SEEK: Salford Environment for Expertise and Knowledge
Stephen Curwell
Prof Stephen R Curwell
postal addressRoom 411 Maxwell Building, University of Salford, The Crescent, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT.
email addressS.R.Curwell@salford.ac.uk
telephone+44 (0)161 295 4622
Key Memberships
Head of Research Centre: Urban Quality Research Centre
From October 2009 to present.
Full Member of Research Centre: Urban Quality Research Centre
From October 2009 to present.
Profile Summary
Sustainable Urban Development "Green" Building Design and Construction Design for Dismantling Environmentally friendly Building Materials
Key Projects
2008
Oct
Save Energy
EC (Framework), £110,343.00.
Principal Investigator: A Hamilton (70%). Co-Investigator: S Curwell (30%).
2007
Aug
SURegen - Integrated Decision Support System for Sustainable Urban Regeneration
EPSRC, £2,311,086.98.
Principal Investigator: S Curwell (35%). Co-Investigators: R Knowles (2%), A Marshall-Ponting (16%), M Kagioglou (1%), A Hamilton (35%), M Ormerod (1%), P James (2%), J Powell (1%), Y Arayici (6%), S Marvin (1%).
2004
Feb
Enhancing the Decision Making Process in Urban Spatial Planning Using Advanced ICT
Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, £21,280.00.
Investigators: P James (60%), S Curwell (15%), T Fernando (15%), A Hamilton (10%).
2003
Dec
INTELCITIES - Intelligent Cities
EC (Framework), £511,373.59.
Investigators: S Curwell (25%), G Aouad (25%), A Hamilton (25%), T Fernando (25%).
2002
Nov
2002
Jun
Towards Intelligent Sustainable Cities - INTELCITY
EC (Framework), £182,292.00.
Investigators: S Curwell (50%), G Aouad (50%).
Key Publications
Authored Books
Refereed Journal Articles
Abstracts
Book Sections
Edited Books
Guest Editorships of Journals
Other Publications
Papers in Published Conference Proceedings
Published Conference Proceedings
Reports for External Bodies
Reports
Key Presence
Conference Organisation
2006
Jul
Workshop on Living Labs for Intelligent Cities at the Second International Conference on e-Social Science, hosted by the ESRC International Centre for e-Social Science, Manchester University, 28-30th June 2006.
External Examiner Duties
2007
Jan
Visiting Professor - State University of NY (SUNY) (2007 - onwards)
2007
Jan
Faculty member - Annual Institute for Digital Government Research funded by the US NSF (2007 - onwards)
2002
Jan
External member of the Review and Validation Panel, BSc in Sustainable Technology, Bolton College (2000)
1997
Jan
External Examiner, BA [Hons.] Architecture, PG Diploma in Architecture and MSc Sustainable Architecture, University of Huddersfield (1997-2000)
1993
Jan
External Examiner, BA [Hons] Architecture, University of Humberside (1993-96)
1991
Jan
External member of the Review and Validation Panel, BA [Hons] Architecture, Humberside Polytechnic (1991)
1991
Jan
Advisor to the Architecture Appointments Board, University of Huddersfield (1991)
1990
Jan
Advisor to the Architecture Appointments Board, Queens University of Belfast (1990-91)
Honorary Posts (e.g. Visiting Appointments)
2012
Visiting Lecturer - University of Lusofona, Lisbon, Portugal
2012
Visiting Lecturer - University of Rio Grande de Sud, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2012
Visiting Lecturer - University of Florence, Italy
Honours and Awards
1973
Awarded University Prize in Architecture (1st in year), Queens University of Belfast
1973
Queens University Masters Scholarship, Queens University of Belfast
Industrial Collaboration and Exploitation
1996
Environmental Consultant to the Whitehall Corporation. (1996 - 1997) Private Finance Initiative bids, refurbishment of the U.K Treasury, Whitehall and two hospitals.
1991
Company Director, Green Gauge Environmental Consultants Ltd., London. (1991-96) Advice on environmental matters to architectural design, engineering, construction and material manufacturing companies.
1980
Consultant Architect, Povall and Worthington, Manchester. (1980-85) Housing design, new build and renovation for housing associations
1978
Consultant Architect, Salford Business Services Ltd. (1978-87) Office design, numerous building defect investigations, CAD consultancy for architectural and engineering design companies.
Invited Papers and Lectures
2012
Keynote speaker at four conferences
2012
Invited to make a total of 52 presentations on his research work at research and professional conferences and at other universities in the UK, EU, Canada, Australia, China, Korea and Brazil
2006
Nov
1st US-China International Workshop on Digital Government Research and Practice, 11-13th October 2006, Beijing, China. 'Exploiting the Intelligent City'
2006
Jul
Workshop on Living Labs for Intelligent Cities at the Second International Conference on e-Social Science, hosted by the ESRC International Centre for e-Social Science, Manchester University, 28-30th June 2006.
