Welcome to the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET)
The University of Nottingham UK is a major centre for sustainable energy research. The Centre for Sustainable Energy Technolog (CSET), located at the Nottingham Ningbo campus is led by Nottingham's Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Faculty of Engineering. The UNNC Centre is based in the new Eco Building which provides laboratory, offices and seminar accommodation and is designed to serve as an exemplar building, demonstrating state-of-the-art techniques for environmentally responsible, sustainable construction. This building aims at minimizing its environmental impact by promoting energy efficiency, generating its own energy from renewable sources, using locally available materials with low embodied energy, storing rainwater and re-using grey water where appropriate, and attempts to develop its own ecology and biodiversity within the site. The building does not use conventional heating or cooling system but rather uses renewable sources, which means the technologies save 50%-100% energy compared with that of regular buildings.
The mission of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) is to provide solutions to problems arising from sustainability issues relating to the environment, engineering and technology and thus supports continuing endeavours to improve the ecology. CSET's activities cover both experimental and theoretical investigations in well equipped research laboratories. The Centre also aims to carry out postgraduate courses and to attract funding from outside sources for training programmes and short courses and to participate in network and public awareness activities.
The Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) was officially opened in September 2008 as the Phase 1 of the Ko Lee Institute of Sustainable Development.... ...
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