Research themes
- Climate change, global warming and its impact on buildings,
- Current and future average and extreme weather
data for building design by simulation
- Future scenarios for domestic
and commercial buildings, including microCHP and renewable energy
- Analysis
of occupant feedback on the internal environment and productivity
- Lighting,
including daylight perception
- Heating and cooling systems
- Application of neural networks and
fuzzy logic for building services control and analyses of weather
data
- Measurements of natural ventilation devices and design.
- Air flows in and around buildings
- Building air leakage measurement
- Wind pressures on buildings
- Retention of fire extinguishing gases
- Building energy consumption
- Weather data for building performance modelling
- Dynamic thermal simulation of buildings
- Sustainable technology
- Design process and its management
- Learning and teaching methods in undergraduate degree programmes
- Harmonics and power quality: micro combined heat and power systems, renewable energy systems for buildings
- Protection for Safety in Electrical systems
- Earthing and Bonding
- Telecommunications and IT
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