Centre for Resource Efficiency and the Environment (CREE)

The Centre for Resource Efficiency and the Environment aims to “engineer a world without waste”.

About

We use practical investigations, data analysis and modelling to develop an improved understanding of flows of valuable resources, such as materials, water, and energy, and associated environmental impacts. We then use this understanding to develop appropriate technologies to conserve and recover resources. For example, we have projects in supply and purification of water, recovering resources from household and industrial wastes, and low energy ventilation of buildings.

UK/China Collaborative Literature Review on Toxic Metals in Industrial Symbiosis in the Cement Industry (DRAFT for discussion) (PDF)

Watch the 2014 CREE Seminars online through lecturecast.

People

The Centre for Resource Efficiency & the Environment Group is located within the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering​ at University College London. There are currently 13 researchers within this group.

Head of Group

Prof Julia Stegemann

Researchers

• Dr Chanakya Arya
• Prof Yun Bai
• Prof Raimund Bleischwitz
• Dr Anna Bogush
• Dr Aiduan Borrion
• Dr Luiza Campos
• Dr Lena Ciric
• Dr Tohid Erfani
• Prof Julien Harou
• Dr Liora Malki-Epshtein
• Dr Priti Parikh
• Dr Judith Zhou

Research activities

Current CREE research 

• Adaptive and flexible water infrastructure capacity expansion using real-option theory
• Agent based modelling for resource allocation - game theory and optimisation
• Arup Global Challenge Fund: Enhancing Infrastructure Resilience: GIS-Based Risk Modelling
• CircEL UCL Circular Economy Lab
• Development of a Shipboard Algal Bioreactor
• EPSRC: UCL’s open-source platform for modelling urban resource networks
• Energy from Mixed Agricultural Residues
• Minerals for Stabilisation of Chloride & Sulphate
• Process Envelopes for Cement-based Stabilisation/Solidification (ProCeSS)
• Resource Recovery from Energy-from-Waste Residues
• Uncertainty, Risk, and resilience in resource management
• Water-Energy-Food nexus; an optimisation based simulation modelling

Collaboration

Academic

• Queen’s University Belfast, U.K.
• City University London, U.K.
• Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Tsinghua University, China
• Zhejiang University, China
• Chongqing University, China
• Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, China

Industry

• Institute of Concrete Technology, U.K.
• The Concrete Society, U.K.
• Mineral Products Association, U.K.
• British Precast Concrete Federation, U.K.
• Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, U.K.
• National Nuclear Laboratory, U.K.
• Amphora NDT, U.K.
• Constructing Futures Ltd, U.K.
• COMSOL Ltd, U.K.
• GAMA Microwave Technology Ltd, U.K.
• Highways England, U.K.
• Industrial Microwave Systems Ltd, U.K.
• Industrial Research Ltd, New Zealand
• Macrete Ltd, U.K.
• Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, U.K.
• Sengenia Ltd, U.K.
• Chongqing Institute of Building Technology, China
• Research Institute of High Performance Concrete, CRIBC, China
• Tianjin Institute of Building Technology, China

Publications

To view our academics' papers, please visit their IRIS profiles: 

• Prof Yun Bai
• Dr Chanakya Arya 
• Dr Peter Domone 
• Dr Rodolfo Lorenzo
• Prof Julia Stegemann 
• Dr Judith Zhou 
• Dr Mingzhong Zhang