Platform: Complex Built Environment Systems

CBES旨在解决以下三个主要问题：1。如何设计、维护和操作建筑环境，同时尽量减少温室气体的排放。2. 如何使新旧建筑的环境、结构和服务适应气候变化。如何改善建筑物内部和周围的环境，以提供更好的健康、舒适、安全和生产力。最初，在五六十年代，大多数建筑科学研究集中在将物理、化学等应用于建筑环境。许多可以通过单一学科方法解决的问题现在已经解决了；剩下的关键问题是多学科的。因此，Bartlett在这一领域的研究扩展到涉及建筑环境的多学科活动，建筑科学家与规划师、建筑师等密切合作。在20世纪80年代和90年代，很多工作仍然依赖于单个学科使用自己学科的现有工具和技术，简单地将它们与其他学科的工具一起应用。最近，CBES的战略方向受到真正多学科方法的必要性的影响。因此，CBES的发展非常符合第二届国际工程评论最近的主要建议，即学术界，工业界和政府制定战略，鼓励工程研究与更基础的数学，物理，化学和生物科学的联系，以便科学和工程发现可以刺激更多更广泛的发现及其应用。CBES的战略发展取决于两个关键因素：1。识别和发展创新机会，以推动超越建筑环境传统领域的学术和工业合作。该小组已经在与建筑环境有关的健康、能源和保护问题方面取得了重大突破，在国际上处于领先地位。它在开发这种多学科方法方面的成功得到了越来越多的研究资金的回报（自2000年以来440万美元，56%的EPSRC资助）。CBES已经开发了一套独特的跨学科项目，与动物学家、流行病学家、社会学家、化学家和保护人员在英国和世界各地的机构合作。然而，与临床医生、气候物理学家、神经学家、电气工程师、纳米技术专家、经济学家和犯罪科学家合作的新项目具有相当大的潜力，可以解决决定建筑物内外物理环境的关键问题。为了解决诸如气候变化对城市热岛和建筑环境控制的影响、居住者如何与建筑环境相互作用以控制和适应他们的环境、我们如何从神经学上评估建筑内的照明环境以及建筑环境对健康的影响等关键问题，与这些学科合作至关重要。需要发展跨学科的理论技术来应对这些新的挑战。CBES旨在与最合适的学科专家合作，并提供最合适的技术来解决建筑环境面临的实际问题。例如，CBES认为将流行病学技术应用于整个建筑存量具有相当大的潜力。复杂性理论的发展也适用于研究小组目前正在研究的许多研究挑战，但到目前为止还没有应用到这些领域。如果CBES要完全实现其计划的战略发展，就需要平台资金来改变其进行研究和与新学科合作的方式。

CBES aims to tackle the following three main issues:1. How to design, maintain and operate the built environment while minimising the emissions of greenhouse gases. 2. How to adapt the environment, fabric and services of existing and new buildings to climate change.3. How to improve the environment in and around buildings to provide better health, comfort, security and productivity.Initially, in the 1950's and 1960's, most building science research focused on applying physics, chemistry etc to the environment in buildings. Many of the problems that can be tackled by this single discipline approach have now been solved; the key remaining problems are multi-disciplinary. Hence, Bartlett research in this area expanded to involve multidisciplinary activities across the built environment, with building scientists working closely with planners, architects etc. In the 1980's and 1990's, much of this work still relied on individual disciplines using existing tools and techniques from their own discipline by simply applying them along with tools from other disciplines. More recently, the strategic direction of CBES has been shaped by the necessity for a truly multidisciplinary approach. The development of CBES is therefore very much in line with the recent key recommendation of the Second International Review of Engineering that academia, industry and government develop strategies to encourage increased linkage of engineering research to more basic mathematical, physical, chemical and biological sciences, so that scientific and engineering discoveries may stimulate even more and broader discoveries and their applications. The strategic development of CBES rests upon two key factors:1. The identification and development of innovative opportunities to advance academic and industrial collaboration beyond the traditional territories of the Built Environment. The group is already taking an international lead in work involving significant breakthroughs in health, energy and conservation issues related to environment in buildings. Its success in developing this multidisciplinary approach has been rewarded through increased and more diverse research funding (4.4M since 2000, 56% EPSRC funded). CBES have already developed a unique set of interdisciplinary projects, working with acarologists, epidemiologists, sociologists, chemists and conservators, in institutions across the UK and worldwide. However, there is considerable potential for new projects working with clinicians, climate physicists, neurologists, electrical engineers, nano-technologists, economists and crime scientists to tackle key questions which determine the physical environment in and around buildings. Working with these disciplines is vital in order to tackle such key problems as the impact that climate change is having on the urban heat island and environmental control in buildings, how occupants interact with the built environment to control and adapt their environment, how we neurologically assess the lit environment within buildings and the impact that the built environment is having on health.2. The development of the required theoretical cross disciplinary techniques to undertake these new challenges. CBES aims to work with the most appropriate discipline specialists and to provide the most appropriate techniques for solving the practical problems facing the built environment. For example, CBES feels there is considerable potential to adapt epidemiological techniques for the building stock as a whole. Also developments in complexity theory are applicable to many of the research challenges the research group is currently studying but so far have not been applied to these areas.If CBES is to fully achieve its planned strategic development, Platform funding is required to provide a step change in the way it undertakes research and works with new disciplines.