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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…

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 Infrastruct…

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…

Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and severity of flooding in coming years. For more effective flood alleviation, a recently published study recommends schemes that consider the social impact of floods as well as the economic damages. Climate change increases intense rainfall and raises sea levels, both of which increase the ris…

Mauricia Nambatya a civil engineer from Uganda, studying an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development is featured in a documentary exploring what Britain is like through African eyes, broadcast by BBC Radio 4.You feel that sense of freedom here to say whatever you want to sayMauricia Nambatya MPhil student in Engineering for Sustainable Deve…

Staff from the Centre for Sustainable Development and the Department of Architecture have revised the Health Technical Memorandum (HTM) 07-02 for the Department of Health. The new document ‘Health Technical Memorandum 07-02: EnCO2de 2015 – making energy work in healthcare’ is divided into two parts and it provides guidance on managing responsible e…

Prof. Alan Short (PI), Prof. Peter Guthrie (Co-I) and Dr Michael Herzog (Co-I) have been awarded the Low Carbon Climate-Responsive Heating and Cooling of Cities (LoHCool) project, which is one of the four projects funded by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to tackle emerging issues associated with achieving low ca…