UK Indemand: a National Research Centre for reducing Industrial Energy and Material use in supplying UK needs
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Engineering
Abstract
One third of the world's energy is used in industry to make products - the buildings, infrastructure, vehicles, capital equipment and household goods that sustain our lifestyles. Most of this energy is needed in the early stages of production to convert raw materials, such as iron ore or trees, into stock materials like steel plates or reels of paper and because these materials are sold cheaply, but use a lot of energy, they are already extremely energy efficient. Therefore, the key materials with which we create modern lifestyles - steel, cement, plastic, paper and aluminium in particular - are the main 'carriers' of industrial energy, and if we want to make a big reduction in industrial energy use, we need to reduce our demand for these materials. In the UK, our recent history has led to closure of much of our capacity to make these materials, and although this has led to reductions in emissions occurring on UK territory, in reality our consumption of materials has grown, and the world's use of energy and emission of greenhouse gases has risen as our needs are met through imports.
The proposed UK INDEMAND Centre therefore aims to enable delivery of significant reductions in the use of both energy and energy-intensive materials in the Industries that supply the UK's physical needs. To achieve this, we need to understand the operation and performance of the whole material and energy system of UK industry; we need to understand better our patterns of consumption both in households, and in government and industry purchasing, particularly related to replacement decisions; we need to look for opportunities to innovate in products, processes and business models to use less material while serving the same need; and we need to identify the policy, business and consumer triggers that would lead to significant change while supporting UK prosperity.
The proposer team have already developed broad-ranging work aiming to address this need, in close collaboration with industry and government partners: at Cambridge, the WellMet2050 project has opened the door to recognising Material Efficiency as a strategy for saving energy and reducing emissions, and established a clear trajectory for business growth with reduced total material demand; in Bath, work on embodied energy and emissions has created a widely adopted database of materials, and the Transitions and Pathways project has established a clear set of policy opportunities for low carbon technologies that we can now apply to demand reduction; work on energy and emissions embodied in trade at Leeds has shown how UK emissions and energy demand in industry have declined largely due to a shift of production elsewhere, while the true energy requirements of our consumption have grown; work on sustainable consumption at Nottingham Trent has shown how much of our purchased material is discarded long before it is degraded, looked at how individuals define their identity through consumption, and begun to tease out possible interventions to influence these wasteful patterns of consumption.
The proposal comes with over £5m of committed gearing, including cash support for at least 30 PhD students to work with the Centre and connect its work to the specific interests of consortium partners. The proposal is also strongly supported by four key government departments, the Committee on Climate Change, and a wide network of smaller organisations whose interests overlap with the proposed Centre, and who wish to collaborate to ensure rich engagement in policy and delivery processes. Mechanisms, including a Fellows programme for staff exchange in the UK and an International Visiting Fellows programme for global academic leaders, have been designed to ensure that the activities of the Centre are highly connected to the widest possible range of activities in the UK and internationally which share the motivation to deliver reductions in end-use energy demand in Industry.
The proposed UK INDEMAND Centre therefore aims to enable delivery of significant reductions in the use of both energy and energy-intensive materials in the Industries that supply the UK's physical needs. To achieve this, we need to understand the operation and performance of the whole material and energy system of UK industry; we need to understand better our patterns of consumption both in households, and in government and industry purchasing, particularly related to replacement decisions; we need to look for opportunities to innovate in products, processes and business models to use less material while serving the same need; and we need to identify the policy, business and consumer triggers that would lead to significant change while supporting UK prosperity.
The proposer team have already developed broad-ranging work aiming to address this need, in close collaboration with industry and government partners: at Cambridge, the WellMet2050 project has opened the door to recognising Material Efficiency as a strategy for saving energy and reducing emissions, and established a clear trajectory for business growth with reduced total material demand; in Bath, work on embodied energy and emissions has created a widely adopted database of materials, and the Transitions and Pathways project has established a clear set of policy opportunities for low carbon technologies that we can now apply to demand reduction; work on energy and emissions embodied in trade at Leeds has shown how UK emissions and energy demand in industry have declined largely due to a shift of production elsewhere, while the true energy requirements of our consumption have grown; work on sustainable consumption at Nottingham Trent has shown how much of our purchased material is discarded long before it is degraded, looked at how individuals define their identity through consumption, and begun to tease out possible interventions to influence these wasteful patterns of consumption.
