UK-China Bridge in Sustainable Energy and Built Environment

中国十一五规划将可持续能源供应和可持续建筑环境视为实现可持续发展的关键。意识到潜在的好处，英国政府积极鼓励与中国的国际合作。贝尔法斯特女王大学(QUB)的两所工程学院在建筑环境和电力与控制领域拥有国际公认的卓越研究成果，它们利用这些机会与多所地理位置分散的中国领先大学、研究机构和行业进行合作。这项工作得到了EPSRC、皇家学会和皇家工程院的支持，其中包括EPSRC为英国-中国可持续电力供应联合财团提供的100万英镑赠款，以及一个220K的EPSRC项目，以运营英国-中国清洁能源研究网络，以促进中国的超级发电(SuperGen)。一些QUB技术也在重大建设项目中进行了测试，如北京国家奥林匹克体育场(鸟巢)和杭州湾跨海大桥(世界上最长的跨海大桥)。申请者旨在加强他们在中国和英国的科技创新和技术转移活动，帮助他们的7所大学合作伙伴(主要是清华大学，中国和浙江大学排名第一，中国排名第三，其他分别是重庆、上海交通、东南、上海和湖南)，3家中国研究机构(中央建筑工程研究院、中国科学院电气工程研究所、公路研究院)。中国国家铁路公司(铁道部最大的)、中国国家建设公司(建设部最大的)、宝钢集团(中国最大，世界销量第六)和上海电气集团(中国最大的)是中国主要的四个产业合作伙伴。英国的补充支持包括Amphora NDT Ltd.、Macrete和SuperGen。

The Chinese 11th Five-Year Plan considers Sustainable Energy Supply and Sustainable Built Environment as crucial for achieving sustainable development. Recognising the potential benefits, the UK government has actively encouraged international collaborations with China. Two Engineering Schools at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), with internationally recognised research excellence in the Built Environment and in Electric Power & Control, have taken used these opportunities to collaborate with a number of, geographically distributed, leading Chinese universities, research institutions and industries. This effort has been supported by the EPSRC, the Royal Society & the Royal Academy of Engineering, and includes a 1M EPSRC grant for a UK-China joint consortium on sustainable electric power supply and a 220K EPSRC project to run UK-China Network of Clean Energy Research to promote SUPERGEN (Sustainable Power Generation and Supply) in China. Some QUB technologies have also been tested in major construction projects, such as the Beijing National Olympic Stadium (Bird's Nest) and the Hangzhou Bay Sea-Crossing Bridge (longest such bridge in the world). The applicants aim to enhance their science innovation and technology transfer activities in both China and the UK helped by their 7 university partners (principally Tsinghua University, # 1 in China & Zhejiang University, #3 in China, the others being Chongqing, Shanghai Jiaotong, Southeast, Shanghai and Hunan), 3 Chinese research institutions (Central Research Institute of Building & Construction CRIBC, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Electrical Engineering, and the Research Institute of Highways). The China State Railway Corp. (largest under Ministry of Railways), the China State Construction Corporation (largest under Ministry of Construction), Bao Steel Corporation (largest in China, #6 in world sales) and Shanghai Electric Group (largest in China) are the main 4 Chinese industrial partners. Complementary UK support includes Amphora NDT Ltd, Macrete and SUPERGEN.