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Sustainable Design and Construction
Subject Group Lead: Dr Rohinton Emmanuel
T: 00 44(0) 141 331 3217
Summary of subject area
The focus of the subject group is whole-life sustainability of built assets, from design to demolition and eventual re-use, at scales ranging from individual buildings to neighbourhoods and cities. The group conducts teaching, research and knowledge transfer activities in a wide array of built sustainability themes, with particular focus on: building performance, rehabilitation of existing stock to improve energy, carbon and comfort performance, sustainable building materials, fire risk and risk analysis, social and economic performance of buildings and cities, impact of climate change on buildings, urban climate, sustainability assessment and knowledge and process management to deliver sustainability
Areas of Excellence
- Building performance: thermal, energy and moisture properties of buildings, thermal and moisture transport in buildings, building diagnostics and remedy of building faults, flooding issues in buildings, expert witness
- Buildings and climate change: implications of climate change for UK construction, urban climate change
- Comfort and health: built environment quality, thermal comfort in buildings and urban areas
- Conservation and rehabilitation: Historic building preservation, rehabilitation of hard-to-treat properties
- Construction materials and technology: Innovative materials, detailing, selection criteria, material science, freeze-thaw protection, heat and mass transfer in materials and building structures
- Fire protection: Smoke flow in the built environment, fire risk assessment, fire protection systems
- Low carbon built environment: Whole building energy efficiency, renewable energy in buildings, carbon management and policy
- Sustainability and society: Civil society and governance for sustainability, behaviour change
- Sustainability assessment: Next generation urban and building sustainability assessment systems; indicator development; sustainability innovation, learning and knowledge; knowledge transfer
- Sustainable urban environment: urban microclimate, community-scale renewable heat, urban design, revitalisation, sustainable urban planning
Courses within Subject group
- BSC/BSC (HONS) Fire Risk Engineering
- BSC/BSC (HONS) Building Surveying
- BSc (HONS) Building Surveying (Building Control Pathway)
Academic Staff List
- Dr Keith Baker
- Dr Paul Baker
- Mr James Castle
- Professor Branka Dimitrijevic
- Mr Gordon Henderson
- Mr Douglas Hillhouse
- Mr Paul Kennedy
- Mr Harry Madden
- Dr Mark Phillipson
- Dr Christopher Sanders
- Dr Iain Sanderson
- Dr Paul Teedon
- Dr Craig Thomson
Accreditation
- BSc / BSc (Hons) Building Surveying:
- Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
- Chartered Institute of Buildings (CIOB)
- BSc / BSc (Hons) Fire Risk Engineering
- Institution of Fire Engineers (IFireE)