The Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies (CSET) is celebrating its 10th Year Anniversary.
It was officially opened in September 2008 as the Phase 1 of the Ko Lee Institute of Sustainable Development. Dr Hon Dak Chung, the original funder of CSET, President Fujia Yang and Professor Chris Rudd visited CSET Building along with the CSET Director Dr Ali Cheshmehzangi and members of Department of Architectural and Built Environment on 19th September. Dr Chung also expressed his acknowledgement to the achievement of CSET.
Trace back to 16 years ago, with the inspiration of President Fujia Yang, Dr. Chung realised that China as a major consumer of non-renewable energy, it is extraordinarily significant to develop the renewable energy. Therefore, the Centre locates here in the beautiful campus of UNNC.
In the CSET 10th Year Anniversary Party, Professor May Tan-Mullins, the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning gave a welcome speech. Rory Perrott, an artist in residence, conducted a very inspiring talk involving the topic of “inspiration”, “legacy” and “innovate”. He also encouraged students that as a future architects and engineers, they have more impact than him because they design the live of the future and have a huge impact on the society.
“Looking at what has been achieved, picking up the best part and adding it to your own unique vision and creating something wonderful. ”
Dr Ali Cheshmehzangi mentioned in the 10th Year Anniversary ceremony that there will be a full renovation plan of the CSET building in this autumn semester. It is aimed to revitalise the building and make all spaces functional in all floors.
We will be focusing on streams of research on sustainability and innovation as part of the CSET's direction and the Strategy 2020 of the university.
The CSET Building, which is the first zero carbon building in China, provides laboratory, offices and seminar accommodation facilities. It has been designed to serve as an exemplar building, demonstrating state-of-the-art techniques for environmentally responsible and sustainable construction. The building provides 100% of its energy usage for lighting, power, heating and cooling from sources such as PV panels, solar absorption air conditioning system, geothermal heat pumps and wind turbine. It also minimizes its environmental impact by using locally available materials with low embodied energy, storing rainwater and re-using grey water, and has developed its own ecology and biodiversity within the site.
The focus of research for the Centre is new and renewable energy systems and components for both domestic (housing) and non-domestic (commercial and public) buildings. The overall mission of the Centre 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.
Published on 21 September 2018