Welcome to the Modern Built Environment KTN (MBE KTN)
Welcome to the 'Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network'. It aims to stimulate increased innovation and support its effective implementation for business benefit in the modern built environment.
Join the MBE KTN and get involved with showcasing potential innovations and forming new collaborations with the leaders of industry. The MBE KTN helps you to demonstrate the economic benefits of innovation through identifying industry-led challenges, facilitating access to funding opportunities and connecting you with other MBE KTN members. Please register to access the full functionality of this site.
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Delivery Team
The MBE KTN Delivery Team aims to bring together organisations to take part in or benefit from activities to stimulate increased innovation across the built environment supply chain for real business benefit.
ENERGY & CARBON EFFICIENCY This is a topic which is at the heart of zero carbon agenda, druiven by the need to reduce carbon emissions as wel as energy bills and the continued reliance of overseas energy supply. More...
PROCESS EFFICIENCY Low impact buildings must be built efficiently and then operated well to deliver the targets set for them, and the impact of the industry itself will equally be reduced if its operations are cost effective. More…
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION Focus for the MBEKTN will centre around key aspects which primarily influence the UK, adapting to hotter summers and potentially wetter winters but also managing the continued extremes of water availability. More…
LIFE EXTENSION & RETROFIT With the increased realisation that the UK has an aging infrastructure and building stock which has to be maintained rather than replaced. There are strong drivers to tackle performance improvement, both mechanical and functional. More...
TSB are launching the SBRI initiative to retrofit government buildings in London so that they’re more energy efficient and have lower carbon dioxide emissions. See the TSB press release and Energy Efficient Whitehall brochure for further details.
£1.2M Research Fund from the TSB and the DEFRA aims to help companies become market leaders in the best ultra energy-efficient lighting, while contributing to reduced energy consumption in our homes.
£40m of development contracts to be won in challenge to innovative companies.
The Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network is a single, national, over-arching Knowledge Transfer Network that brings together all organisations within the supply chain to take part in, or benefit from, a range of activities enabling exchange of knowledge and stimulating innovation across the built environment. Click MBEKTN for more details....
Please e-mail the MBE KTN Delivery Team information@mbektn.co.uk if you have suggestions on how we could support innovation or any other related issues.
If you have suggestions on how the MBE KTN could support innovation, please email MBE KTN
