Professor Lindsay Beevers has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). Professor Beevers is among 57 new fellows selected to join the RSE for their individual excellence and thought leadership in their respective fields, across the sciences, arts, business, professions, and the third and public sectors.
A project aiming to maximise tidal energy generation has been launched in the presence of Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, at the University of Edinburgh’s FastBlade facility.
Engineering academics have developed a new framework to help Scotland’s affordable housing sector reach net zero carbon performance. Dr Julio Bros-Williamson is the academic lead for the Edinburgh Home Demonstrator (EHD) project, which is creating a pilot development in Granton.
Lindsay Beevers, Professor of Environmental Engineering at the School of Engineering, has worked on a project with Heriot-Watt University to investigate how people might be affected by droughts in Scotland.