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, concluded and past projects make a difference.

Current projects

Augmented Reality prototype for digital greening initiatives

Tackling environmental challenges through tech-enabled green transformation.

Climate Collaboratorium

Exploring how arts-based insights can support climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Digital Occupational Safety and Health (D-OSH) Network

Connecting research, policy and practice in construction across continents.

IEA EBC Annex 89

Focusing on pathways and actions to implement net-zero whole life carbon buildings.

Improving design for occupational safety and health

Engagement to strengthen stakeholder capacity for effective implementation of DfOSH in Malaysia.

PHOCUS

Co-producing a maturity model for implementing Passivhaus standard in the social housing sector.

Social organisational capabilities for energy systems

Accelerating community energy as a means of facilitating a low-carbon society.

Sustainable energy decision-making

Addressing an information gap through a prototype Information System using GenAI.

TRUUD

Tackling Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development.

VRSafe

Technology-based construction safety training assessment tool using eye tracking and machine learning.

Concluded projects

CENTHAUR

Human-centered, industry-informed Human-Robot Collaboration for assembly-based timber construction.

Decision support for building thermal comfort monitoring

Introducing ThermalComfortBot, a sustainable GenAI-powered chatbot.

Improving construction safety

An immersive approach providing pathways for the development of Industry 5.0 human augmentation techniques.

Land - International Network for Knowledge

An international hub for research and knowledge exchange across the entire land administration.

Low carbon residential retrofit

An approach that considers the whole life retrofit performance in residential buildings and its residents.

Pathways to sustainability

A practical framework for converting battery wastes into low-cost energy storage systems in Vietnam.

Project Groundwater

Supporting communities to be more resilient to groundwater flooding.

QuiVal

Challenging the current professional standards, guidelines and practices around valuation.

SHAPEing Net Zero Collective

A community of early career researchers working on sustainability across SHAPE disciplines.

SmartBioC

Accelerating the uptake of circular bio-based materials to provide solutions for the construction industry.

Step into the spotlight

Immersive virtual reality environment for overcoming public speaking fear in higher education (Stagecraft)

Sustainable urban water decisions using GenAI

Sustain WaterBot offers SMEs a sustainable tool to adopt eco-friendly water practices.

UK-Japan-Switzerland-Germany-Netherlands transnational network

Accelerating the adoption of Human Robot Collaboration in construction.

UWE Living Lab

Establishing a hub to create a repository of project ideas using UWE Bristol as a living lab.

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)
BUIRBS: Biodiversity in urban areas and new developments
Built Environment Appropriate Technology for Learning (BEATL)
CEME Consortium Project
CHANGE: Co-design a Human-centred Approach for Net zero: Gamifying Energy-behaviour
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
DOMINEERING
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
Let's design more sustainably!
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)
Retrofit advice services in England
Safecrobot
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