The proposal comes with over £5m of committed gearing, including cash support for at least 30 PhD students to work with the Centre and connect its work to the specific interests of consortium partners. The proposal is also strongly supported by four key government departments, the Committee on Climate Change, and a wide network of smaller organisations whose interests overlap with the proposed Centre, and who wish to collaborate to ensure rich engagement in policy and delivery processes. Mechanisms, including a Fellows programme for staff exchange in the UK and an International Visiting Fellows programme for global academic leaders, have been designed to ensure that the activities of the Centre are highly connected to the widest possible range of activities in the UK and internationally which share the motivation to deliver reductions in end-use energy demand in Industry.
Planned Impact
The proposal describes a set of specific outputs as part of its deliverables, but its fundamental mechanism for delivering impact is through a design based on deep engagement across all stakeholders involved in determining or benefitting from industrial energy use. The key groups of potential beneficiaries are listed here, with descriptions of how the activity of the Centre is likely to have an impact through them:
- UK Industry: as well as gaining greater clarity on opportunities for energy efficiency, the major opportunity for industrial partners is to seek new business opportunities related to adding more value with less material. This area has had little academic or commercial attention to date, but the WellMet2050 project has demonstrated that opportunities for new business models, new process development, new product designs, and new management of material systems can become attractive and provide profitable commercial openings.
- The UK government: The government's sequence of Climate Budgets developed with the Committee on Climate Change has as yet taken no account of opportunities associated with material production and use, so the Centre offers a new raft of policy options. This is of particular importance as recent policy has been unable to unpick the Gordion knot of industrial energy use: the most energy intensive industries should apparently make the most reductions in energy use, but precisely because they are energy intensive, they are also the most efficient, so further taxes or other charges on emissions or energy have little effect on their motivation.
- The UK Academic community: The UK INDEMAND Centre will be internationally leading, and is designed as a national hub, but not to be exclusive. The proposers are engaged as co-investigators in other energy related projects in the UK, and will actively seek to draw in other UK colleagues to this rich research area.
- International policy: Two of the proposers are lead authors of the next IPCC report, which creates a channel to connect the UK INDEMAND Centre outputs to wider processes. The proposers have also been engaged in broad range of international policy networks, including UNEP Regional Consultations on Sustainable Consumption and Production and the UNEP International Resource Panel, as well as in the European Union where, as in the UK, policy-makers are short of options for reducing emissions from energy-intensive industry, and actively looking for new approaches.
- UK NGOs: The design of the Centre includes a 'stakeholder panel' to enable efficient communication with a wide range of NGOs and other bodies such as, UKERC, SCI, PROTEM, ERP, NISP, WRAP, the Carbon Trust and many more. Where the outcomes of Centre research suggest implementation options, these organisations will benefit from having new opportunities to deploy change.
- Skills and training: The Centre will employ 15 PDRAs, at least 30 PhD students, engage with partners through a Fellows programme, support masters and undergraduate project students, and contribute to executive education programmes in order to share well-founded insights into the use of energy and materials in UK industry and our opportunities to change demand.
- The public: The Centre's communication officer will deliver Centre insights to the wider public through the website, through material developed for schools, through annual reports and other publications and through well developed releases for the media.
- UK Industry: as well as gaining greater clarity on opportunities for energy efficiency, the major opportunity for industrial partners is to seek new business opportunities related to adding more value with less material. This area has had little academic or commercial attention to date, but the WellMet2050 project has demonstrated that opportunities for new business models, new process development, new product designs, and new management of material systems can become attractive and provide profitable commercial openings.
- The UK government: The government's sequence of Climate Budgets developed with the Committee on Climate Change has as yet taken no account of opportunities associated with material production and use, so the Centre offers a new raft of policy options. This is of particular importance as recent policy has been unable to unpick the Gordion knot of industrial energy use: the most energy intensive industries should apparently make the most reductions in energy use, but precisely because they are energy intensive, they are also the most efficient, so further taxes or other charges on emissions or energy have little effect on their motivation.
