Higher Education Institutions Action Group
About the GlobalABC Higher Education Institutions Action Group
The GlobalABC Higher Education Institutions (HEI) Action Group connects academic institutions worldwide to advance research, innovation, and education in sustainable buildings and construction. Focused the group fosters collaboration on initiatives for sustainable, resilient, energy-efficient, and zero-carbon buildings among higher education institutions and leverages on their knowledge and research, education and training and local partnerships and networks. Through collaboration with other Hubs and with the Steering Committee, it addresses key task areas on curriculum and training in HEIs, the latest efforts on cutting-edge research in the sector, and building networks among academic institutions.
HEI Action Group co-leads and members
Co-leads
- University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- University College London (UCL), London, UK
- University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France
- Members
- Academy of Managers for Construction and Cities
- Bauhaus Earth
- BIM Africa
- Carbon Leadership Forum
- China Academy of Building Research (CABR)
- CUES Foundation
- Ecole de Ponts
- École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG)
- École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- ECO333 PVT LTD
- Environmental Protection Agency- Ghana
- Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN)
- Hanoi Institute of Civil Engineering
- High Performance Building Alliance
- Institut Français pour la Performance du Bâtiment (IFPEB)
- Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
- Institute of Albanian Municipalities
- International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE)
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
- Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano)
- RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) University
- UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Université Paris Est Créteil (UPEC)
- University College London (UCL)
- University of Cambridge
- University of Karlsruhe
- Yale University
Activities
- Research priorities: the HEI Action Group will work with the Hubs and its network to identify priority research topics that members will develop briefing papers on the latest evidence and science. These will be shared and disseminated with GlobalABC Hubs and members.
- Sustainable building design, construction, operation and lifecycle curriculums: the HEI Action Group will work across its members to identify current topics and key knowledge and learning points, pedagogy and methods of teaching and learning, and courses that support the objectives of the GlobalABC.
- Research networks: the HEI Action Group will develop a network of network’s approach to identifying researchers and their networks across the building and construction sector within regions around the world. The purpose of the networks will be to both draw in activities to the HEI, Hubs and GlobalABC more widely, and to help disseminate reporting and events.
2024-2025 Priorities
- Establishing the co-leads of the HEI action group
- Building further membership within the HEI action group
- Developing the programme for the HEI and developing the Activities
- Activity 1: identifying topics and topic leads who will develop the research briefings
- Activity 2: an initial mapping of programmes that exist across the network members in sustainable buildings and construction, identifying the key learning points and building a picture of curriculum
- Activity 3: identifying researcher networks from the HEI action group members and developing an information sharing system across the network of networks.
Contact & how to join
If you are interested in joining the HEI as a member, please click here.
For any further questions, please contact: Ian Hamilton at [email protected].
