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Intelligent shelter

By 2020, 75 per cent of the world's population will live in towns and cities. As our climate changes, the buildings we live in will need to be redesigned to cope.

antenna asked buildings engineer Geoff Levermore how his work is helping the industry prepare to fight the weather.

'New buildings may have a lifetime of over 100 years. So we have to design them today to cope with the weather extremes forecasts for the near future.' Geoff Levermore, UMIST and Tyndall Centre



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Geoff Levermore
Geoff Levermore
Image: UMIST
    Background image: Solar Century
 

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