- The UK Academic community: The UK INDEMAND Centre will be internationally leading, and is designed as a national hub, but not to be exclusive. The proposers are engaged as co-investigators in other energy related projects in the UK, and will actively seek to draw in other UK colleagues to this rich research area.
- International policy: Two of the proposers are lead authors of the next IPCC report, which creates a channel to connect the UK INDEMAND Centre outputs to wider processes. The proposers have also been engaged in broad range of international policy networks, including UNEP Regional Consultations on Sustainable Consumption and Production and the UNEP International Resource Panel, as well as in the European Union where, as in the UK, policy-makers are short of options for reducing emissions from energy-intensive industry, and actively looking for new approaches.
- UK NGOs: The design of the Centre includes a 'stakeholder panel' to enable efficient communication with a wide range of NGOs and other bodies such as, UKERC, SCI, PROTEM, ERP, NISP, WRAP, the Carbon Trust and many more. Where the outcomes of Centre research suggest implementation options, these organisations will benefit from having new opportunities to deploy change.
- Skills and training: The Centre will employ 15 PDRAs, at least 30 PhD students, engage with partners through a Fellows programme, support masters and undergraduate project students, and contribute to executive education programmes in order to share well-founded insights into the use of energy and materials in UK industry and our opportunities to change demand.
- The public: The Centre's communication officer will deliver Centre insights to the wider public through the website, through material developed for schools, through annual reports and other publications and through well developed releases for the media.
Organisations
- University of Cambridge (Lead Research Organisation, Project Partner)
- Tata Steel Europe (Collaboration)
- ArcelorMittal (Collaboration)
- International Energy Agency (IEA) (Collaboration)
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (Project Partner)
- Furniture Recycling Network (Project Partner)
- Wrap (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Tata Steel (India) (Project Partner)
- Tata Motors (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- RWE (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- BP (United States) (Project Partner)
- Nottingham Trent University (Project Partner)
- Committee on Climate Change (Project Partner)
- Siemens VAI (Project Partner)
- Green Alliance (Project Partner)
- Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Project Partner)
- Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Project Partner)
- Kyocera (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- University of Leeds (Project Partner)
- Arup Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Allwood J
(2016)
Sustainable materials
in Nature Reviews Materials
Chen Q
(2014)
Contrasting Thermodynamic, Technical and Economic Potentials: The Example of Organic Rankine Cycle Use within UK Industry
in Energy Procedia
Cherry C
(2017)
Homes as machines: Exploring expert and public imaginaries of low carbon housing futures in the United Kingdom
in Energy Research & Social Science
Cooper S
(2016)
Potential for use of heat rejected from industry in district heating networks, GB perspective
in Journal of the Energy Institute
Cooper S
(2014)
Impact on energy requirements and emissions of heat pumps and micro-cogenerators participating in demand side management
in Applied Thermal Engineering
Cooper S
(2017)
Socio-technical factors influencing current trends in material throughput in the UK automotive industry
in Journal of Cleaner Production
Description | We have developed: - a new approach to characterising the stocks of goods in a country, based on an analogy with human demographics, and used this to examine the future flows of material required to deliver cars in the UK. - a new expanded basis of case study evidence related to material efficiency in construction - a basis for creating an all encompassing analysis of mass flows and stocks based on an analogy with database design. |
Exploitation Route | We are closely engaged with a wide range of industrial and government partners, who are actively taking our work and putting into policy and business practice - see the section on impacts. |
Sectors | Chemicals Construction Education Energy Environment Financial Services and Management Consultancy Government Democracy and Justice Manufacturing including Industrial Biotechology Transport |
Description | - Julian Allwood represented the UK as one of two national speakers at the launch of the G7 Alliance on Resource Efficiency - We have written a briefing on meeting the government's construction 2025 strategy for embodied energy in buildings, which has been delivered to the Green Construction Board - The International Energy Agency has included a new 14 page section on Material Efficiency in their 2015 World Energy Outlook, based on our work - We have secured funding for six PhD students funded entirely by industrial money, to translate our work into their practice - We have engaged in several rounds of the DECC/BIS initiatives on industrial carbon roadmaps - Bill Gates listed our book as one of his six best reads of 2015 - We secured two new Innovate UK awards with consortia in the construction supply chain to build the business case for our work on re-use and avoiding over-design in construction. - We ran the University of Cambridge's most inter-disciplinary seminar aiming to engage the humanities and social sciences disciplines in our area of interest, leading to a report by the University's Public Policy Strategic Initiative on Demand Reduction. - Two companies have been spun out of our work: Reduse Ltd. is commercialising our earlier work on un-printing to allow re-use of office paper; Foreseer Ltd. is commercialising our on-line Foreseer tool which provides interactive resource analytics. N.b. please see also the records for EPSRC Grants EP/N02351X/1 ('Material Demand Reduction') and EP/N022645/1 ('End Use Energy Demand Centre titled "Centre for Industrial Energy, Materials, Energy and Products (CIE-MAP)"') which continues the work of this grant after it was sub-divided for administrative reasons. |
Sector | Chemicals,Construction,Education,Energy,Environment,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Transport |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Centre for Climate Change Transformations (C3T) |
Amount | £5,127,383 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/S012257/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2019 |
End | 04/2022 |