2006
Jun
7th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 21st May 2006, San Diego, California - Workshop on Understanding eParticipation 'Urban Regeneration: Going Against the Grain' (white paper)
2006
Jun
2nd Joint AGI / IGGI Event: Inspire and the PSI: GI Europe and the UK, London, UK, 13th May 2006. 'European Perspective on eGovernment'
2006
European Network of Living Labs: a Step Towards a European Innovation System, 20th November 2006, Espoo, Finland 'Manchester's 'EastServe' Living Lab'
2005
Sep
International Digital Government Research at 4th International Conference on Electronic Government (DEXA 2005), Copenhagen, Denmark, 22-26th August, 2005 (Panel member in workshop session)
2005
Jul
EU-US Collaboration Workshop on Modelling and Digital Government Research, co-organised with the Manchester Digital Development Agency, Manchester, UK, 27-28th June 2005. 'IntelCities: Intelligent Cities'
2002
Dec
ROADCON Workshop at the European Conference on Information and Communication Technology Advances and Innovation in the Knowledge Society (eSM@RT 2002), University of Salford, 18-21st November 2002. 'INTELCITY Towards Sustainable ... more >>.
2002
Dec
Networking Session facilitated by SC, on Sustainable Built Environment and Construction', at E.U. Information Society Technologies Conference (IST 2002), Copenhagen, 5th November 2002. 'INTELCITY Towards Sustainable Urban Develop... more >>.
2002
Nov
EPSRC Process Network Workshop: Sustainable Development and the Design and Construction Process, University of Salford, 1st October 2002. 'BEQUEST- Building Environmental Quality Evaluation for Sustainability through Time'
2002
Jul
MEP International Conference and Exhibition - Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Cities, Stockholm, 4-7th June 2002. (Main dialogue theme B: Towards Sustainability: the Role of Information Technology, facilitated by Anders Wij... more >>.
2002
Jul
Concertation Workshop, e-Construction and Sustainable Cities theme, organised by the EU, IST Programme, Brussels, 13-14th June 2002. 'INTELCITY Towards Sustainable Urban Development'
2002
Jul
Research Workshop on Sustaining the Cultural Heritage, organised by the Polytechnic of Turin, Aosta, Italy, 20th June 2002. 'The BEQUEST Vision of Urban Sustainability, with some thoughts on Cultural Heritage'
2002
May
BEQUEST International Conference on Building Sustainable Cities, Venice, 18-19th April 2002. 99. 'Towards Intelligent Sustainable Cities' at BEQUEST International Conference on Building Sustainable Cities, Venice, 18-19th April 2... more >>.
2002
Apr
RIBA N.W. Region CPD event on Environmentally Friendly Building Materials, Knutsford, Cheshire. 20th March 2002. 'Hazardous Building Materials: a Guide to Environmentally Friendly Alternatives'
2002
Apr
International Research Workshop: the Cross Cultural Transfer of Environmental Building Information, Liu Centre for the Study of Global Issues, University of British Colombia, Canada, 14-16th March 2002. 'BEQUEST - an example of c... more >>.
2001
Dec
National Construction Benchmarking Forum meeting, London, 6th November 2001. 'CRISP ¿ Construction and City Related Sustainability Indicators'
2001
Dec
RIBA N.W. Region CPD event: Sustainability in Building Design, Knutsford, Cheshire. 21st November 2001. 'The BEQUEST Project'
2001
Nov
University of Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal. 19th October 2001. ''The BEQUEST Vision of Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design' (invited paper)
2001
Oct
Launch of Project INIGO of the Centre for Facilities Management, University of Salford, CUBE, Manchester. 6-7th September 2001 'Building on the BEQUEST Vision for Sustainable FM'
2001
Feb
Cluster workshop of EU Framework 5 Urban Project Coordinators, Brussels, 25-26th January 2001. 'Building Environmental Quality Evaluation through Time (BEQUEST) Network'
2000
Dec
Conference on Sustainable Building, British Institute of Architectural Technologists, Dublin, 23-24th November 2000. 'Sustainable Urban Development - BEQUEST'
2000
Nov
CIB Working Commission 100 Workshop on Environmental Assessment at Sustainable Building 2000 - CIB International Conference, Maastricht, the Netherlands. 22-25th October 2000 'Final Report on a Survey Exploring Implementation Is... more >>.
2000
Jul
CRISP (Construction and City Related Sustainability Indicators) EU Project, CSTB, Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France. 26-27th June 2000. 'Building Environmental Quality Evaluation through Time (BEQUEST) Network'
2000
Jul
URBE Conference, Vila Real, Portugal. 16th June 2000. 'Building Environmental Quality Evaluation through Time - Towards sustainable urban development - the work of the BEQUEST Network'
2000
Apr
CIB Working Commission 100, CSTB, Paris, 27-28th March 2000. 'Report on a Survey Exploring Implementation Issues for Building Environmental Assessment Methods' (with Temple-Head, P & Tozer, R.)
