GreenBRIDGE Buildings, Research, Innovation, Development, Governance, Energy 2009-10


Conveners

Tatiana V Vakhitova (President; Centre for Sustainable Development)
Matthew French (Vice President; Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies)
Scott Kelly (Junior Treasurer; Land EconomyCentre for Climate Change Mitigation Research)
Alison McDougall-Weil (PR and Fundraising; Engineering Design Centre)
Daniel Godoy-Shimizu (Seminar Co-ordinator; Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies)
Jeff Vickers
(Web Development and IT; Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Berhard Dusch (Design and Merchandising; Institute for Manufacturing)
Tom Berman (Co-ordinator; Centre for Sustainable Development)
Maria-Christina Georgiadou (Co-ordinator; Centre for Sustainable Development)
Beth Wattleworth (Co-ordinator; Department of Engineering)
Shadia Taha (Co-ordinator; Department of Archeology)
Jenny Ya He (Co-ordinator; Department of Engineering)

Advisors

Professor Peter Guthrie (Centre for Sustainable Development)
Dr Theo Hacking (Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership)
Dr Minna Sunikka-Blank (Department of Architecture)
Dr Diane Hinds (Centre for Sustainable Development)
Dr Geoff Parker (Centre for Sustainable Development)
Alice Moncaster (Centre for Sustainable Development)

* For more information about the group, please visit: GreenBRIDGE external website
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Programme 2009-2010

GreenBRIDGE is an interdisciplinary group of graduate researchers at the University of Cambridge interested in the sustainability of the built environment. We aim to provide a platform for discussion of ecological, social, cultural, technological and economic issues which affect the built environment.

Michaelmas Term 2009

Thursday 15 October, 12.00pm
Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development

Speakers:
Dr Minna Sunikka   (Centre for Sustainable Development, Architecture Dept, University of Cambridge) 
Sustainability and the existing building stock 

Dr Christopher Young   (Head of World Heritage and International Policy, English Heritage)
Current state of the World Heritage sites in the UK

Dennis Rodwell    (Architect/Urban planner/Consultant UNESCO)
Management challenges in the World Heritage sites

Dr Ana Pereira Roders    (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)         
UNESCO Project: on-line tool on sustainable management in the World Heritage cites

Tatiana Vakhitova     (PhD Researcher, Centre for Sustainable Development)
Sustainability in the World Heritage cities: introduction to the research

 

Thursday 29 October, 12.00pm
An interdisciplinary approach for decarbonising the built environment 

Speakers from the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University (TBC)
Tina Fawcett

Recent research highlights from the Environmental Change Institute

Scott Kelly
A framework for modelling decarbonisation: perspectives from engineering and economics

Thursday 12 November, 12.00pm
Sustainable built environments: Building design, building performance and building occupants

PhD Architecture students and , Research presentations (TBC)  

Thursday 26 November, 12.00pm
Sustainable Communities & Regeneration (policy-makers, industry)

Speakers:
Prof Randall Thomas
(Visiting Professor in Building Physics)
Zero Carbon Design 

Renato Rodrigues
Retrofit for the Future
 

Lent Term 2010

Thursday 21 January 2010, 12.00pm
GreenBRIDGE - 1 year Anniversary"


Thursday 4 February, 12.00p
m
Scenarios for strategic planning in the built environment


Speakers:

Dr Alexander Van de Putte, Senior Director and Head of Senario Processes and Applications, PFC Energy International

Dr Theo Hacking, Senior Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies


Jeff Vickers,
PhD Student, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand (coordinator)


Thursday 18 February, 12.00pm

Designing sustainability: philosophy and practice

Speakers:
Berhard Dusch,
Design Management Group, IfM, Graduate Researcher (coordinator) 
Mapping sustainable design strategies - the development of a compound framework

Alison McDougall-Weil, Design Practice Group, Engineering Design Centre, Graduate Researcher (coordinator)
The architecture of science: holistic sustainability in practice

Third speaker TBC (social sciences)


Thursday 4 March, 12.00pm

Heritage and future cities: Lessons from the Past for a Sustainable Future

Speakers:
Shadia Taha, Department of Archeology, Graduate Researcher, Cambridge University (coordinator)
Multi-disciplinary approach in architecture

James Hooper, UK Manager for the Global Heritage Fund
Framework "Preservation by Design"

Tatiana Vakhitova, Centre for Sustainable Development, Engineering Department, Graduate Researcher, Cambridge University (coordinator)
Conservation and Planning: recent theoretical thoughts

Seif El Rashidi, Coordinator of the Durham World Heritage Site
Urban Conservation and its Social Challenges: Some Thoughts on Cities that Care and Cities that Don't

Heba Mostafa, Department of Architecture, Graduate Researcher, Cambridge University (coordinator)
The Role of the Visual in Reconstructing the Past

Easter Term 2010

Friday 30 April *
Workshop

 

* For more information about the group and Easter Term programme, please visit:
GreenBRIDGE external website

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