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School of the Built Environment University of Salford, UK CENEAST Meeting, Bologna

School of the Built Environment University of Salford, UK CENEAST Meeting, Bologna. Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga r.d.g.amaratunga@salford.ac.uk www.dilanthiamaratunga.net. Professor Richard Haigh r.p.haigh@salford.ac.uk www.richardhaigh.info. Centre for Disaster Resilience

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School of the Built Environment University of Salford, UK CENEAST Meeting, Bologna

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  1. School of the Built EnvironmentUniversity of Salford, UKCENEAST Meeting, Bologna Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga r.d.g.amaratunga@salford.ac.uk www.dilanthiamaratunga.net Professor Richard Haigh r.p.haigh@salford.ac.uk www.richardhaigh.info Centre for Disaster Resilience School of the Built Environment University of Salford Salford Greater Manchester M5 4WT, UK www.disaster-resilience.salford.ac.uk

  2. Founded 1896 • Approximately 22,000 students • 3500 International • 12 Schools grouped into • 3 Colleges: • Science and Technology • Arts, Media and Social Sciences • Health and Social Care

  3. Vision People 57 academic staff and 40 researchers and project managers - including 17 professors and 30 external visiting professors. Construction Managers IT Specialists Architects Quantity Surveyors Building Surveyors Facilities Managers Construction Economists Sustainability Specialists Lawyers Real Estate Specialists Civil Engineers Building Service Engineers • “To be the UK centre of excellence, in the Built Environment and recognised as one of world’s top 5 Built Environment schools ” School of the Built Environment

  4. Research School of the Built Environment • Enjoyed a 6 * (the highest) rating of the UK Research Assessment Exercise at several assessments: an indication of our international lead over the past decade • Named by the Sunday Times in 2006 as “The Gold Standard Centre of Excellence in the Built Environment”

  5. Research

  6. Research Themes

  7. Research Centres

  8. Taught programmes Undergraduate Postgraduate 1 year FT; 2 year PT; 2 year DL Accessibility and Inclusive Design BIM and Integrated Design Construction Law and Practice Construction Management Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Management Digital Architectural Design Disaster Mitigation and Reconstruction Project Management in Construction Quantity Surveying Real Estate and Property Management Real Estate Development Sustainable Building Design Urban Design and Generation • 3 year FT; 5 year PT; optional placements • BSc (Hons) Architectural Design and Technology • BSc (Hons) Building Surveying • BSc (Hons) Construction Project Management • BSc (Hons) Property Management and Investment • BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying

  9. Programmes and CENEAST Relevent programme specifications? Relevent module specifications? Smart Design & Performance Simulation BIM Theory & Practice Sustainable Design Theory and Practice Virtual City Regeneration in Practice Place Making Principles of Disaster Mitigation and Reconstruction Participatory Disaster Risk Reduction • MSc Sustainable Building Design • MSc Urban Design • MSc Disaster Mitigation and Reconstruction

  10. Research programmes MPhil/PhD • Over 250 postgraduate research students in SoBE • Full time on campus • Part time on campus • MERIT distance learning • Split-site • Professional doctorate

  11. Typical Masters Structure Year 1 2 3 Semester 1 2 3 3 1 2 3 1 2 Principles of DM&R 30 Credits Knowledge T&I 30 Credits Research Methods 15 Credits Full Time (Sept) Dissertation 45 Credits Post-Disaster PM 30 Credits Participatory DRR 30 Credits Part Time / Distance Learning(Sept) Knowledge T&I 30 Credits Dissertation 45 Credits Participatory DRR 30 Credits Post-Disaster PM 30 Credits Research Methods 15 Credits Principles of DM&R 30 Credits Knowledge T&I 30 Credits Principles of DM&R 30 Credits Research Methods 15 Credits Full Time (Jan) Dissertation 45 Credits Participatory DRR 30 Credits Post-Disaster PM 30 Credits Part Time / Distance Learning (Jan) Dissertation 45 Credits Post-Disaster PM 30 Credits Principles of DM&R 30 Credits Participatory DRR 30 Credits Research Methods 15 Credits Knowledge T&I 30 Credits Taught module Research Methods/Dissertation

  12. Salford led the EURASIA project, a three year research grant to implement a capacity development programme for Asian and European Higher Education Institutions undertaking training, teaching and research into disaster resilient infrastructure

  13. EURASIA was a partnership between 3 European and 2 Sri Lankan Higher Education Institutes Funding: EC (Framework), €456,495 Completion Date: 30/04/2009 Web: www.eurasia.buhu.salford.ac.uk

  14. The grant facilitated a split site PhD programme, the introduction of a virtual research environment, staff exchanges and the development of an innovative curricular in disaster resilience

  15. Collaboration and communication support Information handling and exchange support Project management support Data collection and dissemination support Research training support Virtual Environment for Built Environment Researchers (VEBER) http://veber.buhu.salford.ac.uk

  16. BELLCURVE • Examined the need for learners to acquire and develop skills and knowledge enabling responds to changing construction labour market needs linked to the disaster management. The project identified ways for Higher Education Institutes to be more responsive to industry skill requirements. • Implementing partners: • University of Salford, UK • Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania • Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia • Funding from EU Life-long learning programme: • Euro 361.591

  17. European partners Austria University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Bulgaria Mining and Geology University Republic of Croatia University of Split Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts Cyprus Fredrick University Cyprus Meteorological Service Czech Republic VSB-Technical University of Ostrava Czech Technical University Denmark IT University of Copenhagen Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Technical University of Denmark Estonia Tallinn University of Technology Finland Aalto University France Grenoble Institute of Technology Germany Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Freie University of Berlin United Nations University Institute of Socioeconomic and Cultural International Analysis Greece University of Thessaly Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Iceland University of Iceland Ireland National University of Ireland Italy Catholic University of Sacred Heart Milan Università degli Studi della Tuscia Global Risk Forum Politecnico di Milano University Italian National Agency for New Technologies Universita’ di Ferrara Latvia Riga Technical University Lithuania Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Malta University of Malta The Netherlands Deltares Radboud University Nijmegen Utrecht University Norway Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research Norwegian Geotechnical Institute Poland Rzeszow University of Technology Adam Mickiewicz University Portugal University of Aveiro Technical University of Lisbon University of Coimbra National Laboratory for Civil Engineering Romania Technical University of Civil Engineering of Romania University of Architecture and Urban Planning Slovenia University of Ljubljana City of Ljubljana, Municipal Administration Spain Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Institute of Geomatics Sweden Lund University Mid Sweden University Switzerland United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Turkey Bosphorus University Firat University United Kingdom Northumbria University Queen’s University Belfast Heriot Watt University Oxford Brookes University University of Brighton Kingston University Liverpool John Moores University University of Salford ANDROID has 64 partners from 28 countries in Europe

  18. www.disaster-resilience.net

  19. Open educational resources (OERs) Reports Work Packages Seminar recordings OER Platform Survey results Conference recordings

  20. Further information about School • www.salford.ac.uk • www.sobe.salford.ac.uk • www.disaster-resilience.salford.ac.uk

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