UK-China Bridge in Sustainable Energy and Built Environment

中国的“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。英国政府认识到潜在的好处，积极鼓励与中国的国际合作。贝尔法斯特女王大学（QUB）的两个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，利用这些机会与一些地理上分布的中国领先大学、研究机构和行业合作。这项工作得到了EPSRC、皇家学会和皇家工程院的支持，其中包括为中英可持续电力供应联合财团提供的100万EPSRC赠款，以及一个22万EPSRC项目，用于运行中英清洁能源研究网络，以促进中国的可持续发电和供应。部分QUB技术已在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）等重大建设项目中进行了测试。申请人的目标是在7所大学合作伙伴的帮助下，加强他们在中国和英国的科学创新和技术转移活动（主要是清华大学，在中国排名第一，浙江大学，在中国排名第三，其他是重庆，上海交通，东南，上海和湖南），3个中国研究机构（建筑工程中央研究院、中国科学院电气工程研究所、公路科学研究院）中国国家铁路总公司（最大的铁道部），中国建筑总公司（最大的建设部），宝钢公司（最大的中国，世界销售排名第六）和上海电气集团（最大的中国）是中国的四个主要工业合作伙伴。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.