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Oxford City has been a pioneering place for carbon reduction since it set up its Low Carbon Oxford partnership in 2010 to reduce carbon emissions by 40% by 2020\. That target was achieved and the Zero Carbon Oxford Partnership (ZCOP) has taken its place with a mission to achieve net zero in the City by 2040\. The partnership includes all the major organisations in the city: BMW Mini, the hospitals, both universities, Lucy Group to name a few. ZCOP built on the results of the first Citizens' Assembly called in a UK city to discuss Oxford's response to the Climate Emergency. A route map has been developed and work has started. But there are challenges. The city is small, even though it has a global reputation, and it sits in the most rural County in the south of England, so there is little critical mass available to attract large-scale interventions to improve the building stock. Its supply-chain is therefore small and fragmented; its pool of skills is difficult to grow because the workforce is fully employed. And it has a very diverse building stock, much of it of world-class heritage standard. There are also opportunities. The City has a vibrant innovation ecosystem, particularly around carbon and energy issues, which has a strong track record of attracting funding. It hosts two of the four UK Smart Energy Demonstrators: Project LEO and the Energy Superhub Oxford. The City is also innovative in developing its own services with wholly-owned housing and direct services subsidiaries. It also supported the start-up of the Low Carbon Hub (LCH), a community energy business that now owns £25m of renewable energy assets, and whose profits have to be used for the benefit of the citizens of Oxfordshire. This project seeks to build on the City's opportunities in order to address its challenges. A delivery agency for net zero, working title 'FutureFit One Stop Shop (FOSS)', will create the long-term, sustainable enabling environment necessary to bring new products, services and projects forward consistently, rather than as ad hoc responses to Government funding rounds. This project brings together the main local delivery partners to work alongside key experts, Arup, RetrofitWorks and Centre for Net Zero, to work out the corporate structure, business model and governance structure for the FOSS. Once implemented and proven to work, the FOSS will be a model replicable in many other 'peri-urban' geographies of the UK.

Building on an existing proven business case for a Metro route in the West Midlands, this project will develop an independently verified case for a segregated transit corridor by substituting the initial light rail solution with the capabilities of driverless, remotely supervised, rail-less service utilising automated, platooning shuttle vehicles using tyre-on-tarmac technology. The study will consider the traditional rail-based requirements, and associated capital and operational costs, that can be removed; and the new requirements and costs that will be required.

* This project will explore how Connected and Automated Mobility Technology (CAMT) can be deployed in the east of Cambridge to solve real-world transport problems in complex conditions -- conditions shared by cities across the country and around the world. * Cambridge suffers from a challenging transport problem: overly congested roads, a desperate need for more homes to support the amount of jobs being created, and a dense, historic urban form which makes delivering transport interventions hugely challenging. Historic efforts to solve these issues leaves extensive experience to build on. The step change in transport technology that is being unlocked by CAMT presents a new opportunity to tackle this problem, and in doing so, identify how CAMT can enable other cities to unlock their full potential. * Where previous studies have focused on opportunities where CAMT could be rolled out quickly or easily, this project focuses instead on how CAMT could be used to solve an existing problem. It will not shy away from the complexities of existing places, enabling development of a replicable strategy that can solve transport challenges even where a particular set of physical conditions are not readily available. * The corridor identified for the study runs through eastern Cambridge, linking the relocated Newmarket Road Park & Ride facility (Newmarket Road / Airport Way) through the Cambridge Airport site with Cambridge Station. The corridor is varied in character, with some sections running through open field and others through existing neighbourhoods. This will ensure the study tests how CAMT could be deployed in a real place, to solve a real problem, and improve the lives of those who live or work in the area. * The feasibility study produced as part of the project (the Cambridge Autonomous Rapid Transit) will explore the potential of CAMT to support sustainable delivery of major new development. The key constraint in Cambridge is land and accessibility -- identifying sustainable and deliverable CAMT solutions could unlock needed growth within a highly productive, fast growing, knowledge-intensive technology economy in Cambridge which contributes significantly to UK GDP whilst contributing to achievement of net zero. This requires an innovative transport solution tested in 'real life conditions' and then applied over time across the whole city.