Description | Delivering net zero - the role of research |
Amount | £321,597 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V011960/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2020 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Innovative engineering approach for material, carbon and cost efficiency of steel buildings |
Amount | £60,957 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 102477 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2016 |
End | 12/2017 |
Description | KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) |
Amount | £144,811 (GBP) |
Funding ID | KTP009776 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2015 |
End | 08/2017 |
Description | Supply Chain Integration in Construction |
Amount | £100,824 (GBP) |
Funding ID | 57078-418272 |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2015 |
End | 08/2016 |
Title | Multiregional Input Output Analysis |
Description | Accounting for consumption base emissions |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Efficiency |
Title | Structural Decomposition Analysis |
Description | Understanding drivers of change |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Information |
Title | Structural Path Analysis |
Description | Identifying global value changes |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Information |
Title | UKMRIO |
Description | database for accounting for UK consumption based emissions/energy/employment |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | TBC |
Description | Arcelor Mittal industry sponsored PhD |
Organisation | ArcelorMittal |
Country | Luxembourg |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Supervision |
Collaborator Contribution | Data made available for research purposes |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | IEA visit: petrochemical data and energy efficiency calculation methods |
Organisation | International Energy Agency (IEA) |
Country | France |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | No contribution yet, perhaps later on during our PhDs when more data is obtained and analysis is undertaken |
Collaborator Contribution | Insight into how energy efficiency is considered and predictions made in the World Energy Outlook report, contacts to obtain petrochemical data |
Impact | No outputs yet |
Start Year | 2014 |
Description | Tata Steel PhD studentship |
Organisation | Tata Steel Europe |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Additive manufacturing with steel. |
Collaborator Contribution | Data access and exchange with stakeholders. |
Impact | José Azevedo's PhD |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | "Building the world of tomorrow" - meeting the UK Government's construction 2025 construction ambitions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dinner speech at Trinity College for Building the World of Tomorrow". event organised by Shaun Fitzgerald - my talk title "Meeting the UK Government's 'Construction 2025' ambitions for capital carbon emissions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Achieving Zero Carbon Buildings Using Steel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk promoted discussion afterwards Participants reported interest in our research activities and asked for further information and future results |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.iom3online.org/iom/frontend/reg/tOtherPage.csp?pageID=251927&ef_sel_menu=1716&eventID=53... |
Description | Anne Owen MSc Teaching at University of Leeds |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | New MSc course matrerial teaching students matrix algebra, Matlab programing and input output analysis Domestic and International students introduced to new concepts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014,2015 |
URL | http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/teaching-resources/matlab-tutorial/io-with-matlab/ |
Description | Arcelor Mittal meeting, |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | updates on PhD progress and research activities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Arcelor Mittal steering committee meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | talk at Arcelor Mittal Steering committee meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | BRE (Building Research Board) meeting re potential PhDs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Biennial lecture on Sustainability at University of Bath |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Brainstorming workshop with SKANSKA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Build Offsite event, Institute of Civil Engineers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | CDT lecture on Energy and the Foreseer Project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | CDT lecture Energy and the Foreseer project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.foreseer.group.cam.ac.uk/foreseer-tool/ |
Description | CIRIA seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | talk at CIRIA seminar |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Channel 4 event on climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks for future TV programme ideas |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Construction network - meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | meeting of the professional construction network set up in connection with the Material Demand reduction project as was UK INDEMAND |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | DAIWA workhop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | DECC sounding workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation followed by discussion and Q&A about UK INDEMAND work package 1 research work Participants reported interest in our research activities and asked for further meetings on specific research topics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Demand reduction talk at ERP Reception |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | EPSRC Engineering prioritisation panel meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks discussions talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | EPSRC Grand Challenges event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | EPSRC event at UCL: Indian Government's Power sector delegation visit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | ERP Plenary event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | participation in ERP plenary activities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | ERP annual dinner, RAE |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | presentation at ERP annual dinner |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | ERP meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | ERP workshop on Demand reduction, with CSA (David Mackay) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | EUED Gala Event at Lancaster University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks to promote project across the six EUED centres |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Energy Research Partnership meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | discussion & talks Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://erpuk.org/ |
