Dr Alice Moncaster

Professor of Sustainable Construction in their School of Architecture and Environment at University of the West of England

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Senior Lecturer in General Engineering, Open University

Dr Alice Moncaster is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering & Innovation at the Open University, and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge. In July 2023, she moved to the University of the West of England to be Professor of Sustainable Construction in their School of Architecture and Environment, whilst retaining a visiting professorship at the OU.

Alice has worked in industry as a civil engineer and building structures design engineer. She has carried out earthquake engineering research at Bristol University and completed a PhD at the UEA School of Environmental Sciences on the critical problem of improving sustainability in our built environment. Alice has been a Senior Research Associate and then lecturer in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment and the University of Cambridge, before moving to the OU in 2017.

Alice’s research seeks to improve the environmental sustainability of the processes of construction, and of its product, the built environment. Particularly interests include life cycle analysis and embodied impacts of buildings, integration of renewable energy technologies, low carbon building materials, applying the principles of circular economy in construction, and retrofitting existing buildings.

Alice is committed to improving inclusivity and diversity within engineering and the construction industry, for fairer treatment of under-represented groups, for a better working environment for all, and for improved decision making leading towards greater innovation.

  • 11 February 2020, 5:30pm

    CSaP Annual Lecture: Professor Dame Sally Davies

    The 2020 CSaP Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge and former Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Advisor to the UK Government.