The UK has some of the oldest – and leakiest – housing stock in the western world. The vast majority of it will still be standing in 2050, the year by which the government has set itself a target to cut UK carbon emissions by 80% in comparison to 1990 levels.
Don Harris is a Professor of Human Factors at Coventry University and Head of the new Human Systems Integration Applied Research Group.
Professor, author, consultant and winner of 3 awards for work leading to advances in aerospace. Don has just spent the last three years working with COMAC, the new Chinese aircraft manufacturer on the design and certification of their flight decks.
Innovation often comes at times of great need, as evidenced by the plethora of new technologies emerging to tackle the UK’s 80% carbon reduction target by 2050. For the housing sector, it is essential that any technologies built into homes are as usable and efficient as possible.
The Open Innovation Exchange Programme (OpEx) develops an online marketplace for Business Community Engagement, which encourages collaboration between the Serious Games Institute, Institute of Applied Entrepeneurship and the Director of Intellectual Property at Coventry University.
The Faculty of Engineering and Computing at Coventry University held its first annual open day for business on Wednesday 20 March 2013.
Microcab
Fleet operators will get the chance to test drive a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle at this year’s Company Car in Action day.
David Willetts Visits Coventry University
Coventry University’s Serious Games Institute is set to play a leading role in a £1.5 million research project which aims to help manufacturing firms transform their business models using games technology.
Nelson Mandela
The Serious Games Institute at Coventry University is helping build a virtual prison cell from Robben Island – the site where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years.
Teena Gade
Teena is a vehicle dynamics researcher at Coventry University and a consultant to the motorsport industry. She’s only 33, but she has already worked as an aerodynamicist with the Williams Formula One team and as a rally engineer with Prodrive. Recently featured in The Guardian as a role model for aspiring female engineers, we interview her to find out more about her work…
Phantom Radiotherapy
The work carried out in Coventry within the MAESTRO European project on Methods and Advanced Equipment for Simulation and Treatment in Radiation Oncology (MAESTRO) has demonstrated that it is possible to reduce the amount of radiation dose delivered to healthy tissues during radiotherapy treatment by compensating for organ motion using a standard treatment couch.