Description | Energy Research Partnership meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | talk |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Energy Research Partnership policy workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Written summary of policies circulated pre-workshop; 5 minute oral presentation given; contribution to 4 page policy brief. Presentation of top five ideas for resource efficiency and contribution to a policy brief. policy brief sent to MPs. Not visible yet |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://erpuk.org/erp-workshop-paper-benefits-savings-better-use-material-resources-energy/ |
Description | European Steel Environment and Energy Congress |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Exergy Economics Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussions sparked future collaborations and research outputs N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://sure-infrastructure.leeds.ac.uk/exec/ |
Description | First Cambridge workshop on Energy Transport and Urban Infrastructure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 30 min presentation by Julian Allwood on the research group's activities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | G7 Resource Efficiency Alliance Launch event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | gave speech at the above event |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.remanufacturing.org.uk/news-detail.php?news=674 |
Description | Global Flows of Energy, Materials and People |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Half-day meeting/workshop with Arcelor Mittal |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | workshop with industry sponsor Arcelor Mittal, input on research activities in group |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | International Society of Industrial Ecology Conference, ISIE 2015, Surrey, UK, 7-10 July 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk promoted discussion afterwards Participants reported interest in our research activities and asked for further information and future results |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.surrey.ac.uk/ces/news/key_events/isie_conference/ |
Description | Laing O'Rourke meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2014 |
Description | Light Metals Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | A biennial conference that focused on recent advances in the science and technologies associated with aluminium, magnesium and titanium alloys. The LMT series is organised, in rotation, by the members of the global light metals alliance of top light metal research centres |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Meeting BIS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation of the UK INDEMAND work package 1 activities and researck objectives and discussion afterwards BIS participants reported interest in our research activities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting DEFRA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation followed by discussion and possible collaborations DEFRA participants reported interest in our research activities and asked for feedback on their current activities on material flow analysis for the UK |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting Professor Robert Ayres |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussion on current activities and possible future collaborations N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting at HM Treasury, presentation to Robert Moore |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation to HM Treasury |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Meeting with Andrew Foster, Jaguar LandRover |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting with BIS analysts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Meeting with BP |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Meeting with Chris Pook, Arjan Geveka, BIS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Exchange of information and xxx |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Meeting with DEFRA, Jonathan Tilson and Neil Fourie |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting with Mike Colechin, ETI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting with Neil McKenzie, CSaP |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting with Siemens, Jens Christian Holst and Dominik Rohrmus |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting with Stuart Wainwright, Deputy CSA, DEFRA |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting with WRAP, Marcus Gover, Director Steve Creed, Director Keith James, Special Advisor Sarah Clayton, Head of Programme - Products and Services Gerrard Fisher, Special Advisor Peter Maddox, England Manager |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Meeting with the Committee on Climate Change Industry lead |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The CCC is more likely to take a whole systems approach to its analysis and use our work as evidence in support of its activities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | NCAS summer school activity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 1.5 hour presentation with questions and discussion followed by 1.5 hour interactive activity. To add a policy aspect to science students studies. Students asked for recommendations for events/ summer schools with a focus on policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://www.ncas.ac.uk/index.php/en/currentnews/archived-news-2014/1237-earth-system-science-summer-... |
Description | One day local wisdom, London College of Fashion |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | PAS2080 TAP meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | input to PAS 2080 specification work |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
Description | PAS2080 steering committee |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | participation by invitation in the PAS 2080 steering committee |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://shop.bsigroup.com/navigate-by/pas/ |
