Keep it Civil 202 - Earthquake Search and Rescue

08/31/16 • 21 min

Josh Macabuag, Research Engineer at UCL with the Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience (USAR), joins us to talk about his work with the charity Search and Rescue Assistance in Disasters (SARAID). Working with SARAID, Josh was deployed to Nepal as a Structural Engineer as part of the relief efforts following the devastating earthquake in 2015. Follow SARAID (twitter.com/team_saraid), EPICentre (twitter.com/EPICentreUCL) and (twitter.com/UCL_USAR) on Twitter. Find out more about SARAID and their work in Urban Search and Rescue (http://www.saraid.org.uk/). Catch up on past episodes of Keep it Civil (soundcloud.com/cege_ucl). Intro & outro music: "Helix Nebula" by Anamanaguchi (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Anamanaguchi/Party_in_Space/kzz007_-_14_-_anamanaguchi_-_helix_nebula)

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Keep It Civil 201 - Adaptive Building Structures

Keep it Civil is back for series two, and we're joined by EngD Researcher Gennaro Senatore to discuss the design philosophy of adaptive building structures he developed here at UCL with the Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience (USAR) and Expedition Engineering, with the work sponsored by EPSRC. Unlike conventional structures, adaptive structures are designed to change their shape to prevent excessive movement caused by loads, which allows for super-slender structures that look great and use much less material and less whole-life energy. Follow Gennaro (https://twitter.com/g_senatore), Expedition Engineering (https://twitter.com/EXP_Eng) and USAR (https://twitter.com/UCL_USAR) on Twitter. Find out more about adaptive structures and see the truss mentioned in the podcast at a special exhibition at the London Building Centre until 2nd September 2016 (http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/exhibitions/adaptive-structures). Find out more about Gennaro's work (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/usar/who-we-are/cdt-students/gennaro-senatore) and see the adaptive responsive truss in action (https://vimeo.com/groups/315224). Catch up on past episodes of Keep it Civil (soundcloud.com/cege_ucl/sets/keep-it-civil). Intro & outro music: "Helix Nebula" by Anamanaguchi (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Anamanaguchi/Party_in_Space/kzz007_-_14_-_anamanaguchi_-_helix_nebula)

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Keep it Civil 203 - Biodiversity in the City

For the last episode of this mini series, we're joined by EngD Researcher Alison Fairbrass to discuss her research measuring and monitoring biodiversity in cities and the built environment using sound recordings, and the ways in which this research can help make these places more habitable for wildlife. Keep it Civil will be back soon with new episodes and a new host to explore more fascinating areas of engineering. Follow Alison(https://twitter.com/alisonfairbrass), the Bat Conservation Trust(https://twitter.com/_BCT_), UCL's Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience (https://twitter.com/UCL_USAR) and UCL's Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research (https://twitter.com/uclcber) on Twitter. Catch up on past episodes of Keep it Civil (@cege_ucl). Intro & outro music: "Helix Nebula" by Anamanaguchi (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Anamanaguchi/Party_in_Space/kzz007_-_14_-_anamanaguchi_-_helix_nebula)