built environment

Research from Grantham Scholar Charles Gillott reveals drivers and barriers to the adoption of vertical extension. 

Congratulations to our Phebe Linette Bonilla Prado for publishing a review of adsorption-based post-combustion CO2 capture.

Our director Professor Rachael Rothman is the director of the new South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre. We talk to Rachael about […]

Grantham Scholar Abraham Mariech researches disability, housing and sustainability in Kenya, where he was born and grew up.

A study led by Grantham Scholar Charles Gillott shows two storey extensions on buildings could provide an extra 175,000 homes […]

Grantham Scholar Charles Gillott‘s work on vertical extension included in the Institution of Structural Engineers’ Sustainability Resource Map. The Institution […]

In this interview with Philippa Hughes we talk community-led housing. Philippa explains what community-led housing is and how it exposes […]

COP26 observer Charles Gillott researches ways to make buildings more sustainable. Here he tells us why we need to both […]

Urban metabolism looks at cities as if it they have a metabolism, like a living biological system.