Description | PLATE conference 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk promoted discussion afterwards Participants reported interest in our research activities and asked for further information and future results |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.ntu.ac.uk/plate_conference/index.html |
Description | Presentation by Ernst Worrall and Tim Gutowski of their work to research group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to Ernst Worrell and Tim Gutowski at CUED to Research teams for the three projects; Material Demand Reduction, Precision Guided Flexible Form and WoleSEM. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presentation to BP on climate mitigation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Online presentation to BP executives on climate mitigation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.bp.com |
Description | Public Policy Steering Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | participation in Public Policy Steering Group work |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
Description | RCUK Energy Strategy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Royal Society Discussion Meeting on Material Efficiency |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 15 papers appeared in the Special Issue, the BBC World Service published a major segment on the work, and I appeared on BBC Radio 4's 'Today' Programme to promote the work.. The G8 countries issued a call for research proposal on "Material Efficiency" that arose out of this, and our related work. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/371/1986.toc |
Description | SAM meeting in Luxembourg |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SAM presentation to seminar audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Seminar on Climate Change and Demand Reduction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | speech at the Seminar on Climate Change & Demand Reduction |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Shaping the Future of UK Industry |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion open to all participants on the questions asked N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Steel Construction Institute members event speech |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Steel Strategy Seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk promoted discussion afterwards Participants reported interest in our research activities and asked for further information and future results |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | https://www.iom3online.org/iom/frontend/reg/tOtherPage.csp?pageID=204131&ef_sel_menu=1565&eventID=43... |
Description | Tata Steel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | update to industry sponsor on research activities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Tata Steel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | research group visit and presentations to industrial sponsor |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Tata Steel visit regarding construction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | gave talk to visiting industry partner Tata Steel |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Tata industry sponsor project meeting in Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Tata industry sponsor project meeting in Cambridge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The International Scientific Conference "Our Common Future under Climate Change" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at The International Scientific Conference "Our Common Future under Climate Change" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The employment consequences of material efficiency: an analysis of steel re-use in the UK construction sector |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation of paper at the 23rd International Input-Output Association Conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The outlook for natural resources and energy at BP |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Trottier institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Discussions & talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Visit to Arcelor Mittal |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Visit to Arcelor Mittal |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Supporters |
Results and Impact | Discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Workshop DECC - Industrial Energy Efficiency Evidence |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion open to all participants on the questions asked N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Workshop on Energy, Transport and Urban Infrastructure |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Poster promoted discussion afterwards Participants reported interest in our research activities and asked for further information and future results |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Workshop with BIS, Defra, DCLG, industry bodies, think tanks and consultants |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Attendees were inspired by the whole system approach to demand reduction and were looking for ways to integrate this into their thinking Broadening perspectives on the potential policy interventions to address demand reduction |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | World Auto Steel organisation film |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A short film for the World Auto Steel Organisation to present our work and challenge them. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.worldautosteel.org/ |
Description | World Resources Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk promoted discussion afterwards Participants reported interest in our research activities and asked for further information and future results |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.wrforum.org/events/wrf-2015/ |
Description | World Steel Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk promoted discussion afterwards Participants reported interest in our reseach and asked for future meetings/visits |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | World Steel Twitter debate |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | meeting with WRAP |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | meeting with WRAP |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | video lecture for Peter Groche |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | discussions and talks |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | visit to industry partner, Arcelor Mittal |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | meeting at the Industry partner Arcelor Mittal for update on research activities and progress of PhD students |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |