May 2012

Damage and Recovery in Christchurch

Stephen Platt and Roxane Foulser-Piggott

Looking at damage patterns and tracking recovery helps plan reconstruction and mitigate future disasters. Roxane Foulser-Piggott is working on damage assessment from post event satellite imagery and Steve Platt went to Christchurch to see how the recovery is being managed after the 2010/2011 earthquakes.

March 2012

Energy and Housing

Jason Palmer and Martin Hughes

CAR has been doing the main housing energy modelling for the UK Government's Department of Energy and Climate Change for two years. Our work is used in Great Britain's Housing Energy Fact File, National Statistics, to answer questions in the House of Commons, and to plan the Department's work aimed at improving energy efficiency. However, there is considerable uncertainty in our work. How should we tell the Government?

February 2012

Planning recovery in Chile

Stephen Platt, Chairman, CAR

Disasters leave huge scars in people's lives, the economy and infrastructure. Yet despite the damage there are opportunities to do some good– to build back better. This process of recovery involves planning, at both the national and international level and at the neighbourhood scale. Steve Platt went to Chile to see how CAR's method of using satellite imagery might be used to aid planning and monitor recovery.

February 2012

Real buildings, Real people, Real data

Jeremy Harrall, MD, SEArch Architects, Sustainable Ecological Architecture Ltd

“We're living the dream! No energy bills, no heating bills, growing our own food; what more do we need?” Steve and Barbara Holmes.

December 2011

Understanding placemaking and professional ethics - are fractals the answer?

Stephen Hill, C2O Future Planners and CAR Associate

Fractal syatems occur in the natural worls, and in real and virtual networks. People have to be psycologically conditioned to create non-fractal objects. Unfortuantely thast is ewhat our education system has been doing. Could we do better?.

October 2011

Understanding the Country House

Jeremy Musson, Freelance writer and historic buildings adviser

Jeremy Musson, Architectural historian and author, considers different approaches to understanding the history of country houses and his experience of the process of revealing different narratives in these historic places.

September 2011

Housing Design Awards 2011

David Birkbeck, Chief Executive, Design for Homes

A window onto the emerging patterns of new homes. What do the hundreds of entries for the Housing Design Awards, the industry’s longest running housing design programme, tell us about emerging trends in layout and typology? David Birkbeck manages the Housing Design Awards for RIBA, RICS, RTPI, HCA-NHBC and the Government. He is one of ten judges of the Awards.

July 2011

Reflections from Malmo

Adam Broadway, CAR Associate and Managing Director, Instinctively Green

People often ask "Where is the most sustainable place?" Too often the reply is not in the UK, but in Europe. Malmo, famous for its Western Harbour re-development, is one quoted example. Earlier this year Adam was invited by the Building and Social Housing Foundation to join a study tour to find out how the city has earned such a reputation and see first hand the various examples of sustainability. This talk offers a personal reflection of Malmo supported by plenty of images to enable us to discuss why is it the Swedes can do it and we can’t.

June 2011

GreenSpec Studio: A Safer Route to Competent Sustainable Construction

Brian Murphy, Environmental Specification Consultant Architect and Founder of GreenSpec

CAP'EM is an Interreg-funded project developing a low cost Life Cycle Assessment for 5 countries in NW Europe; assessing and cataloguing 100 eco products and 50 generic materials from SME manufacturers and developing a search engine for products in appropriate applications. GreenSpec Studio has been created to help mainstream designers select competent new build eco construction assemblies and populate them by choosing from 450 green products from GreenSpec product pages.  This talk will describe GreenSpec’s ambitions to bring these outputs together, to develop intuitive interactive Excel tools for architects to carry out elemental and whole building LCA.

May 2011

When All the World’s a City: Prospects for the Next 100 Years

Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London

In 1960, the systems theorist Heinz von Foerster wrote an article in Science magazine that suggested that given the rate of population growth over the last 10,000 years, the world’s population would effectively become infinite in the year 2026. This he called ‘Doomsday’ but since then many have speculated that the rate of change in key technological innovations has similar superexponential rates of growth and in the next 30 or 40 years, we will face some sort of technological discontinuity or ‘singularity’ after which our experiences of life as we have known it since prehistory will be very different. Far from population becoming infinite, it now looks as though population is rapidly stabilizing – growth is slowing down dramatically, populations are aging, and the world is becoming entirely urbanized. Here I outline these speculations and try to imagine what a world will be like where we all live in cities and where the focus changes from growth which has dominated all our experiences so far to a world where migration and differential growth and decline becomes the norm.

May 2011

Perspectives on Volcano Catastrophe Risk: The 2010 Merapi Eruption, Java

Susanna Jenkins, CAR and Dr Peter Baxter, Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge

The 2010 eruption of Merapi volcano in Java, Indonesia, resulted in the deaths of more than 350 people and the destruction of many km2 of populated area, mostly through contact with pyroclastic density currents (PDCs). The eruption provided a rare opportunity to collect empirical PDC impact data and a multi-disciplinary field mission was carried out in the immediate post-eruption phase (Nov-Dec) to investigate the nature and extent of the PDCs and associated impacts on buildings, humans and the environment. Analyses of data collected during the mission were ongoing and initial findings and interpretations were presented in the context of lessons to be learned for volcano risk mitigation.

March 2011

Counting the Capital Carbon: Why we should

Alice Moncaster. Senior Research Associate, Centre for Sustainable Development, Department of Engineering; Deputy Director, IDBE, Department of Architecture University of Cambridge

A research programme at the University of Cambridge Centre for Sustainable Development is developing a robust methodology for the capital (also known as embodied) carbon in buildings which is both valid and usable, with a new database of relevant information. This will form part of a whole life financial, energy and carbon costing tool. This talk described the methodology and database, discusses why policy has omitted to include capital carbon, and explains why it is crucial that research and industry now join together to make up for lost time.

November 2010

The Interaction between Acoustics, Music and Architecture
in Renaissance Churches in Venice

Dr Raf Orlowski, Director of Acoustics, Ramboll UK
Visiting Professor, Department of Architecture, Sheffield University

The talk is based on a unique research project carried out by the University of Cambridge over the last five years. Its outstanding feature is that it places equal emphasis on each of three key disciplines namely, architectural history, musicology and acoustics. The main questions that the study addresses are: How far did architects consider acoustic needs when designing new churches in Renaissance Venice and how far did composers take account of the acoustics of church interiors when writing sacred music.

October 2010

Designing for Efficient Effective and Health Enhancing Workplaces

Dr Stamatina Rassia, Lecturer Portsmouth University, CAR Associate

Can we design office environmental layouts to influence occupant physical activity and health?

Approach to environmental design: Experience it... sense it... monitor it... analyse it quantitatively... use it to inform design.

September 2010

The Architecture and Engineering of Downdraught Cooling

Brian Ford, Chair in Bioclimatic Architecture, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham

This talk described the results of a research and dissemination project partly funded under the EC IEE programme, and included reference to the design of the ‘Nottingham H.O.U.S.E.’ (House Optimising the Use of Solar Energy) at the Solar Decathlon Europe event in Madrid in June, 2010.

July 2010

Design Directions seen at CABE

Diane Haigh, Director of Design Review, The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

CABE reviews the designs for the most significant schemes in the planning system. This gives a unique overview of current trends in architecture and urban design. It also provides a powerful basis for CABE's advice and campaigns to improve the design of towns and cities across the country.

June 2010

EEFIT Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Mission to Haiti

Keiko Saito, CAR

The Mw 7.0 Haiti earthquake of 12 January 2010 caused devastating damage to the already improvised nation. Remotely sensed images were used for loss estimation as part of the Post Disaster Needs Assessment process. The field mission by the Earthquake Engineering Field Investigating Team in April 2010 provided the opportunity to assess the accuracy of this damage assessment. Results from these assessment exercises were described.

