Infrastructures provide the bedrock of modern urban life in the developed world. Today there is growing interest in the potential for resource and service efficiencies, as well as technical innovation, through various types of ‘infrastructural integration’. A new agenda of ‘integration’ raises the possibility to think differently about network provision,...

The E ngineering C omplexity R esilience N etwork plus Complexity Science is…. … the scientific study of complex systems , systems with many parts that interact to produce global behaviour that cannot easily be explained in terms of interactions between the individual constituent elements. Complex systems include IT networks,...

Allied to the work being conducted under the EPSRC‘s “Energy Storage for Low Carbon Grids” this research is intended to consider the connection of large devices to the Electricity Grid infrastructure. More specifically in a Smart Grid environment how devices, such as large-scale Energy Storage Systems (ESS), would communicate with...

Prof. Martin Mayfield and Dr Danielle Tingley have won funding for a new Sheffield Urban Flows Observatory which will create a model of Sheffield’s energy and resource usage using fixed and mobile sensors and thermal cameras attached to drones, balloons and cars to scan the city. The observatory will bring...