EPSRC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Resilience and the Built Environment

英国即将进入能源效率的第三个新时代。到2050年，英国的温室气体排放量必须进一步下降65%，但能源系统的脱碳速度会更快。在储能的支持下，大型风能、海洋和太阳能发电机将主导中央供电系统，智能、社区和建筑集成系统将嵌入我们的城镇。人、建筑和能源系统的这种互动将改变供需关系。我们的住宅和非住宅建筑不能再被动地消耗热量和电力，相反，我们的家庭和企业必须积极参与灵活、集成、低碳的供需系统，购买、销售和储存热量和电力，以通过安全、集成、需求管理和脱碳来实现能源弹性。这必须在满足人类对高质量居住和工作空间的需求的同时实现，从而提高英国经济的生产率，减少燃料贫困，改善健康和福祉，并支持老龄化的人口。新的EPSRC CDT在能源弹性和建筑环境(ERBE)将培训至少50名博士毕业生，了解我们面临的系统性、根本性、多学科和跨学科的挑战，并拥有实施变革的领导资历。学生将沉浸在拉夫堡大学拉夫堡大学与爱尔兰海洋和可再生能源中心合作的世界领先的研究环境中。ERBE的学生将获得只有在同龄人一起工作和学习的情况下才可能获得的深入理解。我们将与我们的利益相关者合作伙伴和学生共同创建一个为期4年的综合计划。它将提供知识、研究和可转移的技能，使从物理到社会科学的优秀毕业生能够从事以下三个主题之一的研究：*灵活性和复原力：通过新一代建筑和存储技术，通过智能控制系统和新商业模式，实现建筑物与整个供应系统之间的互动。*技术和系统表现：通过设计、施工方法、技术创新、监测和监管，减少对建筑环境的需求和脱碳。*舒适、健康和福祉：创造生产性工作环境和负担得起的、清洁、安全的家庭的建筑和能源系统。该中心将由共同工作超过30年的董事领导，并由成功交付CDT in Energy Demand的代表、学术管理人员、管理人员和课程开发团队提供支持。超过50名世界领先的学者可以担任学生导师。核心团队将由一个咨询委员会指导，该委员会代表英国政府、能源供应商、研究机构、咨询公司、建筑公司和慈善机构；已有30多位知名人士表示有兴趣加入该委员会。董事会成员和利益相关者将提供借调、商业技能培训和职业建议，该中心将为更广泛的能源和建筑界提供培训和研究利益。将创建一个新的在线建筑、能源、复原力和需求中心，以分享培训材料、视频、研讨会和促进合作，一个为期一周的住宅方案、能源复原力和建筑环境将向来自世界各地的博士生开放，并将举行由学生主导的年度会议。一年一度的英国-爱尔兰暑期学校和座谈会将展示中心的工作，并让学生与未来的潜在雇主面对面。通过提供严格、世界领先、利益相关者塑造、面向外部和多中心研究环境的培训，新的ERBE CDT将帮助英国实现政府产业战略和清洁增长战略中的目标。

The UK is on the brink of a new, third age of energy efficiency. UK greenhouse gas emissions must fall a further 65% by 2050, but the energy system will decarbonise even faster. Large wind, marine and solar generators, supported by energy storage, will dominate the central supply system and intelligent, community and building-integrated systems will be embedded in our towns and cities. This interaction of people, buildings and energy systems will transform the relationship between supply and demand. Our domestic and non-domestic buildings can no longer be passive consumers of heat and power, instead, our homes and businesses must participate actively in a flexible, integrated, low-carbon supply and demand system, buying, selling and storing heat and power to achieve 'Energy resilience through security, integration, demand management and decarbonisation'. This must be achieved whilst simultaneously meeting our human need for high quality spaces in which to live and work, thereby increasing the productivity of the UK economy, reducing fuel poverty, improving health and wellbeing, and supporting an ageing population.The new EPSRC CDT in Energy Resilience and the Built Environment (ERBE) will train at least 50 PhD graduates to understand the systemic, radical, multi and interdisciplinary challenges we face, and have the leadership credentials to effect change. Students will be immersed in world-leading research environments at UCL, Loughborough University collaborating with the Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy in Ireland.ERBE students will attain a depth of understanding only possible as cohorts work and learn together. An integrated, 4-year programme will be co-created with our stakeholder partners and students. It will provide the knowledge, research and transferable skills to enable outstanding graduates from physics to social sciences to pursue research in one of three themes: * Flexibility and resilience: the interaction between buildings and the whole supply system, through new generation and storage technology, enabled by smart control systems and new business models. * Technology and system performance: demand reduction and decarbonisation of the built environment through design, construction methods, technological innovation, monitoring and regulation. * Comfort, health and well-being: buildings and energy systems that create productive work environments and affordable, clean, safe homes. The Centre will be led by Directors who have worked together for over 30 years, supported by deputies, academic managers, administrators and a course development team who have successfully delivered the CDT in Energy Demand. Over 50 world-leading academics are available as student supervisors. The core team will be guided by an Advisory Board representing the UK government, energy suppliers, research organisations, consultancies, construction companies and charities; more than 30 prominent individuals have expressed an interest in joining the board. Board members and stakeholders will provide secondments, business skills training and careers advice.The Centre will provide training and research benefits to the wider energy and buildings community. A new online Buildings, Energy, Resilience and Demand Hub will be created to share training materials, videos, seminars and to promote collaboration, a residential, weeklong programme, Energy Resilience and the Built Environment, will be open to PhD students from across the world as will an annual, student-led conference. An annual Anglo-Irish summer school and a colloquium will showcase the Centre's work and bring students face-to-face with potential future employers.By providing training in a rigorous, world-leading, stakeholder-shaped, outward-facing and multi-centred research environment, the new ERBE CDT will help the UK achieve the goals in the government's Industrial Strategy and Clean Growth Strategy.