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The Independent newspaper has published an article on it's front page based on a paper by PhD Student Malcolm Morgan and Dr Heather Cruickshank. The paper is about quantifying the extent of space shortages in English Dwellings. The Independent article by Jonathan Brown  is titled "Rabbit-hutch Britain: Growing health concerns as UK sets record for …

ESD MPhil Alumni, Xiangyu Sheng (2012-13), has been published in the NYT Chinese Version. The article follows on from her MPhil dissertation research about air pollution from Beijing Airport.See article in Chinese: tcn.nytimes.com/science/20140611/cc11airport/For ore information about Xiangyu: http://www-esdmphil.eng.cam.ac.uk/students/alumniprofil…

We are delighted to announce that  Dr Dick Fenner has been promoted to a Personal Readership. Many congratulations Dick!

The lecture will take place on 18th June 2014 in LT0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge. Tea 5.00pm, Lecture 5.30pm. The Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction (CSIC) and the Cambridge University Engineering Department Centre for Sustainable Development are proud to host the second stop of the Brunel International Lec…

TheRetrofit Newsletter for Spring 2014 is now available.Image from: http://www.retrofit2050.org.uk/

MPhil Student DR ADOLF ACQUAYE (2005-06) acts as Lead Author for IPCC Fifth Assessment Report- Mitigation of Climate Change 2014DR ADOLF ACQUAYE, a graduate of the 2005/06 MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development cohort was a Lead Author in the recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report-AR5, …

The MPhil students have recently returned from a study tour to Wales at the end of March.They visited MBA Polymers in Worksop, the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Rheidol Hydro and wind farm, Canolfan Hyddgen and had talks by Ian Tansley (Sure Chill), Katy Jones (Dulas) and John Williamson (JWP Construction.)Photo: Doros Nicolaide…

Congratulations to Mike Kang, a current ESD MPhil student, who was the goalkeeper in the Varsity ice hockey match at Oxford on Saturday 8th March. Oxford won but the score would have been much worse if Mike hadn't been there!

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment, led by the Civil Engineering Division at the University of Cambridge, invites applications for 4-year full-time fully-funded PhD studentships starting in October 2014. studentship details:www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/2982/CDT website: www.cdt-civil.eng.cam.ac.uk

The Trustees of the Worshipful Company of Water Conservators have generously awarded a £4000 bursary to Francesca O’Hanlon, a student on the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development, for payment against fees. Francesca O'Hanlon, who studied civil and environmental engineering at Imperial College, and has relevant water experience in El Salv…

Click here for new Blue Green Cities BrochureFurther details from: Dr R.A.Fenner (raf37@cam.ac.uk)Image taken from http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/index.aspx

EESD15 – The Seventh International Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development, will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 9-12, 2015.For more information see the website: http://eesd15.engineering.ubc.ca/Photo credit: Vancouver Skyline domo k. via Flickr

A Course Director position is available at the recently funded EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment.For more information please see:http://www-csd.eng.cam.ac.uk/jobs-and-studentshipsor : http://www.cdt-civil.eng.cam.ac.uk/

The Retrofit Newsletter for Winter 2013 is now available.

GREG FELTER, MPhil student 2012-13 from Hughes Hall, was a recipient of a CUES Rolling Grant, which he used to see and research the problems of supplying water in Uganda, one of the world’s poorest countries. He details his trip in this article taken from "The Cambridge Engineer. Michaelmas 2013."Rolling Grant: Uganda