This feasibility study will explore the development of a strategic mass transit system which links Milton Keynes with its surrounding sub-region. The system, which will comprise a small number of key corridors reaching to a radius of approximately 25km from the city centre, will enable the populations of the surrounding towns and large villages to participate in the economic growth of the city by doubling the size of the connected population and increasing the effective economic activity. The study will adopt the novel Advanced Very Rapid Transit (AVRT) concept as its starting point. This is a new concept in mass transit technology, employing autonomous vehicles running on purpose-designed, physically segregated, pathways to deliver fast, frequent and reliable public transport services. The system promises a significant improvement in quality of service whilst delivering improvements in the cost and carbon benchmarks which are currently associated with traditional public mass transit solutions. If it is successful, the feasibility study will produce a blueprint for a sub-regional mass transit system which will support the plans for economic growth in Milton Keynes whilst providing a 'first-of-a-kind' demonstration system which will showcase UK-capabilities to the rest of the world.

Achieving zero emissions from maritime transportation over the coming years and decades will require research, development, demonstration, and deployment at a massive scale. This requires enabling policies that incentivise the shift to low- and zero-emission fuels and technologies as soon as possible. Together with Newcastle University, EDF Energy R&D, Lloyd's Register, ARUP, the North East LEP and the Connected Places Catapult, the Port of Tyne will lead an innovative project to support the transition to net-zero for the maritime sector, delivering the blueprint for green shipping corridor to create spill-over effects. Green shipping corridors can spur early and rapid adoption of fuels and technologies that could create secondary effects that reduce shipping emissions on other routes. On a lifecycle basis, this is a pathway to full decarbonisation and helps deliver low- and zero-emissions across the maritime sector. This Clean Tyne Shipping Corridor consortium aims to support this transition by undertaking a feasibility study to establish a green shipping corridor from the UK north-east shore with the vision to join up with the Europe Green Shipping network and accelerate uptake through diffusion. Leveraging significant previous collaboration in the region, the consortium partners have brought together key stakeholders across the value chain to collaborate and directly contribute to establishing at least one of the six green corridors pledged by the 24 signatory nations by 2025 to the Clydebank Declaration. The consortium will undertake an analysis of the innovative green shipping technology requirements for both vessel and landside infrastructure. It will also produce the roadmap for implementation based on identified barriers such as the regulatory framework, information sharing, and infrastructure investment, as well as possible actions to address them. Outcomes of the project will be used as the blueprint to drive the operational transition and wider compliance to deliver on the Government's Clean Air Strategy and Clean Maritime Plan.

Project CAELUS-2 (Care & Equity - Logistics UAS Scotland) seeks to demonstrate how drone technology can enhance access to essential medical supplies, particularly in rural parts of Scotland, and establish what would be the UKs first national distribution network serviced by drones. The project is part funded through UKRI Future Flight Fund under Phase 3 which focuses on demonstration. With approximately 20% of Scotland's population living in remote or rural areas spread across 94% of the land mass, service delivery can encounter constraints which contributes to treatment inequity. NHS-Scotland views the adoption of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) as an opportunity to transform the patient experience and reduce the impact of traffic congestion and CO2 emissions. A recent report by PWC examined the impact of drones to the UK's economy, jobs, productivity and quality of life and estimates the impact by 2030 to be 16 billion pounds in cost savings, an additional 42 billion to GDP, the creation of over 6,000 drone sector jobs and in the region of 76,000 drones across UK skies. As NHS-Scotland emerges from the pandemic with focus on the remobilisation, recovery and redesign of services, novel use of UAS will disrupt models of service delivery and transform patient pathways, moving it closer to the patient and a homely care setting. CAELUS-2 will carry out live and digital flight demonstrations, proving that operating a network of multiple drones can integrate safely with existing flight operations and therefore regulatory needs and social acceptance issues can be resolved. The project team, led by AGS Airports and formed of 16 partners, including NHS-Scotland bring a diverse range of technical and industry experience and expertise to support CAELUS-2 in achieving its aims and objectives. The project has three main workstreams: \*Developing new concepts for drones to integrate with others using Scotland's airways \*Demonstration of these concepts through implementation and operation of physical and digital flight demonstrations of drone deliveries by multiple drone operators and an innovative digital twin model to optimise the network. \*Demonstration of innovative new ways of proactively engaging with communities, airspace users and potential customers. With NHS-Scotland embedded in CAELUS-2 this ensures it will be an exemplar innovation project, addressing the remobilisation challenges in a once-for-Scotland approach.

