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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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