About

We are interested in making our buildings, towns and cities better places in which to live, with a focus on health, human well-being, productivity, energy use and climate change.

A world-leading centre

UCL IEDE is a world-leading centre of research and teaching excellence and has received a series of awards, grants and accolades to confirm this.

Through its work with the Complex Built Environment Systems group, IEDE has been awarded a historic three EPSRC Platform Grants. These are prestigious awards of funding given to what the EPSRC calls ‘well-established, world-leading research groups’.

In 2013 IEDE was named by the Royal Academy of Engineering as a Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design.

In 2010 IEDE received the Happold Brilliant Prize for its Environmental Design and Engineering MSc programme, judged by an international CIBSE panel.

Study with us

Studying with us involves:

• excelling at your own discipline
• working with others in an interdisciplinary way
• discovering new research themes and areas of interest in which you can thrive

We are global in character and outlook, with a richly international student body, staff and alumni society. We are based in the heart of London, one of the world’s most exciting centres of building design.

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