Project CAELUS-2 (Care & Equity - Logistics UAS Scotland) seeks to demonstrate how drone technology can enhance access to essential medical supplies, particularly in rural parts of Scotland, and establish what would be the UKs first national distribution network serviced by drones. The project is part funded through UKRI Future Flight Fund under Phase 3 which focuses on demonstration. With approximately 20% of Scotland's population living in remote or rural areas spread across 94% of the land mass, service delivery can encounter constraints which contributes to treatment inequity. NHS-Scotland views the adoption of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) as an opportunity to transform the patient experience and reduce the impact of traffic congestion and CO2 emissions. A recent report by PWC examined the impact of drones to the UK's economy, jobs, productivity and quality of life and estimates the impact by 2030 to be 16 billion pounds in cost savings, an additional 42 billion to GDP, the creation of over 6,000 drone sector jobs and in the region of 76,000 drones across UK skies. As NHS-Scotland emerges from the pandemic with focus on the remobilisation, recovery and redesign of services, novel use of UAS will disrupt models of service delivery and transform patient pathways, moving it closer to the patient and a homely care setting. CAELUS-2 will carry out live and digital flight demonstrations, proving that operating a network of multiple drones can integrate safely with existing flight operations and therefore regulatory needs and social acceptance issues can be resolved. The project team, led by AGS Airports and formed of 16 partners, including NHS-Scotland bring a diverse range of technical and industry experience and expertise to support CAELUS-2 in achieving its aims and objectives. The project has three main workstreams: \*Developing new concepts for drones to integrate with others using Scotland's airways \*Demonstration of these concepts through implementation and operation of physical and digital flight demonstrations of drone deliveries by multiple drone operators and an innovative digital twin model to optimise the network. \*Demonstration of innovative new ways of proactively engaging with communities, airspace users and potential customers. With NHS-Scotland embedded in CAELUS-2 this ensures it will be an exemplar innovation project, addressing the remobilisation challenges in a once-for-Scotland approach.

Our study examines the feasibility of an Electric Road System (ERS) which comprises overhead lines providing a power source to 44T electric trucks. This is the first step to removing diesel trucks from our roads by 2035, and thus meeting the Government's '10-point' net-zero plan for climate change. Industry is responding to the challenge laid down by successive climate change summits and activists like Greta Thunberg. Our world class team includes Costain, Siemens, SPL, Scania, Cambridge University, Herriot Watt and Arup. It has already proven the technology in Sweden and Germany. The next step is to demonstrate an economic and carbon friendly end to end solution. In addition, we shall look at the wider environmental impacts and public opinion. This will include road users, emergency and breakdown services. Our system needs to earn the confidence of users by being safe. We shall work alongside Highways England to create a safer road system which is easily maintainable. We shall also look to minimise disruption during construction. We shall examine opportunities afforded by 5G to develop systems that prevent congestion and accidents. We shall engage with single truck operators and fleet owners to ensure that there is a smooth transition to electric trucks. Our initial modelling shows that it offers better value than the existing diesel system. By working with road hauliers, we shall demonstrate this in terms of logistics and costs. The study will create the vision of the UK leading ERS expansion in Europe. This will be good for UK based businesses, good for UK jobs and good for the regeneration of the North. Another big winner are our school leavers and schoolchildren. We shall create links with schools to allow them to share this eco-journey. In the short term, we shall engage with them at COP26 with proposed competition winners joining us for a day at the exhibition. Longer term we shall identify skills programmes with institutions like the Doncaster based, National College for Advanced Transport & Infrastructure. Let's not forget the opportunity to retrain people in new skills which are relevant to a potential £20bn market. We wish to develop financial and transport models that prove the logistics and economics of the system. This will demand new innovative approaches by attracting private sector investment. The outcome will be win-win. The winners will include HMRC, road users, the environment, job seekers and long-term investors.

