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PhD student, University College London
Project Title
Novel Retrofit Technology Incorporating Robots for Lower Energy Healthy Buildings
Background & Summary of Project
Dzhordzhio is based at UCL IEDE and is Head of Science Strategy and Operations at the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), which is part of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). His research focuses on volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from insulation materials and their interrelationship with ventilation strategies, energy, and indoor air quality.
Before 1985, UK homes were not required to have any insulation in the walls or floors in order to comply with building regulations. The UK building stock contains more than 15 million UK homes built pre 1990. In order to address this urgent demand for retrofittng, Q-Bot Ltd have developed cutting edge robots that apply insulation on existing buildings. The potential for energy savings, reducing fuel poverty and carbon emissions is high, although the changes to the indoor environmental conditions need to be further examined. The research project aims to identify and quantify the interrelationship between energy saving potential, ventilation strategies, indoor air quality (VOCs) and heritage values.
Partners
SEAHA roles
- Conference Chair- 4th SEAHA Conference, 2018
Publications
Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), Environmental Working Group, SPI-B/EMG: MHCLG Housing Impacts Paper - 10 September 2020
CIBSE, TM61-64 Operational Performance of Buildings (2020)
Dzhordzhio Naldzhiev et al., An experimental study of spray foam insulation products-evidence of 1,2-dichloropropane and 1,4-dioxane emissions, IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 609:4 (2019) 042053
D. Naldzhiev, Robots can reduce the exposure of people to VOCs during application of spray foam insulation, Proceedings from Healthy Buildings 2019 Asia - Changsha, China - October 22-25, 2019 (2019)
Dzhordzhio Naldzhiev, Dejan Mumovic, Matija Strlic, Polyurethane insulation and household products – A systematic review of their impact on indoor environmental quality, Building and Environment 169 (2020)
Naldzhiev, Dzhordzhio & Group, CIBSE, Breathe Easy -Volatile Organic Compounds (2019) Technical report
Naldzhiev, D; Mumovic, D; Strlic, M, Method development for measuring volatile organic compound (VOC) emission rates from spray foam insulation (SPF) and their interrelationship with indoor air quality (IAQ), human health and ventilation strategies, in Proceedings of the 38th AIVC Conference, 2017 - Ventilating healthy low-energy buildings. AIVC: Nottingham, UK (2017)
Naldzhiev, D; Mumovic, D; Strlic, M, Systematic evaluation of 1,2-dichloropropane emissions from do-it-yourself spray foam insulation products, in Building and Environment, Volume 207, Part B, January 2022, 108439