Memberships of External Bodies
2007
Jan
Member of the North West Design Review Panel
2007
Jan
CIB Task Group TG70 on Sustainable Design of Tall Buildings (2007 - date)
2003
Jan
Member, RENEW Northwest, the Regional Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Communities (2003-2007)
2002
Jan
Member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching
1997
Jan
Member of the Editorial Board, Building Research and Information, E and FN Spon (1997-date)
1995
Jan
Member of the Editorial Board, Green Building Digest, ACTAC, Liverpool (1995-99)
1990
Jan
Member of the Architects Registration Council of UK Board of Education, Awards Panel & Kretchmer Scholarship Panel (1990-1995)
1985
Jan
CIB Working Commission 100 (formerly task group 8) Environmental Assessment of Buildings (1985-03)
1980
Jan
Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects
1977
Jan
Registered Architect
Other Evidence of External Esteem
2007
External evaluator for the Royal Society of New Zealand Centres of Research Excellence Fund: Social, Economic and Environmental Policy Panel (2007)
2007
Director designate of the European Intelligent Cities Research Centre (2007)
2007
Appointed by the DTI to prepare a science review on Life Cycle Costing for the Foresight project on Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment (SEMBE) - 2007
2007
Advisor - European correspondent for the international Intelligent Communities Forum (2007)
2006
Sole European invited to present his research to joint US and China Digital Government workshop funded by US NSF, '06.
2005
External evaluator for the quinquenial review of the Chalmers' Environmental Initiative, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden (2005)
2004
Scientific Director - Intelligent Cities Integrated Project for the EU (2004-2006) (12M Euro, 22 cities, 20 ICT companies, 36 research groups from 20 countries)
2004
Advisor - Evaluator for the annual international Intelligent Community of the year award (2004-date)
2003
Board Member, RENEW Northwest, the Regional Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Communities (2003-2007)
2003
Professor of Sustainable Urban Development, School of the Built Environment, University of Salford
2001
Co-ordinator EU Framework 5 Urban Research Cluster (2001-03)
2000
Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA), Environment panel (2000-05)
1998
UK Construction Research and Innovation Strategy Panel - Sustainable Construction Group (1998-01)
1998
Advisor - Forum of the Future's, The Natural Step Scientists' Network (1998-01)
1996
Director of BEQUEST (Building Environmental Quality Assessment for Sustainability through Time) (1996-date)
1996
Advisory Forum, National Centre for Business & Ecology, Manchester (1996-97)
1996
Advisor - UK Co-ordinator of the Green Building Challenge 1998 (1996-98)
1995
Appraiser - UK Partners in Technology Programme (1995)
1992
Advisor - UIA [International Union of Architects] Healthy Building Group (1992-98)
1991
Appraiser - Construction Industry Agrément Board on Environmental Matters (1991)
1990
Advisor - Foster Associates on the 'green' design issues related to their 2nd prize entry for the Marseilles Department (Regional) Hall and Offices competition (1990)
1989
Advisor - RIBA Environment and Energy Committee (1989-97)
Other Research Activity
2005
Scientific Committees international conferences (2005-6) International Conference 'Urgenza Sostenibilita Architetura, Disegno Urbano' (The Urgent Need for a Sustainable Built Environment), Polytechnic of Turin, '06
2004
CIB Working Commission 116 (formerly Task Group 55): Smart and Sustainable Buildings (2004-date)
2004
Book on Environmentally Responsible Building Materials (ref 2) translated into Chinese '04
2004
Scientific Committees international conferences (2004-date) e-Challenges; The Hague '07,'Barcellona 06 & Ljubljana '05.
2003
Lead editor of book series: Sustainable Urban Development, Routledge: 2003-date
2003
Scientific Committees international conferences (2003-date) Annual International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built and Human Environment.
2002
Scientific Committees international conferences (2002-3) CIB International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Building (SASBE), Brisbane
1996
International committee for the development of the Green Building assessment tool (1996-98)
1996
Scientific Committees international conferences (1996-7) Second International Conference on Buildings and the Environment, Paris, '97.
1994
Scientific Committees international conferences (1994-5) First International Conference on Buildings and the Environment, BRE, Watford, '95
1990
Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) (1990-91)
1990
Research Committee, Architects Registration Council of UK (1990-95)
1988
Advisor - Articles on health hazards in buildings to the Editor of Consumers Association WHICH? Magazine. (1988-89)
Other University Research Roles
2012
Programme Director - MSc Built Environment Evaluation for Sustainability
2007
Jan
Chair of the Steering Committee for University of Salford Regeneration Centre (2007)
2007
Jan
Member of the VC's ad hoc planning committee for the University in the City event (2007)
2005
Jan
Member University Sustainable Development Working Party (2005-date)
2003
Jan
Director of the School of Construction and Property Management PG Programmes (2003-5)
1999
Jan
Chair of the School of Construction and Property Management undergraduate change and visioning programme (1999-01)
1998
Jan
Member University Environment and Sustainable Development Sub-Committee (1998-05)
1998
Jan
Development team leader and Programme Director, BEES MSc joint programme with University of Florence and University of Lusõfona, Lisbon (1998-03)