UK-China Bridge in Sustainable Energy and Built Environment

Completed

Energy Efficiency(Residential and commercial)
Not Energy Related

Basic and strategic applied research

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Architecture and the Built Environment)

Not Cross-cutting

Professor GW Irwin
Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Queen's University Belfast

Standard

EPSRC

01 September 2009

31 August 2012

36 months

£860,748

Electrical engineering

Northern Ireland

Energy : Infrastructure

Professor GW Irwin, Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast

Dr Y Bai, Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, University College London
Professor PAM Basheer, Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen's University Belfast
Dr K Li, Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast
Dr T Littler, Electronics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Queen's University Belfast
Dr H Wang, Sch of Engineering and Design, Brunel University

Project Contact, Ministry of Communications, China
Project Contact, Chongqing University (CQU), China
Project Contact, Amphora Non-Destructive Testing Ltd
Project Contact, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Project Contact, China State Construction Engineering Co, China
Project Contact, China State Railway Construction Co, China
Project Contact, Hunan University, China
Project Contact, Shanghai Electric Group Co Ltd, China
Project Contact, Shanghai University, China
Project Contact, Central Research Institute of Building Construction, China
Project Contact, Southeast University, China
Project Contact, Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation, China
Project Contact, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Project Contact, Tsinghua University
Project Contact, Zhejiang University, China

The Chinese 11th Five-Year Plan considers Sustainable Energy Supply and Sustainable Built Environment as crucial for achieving sustainable development. Recognising the potential benefits, the UK government has actively encouraged international collaborations with China. Two Engineering Schools at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), with internationally recognised research excellence in the Built Environment and in Electric Power & Control, have taken used these opportunities to collaborate with a number of, geographically distributed, leading Chinese universities, research institutions and industries. This effort has been supported by the EPSRC, the Royal Society & the Royal Academy of Engineering, and includes a 1M EPSRC grant for a "UK-China joint consortium on sustainable electric power supply" and a 220K EPSRC project to run "UK-China Network of Clean Energy Research" to promote SUPERGEN (Sustainable Power Generation and Supply) in China. Some QUB technologieshave also been tested in major construction projects, such as the Beijing National Olympic Stadium (Bird's Nest) and the Hangzhou Bay Sea-Crossing Bridge (longest such bridge in the world).The applicants aim to enhance their science innovation and technology transfer activities in both China and the UK helped by their 7 university partners (principally Tsinghua University, # 1 in China & Zhejiang University, #3 in China, the others being Chongqing, Shanghai Jiaotong, Southeast, Shanghai and Hunan), 3 Chinese research institutions (Central Research Institute of Building & Construction CRIBC, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Electrical Engineering, and the Research Institute of Highways). The China State Railway Corp. (largest under Ministry of Railways), the China State Construction Corporation (largest under Ministry of Construction), Bao Steel Corporation (largest in China, #6 in world sales) and Shanghai Electric Group (largest in China) are the main4 Chinese industrial partners. Complementary UK support includes Amphora NDT Ltd, Macrete and SUPERGEN

23/12/08