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Bridging the Gaps Final Event
16th February 2011
Speakers 2-4pm followed by a drinks reception and poster session from 4-6pm
The challenges of sustainability are many and varied: pollution, renewable energy, resource management, traffic congestion, and pressure on housing stock are only a few of the areas covered. In many cases taking a cross disciplinary approach to sustainability problems can provide novel insights and fresh solutions.
The EPSRC funded programme Bridging the Gaps: Sustainable Urban Spaces (www.ucl.ac.uk/btg) was designed to encourage academics to cross traditional boundaries and formulate new research questions, and new ways of working. The programme came to an end in February and the programme held in their final event on the 16th of February.
The Bridging the Gaps programme ran from 2008 with the aim of stimulating interdisciplinary research into sustainability in the urban environment. During the course of the programme we have worked with 26 departments from 6 UCL faculties and we have funded over 50 collaborations between researchers.
On this page you will find links to many of the posters and presentations from the event.
Running order for talks 2pm until 4pm
Chair: Muki Haklay (Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering).
Venue: Pearson Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, Pearson Building
2.00 James Paskins (Bridging the Gaps Programme Manager)
Introduction to the Bridging the Gaps Programme
2.10 David Price (Vice Provost for Resarch)
UCL research strategy and the Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities
Link to the Grand Challenges website
Link to the Grand Challenge of Sustainable Cities
Link to the Office of the Vice Provost for Research
2.30 Julien Harou
Hydroplatform and Modelling Resource Networks
Managing Resource Networks with a Generic Open-Source Software Platform
2.45 Luiza Campos and Arokia Nathan
Nanostructures and Water Purification
3.00 Liora Malki-Epshtein and Serge Guillas
Statistical calibration of CFD simulations in Urban street canyons using experimental PIV data
Video from above presentation:
Dispersion of traffic pollution within non-homogenous street canyon related pollution
Dowload the video as a Windows Media (.wmv) file
or an iPod/iPhone compatible (.m4v) file
3.15 Paul Finch
Chair of CABE (the Commission for the Built Environment)
Posters and drinks after 4pm until 6pm
Venue: North Cloisters, Wilkins Building
The talks were followed by a wine reception in the North Cloisters. The reception included a chance to see posters describing the range of research that was carried out with funding from the programme.
Scroll down, or click here to see posters from the Open Programme, the Bridging the Gaps Sandpits,
The reception also featured video presentations from the Justice in the Green project, which will be added to this page when available.
 The UCL Electrochemical Innovation Lab and Network |
 Open Programme: Children, disabilites and well-being |
 Open Programme: Environmental Crime |
 Open Programme: Natural ventilation for greener and healthier buildings |
 Geographical Perspectives on Planning the Sustainable City |
Little Green Things:
Nanotechnology and Sustainability Sandpit
Sense and Sustainability:
Networked Sesnsors for Urban Sustainability
 What's My Energy Footprint? |
 Spatio-temporal Description of Air Quality with Mobile and Static Arrays of MOS Sensors |
 Energy Efficiency and the Computer Cloud |
 Mitigating Risk in Green Cloud Computing |
MSc Competition
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