IBPSA England - People

The IBPSA-England Board:

1. Malcolm Cook - Chair and Affiliate Representative

   Dr Cook is a Reader in Building Performance Simulation at Loughborough University and works in the area of building simulation and low energy building design. Following a first degree in mathematics (Manchester University) and an MSc in engineering (Leicester University), he undertook his PhD research at De Montfort University in the Environmental Computer Aided Design and Performance group. This work focused on the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software for modelling buoyancy-driven displacement ventilation. Dr Cook is secretary for the CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group, a member of the EPSRC College, member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Ventilation and reviews for other journals and grant-awarding bodies.

   [ contact: malcolm.cook@lboro.ac.uk ]

2. Mikkel Kragh - Vice-Chair

   Dr Kragh is an Associate with Arup and part of Arup's Environmental Physics team in London. He has a combined background in research and specialist façade contracting. His educational background includes an MSc in Civil and Structural Engineering and a PhD in Building Physics, both from the Technical University of Denmark. Prior to joining Arup, he worked for a leading manufacturer of customised architectural cladding, where his role included monitoring and analytical performance assessment of advanced façade solutions. He is currently part of a specialist team, which covers every aspect of environmental physics, including building design and microclimate design. Key to the activities of the team is the development of specialist analytical methods and tools in response to project-specific challenges. He is currently promoting building physics as a design discipline as the Chairman of the Society of Façade Engineering.

3. Pieter J.C.J. de Wilde - Secretary

   Dr de Wilde is a Reader at the Environmental Building Group at the University of Plymouth. His main area of expertise is thermal building performance simulation and its application to design decision making in the fields of building services and engineering. Dr de Wilde has a background in building technology (MSc) and building physics (PhD) from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and has working experience with the ECN (Petten, the Netherlands), Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, USA) and TNO (Delft, the Netherlands). He has been member of the scientific committee of several international conferences (IBPSA, PLEA) and was convenor and co-editor the IBPSA-NVL symposium 2005, Delft, the Netherlands. Dr de Wilde received the IBPSA Outstanding young contributor award 2003.

   [ contact: Pieter.dewilde@plymouth.ac.uk ]

4. Ian C Ward - Committee Member

   Mr Ward is currently a Reader in the School of Architecture (University of Sheffield). Mr Ward's research has mainly been in the area of building energy usage, in particular ventilation and air movement within buildings and energy issues related to building services systems. Mr Ward has been able to concentrate a large part of this research effort into the design of appropriate energy systems for passively cooling buildings in hot regions of the world, he has successfully supervised many post-graduate students. Within the air movement field Mr Ward has been successful in collaboration with colleagues in obtaining substantial external funding over several years. He is a member of various external bodies, including the Building Environmental Performance Analysis Club (and the Air Movement Task Group), South Yorkshire Environmental Partnership, the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group, and representative on the Building Research Establishment's (BRE) Foundation for the Built Environment and the Yorkshire Bio-mass steering group.

   [ contact: i.ward@sheffield.ac.uk ]

5. Jonathan Wright - Committee Member

   Jonathan Wright is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University. His research is focused on the application of building performance simulation to the optimum design and operation of buildings. In particular, his interests are concerned with the synthesis of design solutions and operating strategies using Evolutionary Algorithms, as well as the model-based commissioning and condition-monitoring of building thermal systems. He has published widely in these fields and has been awarded research grants from the UK Government funding councils and the American Society of Air Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers (ASHRAE). He is a member of the IBPSA-World Board of Directors, with special responsibility for membership development.

   [ contact: j.a.wright@lboro.ac.uk ]

6. Simon Rees - Committee Member

   Dr Rees is a Senior Research Fellow in the IESD and has special responsibility for coordination of the MSc course 'Energy and Sustainable Building Design'. Following the Award of a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Loughborough University in 1987 he joined the consulting engineering firm Ove Arup and Partners as a Mechanical Building Services Engineer. In 1994 he began research into Displacement Ventilation and Chilled Ceiling systems in the Civil and Building Engineering department of Loughborough University resulting in the award of a PhD in 1998. His interests include building and environmental heat transfer, building air flow, load calculation and building energy and plant simulation. He has written over 20 publications and has been awarded CIBSE's Napier-Shaw Bronze Medal (2000) and ASHRAE's 'Best Technical Paper' award (2002) for papers he has published.

7. Dejan Mumovic - Committee Member

   Dr. Mumovic is a Lecturer in Environmental Design and Engineering at the Bartlett, University College London. He joined the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies in 2003 as a Research Fellow shortly after completing his PhD and until recently was a holder of a prestigious RCUK Academic Fellowship. Dr Mumovic has acquired several years of experience in his field, which analyses the indoor air quality in and around buildings using various monitoring and modelling methods. He significantly contributes to the UCL components of research projects being undertaken for the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) Building Regulations Division. These research projects contribute to the development of the Building Regulations for England and Wales in particular Part F which deals with ventilation for health and indoor air quality.

8. Mike Davies - Committee Member

   Dr Davies is a Professor at the Bartlett, University College London (UCL). He has a background in monitoring and modelling work in the field of the built environment. He acted as Project Manager for a large-scale THERMIE funded project investigating innovative building technologies and this work led to the award of EPSRC funding relating to building energy use and occupant comfort. He works extensively with building energy simulation models and has been awarded related EPSRC funding. He is currently managing the UCL components of research projects being undertaken for the ODPM Building Regulations Division (under the Buildings Operational Performance Framework). The research projects contribute to the development of the Building Regulations (England and Wales), in particular Parts F and L, which deal with ventilation and energy.

9. Michael Lim - Committee Member

   Dr Michael Lim is a Senior Engineer within the Applied Research and Sustainable Development group of Faber Maunsell. His primary roles include building simulation for building regulation compliance, energy model for M&E design, energy statement and sustainable building design. Apart from commercial projects, he has also been involved in several research based projects, including the study of concrete as thermal storage for the Steel Construction Institute, overheating in conservatories for Pilkington Glass ltd. and the use of blinds in mitigating extreme conditions conservatories for Appeal Blinds ltd. He graduated with a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering and later with a PhD on Process Control and Systems Engineering both from the University of Bristol. Prior to joining Faber Maunsell, he was contracted as a Research Assistant for numerous years within the University of Bristol Dynamics and Control Engineering Group. He worked with the Earthquake Engineering Group on a joint EPSRC research project in the development of Hybrid Testing Technology in collaboration with the University of Oxford. He is currently part of the team assisting the government in rolling out the Display Energy Certificate and Operational Rating of buildings as well as in the validation and approval of non-domestic building energy calculation software for commercial use and the production of the Energy Performance Certificate.

10. Edward Murphy - Committee Member

    Edward Murphy is a chartered building services engineer with a proven track record in design and project management of high profile low energy buildings. Through his career he has remained in touch with technological developments, and believes in advocating design solutions that are progressive and forward thinking. In recent years he has turned his attention to sustainable construction leading up to his most recent involvement as the lead advisor to the Home Office for Sheffield’s greenest building Vulcan House. The building, a speculative office block is a physical demonstration of how innovative sustainable design coupled an "eye for the commercial markets" can make be made to meet the demanding financial expectations of the property developer market. Edward is currently co-authoring a book with Ian Ward of Sheffield University titled Sustainability by Design, and has written a number of articles for trade technical journals on sustainable building design.