures interconnect – from a technical, economic and social perspective – will improve the way we finance and deliver them across the UK. Experts at Newcastle University will lead a … Continue reading
TransMob: A micro-simulation model for integrated transport and urban planning Prof Pascal Perez, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, NSW 4-5pm, 24th May, Room 2.32: Cassie Building, Newcastle University To book your place please register online How will current … Continue reading
EPSRC and ESRC have recently announced the funding of i-BUILD, a £3.5M research centre, led by Professor Richard Dawson at Newcastle University, to develop new approaches to infrastructure business models with the ultimate aim of replacing current public-private business models … Continue reading
Adaptation and Resilience in Cities: Analysis and decision making using integrated assessment (ARCADIA) Final dissemination event, 2 May, London Building upon work developed during the Tyndall Centre Cities Programme, the ARCADIA project has developed a methodological approach for looking at … Continue reading
The concept of upcycling is recognised as only successful if the general public not only recognise these new potentials in waste material, but are also motivated to do something with them too. What is not currently known, is the willingness … Continue reading