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Urban Pollution, Environmental, Sustainability Research |
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BARTLETT (ARCHITECTURE AT UCL) >> MSc EDE >> CBES >> ENERGY INSTITUTE |
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ABOUT
This page has been evolving since 1994.
Ben Croxford started at the Bartlett Graduate School as a post doctoral researcher investigating the spatial distribution of air pollution in streets, later he carried out research on pollution in homes and offices and has most recently been working on more general research projects in the environmental area. He runs two email networks, one of air pollution researchers and the other of ex-EDE students and associates. Contact details can be found in the corner of this page.
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RESEARCH Research carried out covers several categories; air pollution outside, air pollution in offices, air pollution in homes, housing and health, urban heat island, and more general environmental and sustainability issues. Outdoor air pollution research involved developing StreetBox monitors using electro-chemical sensors, using carbon monoxide (CO) as a proxy for the general "air pollution" as perceived by people on the street. Air pollution was measured in several closely spaced positions simultaneously. Pollutant concentrations were found to differ significantly between closely spaced locations, different sides of the street experienced different pollutant concentrations depending on prevailing wind direction. Another research project found that variations in pollutant concentration between homes with the same ventilation system was found to be at least as big as that between homes with different ventilation systems. Most recently, research has found a high percentage of homes with defective gas appliance installations and a potential link between chronic neurological health symptoms and risk of CO exposure.
Click here for my main page for information on these research projects and others
TEACHING: MSc ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND ENGINEERING (EDE) AND EDECOMM Ben Croxford has been lecturing on the EDE course since 2001, he was made course director in 2007. · MSc EDE main course webpage, details about modules, coursework, and the dissertation · EDEComm; on finishing the MSc EDE ex-students automatically join the growing ex-EDE community. |
I didn’t appreciate how significant this smog was - Sir Roy Parker reflecting on the "Great Smog" of 1952.
Picture is of London looking West from Canary Wharf, Feb 2006. LINKS
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The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies 1-19 Torrington Place, University College London, Gower St., London, WC1E 6HB. t: +44 (0) 207 679 1890 f: +44 (0) 207 916 1887 This page, set up and run by Dr. Ben Croxford, (Last edited Aug 2009) |
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