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Complex Built Environment Systems (CBES) Platform Grant Renewal Bid: Built Environment Systems Thinking

复杂建筑环境系统 (CBES) 平台拨款更新投标：建筑环境系统思维

基本信息

批准号：
EP/P022405/1
负责人：
Michael Davies
金额：
$ 199.29万
依托单位：
University College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP022405%2F1
关键词：
Complex Built Environment Systems CBES

项目摘要

The first Complex Built Environment Systems (CBES) Platform Grant consolidated a truly interdisciplinary, world-leading research group which focussed on the complexity of the context of our research activities and seeded a new Institute (UCL Energy). The second Platform Grant underpinned the development of a strategic programme of fundamental research aimed at understanding the unintended consequences of decarbonising the built environment, enabled CBES to become a world leader in this area and seeded three new UCL Institutes (Environmental Design & Engineering, Sustainable Heritage and Sustainable Resources). Supported by a third Platform Grant, our vision for CBES is now to transform scientific understanding of the systemic nature of a sustainable built environment. In a recent award-winning paper, resulting from our work under the current Platform Grant, we identified over 100 unintended consequences of energy efficiency interventions in homes. Taking moisture as just one example, we can demonstrate why a systems thinking approach is now so vital. By 2030, it will be government policy that every home in the UK will benefit from measures to improve energy efficiency. This is approximately 25 million homes - all our homes will be affected in some way. The total cost will be ~ £10 billion a year. The UK only has the chance once to do this correctly. Unfortunately, it is now clear that we are not dealing with these complex issues correctly. For example, a recent low energy refurbishment of ~400 dwellings in the north of England has had a 100% failure rate due to disastrous moisture issues which will cost millions to rectify. This has huge implications for the entire decarbonisation plan, for the health of the building occupants, for the communities involved and for the economic value of these properties. For the issue of moisture therefore, we have taken the decisive step to set up the new 'UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings' to link building engineering physics, health, building use, quality and process in a coherent way. Our thesis therefore, more widely, is that the built environment is a complex system that can only be successfully tackled via a new interdisciplinary systems thinking approach - performance emerges from the interplay of fundamental engineering and physical factors with process and structure. Such a systems thinking process was piloted in our project 'Housing, Energy and Wellbeing' (HEW) in the current Platform Grant and has led to close collaboration with a very large body of stakeholders from government, industry, NGOs and community groups who provide an invaluable resource for future research. Enabling this new, systemically integrated approach to built environment research will require a major change in the way we undertake our research - this will be a fundamental departure from business as usual. The development of such a novel methodological framework and the associated re-structuring and development of an interdisciplinary research group will involve a strategic, long-term perspective as well as some risk. The flexible Platform funding will be vital here in that it will enable approaches not possible with responsive mode funding. There are also likely to be some key policy changes in this specific area over the next 5 years - Platform funding will enable us to react to research opportunities in a timely manner and dynamically maintain research leadership in the field. The careers of CBES team members will be managed and developed through strategic action. Career development activities specifically enabled by Platform funding will include: (i) a new series of regular 'systems thinking' workshops to develop personal research agendas within our broader system of research; (ii) new industrial/policy mentoring via secondments; (iii) new skills training for staff through external training courses; (iv) enhanced stakeholder engagement via our unique series of regular workshops.

首个复杂建筑环境系统（CBES）平台赠款巩固了一个真正的跨学科，世界领先的研究小组，该小组专注于我们研究活动背景的复杂性，并建立了一个新的研究所（UCL能源）。第二笔平台拨款支持了基础研究战略计划的发展，旨在了解建筑环境脱碳的意外后果，使CBES成为该领域的世界领导者，并为三个新的UCL研究所（环境设计与工程、可持续遗产和可持续资源）提供了种子。在第三个平台基金的支持下，我们对CBES的愿景是转变对可持续建筑环境系统性质的科学理解。在最近的一篇获奖论文中，我们在当前的平台资助下进行了工作，我们确定了100多个家庭能效干预的意外后果。以湿度为例，我们可以证明为什么系统思考方法现在如此重要。到2030年，政府将制定政策，使英国的每个家庭都能从提高能源效率的措施中受益。这大约是2500万个家庭，我们所有的家庭都会受到某种程度的影响。每年的总费用约为100亿英镑。英国只有一次机会正确地做到这一点。不幸的是，现在很明显，我们没有正确地处理这些复杂的问题。例如，最近英格兰北部约400户住宅的低能耗翻新由于灾难性的潮湿问题而有100%的失败率，这将花费数百万美元来纠正。这对整个脱碳计划、建筑居住者的健康、所涉及的社区以及这些物业的经济价值都有巨大的影响。因此，对于湿度问题，我们采取了决定性的步骤，建立了新的“英国建筑物湿度中心”，以一种连贯的方式将建筑工程物理、健康、建筑使用、质量和过程联系起来。因此，我们的论文更广泛地认为，建筑环境是一个复杂的系统，只有通过一种新的跨学科系统思维方法才能成功地解决这个问题——性能是从基础工程和物理因素与过程和结构的相互作用中产生的。这种系统思考过程在我们目前的平台资助项目“住房、能源和福利”（HEW）中进行了试点，并与来自政府、行业、非政府组织和社区团体的大量利益相关者密切合作，为未来的研究提供了宝贵的资源。使这种新的、系统集成的方法能够用于建筑环境研究，将需要我们在进行研究的方式上做出重大改变——这将从根本上脱离以往的商业模式。这种新方法框架的发展以及与之相关的跨学科研究小组的改组和发展将涉及战略和长期的观点以及一些风险。灵活的平台资金在这里至关重要，因为它将使响应式资金无法实现的方法成为可能。未来5年，在这一特定领域也可能会有一些关键的政策变化——平台资助将使我们能够及时应对研究机会，并动态地保持该领域的研究领导地位。CBES团队成员的职业生涯将通过战略行动来管理和发展。由平台资金特别支持的职业发展活动将包括：(i)一系列新的定期“系统思考”研讨会，在我们更广泛的研究体系内制定个人研究议程；（ii）通过借调提供新的产业/政策指导；（iii）透过外部培训课程，为员工提供新技能培训；（iv）透过我们独特的定期工作坊，加强持份者的参与。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（10）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

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办公楼设计早期节能措施的生命周期评估：以英国伦敦为例

DOI：
10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.12.089
发表时间：
2017
期刊：
Energy and Buildings
影响因子：
6.7
作者：
Azzouz A
通讯作者：
Azzouz A

Design and operation of ventilation in low energy residences – A survey on code requirements and building reality from six European countries and China

DOI：
发表时间：
2017-09
期刊：
影响因子：
0
作者：
María del Carmen Bocanegra-Yáñez;G. Rojas;Daria Żukowska-Tejsen;E. Burman;G. Cao;M. Hamon;J. Kolarik
通讯作者：
María del Carmen Bocanegra-Yáñez;G. Rojas;Daria Żukowska-Tejsen;E. Burman;G. Cao;M. Hamon;J. Kolarik

Divestment prevails over the green paradox when anticipating strong future climate policies