As the coronavirus descended on the UK, the initial focus of our city councils and transport agencies has been on coping with managing unprecedented changes to daily life and preparing to support healthcare workers. The next big focus for these decision makers will be planning services to support a managed transition out of the current lock-down. To that end, the modelling work which Arup has developed could help shed light on critical trade-offs between restarting economic activity and managing health risks. We have developed agent based models (ABMs) to simulate how cities operate - using granular data that reflect collective decisions of individuals (description of agent based models here: [https://medium.com/arupcitymodelling/def-city-modelling-5f8be67c1c2][0]). With this modelling approach, we can help cities to plan for their economic recovery over the next weeks and months. Which transport services are most important to connect key-workers to their work? How will public transport operators maximise access to key work sites and potentially new schedules (e.g. staggered school days) while mitigating crowding? We have explored how ABMs can identify social networks: [https://medium.com/arupcitymodelling/lab-note-003-agent-to-agent-interactions-e013d594db7f][1]. Over the coming months, what might longer-term changes in transport demand mean for fare-based revenue? Traditional transport models are not designed to solve these challenges. They make use of aggregate data, which limits them in simulating these new scenarios and they are slow to build. We have built agent based models with Transport for London, Melbourne, Transportation Infrastructure Ireland, and the Ministry of Transport in New Zealand (read about case studies here: [https://medium.com/arupcitymodelling/agent-based-models-in-action-f05010567c54][2]). To deliver these models, we built from robust tooling developed in academia. We are confident in the design, feasibility, and application of these models. What we have not tested is how we might incorporate radically different behaviours, for which there is no precedent. This project would test these models in an unprecedented context. We propose building an alpha model for one city, over 6 weeks. We will be able to assess the technical viability of agent based models as tools to support decision-makers in this unique time. We will also be able to explore how this modelling approach may fit within the organisational and governance structures of cities/transport authorities. We have been in conversation with Transport for London and Glasgow City Council - as potential partners for this testing - should this application be successful. [0]: https://medium.com/arupcitymodelling/def-city-modelling-5f8be67c1c2 [1]: https://medium.com/arupcitymodelling/lab-note-003-agent-to-agent-interactions-e013d594db7f [2]: https://medium.com/arupcitymodelling/agent-based-models-in-action-f05010567c54

City councils and urban housing developers around the world need methods to remove heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) from pedestrianized city center shopping areas ("high streets"). Shops on high streets must regularly (a) receive deliveries and (b) have refuse collected, both by HGVs. Current advisory solutions include scheduling these vehicles at night, which creates nighttime noise and emissions pollution making city centers less attractive for urban living; or where such pollution is critical due to existing urban living, expensive infrastructure solutions such as designing underground tunnels for delivery. Urban living is environmentally efficient, aids regeneration and reduces the UK's housing shortage, and is important to encourage. There is a clear need for alternative urban systems to move goods and refuse to and from high streets. Our alternative is a fleet of small, electric last-mile delivery vehicles, driving on regular routes around high streets and to HGV interchange areas positions around the edges of high streets. The vehicles can be summoned to stop at shops and at parked HGVs by the retailers, to load and unload Deliveroo-sized standard boxes of goods and refuse. Unlike previous projects, they operate in dense pedestrian crowds and translate into commercial implementations newly researched algorithms for pedestrian interactions from a state-of-the-art EU research project. Unlike pure robotics projects our partners study the effects on urban planning systems and credible routes to market through existing international clients at city councils and housing developers.

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To create a tool 'Resilience for Planning and Development' model, to enable policy makers to test the impact of planning decisions on a city's resilience , specifically regarding land use planning and development, with Belfast, Northern Ireland providing the project test base.

