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The ESD MPhil Students were given the opportunity to visit Crossrail on Tuesday 22nd of March 2016. Crossrail is a major new cross-London railway aiming to improve travel across the city, ease congestion, and provide better connections. The visit took place at the under-construction station at Bond Street, which is expected to increase daily passe…

See the ICE Civil Engineering blog about Charles and Dick's new book on Sustainable Water:https://www.ice.org.uk/news/knowledge/march-2016/water-swans-and-sustainability"Bold change efforts are required to meet sustainable practice in the water sector, write Charles Ainger and Dick Fenner – editors of new ICE Publishing book, Sustainable Water.The …

Dr Dick Fenner and Dr Feriha Mukuve (ESD MPhil 10 -11, PhD 12 -15) have been awarded the prestigious Senior Moulton Medal for 2015 by the Institution of Chemical Engineers for their paper "Scale variability of water, land and energy resource interaction and their influence on the food system in Uganda" published in Sustainable Production and Consu…

Many congratulations to Dr Dai Morgan who has been appointed as the new Deputy Course Director for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. Dai currently works at the Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering where he is a lead researcher with the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Industrial Sustainability condu…

Two 2010-2011 ESD alumni, Paul Cassell and Alexandra Pearson, and guest ESD lecturer, Ian Ellison, are amongst the co-authors of a circular economy case study published this week. The case study explores the lessons learnt from the REALCAR closed loop value chain project between Jaguar Land Rover, Novelis, Innovate UK and partners, in the creation …

Dick Fenner and Charles Ainger have published a new book on Sustainable Water through ICE publishing which will be available from February 2nd 2016.Sustainable Water is part of the Delivering Sustainable Infrastructure series and follows a framework of fundamental sustainability principles outlined in their earlier volume  Sustainable Infrastructu…

Thanks to Stephanie for organising the MPhil Pot Luck Christmas Party. There was MASSES of good food and good company. Thanks to Ceri for organising the venue.

In October 2015, eight PhD students, including Kristen MacAskill from the Centre (MPhil 10-11), were awarded Future Cities Prize Fellowships to present their ideas of what cities will be like at the first annual Future Cities conference in July 2016.They each received £2000 to develop a short research paper and to summarise their ideas about how fu…

For details and further particulars see:Deputy Course Director ESD MPhilThe closing date for applications is Friday 4 December 2015. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact the HR Office at the Department of Engineering by email on hr-office@eng.cam.ac.uk or on +44 (0)1223 336215.For any informal enquiries regarding …

Alejandro Rivera Rivera is the first Gates Cambridge Scholar from Guatemala. He will do an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. After graduating from Brown University in 2012, he returned to Guatemala where he has been at the forefront of the local green building movement, working as the Engineering and Sustainability Coordinator for a…

Welcome to the 44 new ESD MPhil students. They come from 20 different countries including Guatemala, Malawi, Jordan and Egypt and have a vast array of relevant experience.The first weekend was spent on a fieldtrip to the Winchester area to visit RES (Renewable Energy Systems Ltd) , look at a proposed HS2 site, Twyford Down and the Devil's punchbowl…

We are sorry to announce that Heather Cruickshank has suddenly and unexpectedly resigned from her post as Deputy Course Director for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development and left Cambridge to pursue a new life in Canada. Anyone who has been involved with the MPhil programme and the work of the Centre for Sustainable Development in t…

At the Graduate Forum event for Smart Villages (http://e4sv.org/) held in January 2015 six projects were supported and ESD MPhil students and Centre PhD students were involved in three of the successful bids.Next Billion Researchhttp://e4sv.org/our-event/cambridge-forum-finalist/2433-2/ (AdamHamilton, MPhil; David Pepper; Duncan McNicholl 1st Year …

The Centre for Sustainable Development is pleased to announce new funding from Kingspan Insulation Ltd. The funds will facilitate increased research activity in energy efficiency in buildings, and will seek to address actual performance, compared to theoretical predictions. Professor Peter Guthrie, who leads the work for the Centre said that the f…

Dick Fenner attended the first Project Workshop for the NERC funded UPGRo: Hidden Crisis project, which was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during the  second week of September. The project is addressing the reasons why many boreholes and water points in Africa fail shortly after construction, and is aiming to develop a more complete understanding of…