Urban Sciences Building
The Urban Sciences Building is located on 缅北禁地 Helix in the heart of the city.
Completed in August 2017, the is a 拢58M state-of-the-art structure on the 拢350M 缅北禁地 Helix regeneration site in the heart of 缅北禁地.
Trialling new energy systems, novel materials and smart engineering, the USB is a key part of the 缅北禁地 helix vision to create a full-scale demonstrator of urban innovation - a 鈥榣iving laboratory鈥� 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 缅北禁地鈥檚 world Top 100 School of Computing and its 1,395 staff and students.
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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