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Research
Our ultimate goal is to deliver inter- & transdisciplinary built environment research to improve health, wellbeing and sustainability. Systems thinking is used to understand how different elements of buildings and the wider built environment interact. Our mission is to inform and support decision making to enable transformative change as cities and governments seek to meet climate change mitigation and adaption targets. Our research fits into the wider context of clean energy and net zero carbon. We work both locally and internationally to help cities achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Our core value underpins the notion of equitable and inclusive spaces where people can live healthy and fulfilling lives.
We have received three successive EPSRC Platform Grants, while in the last national Research Assessment Exercise our Faculty, The Bartlett, was awarded the most of 4* (world-leading) project ratings among architecture and built environment submissions from UK universities.
Themes
Health, Wellbeing and Sustainability
This research theme supports human health and wellbeing by investigating relationships between people, spaces, buildings, and the natural environment.
Energy, Moisture & Air Quality
Aiming to improve the design, operation and environmental quality of buildings to address complex and sometimes ill-defined and conflicting design issues.
Light & Lighting
Studying a range of lighting applications from daylight in buildings to roads at night - discovering all there is to know about how people interact with the lit environment.
Acoustics & Soundscapes
This research theme is about how sound propagrates in urban areas, in buildings, and in rooms; how sound can be controlled, designed, and engineered and how people interact with sound.
Systems Thinking
The Systems Thinking approach tackles grand challenges in an integrated way, focusing on non-linear and long-term effects, complex evolving dynamics, and the factual realities of living in an uncertain world.
Methods
We employ four main types of research method across all our projects and themes:
Impact
Find out more about the impact of some of you research through our:
Project directory
Through our research we tackle some of the fundamental built environment issues facing society. Explore our project directory to discover the array of past and present research projects undertaken by the Institute.
