ESD alumni awarded a prestigious Fellowship
Our congratulations go to Ryan DuChanois, who graduated from the ESD MPhil programme in 2017, for being awarded a prestigious Abel Wolman Fellowship by the American Water Works Association (AWWA).
Award for Blue Green Cities research
Dick Fenner and Malcolm Morgan have been awarded the Robert Alfred Carr Prize for their paper entitled: Spatial evaluation of the multiple benefits of sustainable drainage systems.
Dr Kristen MacAskill leads resilience teaching in Engineering for Sustainable Development
Dr Kristen MacAskill gave her inaugural lecture for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development this March as part of a two lecture series in the Resilience and Hazard Mitigation in Future Cities (ESD 360) module.
Dr André Cabrera Serrenho gives his inaugural Lecture on ESD 560
Dr André Serrenho gave his inaugural lecture for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development this February, as part of the Innovations in Sustainable Design and Manufacturing course (ESD 560).
Perspectives on Urban Flood Resilience - Blog
Dick Fenner has compiled and edited a special themed edition of the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions A Journal on urban flood resilience, published in February 2020.
Widening Horizons update published
Dick Fenner and Charles Ainger have recently updated their 2006 paper (co-authored with Peter Guthrie and Heather Cruickshank) "Widening engineering horizons: addressing the complexity of sustainable development" to examine how much progress towards sustainability the civil engineering profession has made in each of the eight key areas defined in the original paper.
ESD welcomes 2 new members of staff
Two new lecturers have been appointed to support the delivery of the ESD MPhil programme.
ESD thanks Jeremy Purseglove
The current group of Engineering for Sustainable Development students completed the Autumn Trip led, as always, by Professor Jeremy Purseglove.
Prof Fenner paper wins award
Professor Dick Fenner and his co-authors Dr Lan Hoag (IBM) and Maggie Skandarian (Portland Bureau of Environmental Services, USA) have been highly commended in the Outstanding Paper Award by the Journal of Flood Risk Management.
Doctoral Researcher Attends Royal Academy of Engineering Workshop
From the 28th – 31st May, FIBE doctoral researcher Francesca O'Hanlon attended the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering for Development symposium. The theme of the symposium was ‘WASHing Away Inequalities’.
ESD supports ISA Lab workshop in Valencia
Dr Dai Morgan supported the 3rd ISA Lab workshop, hosted by Universitat Politècnica de València
Dr Tim Forman shares insights with practitioners in industry forums
Dr Tim Forman has been sharing insights on sustainability in the built environment in practitioner forums
Staff appointments 2019 - Madeline Woodruff, Tim Forman
New appointments join the Centre for Sustainable Development in 2019
Academic visitor for 2019 - Dr Stephanie Hirmer
Dr Stephanie Hirmer returns to CSD as a Visiting Research Fellow for 2019
CSD researchers host UK/China delegation
CSD researchers host China Academy for Urban Planning and Design
Sustainability and the Built Environment
Dr Tim Forman delivers seminar to Jiangsu visitors
CSD Researcher in Global Challenges Workshop & Secondment
Dr Leon Kapetas provides expertise in Peru and discusses SuDS in Sutton
University Lectureships in Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development
New lectureships in Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development announced
New Book from Jeremy Purseglove
Jeremy Purseglove's new book, Working with Nature, has now been published
Engineering Education for Sustainable Development Conference 2020
The Engineering Education for Sustainable Development EESD 2020 conference will be hosted by University College Cork, 7th - 10th June 2020