May 2010

“What, you mean you’re still using email?”: A personal view of the past, present and future of Internet communication

Mark Skipper, CAR Associate

April 2010

The Magic of Design… time to break free from the spell

Stephen Hill, Director, C2O future planners

Has our thinking about what design is and is for become clouded by the magic dust of 'design quality': a spell of doubtful provenance and effectiveness? Ten years on from the creation of CABE and the gentle institutionalisation of design quality in public policy and public life, is it time to become rougher and tougher?

March 2010

Novel Construction and Modelling Strategies for Masonry Structures

Michael Ramage, University Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge and Matthew DeJong, University Lecturer, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

This talk outlined the design methodology and construction process for a series of thin shell domes and vaults in rural South Africa. Fired-clay bricks have been replaced with less energy-intensive stabilised earth tiles. Vaulted masonry structures are vulnerable to earthquakes; analytical modelling and discrete element modelling techniques were presented which characterise the response of masonry arches to earthquake loading.

January 2010

East European Cities – Patterns of Growth and Decline

Vlad Mykhnenko, Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Nottingham

This talk examined the long-term population trajectories of East European cities and analysed how their fortunes have changed, both in relation to their past growth profiles and to other settlements. The main finding was that the absolute and relative positions of cities have declined sharply since the 1960s and 1970s.

November 2009

Sustainable Housing - What will it look like?

Anne Cooper and Margaret Reynolds, AC Architects, Cambridge

October 2009

Between Heritage and the Bulldozer: What happens to unfashionable buildings?

William Fawcett, CAR

Most people find old buildings delightful – not just some old buildings, but practically all of them. In contrast, many modern buildings, especially those built about 40 years ago, look like ghastly mistakes. A lot of buildings of this age are being demolished – but not all of them. How will the survivors be viewed when they are 100 years old? History suggests that they too will become heritage. Perhaps we should try to escape from this cycle of fashion and judge buildings by their merit, not their age.

September 2009

Architectural Projects: Works to Existing and Historic Buildings – Past, Present and Future

Oliver Caroe, Caroe Architecture Ltd and CAR

July 2009

Structural Cone at Greenwich

Philip Cooper, Structural Engineer, CAR

June 2009

Achieving Smarter Growth: Lessons from Europe and the Cambridgeshire Quality Charter for Growth

Dr. Nicholas Falk, Director URBED (Urban and Economic Development) and Visiting Professor at the School of the Built Environment, University of the West of England

The Congress for New Urbanism has promoted a charter to achieve smarter growth, and Cambridgeshire now has its own charter, drafted around the four Cs of Connectivity, Community, Climate and Character. Working with Cambridgeshire Horizons URBED has led study tours to see what can be learned from new settlements in Germany and the Netherlands as well as East Anglia. How can Cambridge lead the way in putting sustainable development principles into effect in the areas identified for major growth?

May 2009

1906 San Francisco Earthquake: A Retrospective

Haresh C. Shah, Obayashi Professor of Engineering Emeritus, Stanford University. Founder and Senior Advisor, Risk Management Solutions, Inc.

Professsor Haresh Shah has been a pioneer in the fields of risk analysis, earthquake engineering, and probabilistic methods for over 35 years. He has served Stanford University in many capacities, including Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering and Founding Director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center. He has worked with UNESCO and several countries to develop building codes and earthquake design criteria. In 2006, the 100-year anniversary of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Professor Shah was given the unique award of ‘Top Seismic Engineer of the Twentieth Century’ by the Applied Technology Council/Engineering New Record.

April 2009

Meeting Scotland’s Climate Change Targets:
Do They Stand a Chance?

