The Bartlett at University College London is the UK 's largest multidisciplinary faculty of the built environment. It runs undergraduate, MSc, professional and doctoral programmes across a full range of built environment disciplines including, construction, environmental design, architecture, planning and virtual environments. The ‘environment' area of Bartlett research is one of the largest and most mature within the Bartlett and has expanded significantly over the last five years to a team of fourteen core funded permanent staff. This group of building scientists who research environmental problems are now restructuring into the ‘Complex Built Environment Systems' (CBES) group. CBES is primarily interested in developing solutions to the practical problems of designing, constructing and managing appropriate environments within and around buildings. CBES aims to tackle the following three main issues:

• How to design, maintain and operate the built environment while minimising the emissions of greenhouse gases.
• How to adapt the environment, fabric and services of existing and new buildings to climate change.
• How to improve the environment in and around buildings to provide better health, comfort, security and productivity.

web site: http://www.cbes.ucl.ac.uk/