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Beach Hut Competition
CAR were consulting engineers for JaK Studio’s winning entry to ‘The Huts’, a beach hut competition sponsored by Eastbourne Borough Council. The JaK Studio design

Rebuilding and quality assuring UK-TIMES
UK-TIMES is the rigorous, comprehensive energy systems model the Government uses to explore how to reach different carbon-reduction targets. It covers industry, households, agriculture, electricity

DECC publishes Costing Monitoring Equipment Report
DECC (now BEIS) has published CAR’s report about the best monitoring equipment to use for a large, national survey of energy use in the home.

Calibrating the National Household Model
CAR has been chosen to fine-tune the Department of Energy and Climate Change’s new model for household energy use. We are helping DECC make sure

Household Electricity Use Survey
The Government published CAR’s findings about household energy use for lights and appliances, which question the effectiveness of energy labels, in 2016. CAR re-analysed data

Open Air Theatre Set Design
CAR’s Philip Cooper was the structural engineer for the giant mirror above the stage in Open Air Theatre’s production of Chekhov’s The Seagull in Regent’s

UK Housing Energy Fact File
CAR’s new report, the UK Housing Energy Fact File, is now out. It charts the rise in average internal temperatures in our homes. CAR wrote

Household Electricity Survey
CAR has won a major contract to re-analyse data from the largest survey of household electricity use ever carried out in the UK. We are

Global Calculator
CAR has been appointed by the Department of Energy and Climate Change to work on the new Global Calculator, for use in the next international

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
CAR director Philip Cooper was structural verification engineer for the courtyard installation at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. The work by Royal Academician Conrad Shawcross,

Award-winning EF Language School
CAR were structural engineers for the award-winning EF Language School in Cambridge. The building, designed by NRAP Architects, has recently won two RIBA East of

Cambridge Cohousing Ltd.
With the Self-build and Custom House Building Bill having its third reading in the House of Lords on 11 March 2015, custom build is moving

Sustainable Energy in the Countryside
The Campaign to Protect Rural England appointed us to explore how to cut emissions from rural areas by improving energy efficiency and using low carbon

Role Play Game to ‘rebrand’ the South African Capital
CAR’s Steve Platt and Helen Mulligan, working with Stephen Hill from Future Planners and Susan Snaddon from Arup, developed a novel role play game for

Changing Riskscapes
CAR Director Stephen Platt is running a Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) game at the joint GEM-CARLtd-GFZ-ImageCat workshop in London on 4th July (8.30am-1pm). “Monitoring Changing

Urban Planning in Japan Post 2011
CAR Chairman Stephen Platt spoke to the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation about urban planning after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami and nuclear

Radegund Hall, Coleridge Community College
CAR were part of the winning team for the 2013 Cambridge Design and Construction Awards in the category of best new building over £1M construction