Research Organisations

BIOPICCC is a 3-year research project funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, as part of a major research network on Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate. The project will develop strategies to help ensure that the infrastructures and systems supporting the health and social care for older people (aged 65 and over) will be sufficiently resilient to withstand harmful impacts of climate change in the future, up to 2050.

The research will be conducted by a multidisciplinary team in two institutions based at Durham University and Heriot-Watt University with expertise in engineering, climate modelling, social and geographical science and health and health care research.

The Medical Architecture Research Unit (MARU) is based at London South Bank University.  Its mission is to explore the interface between health service organisational culture and the built environment response, and it does this through multi disciplinary research, consultancy and accredited training for professionals working in the planning, design and procurement of buildings for health care.  Find out more about MARU by clicking on the weblink below.