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

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