Jason Palmer and Andy Brown

The Scottish Government wants to cut CO2 emissions from housing by four-fifths by 2050. Cambridge Architectural Research led the team that showed them how close they might get, and how much it will cost. We developed an integrated model of housing, in-use and embodied climate change emissions, user behaviour and prices – drum-roll – "DEMScot".

April 2009

Disaster Recovery - Tsunami Field Trip to Thailand

John Bevington, ImageCAT Ltd and Daniel Brown, Cambridge University Centre for Risk in the Built Environment

The EPSRC-funded Disaster Recovery project at the University of Cambridge aims to develop indicators of post-disaster recovery. Findings from a field trip to Baan Nam Khem in Thailand were presented. The aim of this field trip was to gain an insight into the recovery process from the local community’s point of view, as well as to collect information on the physical characteristics of the area. Reactions to our proposed indicators and to our initial mapping of the satellite imagery were discussed. Also described was how we gathered the information we need to ground truth our maps and provide the temporal data to model the recovery process.

February 2009

Environmental Sustainability and the Shrinking City:
Examples from Europe and the US

Helen Mulligan, CAR

The challenges posed by shrinking cities are faced by planners in every region of the world. At the same time, awareness of environmental issues has been increasing among both policymakers and the general public. These issues come together in the consideration of how actions in the environmental sphere can help to address the challenges posed by conditions of stasis and retrenchment. Can environmental concerns act as an important catalyst for change?

January 2009

Mapping the Damage from Natural Disasters using Geospatial Techniques

Keiko Saito, CAR

In the past 10 years, the nominal spatial resolution of remotely sensed data, in particular satellite data, has increased dramatically. With this improvement, it is now possible to consider applications that look at individual buildings using satellite images. Keiko Saito described her use of high-resolution satellite images to map the distribution of damage after earthquakes, as well as other projects that are attempting to harness the power of these high-resolution images.

November 2008

Digital Elevation Model Analysis for Daylight and Sunlight Availability

Nick Baker and Vicky Cheng, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge and CAR

Application in Leicester Waterside.

September 2008

Disaster Recovery

Professor Amir Khan, Peshawar University, Pakistan and Professor Ratana Chuenpagdee, St John’s Memorial University, Newfoundland

Social Surveys and Earthquakes in Northern Pakistan and Surveys of Tsunami Damage and Recovery in Coastal Thailand.

July 2008

Better Design for Science in Schools?

Jason Palmer, CAR

Faraday Project, exemplar designs for science.

July 2008

A Case Study in Micro-Conservation

Dr. Ian Ellingham, Development Consultant based in Ontario;
Associate, Cambridge Architectural Research

What do you do when someone hands you a piece of significant architectural history? This happened when a genuine (beware of imitations) Nicholson & Macbeth gate unexpectedly came into Ian Ellingham's possession. Nicholson & Macbeth were the foremost architects in the Niagara area in the interwar period and created many fascinating houses – and some wonderful gates. The talk dealt with the issues encountered relative to this gate, many of which are shared with larger-scale heritage decision-making.

June 2008

Nippon deno Shogeki

Emily So, CAR

Emily received a scholarship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) to carry out research in Japan for three months on her PhD topic of human casualties in earthquakes. Upon returning from her visit to Kyoto University she recounted her experiences there both in terms of research and her everyday life.

May 2008

Transition Towns: A Positive Vision to tackle Peak Oil and Climate Change

Robin de Carteret, Transition Leicester

We currently face two impending crises: Peak Oil and Climate Change. Transition Towns address these by actively and imaginatively planning for a future without cheap fossil fuel energy. This process has proved to be an inspiring way of involving communities in making real, positive changes to their lives.

May 2008

De-pollution pays: The Clean Development Mechanism in Practice

Helen Mulligan, CAR

March 2008

Making Architecture: Workers by Hand or by Brain

Michael Stacey, Chair in Architecture, University of Nottingham School of the Built Environment

The act of making links hand and eye, and connects the intellect to physical change.  Making architecture and the pursuit of excellence in the physical delivery of quality in built projects is a challenging and collaborative process. Professor Stacey’s talk examined the role of craft in the construction of contemporary architecture. He sought to establish the synergies between craft and design primarily by using examples of his built projects.

