About us

Researchers from the School of the Built Environment developed CRESBE as a research, development and innovation platform to foster collaboration.  A workshop was conducted to identify priority research themes under CRESBE.  The visual representation developed by CRESBE researchers at the workshop is given below. Research projects are clustered under three themes:

  • Theme 1 : Climate resilient project delivery – searching ways to make “projects” resilient and making BE resilient by “projects”
  • Theme 2 : Decarbonisation and climate adaptation interventions, design, technology and nature-based solutions for systemic resilience and sustainability
  • Theme 3 : Digital technology for understanding systemic climate risk and resilience

A systems map showing built environment's systemic relations

CRESBE researchers are :

Dr Alba Fuertes

Dr Amna Shibeika

Dr Christos Halios

Professor Cristina Cerulli

Dr Dragana Nikolic

Dr Ekpo Ekpenyong

Dr Emmanuel Essah

Dr Eugene Mohareb

Dr Ian Ewart

Professor Irem Dikmen (coordinator)

Dr John Harding

Dr Laura Maftei

Professor Libby Schweber

Dr Maria Vahdati

Dr Martin Green

Dr Mate Janos Lorincz

Dr Mehdi Shahrestani

Dr Michael Peters

Dr Omid Shariati

Dr Rory Jones

Dr Ruth Dowsett

Dr Shabnam Kabiri

Professor Stuart Green

Professor Tabarak Ballal

Dr Upeksha Madanayake

Please contact Professor Irem Dikmen from i.dikmen@reading.ac.uk for your questions