Center for the Recycling and Reuse of Buildings
The Building Performance Centre (BPC) is one of the leading UK centres for applied research, knowledge transfer and consultancy for the built environment.
It has national and international recognised experts who cover a wide range of disciplines. Key functions of the Centre include:
• Construction product research and development
• Development of technical standards, robust details and building regulations
• Building diagnosis and material performance
• Sustainable construction
Robin Mackenzie Partnership
With its headquarters in Edinburgh, Robin Mackenzie Partnership is Scotland's largest acoustic consultancy and a leader in its field. The practice operates throughout the UK.
The practice was established in 1969 by Professor Robin Mackenzie. Since 1997 it has been operating as an acoustic consultancy division of Edinburgh Napier University.
The Scottish Energy Centre
http://www.napier.ac.uk/randkt/rktcentres/sec/Pages/Aboutus.aspx
The Scottish Energy Centre is a portal for Research, Knowledge Transfer and Expert Services activity in the energy sector at Napier University. Founded in 1984 as a conduit for expert services to meet the needs of local industry; the portfolio of activities have expanded to help support commerce and industry in meeting the challenges of recent energy price hikes and government initiatives and legislature.
A strongly renewables focussed Sustainable Energy Research Group has also emerged to take forward research initiatives which have resulted in a number of high profile demonstration projects.
Centre for Timber Engineering (CTE)
http://www.cte.napier.ac.uk/index.php
Welcome to CTE- we are an independent research unit within Edinburgh Napier University and a focus for excellence in education, research, consultancy and knowledge transfer in the constructional and engineering uses of timber. The University is named after John Napier, the inventor of logarithms and the decimal point, who was born in the medieval tower house which now forms the central feature of the University's Merchiston Campus.
A post-92 Higher Education establishment, Napier University conducts intensive research with an applied flavour across a range of inter-connected specialisms. The School of Engineering and Built Environment hosts the Centre for Infrastructure Research. The school of Engineering and Built Environment recorded its first PhD completion in 1993. Since then a total of 106 PhD and 24 MPhil candidates have gained their respective awards.
The emphasis within the Centre is on applied interdisciplinary research, which is demanded by industry and transferred to it. The major aspects of the Centre's research policy are:
To achieve excellence in research in selected interdisciplinary areas attractive to industry
To apply research to specific problems relevant to national and local industry
To emphasise technology transfer to industry through applied and interdisciplinary research
To promote research by other staff through consultancy and KTP programmes
The following Research Groups are part of the Centre for Infrastructure Research:
Building Performance
Infrastructure and Environment
Signals
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Energy
The School of Engineering and the Built Environment has a long history of innovative research and applied development activities in partnership with industry.