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| Winners of the RIBA President's Research Awards announced The winners of the inaugural RIBA President's Research Awards were announced in an awards ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The annual awards have two categories, Outstanding PhD every year, and either Outstanding University-led Research or Outstanding Practice-led Research in alternate years. This year's winner of the Outstanding PhD was Dr. Rajat Gupta of Oxford Brookes University for his PhD, entitled Investigating the potential for local carbon dioxide reductions: developing a Geographic Information System - based domestic energy, carbon counting and carbon reduction model. The thesis describes the development and validation of a domestic energy carbon counting and carbon reduction model (DECoRuM) for urban scale assessments of the cost benefits of a wide range of energy efficient and renewable energy options. Dr. Wendy Pullan of the University of Cambridge won the award for Outstanding University-led Research with her work, Conflict in Cities: Architecture and Urban order in Divided Jerusalem. The research, funded by the ESRC, concerns urban development in Jerusalem, exploring in particular the security wall that traverses the countryside in the region and the main road that runs towards Damascus gate. The other shortlisted entries for Outstanding PhD included: Dr Yeoryia Manolopoulou of the Bartlett School of Architecture for her thesis Drawing on Chance: Indeterminacy, Perception and Design; Dr Torwong Chenvidyakam of the University of Cambridge for The Fluid Mechanics of Pre-cooled Ventilation; and Dr Alan Owen Williams of the University of Sheffield for The Typology of Industrial Buildings. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Construction News :: home page |