Hello, Could you please circulate the below scholarship at SEAHA UCL:
Thanks, Robyn SEAHA Centre Manager ________________________________ Retrofitting space heating systems for historic churches: meeting the needs of conservation, community and environmental sustainability: http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/P61-Retrofitting-heating-systems.pdf Historic churches are facing significant challenges in recent years in meeting increasingly demanding “quality of life” standards whilst they are used in broadening and hosting social engagements within the community. To put this in context, the Church of England owns over 15,000 churches. Of these, 78% are listed (45% of the Grade I listed buildings in England), of which over half actively host some form of community activity. The environmental thermal requirements of modern activities in historic churches are often in conflict with the original nature of these buildings, their historic connotation, the building materials, and in meeting user comfort while at the same time presenting and aligning to the concepts of a sustainable society. The demand for solutions becomes even more critical when such buildings are faced with renovating their building services, usually due to a need to either preserve the building or achieve required comfort conditions to continue to sustain its occupation. This research aims to address this challenge by generating new knowledge to enable the evaluation and implementation of space heating technologies in historic churches, thereby increasing the environmental and social sustainability of the building while taking into consideration relevant constraints such as the preservation of the structure and artefacts as well the anticipated community activities. Application Deadline 5 pm, Tuesday 29th August 2017 For more information on this project, supervisors and how to apply, please visit the SEAHA studentships page:http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/study-with-us/studentships/ The UK EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA) is an 8-year initiative (2014-2022) to establish an infrastructure to meet challenges set by the heritage sector, industry and government. Working with heritage and industry partners, SEAHA students will create, innovate or use sensors, instrumentation, imaging, digital and creative technologies to improve our understanding of heritage, to develop science and engineering capabilities and to benefit the economy. For more information on SEAHA, please visit the SEAHA website: http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk<http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/> Studentship enquiries should be emailed to the project supervisor: Dr Kenneth Ip: [email protected] ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
