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Research and Development Focus

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Sustainability Research Institute

We can help your business in many ways from in-lab and living-lab research support to technological validation for product and service innovations.

Urban Green Infrastructure & Nature-Based Solutions

 Focus
  • Monitoring and surveying UGI for ecosystem service value e.g. water attenuation, water quality, thermal performance, noise reduction, social cohesion, biodiversity net-gain.
  • Biodiversity mapping, monitoring and enhancement strategies.
  • Green roof surveys: advice to optimise the design, installation and maintenance of existing green roofs including substrates testing: physical and chemical testing of growing media

SRI Experts:
Stuart Connop | Caroline Nash | Jack Clough | Richard Lindsay

Beneficiary learning outcomes:

  • Businesses supported with evidence demonstrating their product viability
  • Consistency in manufacture

Product performance with benchmarks against existing products on the market.

Wildlife Conservation

 Sustainability Research Institute
  • Spatial and assemblage analysis, mapping and monitoring of wildlife populations to assess diversity, rarity, typicalness and supporting habitat features.
  • Surveying and monitoring habitats to track responses to management, climate change, habitat change and possible impairment of ecosystem services.
  • Design input on how to enhance product design and site management to support biodiversity.

SRI Experts:
Stuart Connop | Caroline Nash | Jack Clough | Richard Lindsay

Beneficiary learning outcomes:

  • Develop sophisticated data sets
  • Analyse your products and/or habitats/species groups
  • Determine where your innovations will be best-suited.

Material Engineering, Waste and Circular Economy

 Sustainability Research Institute staff - Chloe Molineux
  • Development and testing of sustainable construction materials (aggregates, concrete, clay etc.) derived from industrial by products and waste materials
  • Designing out waste and maximising reuse value of embodied materials in industrial processes 
  • Validate the feasibility of reconstituting low value 'waste' back into valuable resource
  • Green roof aggregate testing.

SRI Experts:
Darryl Newport | Bamdad Ayati | Mike Medas

Beneficiary learning outcomes:

  • Product testing and scale up feasibility
  • Businesses support to understand and validate innovations for recycling of waste materials into a secondary product of value

Community Engagement and Assets

 Community engagement and assets
  • Participatory planning and community engagement approaches for sustainable infrastructure
  • Adaptive governance and implementation including the development of formal and informal institutions for the management and use of shared local green and blue assets

SRI Experts:
Shaherah Jordan

Beneficiary learning outcomes:

  • Gain insights on community engagement, governance and local authority networks for their urban green infrastructure and nature-based solutions

Sustainability Research Institute (SRI)

The Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) is UEL's centre of excellence for environmental research and development.

ARENA

ARENA supports London start-ups, spin-outs and SMEs seeking to develop and commercialise their innovative ideas, products and services.

ARENA case study in Green Roof Shelters

Green Roof Shelters are innovators when it comes to putting nature back into landscapes.

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