February 2008

Climate Change: My Part in its Reversal

Sebastian Macmillan, Associate, CAR; Partner, Eclipse Research Consultants; Course Director, Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment, University of Cambridge; Consortium Manager, Carbon Reduction in Buildings Consortium

Sebastian Macmillan discussed how he first became interested in passive energy systems in buildings, and his experiences as an independent technical researcher and writer promoting best practice in energy and environmental management. He outlined the main findings of the £3m 4-year project Carbon Reduction in Buildings, which is a collaboration between five UK universities and is supported by the EPSRC and Carbon Trust under the Carbon Vision Initiative.

January 2008

Can you see the air flow?

Torwong Chenvidyakarn, Lecturer, University of Cambridge Department of Architecture

Dr. Chenvidyakarn discussed how a combination of physical and mathematical modelling can be used to gain unique insights into air flows in buildings, and how these insights can be used to help design energy-efficient buildings. The talk was for non-specialists who are interested in energy-efficient building design.

November 2007

Spanish Tile Vault: A New One built in England

Philip Cooper, Technical Director, Scott Wilson and Michael Ramage, Lecturer, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge

October 2007

New Settlements and Sustainability

Stephen Platt, CAR

Lessons from Cambourne, a new settlement 10 miles west of Cambridge.

June 2007

Cambridgeshire Horizons
Implementing the Growth Strategy for the Cambridge Sub-region

Peter Studdert, Director for Sustainable Communities,
Cambridgeshire Horizons

May 2007

Disastrous Surgery

John Beavis, Orthopedic and Trauma Surgeon,
Founder and Chairman of the charity IDEALS
(International Disaster and Emergency Aid with Long Term Support)

April 2007

Business Strategy: Some ideas, or ... What I did on my MBA-idays

Helen Mulligan, CAR

7 Degrees of Freedom; 6 Future Landmarks; 5 Porter's Forces;
4 Strategic Postures; 3 Horizons; 2 Red (or alternatively Blue) Oceans; ...and a CAR Ltd. in the workshop!

March 2007

Psychology, Community and Climate Change: The Dynamics of Popular Engagement

Rosemary Randall and Shilpa Shah

This talk concerned their work for Cambridge Carbon Footprint and the Akashi Project in raising awareness about climate change and
achieving reductions in people’s personal carbon loads.

November 2006

Russia on Rails

Jason Palmer and Elizabeth Hunt

Jason and Elizabeth caught the 5.15 train from Cambridge and arrived in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, three weeks and 20 chocolate bars later. The adventure continued, by minibus, on a circuit through Mongolia including the Gobi and the Okon Valley. This 'show and tell' presented some of their photos and gave a flavour of life in Russia and Mongolia in 2006.

June 2006

The True Cost of an Earthquake

Emily So and Steve Platt, CAR

Field trip eight months on from Pakistan earthquake.

June 2006

From the Cowshed to ... the Shed

Katie Thornburrow, CAR

The trials and tribulations of getting a house built.

April 2006

Tackling Sustainability through the Planning System

Eithne Flanagan, Sustainable Construction Coordinator, Cambridge City Council

March 2006

An Integrated Approach to Environmentally Sustainable Commercial Buildings in Urban China

Lin Hao, PhD Candidate, The Martin Centre

February 2006

Earthquakes in Pakistan

Robin Spence, CAR
Emily So, Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies

November 2005

New Californian Architecture

Helen Mulligan, CAR

A look at some recent non-residential buildings, with an emphasis on low-energy design.