oneTRANSPORT is an innovative Smart City initiative which utilises an infrastructure system and service delivery platform to enable Local Authorities to collaborate with private businesses and non-commercial organisations in tackling modern urban challenges such as the support of ageing populations, increasing urban densities, changes in the ways we live and work, rising service expectations and climate change. oneTRANSPORT is believed to be the world’s first data marketplace for live, multi-modal and multi-system transport data, built around the “oneM2M” international standard for internet-of-things systems. Through compliance with this standard, the system adopts open interfaces and a modular architecture that can scale to support large national and international deployments whilst preventing vendor-lock-in. Originally conceived in 2013, the oneTRANSPORT initiative has been collaboratively developed from concept to pre-commercial trials by a consortium of 11 organisations : InterDigital Europe (technology platform provider), Arup (transport experts), Buckinghamshire County Council, Hertfordshire County Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Northamptonshire county council and Highways England (Local Authorities and use-case owners), Clearview Intelligence and World Sensing (sensor providers), Traak and Imperial College London (data analytics) and with strong support and sponsorship from innovateUK. This FOAK project will commercialise the innovations developed by the oneTRANSPORT initiative, enabling Local Authorities to open & trade their data assets with private industry, academia and other public bodies across the UK. Initially focused on multi-modal transport opportunities, this national infrastructure will enable start-ups, new entrants, SMEs and existing big players to bring a new wave of innovative integrated transport services and applications that address Local Authority priorities and drive end-user behavioral change. Creating this new transport data marketplace with innovative business models will generate new UK jobs and UK economic growth, especially amongst SMEs who have the skills and agility to build innovative new data-centric services and applications to address urban challenges.

The Smarter Travel Solution (STS) is an ambitious integrated transport project to bring the entire management and completion of a journey, or all your journey needs, under one umbrella, supporting and engaging with the user from first thought through to arrival in a “one screen journey”. Using digital mobile/internet technology, STS supports the use and combination of bus, rail, walking, cycling, taxi and car club, bringing the modes together as a complete solution both in practical terms and, even more importantly, in the mind of the traveller. By encouraging the user to see these shared/active modes of transport as one portfolio solution, it can shift user perception so that sustainable, shared modes become the new default. STS provides unprecedented integration of journey planning, booking/payment, in-journey information and entertainment, and journey history to help the user manage their transport habits. STS is a digital mobile/internet solution which takes existing and planned Local Authority solutions (bus & rail accessed by smartcard/phone) and integrates them with private sector transport (taxi, car club) and active travel through all stages of a journey.

The LENDERS is led by Nationwide Building Society, administered by BRE, and with partners Principality Building Society, UK Green Building Council, Energy Saving Trust, Zero Carbon Hub, Constructing Excellence Wales, University College London Energy Institute and Arup, and is supported by Innovate UK. The project will evidence the capacity to use a residential property's Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) and other factors to predict to a reasonable degree of accuracy the homeowners' actual fuel bill. The project will go on to develop from this new methodology for estimating homeowners' fuel costs using only inputs normally available at the point of agreeing a mortgage. This methodology is intended to be suitably robust to enable it to replace the existing allowances typically used in mortgage institutions' own mortgage "Affordability Calculations", and the project will make the method freely available to mortgage institutions. The project will therefore enable mortgage providers to better take into account the energy performance, and hopes to encourage borrowers to place more value on energy efficiency as a result of this.

oneTRANSPORT aims to make transport more user friendly & accessible by deploying the world’s first open & scalable platform enabling multi-modal & multi-system transport integration across Local Authorities. Our long-term vision is the international integration of multiple sectors with transport. We are creating an open & self-sustainable transport data marketplace that uses the recently published oneM2M global standard. •oneTRANSPORT focuses on integrating modes & systems from 4 contiguous counties. Functionality is demonstrated with a multi-vendor exemplar application giving transport predictions & travel recommendations •With the Innovate UK endorsement, our platform will allow LAs to open & trade their data assets, create jobs, stimulate SMEs & economic growth, while reducing costs & driving end-user behavioral change. •oneTRANSPORT will complete the value chain from data generation to traveller, enabling new feedback loops, end-user value & operational benefits. By proof-by-existence we will show better transport network use, commercial viability, unlocking new markets & funding streams for transport, first in the UK & then beyond.

UK Autodrive - Milton Keynes leading the way in partnership with Coventry and the motor industry is a large programme of work aimed at exploring and demonstrating the potential for autonomous vehicles to become part of our everyday lives. The programme, which involves the demonstration of road-going cars and lightweight self-driving pods designed for pedestrianised spaces, will be delivered on behalf of the UK by the City of Milton Keynes working in association with the City of Coventry. The partners in the programme include JLR, Tata, Ford, RDM, Thales (UK), AXA, Wragge-Lawrence-Graham, Oxford University, Cambridge University, the Open University, and the new Transport Systems Catapult. Consulting group Arup has devised the programme and will provide programme management and technical co-ordination skills.

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The combined Heat and Photovoltaics (CHPV) Project will develop a validated system design tool for CHP+PV powered localised energy system for clusters of commercial buildings, combining low carbon CHP heat and electricity with renewable PV generation, thermal system and electrical energy storage and an optimising control system. The project will build on published knowledge and previous developments to create an accurate and calibrated modelling environment for clusters of commercial buildings. This tool will be used to develop sophisticated autonomous controls to optimise asset resource use and add value to integrated systems. Simulated application of the tool and control to three case study sites, including MediaCityUK in Salford, will provide data in support of commercialisation. Exploitation and dissemination of the tool and control method is expected to result in significant business opportunity for consortium members and the industry. The Project will bring together leading construction sector players (Arup and BRE), the biggest UK utilities company (Peel Utilities), and top research organisation (University of Liverpool) to deliver the project.

This project will build the UK's first aquaponic urban farm to quantify the economic and environmental potential of sustainable urban farming. Led by GrowUp - a start-up specialising in aquaponic farming - it will use aquaponics in an innovative configuration to exploit a symbiosis between wastestreams of aquaculture and nutrients required for hydroponic plant growth. The consortium's expertise in aquaponics, commercial hydroponics & recirculating aquaculture will allow them to manage and investigate this relationship at scale in an urban location in London. The project will build a prototype to demonstrate scaled urban production, focused on optimised control of growing systems, creating an opportunity for the franchise of a UK global commercial offering in local, urban sustainable intensified agriculture. Consortium partners are GrowUp Urban Farms; I+S Associates; Sterner AquaTech and Arup, including support from the GLA, the London Borough of Newham, Siemens and Plymouth University.

The project is to optimise the design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) of large preassembled components for reinforced concrete construction in nuclear and heavy civils projects. The project will develop and test DfMA components to increase productivity and improve safety and quality over more traditional in-situ methods of construction. It will address the stringent levels of structural and functional reliability of the overall structure, improve and simplify seismic detailing requirements, and quality control.It will consider the manufacture, transport, cranage and placement aspects of components from 20-1000t, and bring optimisation and simulation techniques to identify best solutions for specific applications . The team includes Laing O'Rourke, a major UK civil engineering enterprise and manufacturer and a current nuclear new build constructor, ARUP a worlwide consulting firm, Imperial College, leading on optimisation analytics and BRE for prototype testing

Decentralised Greywater Network modelling system would provide a methodolgy and tools to design and evaluate the optimum network configuration of a grey water reuse network for our cities and towns.

The study, to be undertaken by a consortium of Clicks and Links Ltd, Ove Arup and Partners and the University of Manchester, along with a range of knowledge partners from Greater Manchester will look at the feasibility of creating a model of an Urban Virtual Energy Exchange (U-VEX ).This model will be used as the basis for both scenario/business planning and operational tools for an Urban Energy Enterprise. Such an enterprise would include access to and management of energy flows between local energy generation, local energy storage and demand participation assets as well as the ability to trade with external energy sources. The study will investigate the technical, legal, commercial, operational and institutional elements of such a model using Greater Manchester as a reference. The output of the study will be a series of reports detailing the feasibility or not of such a model, including prototypes of how it might work practically and a business plan for its development.

The project consists of a full Post Completion Building Performance Study of a recently completed new building for a local authority primary school on the outskirts of Totnes in Devon. Dartington C.E. Primary school is an innovative ‘green’ design by White Design. It features a structural timber panel system and off-site construction, arranged as four self separate ‘clusters’ of accommodation. The classrooms feature an ‘oast house’ type roof structure with excellent daylight and advanced lighting controls. Heating is by underfloor heating and an air to water heat pump in classrooms and gas boiler in the main administration building. The school employs a hybrid ventilation system with natural ventilation through windows during warm weather and mechanical ventilation using heat recovery units in cold weather . The study comprises an ‘Arup Gold Appraise’ analysis together with an Arup Building Use Study (BUS) questionnaire to review energy use, water and occupant satisfaction and advice on how the school can better use energy and water. The study is being carried out over two years.

