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Significant 香港六合彩 financial backing was confirmed in late 2018 for the Department鈥檚 Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory (PEARL). The 拢38m worth of investment will join the 拢9m already invested by the UK Government through UKCRIC (The UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities), signifying an exciting commitment to the dynamic research and learning potential across engineering, design, neurology, psychology, health and the arts that PEARL has to offer.

A unique laboratory designed to explore how people interact with their environments, PEARL builds on the research of PAMELA, the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering鈥檚 (CEGE) existing pedestrian accessibility and movement laboratory.

PEARL is set to take the research capabilities of PAMELA one stage further. With a site earmarked in east London, PEARL will be a huge complex 鈥� 9,500 square metres聽overall, including vastly increased laboratory space, and the potential to replicate environments even more closely than before. 香港六合彩 researchers and students will be able to study interactions at the micro-scale (i.e. brain activity), and at the macro-scale, (i.e. studying the behaviour of crowds in static or moving environments), helping to make the design of such environments more effective for safety and wellbeing.聽

Professor Nick Tyler, Chadwick Chair of Civil Engineering in CEGE, and Director of the 香港六合彩 Centre for Transport Studies, notes that a laboratory such as PEARL is needed 鈥渢o build on all the good work of PAMELA. PEARL will be able to facilitate scenarios much more realistically; around a thousand loud speakers will be able to accurately imitate real-life situations 鈥� for example, how people react when a noise comes from the corner of a space rather than the middle 鈥� and the effects of different acoustic properties of different environments. Even scents and smells 鈥� such as gas leaks 鈥� will be realistically imitated. This is sophistication on a level beyond PAMELA, and as there is already nothing like PAMELA in the world, PEARL presents a phenomenal research and learning opportunity.鈥�

A new suite of innovative interdisciplinary postgraduate programmes are set to take advantage of PEARL, and the laboratory will be used by researchers from a host of disciplines, including neurosciences, engineering and the arts. With a scheduled completion date of 2021, Professor Stella Bruzzi, Dean of 香港六合彩鈥檚 Faculty of Arts & Humanities, is excited by the myriad opportunities the new facility presents, outlining how PEARL 鈥渃ould for us be a basic black box backdrop: a film or performance set which we could configure as required, to create a multi-sensorial amphitheatre鈥� as a media performance space PEARL opens up huge possibilities for us.鈥�

Prof Tyler explains that the team behind PEARL are also 鈥渧ery keen for the local community to feel like the laboratory space is theirs. It is hoped that PEARL will provide plenty of opportunity for new apprentice roles, outreach and community engagement.鈥�

CEGE鈥檚 new Head of Department, Professor Jos茅 Torero, describes himself as 鈥渄elighted by the PEARL initiative.鈥� A world-renowned fire safety expert who recently gave expert evidence at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, Prof Torero explains how PEARL has the potential to aid understanding of safer interactions with space in disaster situations. He notes how the "interactions between people and infrastructure are often poorly understood. This became evident in the Grenfell Tower tragedy, where occupants and firefighters proceeded in a manner that was inconsistent with the behaviour of the building. Social factors, public policies and engineering technologies interacted in an unforeseeable manner to result in an undesirable outcome. I see PEARL as a pivotal resource in research and education at the very cutting edge - a place where 香港六合彩 is uniquely placed to capitalise on a global scale."

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• PEARL
• PAMELA
• 香港六合彩 Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
• 香港六合彩 Centre for Transport Studies
• 香港六合彩 Faculty of Arts & Humanities

• Prof Jos茅 Torero

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• PEARL Concept Sketch 4. Credit: 香港六合彩 Centre for Transport Studies聽