July 2005

Earthquake Risk Management: Effective Communication via Simulation

Professor Junji Kiyono, Department of Civil Engineering, Kyoto University

June 2005

Engaging Small Construction Firms: Climbing the North Face of the Eiger with a Donkey on your Back

Ian Cooper, Eclipse Research Consultants and Jason Palmer, CAR

April 2005

The Application of Remote Sensing Technology
for Disaster Management and Response

Dr. Beverley Adams and Ronald T. Eguchi
ImageCAT Inc.

May 2005

Urban Futures – Dealing with Growth and Decay

Steve Platt, CAR and Ian Cooper, Eclipse Research Consultants

March 2005

Modelling of Biological and Physical Processes

Dr Phillip Biddulph
Senior Research Associate, Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge

Dr. Phillip Biddulph comes from a background in Experimental High Energy Particle Physics where extensive computer modelling of particle interactions is used in the analysis of data. He has developed a keen interest in modelling physical and biological systems using some of the techniques used by particle physicists.

February 2005

Building Vulnerability Analysis for Volcanic Hazards
Case Study: Guadeloupe

Erica Calogero,Research Assistant, EXPLORIS,
University of Cambridge

September 2004

Economic Dynamics and Energy Technologies

Jonathan Kohler, Research Theme Manager, Integrated Assessment, Tyndall Centre, University of East Anglia and Senior Research Associate, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge

July 2004

Re-writing the Book of Risk

Alan McRobie, Reader, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

June 2004

Post-Earthquake Building Damage Mapping

Keiko Saito, Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge

March 2004

Developments in Conservation Plans

Katie Thornburrow and William Fawcett, CAR

February 2004

Knowledge Management for CAR - sharing what you know

Jason Palmer, CAR

November 2003

Thornhill Ecohouse: The house that John built

Robin de Carteret, CAR

Aesthetics as an integral part of good ecological design, creating a place that people love to live in.

November 2003

Pride or Prejudice?

Steve Platt and Robin de Carteret, CAR

What the general public really think about new housing in SE England. What type should we build and where should it go?

April 2003

Accept or Strengthen? A Study of Risk to Ageing Structures

Robin Spence and Philip Cooper, CAR

February 2003

Carruthers at the MaSCed Ball

Steve Platt, CAR

How to make business more sustainable without having to define sustainability.

October 2002

Ecuador Escape

Jason Palmer, CAR

July 2002

Remote Sensing for Disaster Management

Keiko Saito, Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge

May 2002

Do you really want to save energy?

Alastair Sherry, Sherry Lighting

March 2002

Conservation Plans - who needs them?

Katie Thornburrow and William Fawcett, CAR

A briefing seminar on Conservation Plans for listed buildings

February 2002

Supporting the Emergency Shelter Sector

Tom Corsellis,Shelter Project, The Martin Centre, University of Cambridge

October 2001

Aerial Imagery - AiMing at new markets

Seppe Cassettari, The GeoInformation Group and Robin Standring, CAR

July 2001

CAR's Structure: The survey - and the future

Steve Platt, Katie Thornburrow and William Fawcett, CAR

June 2001

Conservation Plans - how did we live without them?

Katie Thornburrow and William Fawcett, CAR

April 2001

Earthquake in India - A Report on the EEFIT Field Mission

Robin Spence and Domenico Del Re, CAR

March 2001

The AIR inSTRUCT Project

Helen Mulligan and Andy Brown, CAR

February 2001

Incoherent Eton Scholars: A Revolution in Sound System Design

Tim Lewers, CAR

January 2001

Health Effects of Climate Change: Coastal Floods and Windstorms

Dr. Peter Baxter, Consultant Occupational Physician, Addenbrookes, University of Cambridge

November 2000

'…sustainability, sustainability everywhere, but not a drop to drink…'

Ian Cooper, Steve Platt, William Fawcett, CAR

From The Rhyme of the Ancient Researcher

July 2000

Whole-House Ventilation System

Mike McEvoy, The Martin Centre, University of Cambridge

June 2000

Celestial Acoustics

Tim Lewers, CAR

June 2000

Shock! HORROR!! VESUVIUS!!!

