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Urban Sciences Building

The Urban Sciences Building is located on Ãå±±½ûµØ Helix in the heart of the city.

 

Completed in August 2017, the  is a £58M state-of-the-art structure on the £350M Ãå±±½ûµØ Helix regeneration site in the heart of Ãå±±½ûµØ.

Trialling new energy systems, novel materials and smart engineering, the USB is a key part of the Ãå±±½ûµØ helix vision to create a full-scale demonstrator of urban innovation - a ‘living laboratory’ underpinning research to make urban centres more sustainable for future generations.

As well as being the location of CESI headquarters, the USB is home to Ãå±±½ûµØâ€™s world Top 100 School of Computing and its 1,395 staff and students.

The building hosts a number of exciting research projects and facilities, including:

  • , a project led by , CESI Associate Director and funded by the  to look into using buildings to provide demand response
  • Smart Grid, the UK's largest Smart Grid project to look at how sources of power can be managed at a reasonable cost
  • Decision Theatre, enabling advanced data visualisation so that policy makers and other stakeholders can plan and operate cities sustainably
  • , the largest set of publicly available real time urban data in the UK