12 Jun 2025
Congratulations to Professor Ronita Bardhan!
We are delighted to share the news that our Director, Dr Ronita Bardhan has been promoted to Professor. This well-deserved recognition reflects her outstanding contributions to research, teaching, and academic leadership in the field of sustainable built environments.Warmest congratulations from all members of Sustainable Design Gorup, Professor Ro…
3 Jun 2025
Ronita presents keynote at the ADB - Rising Heat, Rising Actions, conference in Bangkok
Ronita presents her research on data -led and equity driven built environment design solutions for gendered impacts from climate warming in the Global South at the Asian Development Bank - Rising Heat Rising Actions conference , 2nd June 2025, Bangkok, Thailand
29 May 2025
Maoran Sun presents his PhD research at 44th EARSeL Symposium
Maoran Sun was nominated for oral presentation at the 44th EARSeL Symposium on Deciphering Exterior: Building Energy Efficiency Prediction with Emerging Urban Big Data. His research was selected to presented at the Young Scientist Awards Session
23 Apr 2025
Flora wins the Best presentation award
Haiwei Li (Flora) wins the Best Presentation prize at the Department of Architecture, PhD Conference 2024-25. Her work centres around design research where she intends to develop low cost shading solutions to meet the cliamte related heat stress in resources constraint communities.
23 Apr 2025
Maoran Sun has been awarded the highly competitive Turing Enrichment Scheme
Maoran Sun has been awarded the highly competitive Turing Enrichment Scheme as a placement student for 2024/25 at the Alan Turing Institute. Maoran's research interest lies in urban analytics and decaronisation. Maoran’s research takes the approach of applying spatial data science to analyze the building characteristics, occupants’ socioeconomic s…
23 Apr 2025
Using AI to decarbonise the built environment
The work of Dr Ronita Bardhan and the Sustainable Design Group is featured as one of the key ways that Cambridge researchers are looking at and Using AI to Protect Nature and Climate . You can read more details about how Cambridge is #ShapingAIForEveryone and specifically tackling dementia via the following link: Turbocharging the race to protect n…
23 Apr 2025
Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals
The work of Flora Haiwei Li and Dr Ronita Bardhan on cooling efficacy of trees is featured on Cambridge Research portfolio . You can read more details about how trees can be a potential nature based cooling solution depends where it is located in Cambridge Research News
