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School of the Built Environment

Professor Steve Curwell

""Academic and Research Staff

Email:  s.r.curwell@salford.ac.uk

Tel:  +44 (0)161 2954622

 

Architect with 20 year's research and consultancy experience in environmental issues, building technology and materials. Established international reputation for work on sustainable urban development and implications for the construction industry

Academic qualifications

BSc (Architecture)
MSc (Architecture)

Membership of professional bodies

RIBA
CIB Working Commission 100: Environmental Assessment of Buildings
CIB Task Group 38: Urban Sustainability

Membership of boards and associations

N/A

Areas of expertise

Sustainable Urban Design and Development
"Green" Building Design and Construction
Environmentally Friendly & Healthy Building Material

Teaching

Architectural Design
Environmental Issues
Sustainable Urban Development
Building Technology

Research

Professor Steve Curwell is Professor of Sustainable Urban Development (SUD) at the University of Salford, Manchester, UK and a leading European researcher in this area through his key role in 14 EU and UK national research projects to a total value of circa €15M over the last 15 years. He has extensive research collaboration experience with over 350 research teams, city authorities and IST companies in the European Union via five EC funded projects;

  • BEQUEST - Building Environmental Quality Evaluation for Sustainability through Time (FP4),
  • CRISP – Construction and City Related Sustainability Indicators (FP5),
  • INTELCITY – Towards Sustainable Intelligent Cities (Roadmap in FP5)
  • LUDA – Improving the Quality of Life in Large Urban distressed Areas (FP5).
  • IntelCities – Intelligent Cities Integrated Project (FP6)
Steve has led exploration of innovative ways of inclusive, consensus-based research over the complex problems of SUD and urban regeneration linking IT and new ways of e-working. He is the author or co-author of 75 publications; 5 books, 50+ research papers, 2 learning packages and 3 research web sites. This includes a prototype, Internet based, urban decision-support aid known as the BEQUEST Toolkit, the first to provide fully integrated approaches to SUD evaluation. He has facilitated workshops for the EU Urban Cluster in 00 + 01, sessions at IST 2002 and other IST events in 02 and is currently editor of a new book series on Sustainable Urban Development. In the LUDA Project he led the work on evaluation for sustainable urban regeneration and produced a decision support aid to assist regeneration professionals:  http://www.luda-europe.net/hb5/select.php

 

Steve recently directed the INTELCITY Research Roadmap project (02-03) for the EC and led the team that has successfully secured funding for a very large Integrated Project called IntelCities from the EC (IST: 507860), based on the INTELCITY Roadmap findings. Intelcities had a total budget E16M (E6.8M EU contribution) and commenced in January 04. It brings together 18 cities, 19 ICT companies and 35 research groups to undertake the development and deployment of a prototype Integrated Open e-City Information Platform that links eGovernance and eUrban Planning. This involves prototypes in 6 EU cities; Manchester, Marseille, Rome, Dresden, Helsinki and Siena: http://www.intelcitiesproject.com

Academic enterprise

Supplemental information

Member of the editorial board of the journal Building Research and Information.
Member of the UK Construction Research and Information Strategy Panel's Sustainable
Construction Theme Group.

Visiting Lecturer:

  • University of Florence, Italy
  • University of Lusofona, Lisbon, Portugal
  • University of Rio Grande de Sud, Porto Alegre, Brazil
  • Activities within the School
  • Scholarship group leader - Sustainability and Accessibility

Programme Director - MSc Built Environment Evaluation for Sustainability

Publications

'Case Study 2: The Longwood Low-Energy House, with Lowe R. in ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN HOUSING. Lowe, Bell & Roberts. Avebury. March 1996.
Barriers to Recycling of Polymers in Construction, with Sturgess, J.L. and Toth, M. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Buildings and the Environment, CIB, Paris, France, 9-12th June 1997.

The Implications of Sustainability for the Environmental Assessment of Buildings and the Construction Industry - a European Perspective. Proceedings of the American Institute of Architects Congress: Environmental and Economic Balance, the 21st Century Outlook, Miami, Florida, 7-9th November 1997.

The implications of Urban Sustainability, with Cooper,I. Vol 26 No. 1 January/February 1998 pgs 17-28

Riqualificazione urbana sostenibile: un'analisi comparitiva Torino-Salford, with Lombardi, P. Urbanistica, No.112 1999, Pgs 96-103, (English Summary Pgs.114-115).

The Green Building Challenge in the UK, with Yates, A., Howard, N., Bordass, B., & Doggart, J., Building Research and Information, Vol. 27 Nos. 4/5, July/October 1999, Pgs.286-293.

HAZARDOUS BUILDING MATERIALS: A GUIDE TO SELECTION OF ALTERNATIVES. A revised and extended edition. E and FN Spon. In press expected December 2000.