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Who we are

The building envelope at UCL is spread across several different groups. UCL BERN brings these groups and their research together.

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  • UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
  • The Building Envelope Research Network

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  • UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
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  • Design Computation
  • Interactive Architecture  
  • Material Architecture 
  • Urban Morphogenesis /Sustainable Cities
  • Bio-Integrated Design
  • Advanced Design and Fabrication

  • Construction Management 
  • Project Management and Business Analytics
  • Building Services and Engineering

  • Energy and Buildings Group:
  • Physical Characterisation of the Building
  • People, Adaptability, Comfort and Smart Energy
  • Building Stock Laboratory
  • Building theme of the Centre for Research in Energy Demand Solutions
  • CREDS Heat theme 
  • Smart Energy Research Group
  • Energy and Environmental Systems

  • Light and Lighting
  • Building Acoustics and Urban Soundscapes
  • Energy, Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality
  • Health and Wellbeing (of occupants)
  • Sustainability and Systems Thinking 
  • UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings (UKCMB)

  • Heritage Risk and Resilience
  • Multiscale environmental exposure assessment
  • Structural assessment of masonry and disaster response
  • Environmental monitoring and modelling
  • Indoor air quality and multisensory environments
  • Integration of social and cultural value within energy retrofit

  • Fire Safety Engineering
  • Structural-environmental response of loadbearing building envelopes
  • Integrated retrofit for heritage, historic and existing buildings
  • Modular low-carbon structures
  • Building materials and urban sustainability
  • Structural response to natural and man-made extreme events

  • Sustainability and transport
  • Governance and planning
  • Real state and economic development
  • Urban design

Partners

UCL has links with UK Government, professional institutions, building industry bodies and other buildign envelope related groups. UCL BERN facilitates engagement with these organisations, promotes collaborative research, partnerships, consultancy and knowledge transfer.

UCL also has links with many UK and international academic institutions where research into aspects of the building envelope is conducted. These are potential collaborators and partners. Our aim is to bring academic collaborators into the network, starting with UK universities. 

Thought leadership

We aim to ensure that UCL is at the forefront of research in areas associated with the building envelope.

Find out more about UCL BERN as a thought leader

Get involved

If you are working in any area of the building envelope and would like to get involved with UCL BERN we would like to hear from you.

Get in touch with UCL BERN Secretariat to discuss how you might get involved.

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