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Research areas
The institutes within the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning are currently focused on four high-profileareas for both their basic research and their more application-focused research that are being embedded in BTU’s key research areas ofSmart Regions and Heritage and Energy Efficiency and Sustainability and are creating links between them: