Sustainability
Research
School

Sustainable Design and Manufacture

• Sustainable design of products and systems
• Sustainable manufacture
• Materials and energy use and conservation
• Life cycle assessment and product take-back
• Environmental management systems
• Business management issues

Sustainable Energy and Transport

• Renewable energy technologies
• Distributed generation and energy storage
• Manufacturing technology, performance evaluation and long-term monitoring of photovoltaic systems
• Terrestial and space PV applications
• The hydrogen economy
• Rational use of energy
• Hydrogen systems and economies
• Demand side management
• Lifetime extension of conventional power plants
• Energy audits/consultancy services
• Fuel cells/fuel cell vehicles
• IC engines: improved fuel economy, low carbon and renewable fuels
• Renewable hydrogen transportation

 

Professor Dennis Loveday
Director Sustainability Research School
T: +44 (0) 1509 222635
E: D.L.Loveday@lboro.ac.uk

Water Supply, Waste Water and Waste Management

• Primary, Secondary & Tertiary wastewater collection & treatment
• Water supply and treatment
• Waste management
• Water resources
• Sustainable solid waste management
• Recycling
• Landfill engineering

Built Environment / Building Performance

• Sustainable urbanism
• Sustainable construction
• Sustainable housing: design for new build & refurbishment
• Managing sustainability in construction projects
• Energy efficiency and building services engineering

Environmental Science and Natural Resource Management

• Climate change
• Countryside planning
• River ecology and channel management
• Environmental training

Sustainable Societies and Economics:
Policies, Practices and Impacts

• Human impacts on the environment
• Environmental legislation
• International trade
• Energy policy

 

Mr Peter Townsend,
Research Manager, Rutland Hall
T: +44 (0)1509 222451
E: P.A.Townsend@lboro.ac.uk