Construction Management and Engineering

University of Reading has opted into the TEF and received a Silver award.

Research areas include: business innovation in construction (competitiveness, productivity and performance; through-life management and performance; innovation procurement); sustainable environments (carbon management in the built environment; policy issues relating to energy management and renewable energy; building environmental performance; thermal comfort); innovative technologies (development of technologies for managing and controlling indoor environments; intelligent buildings; air quality; whole-life costing; informatics; smart materials; sensors).Please see our website for further course information: https://www.reading.ac.uk/cme/cme-our-research.aspx

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