William Fawcett and Robin Spence, CAR

Modelling the next eruption (You don't want to be there when it happens)

March 2000

Nose to Nose with the User: The Future of Consumer Research in Architecture

Ian Ellingham, The Martin Centre, University of Cambridge

February 2000

Working with Communities in Urban Risk Reduction

Nabeel Hamdi, Centre for Development and Emergency Practice, Oxford Brookes University

January 2000

Marketing CARISMA

Luca Leone, CAR

Promoting the Risk Group

October 1999

Jam Tomorrow

Katie Thornburrow and William Fawcett, CAR

The Conservation Plan as a tool for the development and care of historic buildings.

July 1999

AiM: The Early Years

Chris Going and Luca Leone, CAR

Progress in developing a method for mapping risk of unexploded ordnance

June 1999

ECO ARK - Ecological Architecture Practice

Andrew Yeats, ECO ARK

March 1999

Orcinus Orca

Michel Fougeres, Cambridge Media Lab

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February 1999

At last… by popular demand… CAR's New Website!!

William Fawcett, CAR

Preview and discussion of new CAR website.

February 1999

Prospects for CAR Progetti SRL

Guilio Zuccaro, LUPT, University of Naples

January 1999

Life at the Top

Tom Holbrook and Oliver Smith, 5th Studio

Architectural projects.

December 1998

Building Performance Simulation and Experimentation by Example

Darren Robinson, The Martin Centre, University of Cambridge

November 1998

Computer-based Sketch Design

Michael Trinder, Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge

October 1998

'Grow your own' structural timber in Britain

Tom Challis, Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of Cambridge

October 1998

Open Evening at CUMIS (Cambridge University Moving Image Studio)

François Penz, CAR

June 1998

Windstorms

Andy Brown, CAR

Where they come from and where CAR has taken them.

April 1998

Storyboarding CAR

Steve Platt and Jonathan Platt, CAR

A workshop on our future development.

February 1998

Ivory or Green? The University of Cambridge and the Environmental Agenda

Richard Mackay, Cambridge University Environmental Officer

A workshop on our future development.

January 1998

Gutenberg Finale: Designing CAR Documents

Steve Platt , CAR

December 1997

Danni Strutturale: The Umbria Earthquakes of 26 September 1997

Robin Spence, CAR

November 1997

How to stop your Project Going with a Bang

Chris Going, CAR

Mitigating risk from explosive remnants of war.

October 1997

CAR Design: Inspiration and Aspiration

Helen Mulligan, Anne Cooper and Katie Thornburrow, CAR

October 1997

Tales of the Unexpected

Eleanor Fawcett, CAR

Recording old buildings in Hong Kong.

May 1997

Sustainability at the Eden Centre: 3 great flavours!

William Fawcett, Anne Cooper and Sebastian Macmillan, CAR

Presentation and Discussion of the Essex Sustainable School Competition Bids

April 1997

CAR's First Fleet: Images from the Shores of Terra Australis

Robin Spence, Helen Mulligan and Andrew Coburn, CAR

March 1997

Contending with the Site Agent

Anne Cooper, CAR

An architect in practice

February 1997

Project ZED: Towards Zero Emission Urban Development

Koen Steemers, CAR and The Martin Centre, University of Cambridge

The interrelationship between energy, buildings, people and microclimate.

January 1997

China: Record Economic Growth!! Record Energy Efficiency??

Helen Mulligan, CAR

November 1996

carltd.com

François Penz, CAR

CAR web presence

October 1996

Quantifying Hazards from Explosive Volcanic Eruptions

David Pyle, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge

September 1996

What makes a house "healthy"?

David Crowther, The Martin Centre, University of Cambridge

Warm, Dry, Light, Airy… But what else and how do we achieve it?

