PhD projects

B

• BIM in healthcare: exploration of BIM as managerial and operational tool in healthcare building projects. Can BIM effectively deliver estate related projects within NHS?
• Benchmarking the energy performance of the UK non-domestic building stock: a schools case study

C

• A city scale physically disaggregated bottom-up energy model: Technical options for decarbonizing Belgrade residential stock
• Changes in Exposure to Domestic PM2.5 in London: An Unintended Consequence of Energy Efficient Refurbishment of the Domestic Stock

D

• Developing a Climate-Responsive Urbatecture
• Development of information delivery manual to identify information exchange requirements for building performance analysis
• Development of an integrated assessment framework for proven green technologies selection in existing buildings retrofitting
• Developing improved methods for measurement of ventilation rates in occupied dwellings

E

• An examination of the residential building stock in Kuwait to inform energy efficiency policy
• Educational buildings' design and female students' cognitive performance: the role of temperature and ventilation rates in the hot dry climates
• An exergy-based modelling tool for retrofit analysis in non-domestic buildings
• The estimation of thermal parameters of real building elements by using experimental data collected during in-situ monitoring campaigns
• The energy and environmental impacts of heat pumps for cooling and heating in the UK residential sector

H

• UK housing policies - moving towards the achievement of shared objectives using System Dynamics

I

• The image of the city at night
• The interaction of the social and built environment in the generation of physical activity

L

• Light for well-being: the characteristics of psychophysiological pathway

M

• Matching and managing demand, behaviour and expectation for carbon reduction
• Modelling detailed occupant behaviour in dealing with summer overheating in domestic buildings using agent-based modelling and dynamic building simulation models

P

• The potential for setting limits on cooling set-points for air-conditioned UK office buildings
• Pre-1919 un-insulated suspended timber ground floors: estimating in-situ heat-loss; heat-loss reduction potential and unintended consequences of interventions

R

• The role of crowd-sourced energy performance feedback in low-energy building design and management in the context of industry pressures

T

• What are the trade-offs between ventilation, health, building fabric and energy in dwellings?

U

• Understanding hospital electricity use: an end-use(r) perspective
• Uncertainty in steady state whole building heat loss measurements (co-heating tests)
• Understanding Ventilation Practices in Low Energy Homes
• Use of evidence about the built environment and health by policy and decision-makers

 W

• Water management in buildings