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.

SmartBioC

Accelerating the uptake of circular biobased materials to provide zero-carbon, healthy and socially and economically viable solutions for the construction industry.

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