Company  Project Description School Supervisor Project Title
  Eco-I North West - (2020-2023) Current Projects      
FCB Studios The embodied carbon impact of heritage buildings. Embodied carbon is simply the carbon footprint of a material over its lifetime use. It considers how greenhouse gases (GHGs) are released throughout the supply chain. For modern construction materials such as steel or concrete, it is reasonably simple to undertake an embodied carbon assessment. However, heritage buildings built many decades or centuries ago, where built of materials with very different supply chains exhibiting potentially larger carbon footprints.  School of Architecture Dr Stephen Finnegan The embodied carbon impact of heritage buildings
Creative Apparel The Creative Apparel Factory of the Future is purpose built to deliver major environmental benefits.  Key elements that contribute to this are:  data-driven maintenance programmes for each machine that ensure reduced energy, increased productivity resulting in reduced carbon footprint per item.  School of Engineering Dr Sebastiano Fichera Factory of the Future
FloodJack International FLOod-RESilient modular system for affordable and sustainable houses (FLORES). The project aims to analyse, re-design and perform experimental tests, in structural laboratory and in-situ contexts, of steel modular framed buildings as resilient housing systems. The methodology developed, combining experimental tests with numerical simulations, is to demonstrate the efficacy of the structural system to resist actions of natural multi-hazards, including floods, wind, earthquakes and landslides.  School of Engineering Dr Luigi Di Sarno (Engineering) FLOod-RESilient modular system for affordable and sustainable houses (FLORES)
Ecospheric Ltd Retrofit of historical buildings with lime-based mortar using net-zero carbon approaches (RESTO-LIMECARB). This project will study the application of lime-based technologies in the restoration of a historic grade II* listed building as an environmentally sustainable alternative to current methods of construction. Using modern technologies/additives to formulate, test and monitor lime products, this study will contribute to a wider understanding of the benefits and applications of lime, including the carbon savings over alternative materials.  School of Architecture Dr Luigi Di Sarno (Engineering) Retrofit of historical buildings with lime-based mortar using net-zero carbon approaches (RESTO-LIMECARB)