Architecture and the Built Environment news

• First London Degree Show for UWE Bristol Architecture graduates

  01/07/2014

  Talented Architecture graduates from UWE Bristol will unveil their first ever London Degree Show from 04-06 July 2014 at the Candid Arts Trust. This is the first time in the 18 year history of the course that the degree show has been taken to London, marking a real milestone for the Department of Architecture and the Built | Environment.

• UWE planners advise the Dutch government

  13/06/2014

  Janet Askew and Adam Sheppard, chartered town planners from the Faculty of Environment and Technology, attended a meeting in The Hague to advise the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment about methods of capturing value from land development.

• Green Gateways seek to reinterpret first impressions of Bristol

  05/06/2014

  An ideas project to reimagine and improve major entry points to Bristol has ambitions to become a reality for Bristol's European Green Capital year in 2015. The 'Green Gateways' project is being run by Bristol in Bloom, with partners at the Green Capital Partnership, the University of West of England (UWE Bristol), and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

• A fast-cooling iron, an energy saving kettle and a facemask that allows scuba divers to communicate via sound waves

  03/06/2014

  UWE Bristol Environment and Technology Degree Show Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 June 2014 - R block Frenchay Campus

  A fast-cooling iron designed to improve child safety, a facemask that allows scuba divers to communicate via sound waves and an intelligent kettle that learns your habits to save water and energy are three of the most exciting and innovative exhibits at this year's Environment and Technology Degree Show.

• UWE graphic design student wins architecture magazine cover competition

  29/05/2014

  UWE Bristol Masters graduate Efisio Nicolò Sabiucciu has just won a prestigious design competition for the cover of the European architecture magazine Mark. The competition was organised by publishers Frame, from Amsterdam, to celebrate the magazine's fiftieth issue.

• Qatari high school students visit UWE Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory

  14/05/2014

  A team of high school students from the Tarek Bin Zeyad Secondary School, Qatar recently visited UWE Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory as prize-winners of a competition to visit the UK to discover more about the British engineering industry. The trip was organised by Professor Saud Ghani, Associate Dean of Development and Industrial Relations and Communications Manager, Oasma Omar from College of Engineering, Qatar University.

• Dead space: UWE Bristol researchers examine the accumulation of objects in the home

  11/04/2014

  Researchers from UWE Bristol's Department of Architecture and the Built Environment have been examining the changing nature of 'stuff' kept in the home, seeking to understand how these collections are impacting on the way we inhabit our living spaces.

• Final places for Feeding Tomorrow's City

  14/03/2014

  There are just a few places left for an exciting conference that will take place on May 6th to set the agenda on planning for good food. It's not always obvious, but good 'Planning' is a key ingredient in good food for all. In the past planning decisions have led to cities with out-of-town hypermarkets, flats with cramped kitchens, schools without gardens, producers without markets, and prime farmland paved with tarmac. Cities have become places that make it difficult to get good food for people - and food that is good for the planet. A fresh approach is needed to connect food, health and planning in the urban environment.

• Cities of Health international conference announced

  14/03/2014

  Planning is now underway for Cities of Health, the first international conference of its kind responding to key issues of health and sustainability in the built environment. Drawing in speakers and delegates from across Europe and beyond, the focus is on cities as a test bed for addressing two related global imperatives: the rise in health inequalities and lifestyle disease, whilst reducing our environmental and energy footprints.

  Timed to coincide with the year of Bristol European Green Capital, the conference will take place between 13 - 17th October 2015

• Open Day to present proposals for a pedestrian bridge over Bridge Valley Road

  19/02/2014

  15^th March 2014-02-16 Engineers' House, 10:00-12:00

  An Open Day to present ideas for a traditional masonry arch bridge over Bridge Valley Road will be held at the Engineers' House, The Promenade, Clifton Down, Bristol, BS8 3NB on Saturday15^th March 2014, 10:00 – 12:00. Everyone is welcome to look at the plans, designs, give feedback and find out more about how to get involved.

• UWE Bristol expert to advise Government on Future of Cities

  14/02/2014

  Professor Katie Williams, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Planning and the Environments (SPE) at UWE Bristol has been appointed to lead one of the strands of the UK Government's new Foresight Review on the Future of Cities. The Foresight review will inform Central Government decisions on where and how to build in the UK for the next 50 years.

• From design to demolition: UWE Bristol launches new MSc to help meet stricter construction protocol

  06/02/2014

  Stricter government requirements on managing the building lifecycle for publicly funded projects are being met by the launch at UWE Bristol of a new MSc Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design Construction and Operations.

  BIM is emerging as the industry standard approach to the modelling and management of a building's lifecycle, from design and construction to maintenance and demolition, and is taking over from computer aided design (CAD).

• UWE Bristol graduate President of the Royal Town Planning Institute in its centenary year

  21/01/2014

  UWE Bristol graduate Cath Ranson has been inaugurated as President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) in its centenary year in central London. Cath is the first President to have graduated from the former Bristol Polytechnic (now UWE Bristol) where she studied part time for a postgraduate diploma in Town and Country Planning, graduating in 1983.

• Transgressing boundaries: UWE academics edit special issue of Architectural Design

  17/12/2013

  Jonathan Mosley and Rachel Sara from UWE Bristol have guest-edited a special issue of Architectural Design, devoted to re-scoping the field of architecture through examining where architecture's limits are transgressed and how the discipline is currently evolving.

  The journal issue includes essays by an international line-up of academics and practitioners including the editors and fellow staff members David Littlefield and Louis Rice from UWE's Department of Architecture and the Built Environment.

• Janet Askew elected to be president of the Royal Town Planning Institute for 2015

  29/11/2013

  Janet Askew, Director of Academic Engagement and Enhancement at UWE Bristol, has been elected to the position of Vice-President of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) in 2014, meaning she will automatically become President in 2015.

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