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Driving energy reductions in industry through behavior change The Energy Project provides a series of tools to help drive energy use reductions in industrial environments through lightweight prompts to behaviour change. In contrast to standard approaches based on automating opportunities that are identified (often at high cost) our approach is to drive savings through prompting greater levels of worker engagement in energy use, creating self sustaining solutions. The interventions deployed are based on low cost re-deployable modules focused on opportunities identified by the workers in initial workshops. • live deployments at UK factory • driving employee engagement • fast to deploy • low cost modular system • adaptable for offices / factories The technology developed has been designed to be adaptable and flexible for a variety of industrial building types, factories / warehouses and offices. The central display module incorporates a GPRS connection to our database backend, which supports a sophisticated data analysis interface and rule driven alerts engine. The backend server allows web access to the team displays and our custom 3D energy viewer, an innovation that allows an instant overview of the energy status across a site.

The YouCaretaker project explored the potential for more active user engagement in the energy efficient management of office buildings, and developing a scalable communications platform which can engage the widest community of stakeholders in a common endeavour to maintain and manage shared space efficiently. Using a range of energy sensing technologies, reporting systems and visualisation techniques, the project explored different community engagement methods to drive occupant interest in two building types, including a large corporate headquarters building and a serviced office building for SMEs. The project was led by Slider Studio and collaborating with Ove Arup and Partners. Slider developed the communications platform, totally re-architecting its StickyWorld platform to meet the demanding requirements of building and facilities management teams; Arup developed a variety of energy sensing technologies and data-streams, subsequently displayed on the platform, and deployed a range of occupant engagement techniques, including inter floor competitions to help drive down energy costs.

The project proposes a collaborative research programme to test an innovative, algae based solution for the significant reduction of large scale industrial CO2 emissions. Represented within the project consortium is a large scale energy generators (SembCorp Utilities UK) and the process industries, including cement production (Cemex UK) and lime production (Steetley Dolomite). The project has been recently realigned following trials in which the difficulties associated with growing algae to a sufficiently high concentration and at a sufficient rate have been explored. The primary outputs this project now include:- Further development of lighting arrangements for the photo bioreactor Site testing of algae performance on actual flue gas Delivery of a scalable design Provision of a business model based on project results that will assist with partner decision-making in algae investment. The project will focus on the use of bioreactors for the growth of algae in order to present outputs substantiated by experimental results.

Passive Design Assistant (PDA) is a software tool that demonstrates the principles of “passive” (non-mechanical) thermal design. This includes factors such as: insulation, solar gain, thermal mass, ventilation and climate. PDA enables an assessment to be made of temperatures within a building operating in ‘free running’ (non-mechanical) mode or the demand for heating and cooling when the building is being operated in a mechanical mode. PDA has a simple and intuitive user interface that enables the user to understand the influence of key parameters in a quick and easily accessible way. The software models a single space and uses an industry-standard calculation method. Results are displayed clearly and respond to parameter changes instantly. The user can construct material build ups from a library of material types and input site-specific climate data. It is intended that the software is simple enough to be used by all those involved with or interested in the design of buildings. It can be used either for educative purposes or to inform early-stage design. PDA is available as a free download from: http://www.arup.com/Publications/Passive_Design_Assistant.aspx

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The CABLED project will showcase electric cars across Birmingham & Coventry in the West Midlands. The project will make Ultra Low Carbon Vehicles available to a wide cross section of real world users and collect data on their everyday use. The CABLED project will use the data to understand how the vehicles are used in real life and to assist in the planning of the further expansion of EVs. This project will: • deliver a showcase demonstration of 100+ ultra low carbon vehicles across Birmingham and Coventry in West Midlands. • deliver the infrastructure required in the users' property, in workplaces, and in public areas. • provide extended real world vehicle evaluation and usage data to allow final development and hence ensure successful production launch of ultra low carbon vehicles. • collect data to measure vehicle performance, infrastructure usage patterns, impacts and requirements with a minimum 12 months experience of seasonal conditions from all vehicles. • publicise the benefits and progress of low carbon vehicles

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