Transitioning to Energy Efficient and Carbon Neutral Buildings - Developing a Roadmap for Jordan
Deadline 2nd April, 2019 16:00 GMT
Disciplines
Built Environment, Engineering, Business, Energy management, and social sciences.
Dates and venue
10th to 13th June 2019 at Philadelphia University, Amman, Jordan
Workshop Background
Jordan is highly dependent on imported energy, with 3% of its energy demand met locally and 97% energy imports. Increasing energy demand, high prices of fuels and growing concern about climatic change are driving a strategic rethink towards how Jordan consume its energy. Buildings are the biggest energy consumers, resulting from heavy electrical loads from lighting, cooling and appliance usage. According to Jordan’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, residential sector consumed around 43% of the total energy, followed by the Industrial (25%) and Commercial (15%) sectors in 2016. Majority of Jordan’s building stock is developed without explicit consideration of energy efficient design principles.
The proposed 4-day workshop aims to provide a platform for sharing of experiences and adoption of best practices taking into account local limitations, leading to development of a roadmap to reduce Jordan’s in-building energy consumption and shape its future research, innovation and policies in energy efficient building design, thus, representing a huge opportunity to achieve its energy import reduction targets. The workshop coordinators intend to bring together multifaceted knowledge base and skills in the areas of engineering, data management, smart buildings innovations, energy and material management, integrated building design, energy financing, building retrofits, and policymaking.
The workshop will help in bringing together key regional and governmental expertise in tackling complex building energy management problems. It will enhance capability and skills of participants in the area of Green Building Energy, Building Information Modelling, High Performing Buildings, and Energy Behavioural Modelling and will benefit Jordanian population by reducing their energy consumption in a sustainable manner.
Sponsorship
Newton Fund will cover the costs related to the participation in the workshop, including travel (both international and local), accommodation and meals only for up to 20 UK resident researchers. Costs for the visa and travel insurance will be covered for UK participants; however, participants will be responsible for making all the necessary arrangements. The workshop organizers accept no responsibility for any problems which may occur when the participants are in-country.
Application Deadline
The full application form (available by clicking here ) must be completed and submitted by 2nd April 2019 16:00 GMT.
Eligibility Criteria
• Applications must be submitted using the Researcher Links application form
• Application must be submitted before the deadline.
• Participants must be Early Career Researchers: Early Career Researchers are defined as holding a Ph.D. (or having equivalent research experience) and having up to 10 years of post-PhD research experience. They are equivalent to the ‘Recognised Researcher’ and sometimes ‘Established Researcher’ categories in the EU framework for researchers’ careers.
• Participants must have a research or academic position (a permanent post, research contract, or fellowship etc.) at a recognized research institution either in the UK and Jordan.
• Please note that participants are expected to attend all sessions of the 4-day workshop.
Quality Assessment
• Experience and relevance of the applicant’s research area to the workshop
• Motivation and contribution to the aims of the workshop
• Description of the long term impact expected through the participation in the workshop
• Ability to disseminate workshop’s outcomes
Selection Procedure
• Eligibility check
• Quality assessment
Notification Results
Only the successful applicants will be notified via email by 10th April 2019.
Equal Opportunities
Equal opportunities and diversity are at the heart of the British Council’s cultural relations ambitions. While recognizing that some research fields are dominated by one particular gender, coordinators are encouraged to work towards an equal gender balance and promote diversity. They must not exclude applicants on the basis of ethnicity, gender, religious belief, sexual orientation, or disability. Participants’ selection undertaken by workshop organizers must not contravene this policy. Extra support to enable participation of Early Career Researchers with special needs will be given.
Contact Person
Professor Aziz Zeeshan (Z.Aziz@salford.ac.uk ) for UK participants
Dr. Ala'a Alshdiefat (aalshdiefat@philadelphia.edu.jo, alaasms2002@gmail.com) for participants from Jordan
Acknowledgment
This work is supported by a Researcher Links workshop grant 2017-RLWK9-11261. The grant is funded by the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and delivered by the British Council. For further information, please visit www.newtonfund.ac.uk.