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PhD studentships available – up to 8 placesUK Doctoral Training Centre in Energy Demand Reduction and the Built EnvironmentUNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON/LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITYThe UK Doctoral Training Centre in Energy Demand Reduction is a collaboration between two of the leading energy research Universities in the UK: University College London (UCL) and Loughborough University (LU). Both have invested heavily in energy research. They lead some of the most important energy demand research initiatives in the UK. The Centre is the UK champion for postgraduate training to reduce CO2 emissions from the built environment, to secure our energy supply and to provide healthier more affordable buildings. Led by world-class academics assisted by industry partners and stakeholders the Centre provides a route to employment in the rapidly expanding field of energy demand management.The Centre wishes to recruit up to eight top graduates from engineering, science and related disciplines who are committed to the area of...

Welcome to our 4th E-newsletter. This has been another busy quarter for IBPSA-England.1. Our joint event with the CIBSE Building Simulation and Natural Ventilation groups on 24th May was a great success. Hosted by UCL and attracting 165 delegates, this event looked at the important topic of modelling natural and mixed-mode ventilation. We are grateful to our sponsors Monodraught, IES and EDSL. Thank you to those who supported this event. The presentations are currently being processed and linked with the recorded video. These will be made available on-line soon. We will let you know when and where to find it.2. The newly appointed board met in the evening of 24th May and the following officers were duly elected: Malcolm Cook (Chair and first affiliate representative), Naveen Hamza (Vice-chair and second affiliate representative), Pieter De Wilde (Secretary), Dejan Mumovic (Webmaster)3. The Approved Documents for Building Regulations Part L: Conservation of Fuel and Power has...

PhD Studentship in Green BuildingsUniversity of Cambridge - Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical PhysicsLimit of tenure: three and a half years.Following his recent appointment as GI Taylor Professor of Fluid Mechanics, Professor Paul Linden FRS is seeking to appoint a PhD student to a new EPSRC CASE Award in collaboration with Arup, one of the world's leading architectural engineering consultancies. The project will develop mathematical models to be incorporated into the software Arup use to design low-energy buildings. The project is also supported by the Industrial Mathematics Knowledge Transfer Network.Applicants should have an honours degree (at least II.I or equivalent) in mathematics, engineering, or other relevant discipline. The studentship offers tuition fees and a maintenance grant (with CASE top-up) in accordance with Research Council eligibility criteria, which means that the studentship is not available to citizens of non-EU countries.Enquires about this position can be made to Professor Linden...