Urban intelligence research aims to pave the way in rethinking the built environment and improve sustainability, resilience and service quality.

Overview

The built environment is increasingly embracing digital technologies, including control and automation systems. As such it is paving the way to smarter ways of managing our buildings and wider infrastructures. These smart built environments are facing increasing pressures to improve sustainability, resilience and service quality.

Our aims

Our aim is to pave the way in rethinking the built environment, adapted to the challenges of the 21st century.

Our focus

We will focus on four main areas:

• energy
• water
• mobility
• resilience and citizen engagement.

We will deliver a roadmap in urban intelligence research. To assist with this activity, the group will:

• cultivate collaborative links with University research institutes as active co-creation forums to nurture and crystallise urban intelligence research ideas
• initiate sustainable links and collaborations with local authorities to engage the urban value chain in our research
• establish links with our GW4 partners to deliver globally competitive research
• foster links with our European research collaborators
• nurture research links with our non-EU collaborators.

People

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