Research projects in the Centre for Advanced Built Environment Research (CABER)
The Centre for Advanced Built Environment Research (CABER) have projects in facilities management, conservation, sustainable buildings and related studies. See how our current and past projects make a difference.
Current projects
Augmented Reality prototype for digital greening initiatives
Offering a forward-looking approach to tackling environmental challenges through inclusive, tech-enabled green transformation.
BIURBS
A project co-led by a multi-disciplinary team of leading researchers and innovative architecture and green infrastructure practitioners.
Decision support for building thermal comfort monitoring with a sustainable GenAI system
Introducing ThermalComfortBot, a sustainable GenAI-powered Chatbot designed as an advanced Information System (IS).
CHANGE
Co-design a Human-centred Approach for Net zero: Gamifying Energy-behaviour SHP.
DOMINEERING
Developing a BIM-based Immersive Learning Environment for enhanced Construction Management Education and Training using VR technology.
Improving construction safety through AI-enabled visual attention monitoring
An immersive approach providing pathways for the development of Industry 5.0 human augmentation techniques.
Let’s design more sustainably! A novel approach to automated life cycle design for prefabricated buildings
Developing a framework that integrates BIM-based LCA with generative design for real-time design optimisation of prefabricated buildings.
Link – Land – International Network for Knowledge
Establishing an international hub for research and knowledge exchange.
Low carbon residential retrofit: Considering the resident as well as the carbon
An interdisciplinary approach considering technical aspects of energy and whole life retrofit performance in residential buildings and the people who live in them.
PHOCUS
Co-producing a maturity model for implementing Passivhaus standard in the social housing sector.
Project Groundwater
Supporting communities to be more resilient to groundwater flooding.
QuiVal
Challenging the current professional standards, guidelines and practices around valuation, while examining how practitioners may embrace new approaches to facilitate a paradigm shift.
Social organisational capabilities for decentralised, renewable and interactive energy systems
Accelerating community energy (CE) as a feasible, reliable and just means of facilitating a low-carbon society.
SHAPEing Net Zero Collective
A vibrant, multidisciplinary community of Early Career Researchers working on sustainability across SHAPE disciplines.
Step into the spotlight
Immersive virtual reality environment for overcoming oral presentation and public speaking fear in higher education (Stagecraft).
Sustainable energy decision-making using GenAI system
Addressing an information gap through a prototype Information System that consolidates diverse regulatory and environmental topics as a proof-of-concept using GenAI.
Sustainable urban water decisions using GenAI
Introducing Sustain WaterBot that offers SMEs an affordable, scalable, and sustainable tool to adopt eco-friendly water practices.
UK-Japan-Switzerland-Germany-Netherlands transnational network for safer and healthier human-robot collaboration (HRC) in construction
Establishing a global interdisciplinary network of experts from the five countries which have been leading in construction innovation and robotics.
UWE Living Lab
Establishing a hub to create a repository of project ideas using UWE Bristol as a living lab.
VRSafe
Development of an immersive technology-based construction safety training assessment tool using eye tracking and machine learning.
Past projects
- Achieving urban flood resilience
- Arbor-Reality
- Best practice in partnering: development of guidance on professional practice in partnering for registered social landlords (RSLs)
- Built Environment Appropriate Technology for Learning (BEATL)
- CEME Consortium Project
- Chopping Shopping: Research on the past and future of retail real estate investment
- Concept to completion: Design tools for sustainable buildings
- Construction Excellence South West and Future Foundations
- Critical Urban Buildings Emergency Response (CUBER)
- Construction towards the millennium
- Delivering municipal services through effective procurement of local infrastructure - Urbanisation Research Nigeria
- Designing healthy and inclusive public outdoor spaces for young people
- Developing TNE partnership with Kazakh National Research Technical University
- Digital Occupational Safety and Health (D-OSH) Network
- Do your bit for Net Zero Target
- Evaluation of Bristol Play Pathfinder Programme
- Facilities Innovation in the Workplace
- Heating controls: International evidence base and policy experiences
- Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM)
- HORTONET - A network of European historic gardens
- Immersive BIM-based approach for FFE design for buildings
- Implementing Net Zero affordable housing - towards a human-centred approach
- Improving design for safety - A web-based design for safety capability maturity indicator (DFS-CMI) tool for the construction sector
- Improving soft skills, learning outcomes and employability of women students, graduates, and early career professionals in STEM
- Marine conservation
- Modules for international countryside conservation, protection and management, by distance learning (MICPAM)
- Placing a valuation on the UK's fishery
- RAPID 2000
- Reducing floodwater ingress rates in buildings
- Residential building energy demand reduction in India (RESIDE)
- Safecrobot
- Step into the spotlight
- Student Accommodation Survey
- TIES Living Lab: AI Project Data Mining
- TIES Living Lab: Offsite modern methods of construction advanced logistics
- The emerging structure of the UK Facilities Management Sector
- The virtual construction site: A decision support system for construction planning
- Urban nature for heat-resilient green neighbourhoods
- Valhalla
- VirtuAL
- Wells 2000 record
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