September 1996

Interactive Data on the Net

Richard Bron, Managing Director, Blueprint Ltd

July 1996

A Taste of Central America

Graham Parker, CAR

June 1996

Environmental Issues in Steel Construction

Keith Eaton, The Steel Construction Institute

May 1996

Digital Space and the Built Environment

Geoff Vincent, Mediation Technology

New information media and the construction industry

April 1996

The Global Risk Village

Ian Nunez, CAR

March 1996

Buildings, Lighting and the Biological Clock

Doug Cawthorne, CAR

February 1996

Renewable Energy on the Farm

Rob Homewood

January 1996

Flames, Gripes and Democracy: The Social and Organisational Effects of Electronic Mail

Ian Rudy, Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge

December 1995

Navigating the Hype

Michael Eleftheriades, The Martin Centre, University of Cambridge

An open discussion on the future of electronic publishing

November 1995

History and Structure

Dina D'Ayala, The Martin Centre, University of Cambridge

Approaches to the conservation of historic monuments

October 1995

Who is doing what?

Ian Cooper, Eclipse

Environmental initiatives in the UK construction industry

May 1995

Disasters and Data

Mary Comerio, Professor of Architecture, University of California at Berkeley

New tools for reconstruction policy and vulnerability assessments

April 1995

Green Light to a Dark World: A Guide to Global Initiatives on the Environment

Jason Palmer, CAR

March 1995

Tales from the Large Club Room

Andrew Coburn, CARtograph

CARtograph: The Research Agenda

February 1995

Great Hanshin Earthquake

Antonios Pomonis, CAR

Building damage and earthquake insurance

December 1995

Motion (Digital) Picture

François Penz, CAR

November 1994

Duct

Andrew Uttley, CAR

A surface modelling package for moulds and pattern making

October 1994

Volcanic Wonders

Antonios Pomonis, CAR

May 1994

Brainstorming

Steve Platt, CAR

Ideas, potential and opportunities

February 1994

Manila Enveloped II

Antonios Pomonis, CAR

Hazards, vulnerability and mitigation

November 1993

Revealing Surveys

Steve Platt, CAR

How to conduct a meaningful and effective survey

October 1993

Wonderful Wonderful Copenhagen

Tim Lewers, CAR

Probably the best concert hall in the world

July 1993

Manila Enveloped I: Recent Projects in the Philippines

Andrew Coburn, CAR

Hazards, vulnerability and mitigation

June 1993

KARea - Buildings and Things in Korea

William Fawcett, CAR

May 1993

Professional Competences - What is it that distinguishes the professional?

Nigel Lloyd, CAR

April 1993

User's Hot Hints - WORD

Antonios Pomonis, CAR

April 1993

CAR in Development

Robin Spence, CAR

March 1993

User's Hot Hints - Excelling at 4.0

Koen Steemers, CAR

The use of Microsoft Excel

March 1993

Designing Out Crime

William Fawcett, CAR

December 1992

Future CAR's

All, CAR

November 1992

Helvetica is not the only font

Steve Platt, CAR

Hints in typographical design

September 1992

Go-Faster Stripes

Tim Lewers, CAR

Powering up the computers in CAR

July 1992

Video in Architecture

François Penz, CAR

June 1992

A Practical Introduction to CARtograph

Simon Ruffle and Andrew Coburn, CAR

May 1992

The Thesis and the Drawing Board

William Fawcett and Tim Lewers, CAR

Architectural research and its application in practice

January 1992

Light in a Cold Climate

Helen Mulligan and Koen Steemers, CAR

December 1991

Teams

Steve Platt, CAR

Working well together. A game to discover people's team roles.

November 1991

Communicating With Pictures

Eric Dudley and Andrew Coburn, CAR

Field Work in Northern Pakistan on the ODA Building for Safety Project

June 1991

CARLSOFT? Commercial Software Development from Consultancy Tools

Simon Ruffle, CAR

May 1991

The Intelligent Home

Andrew Coburn, William Fawcett and Simon Ruffle, CAR