The Cabot Institute for the Environment are delighted to announce a new Educational Partnership Agreement with Hoare Lea, alongside two co-developed projects for students applying to the MScR in Global Environmental Challenges.
Hoare Lea is a UK-based multidisciplinary built environment consultancy, with 13 offices and over 1000 employees across the UK. Their expertise covers a broad range of specialisms, including: acoustics, air quality, intelligent buildings, fire, lighting, digital engineering, mechanical, electrical and public health engineering, performance, sustainability, ESG, and applied research.
Working with University of Bristol academics Professor Chris Preist, Dr Ola Michaelec, Dr Eleni Toumpanaki and Honorary Associate Dr Andrew Shea from the University of Bath, the exciting new projects will use Hoare Lea’s operational data to conduct cutting edge research. Prospective students can find out more about the Master’s by Research projects and apply below:
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Whole life carbon of buildings and machine learning, supervised by Dr Eleni Toumpanaki and Dr Andrew Shea in partnership with Hoare Lea.
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Carbon management – future ways of working and greenhouse gas emissions, supervised by Professor Chris Preist and Dr Ola Michaelec in partnership with Hoare Lea.
Associate Professor Helen Thomas-Hughes, Cabot Director of Education, commented "collaborating with Hoare Lea has enabled us to create new innovative, multi-disciplinary opportunities for student researchers which we hope will inspire new research ideas and careers. Working with Hoare Lea to co-design these new research projects has allowed us to bring different forms of expertise together in applied-research contexts in ways that place our incredible postgraduate student researchers at the heart of research innovation."
Sam Wilkinson, Senior Associate at Hoare Lea said of the partnership, "Collaborating with the Cabot Institute is a brilliant way for us to work with curious minds and new research talent. A cross-cutting multi-disciplinary approach is a critical aspect of the challenges we face in practice and intrinsic to these projects, bringing together expertise from sustainability, computer science, architecture and civil engineering."
Dr Eleni Toumpanaki, Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil, Aerospace and Design Engineering and co-lead for the whole life carbon of buildings project, added that "working closely with Hoare Lea can accelerate translation of research into solutions of real-world problems by developing a reliable tool for Life Cycle Assessment Analysis, enabling informed decision making."