Sustainability Research Projects
We are committed to advancing impactful, sustainable research through global and interdisciplinary collaborations and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Discover our research projects with environmental impact here.
Enhancing Urban Resilience and Sustainability through UK-India Collaboration
Birmingham City University has launched an exciting new international collaboration aimed at tackling some of the mo...
Creating a menu of standards for green infrastructure in England
The importance of greening our cities and urban places has never been stronger. Green infrastructure such as street tr...
Developing the National Framework of Standards for Green Infrastructure in England 2020 - 2023
This research formed two projects funded by Natural England/Defra as part of their programme of work to develop of the ...
The economic impacts of antimicrobial resistance in livestock (EcoAMR)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) persists as a significant global threat to public health, with an estimated 4.95 millio...
DIATOMIC: Digital Innovation Transformative Change
The DIATOMIC project aims to enhance innovation capability and capacity to nurture growth and prosperity in the West M...
No11: Know your place
Building on a recent Co.Lab pilot project at BCU this application brings West Midlands National Park lab research to ne...
Malthouse Engineering: Data Analytics and Environmentally Sustainable Firm Growth
Malthouse Engineering Co. Ltd. was formed in 1947, and has grown, historically, through a series of acquisitions. It i...
Managing Environmental Change at the Fringe: Reconnecting Science and Policy with the Rural-Urban Fringe
This research re-discovered the rural urban fringe within more positive, inclusive and proactive agendas for management...
Tools: Applications, Benefits and Limitations for Ecosystems (TABLES)
This work focuses specifically on integrating the principles and thinking behind the ecosystem approach and ecosystem s...
Developing Community Centric Sustainable Solutions for Rural Communities in Western Cape, South Africa
Researchers from the Bioresource and Bioeconomy research group have been working with the community of Wupperthal in S...
MacroBio – Sustainable Utilisation of Macroalgae (Seaweed) in Indonesia
Identifying the potential in waste seaweed crops for the generation of sustainable biogas, this project aimed to equip...
Optimising Biogas Production from Food Waste
Developing and testing systems which break down food waste in preparation for conversion into sustainable biogas. The t...
Converting organic waste into sustainable bioenergy and products
The Bioresource and Bioeconomy Research Group at BCU is supporting the development of sustainable, circular bioeconomi...
The Built Climate Action Game
Researchers are working with teenagers in Birmingham to design a climate action board game, in order to engage young p...
The New Urban Landscape Alliance
The New Urban Landscape Alliance, is a working group to raise awareness of the capacity of urban landscapes to address...
The New Urban Landscape Alliance
The New Urban Landscape Alliance, is a working group to raise awareness of the capacity of urban landscapes to address...
Drivers of Change Podcast
Silvia Gullino, Associate Professor in City Making has created a six series podcast called 'Drivers of Change' to highl...
Overheating mitigation and Indoor air quality improvement in new build residential developments in the UK
The aim of the project is to propose cost effective scalable construction solutions and strategies that take account o...
Platform design for manufacture and assembly of housing
The platform enables house design to be faster to construct, economical to build and low impacts to the environment.
Speculative Natures
Speculative Natures, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, explores the role of contemporary art in imagining environmental ...
Social inclusion and exclusion of the greenification of urban space
Analysing the experiences of communities to ask the question, ' Does urban greening benefit everyone?'
Exploring the application of property level flood risk adaptation
This project aims to examine the applications of property level flood risk adaption in homes and businesses in the UK,...
Rising to the Climate Crisis
CATiD BCU has endorsed the document and contributed with drawings and images to demonstrate the importance of spatial ...
Rising to the Climate Crisis
CATiD BCU has endorsed the document and contributed with drawings and images to demonstrate the importance of spatial ...
Tame valley landscape vision development
Revolutionising the Tame Valley Wetlands area of the West Midlands into an accessible area teeming with wildlife and b...
Context-aware frameworks in sensors for water distribution networks
This project seeks to address sensor and sensor network deployment and communication in smart water distribution syste...
Identifying the Offshore Wind Resource in the Philippines
The Philippines has the potential to generate power from offshore wind but a thorough wind resource assessment (WRA) m...
Designing a Microalgae Cultivation System for the production of animal feed supplements
Traditional foods used for livestock rearing, such as maize and soybeans, are suffering from increasing environmental p...
Engine heat waste recovery for greener vehicles
Road vehicles are one of the main contributors to increasing CO2 emissions. In order to reduce the reliance on the c...
The UN Sustainable Development Goals Project
This project will review the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and identify project from which the CHR can...
Testing and optimising techniques for biogas conversion
Doosan Enpure's patented Sonix technology aims to increase the yield of biogas production but the technology required ...
EnAlgae: Bioenergy for North West Europe
This four year project combines the expertise and resources of 19 partners over 7 countries in order to address sustain...
IoT4Win: Connected water management
The water industry of the future will need to be smart and resource-efficient, and the current water industry is chara...