Research projects

Doosan Enpure's patented Sonix technology aims to increase the yield of biogas production but the technology required ...

Construction practice has hardly evolved in 40 years, and nor has productivity. Houses as a product have been criticis...

The research aims to discuss this issue and provide a conceptual real estate framework to manage these risk events.

The platform enables house design to be faster to construct, economical to build and low impacts to the environment.

This four year project combines the expertise and resources of 19 partners over 7 countries in order to address sustain...

The consortium has designed an efficient production line for DfMA houses under factory conditions (Figure 1). The aim ...

The research sought to explain the nature and extent of destruction and the processes and products of replanning and r...

The water industry of the future will need to be smart and resource-efficient, and the current water industry is chara...

The aim of the project is to propose cost effective scalable construction solutions and strategies that take account o...

This project aims to examine the applications of property level flood risk adaption in homes and businesses in the UK,...

Researchers are working with teenagers in Birmingham to design a climate action board game, in order to engage young p...

Identifying the potential in waste seaweed crops for the generation of sustainable biogas, this project aimed to equip...

Birmingham City University have developed a Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) tool to estimate life cycle cost and CO2...

Developing and testing systems which break down food waste in preparation for conversion into sustainable biogas. The t...

Researchers from the Bioresource and Bioeconomy research group have been working with the community of Wupperthal in S...

The Bioresource and Bioeconomy Research Group at BCU is supporting the development of sustainable, circular bioeconomi...

Silvia Gullino, Associate Professor in City Making has created a six series podcast called 'Drivers of Change' to highl...

This research re-discovered the rural urban fringe within more positive, inclusive and proactive agendas for management...

This work focuses specifically on integrating the principles and thinking behind the ecosystem approach and ecosystem s...

Rufopoly is a participatory-learning board game, which enables players to undertake a journey through a fictitious rur...

Research projects

Modelling the Drivers of the UK Multi-let Industrial Property Market

Testing and optimising techniques for biogas conversion

Transforming house construction with DfMA

Advancing real estate decision making

Platform design for manufacture and assembly of housing

EnAlgae: Bioenergy for North West Europe

DfMA House Panel Production

Rebuilding cities after the catastrophe of war and destruction

IoT4Win: Connected water management

Overheating mitigation and Indoor air quality improvement in new build residential developments in the UK

Exploring the application of property level flood risk adaptation

The Built Climate Action Game

MacroBio – Sustainable Utilisation of Macroalgae (Seaweed) in Indonesia

DfMA house knowledge-based engineering (KBE) tool for Life Cycle Cost and CO2 emissions

Optimising Biogas Production from Food Waste

Developing Community Centric Sustainable Solutions for Rural Communities in Western Cape, South Africa

Converting organic waste into sustainable bioenergy and products

Drivers of Change Podcast

Managing Environmental Change at the Fringe: Reconnecting Science and Policy with the Rural-Urban Fringe

Tools: Applications, Benefits and Limitations for Ecosystems (TABLES)

Maximising the Impact of Games as Effective Participative Tools: The Rufopoly Resource Kit