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. Neveen Hamza - Vice-Chair Dr. Hamza is a Lecturer in Architecture, in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University. She gained her PhD from Newcastle University on ‘the performance of double skin facades in hot arid climates’ and an MSc in ‘Environmental impact assessment’ Alexandria University, Egypt. As an architect and a building physicist she promotes the building performance simulation as a main tool for early design decision making. Her research and teaching looks into the integration of building simulation and facade technologies in the architectural design studio. Her research focuses on the triangulation between architectural aspects of facade design, its impact on building energy consumption weighted by environmental psychology, thus creating buildings that promote well being, daylight and thermal comfort without impinging on energy resources. Dr. Hamza is a scientific reviewer for a number of journals (including energy, building and environment, energy and building, renewable energy) and conferences on building energy simulation. She is also on the Board of Directors of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Design (ASCAAD) to promote the use of building energy simulation in the Middle East.
  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. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Dejan Mumovic - Committee Member Dr. Mumovic is a building scientist with a background in heating, ventilation and air conditioning engineering and the extensive experience of monitoring and modelling work in the field of the built environment. He is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Engineering at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL. Dejan has led, co-led or significantly contributed to 24 projects, 8 of them undertaken for the DCLG Building Regulations Division (under the Buildings Operational Performance Framework), which resulted in more than 70 books, refereed journal articles, conference papers and Government reports. He is a member of ‘Complex Built Environment Systems (CBES)’ research group which has been acknowledged as “world leading” by the EPSRC via the award of Platform Funding twice (2007-2011; 2011-2015). He is Co-Director of UCL EngD Centre in VEIV (Built Environment) and a Deputy Director of the UK oldest MSc course in Environmental Design and Engineering. Dejan is a cofounder of two specialist groups: IBPSA-England and CIBSE School Design Group.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Hasim Altan - Committee Member Dr. Altan is a Lecturer in Sustainable Environmental Design and Director of the Building Environments Analysis Unit (BEAU) Research Centre in the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield. He joined the School in 2004 as a Research Fellow shortly after completing his PhD research which focused on the drivers and barriers to improving energy efficiency and reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the private housing sector, where he investigated energy efficiency standards of 250 privately rented properties in Sheffield. He has worked extensively on energy efficiency strategies for domestic and non-domestic buildings, and was also part of a major research project consortium of Carbon Reduction in Buildings (CaRB) - a socio-technical, longitudinal study of carbon use in buildings; funded by the EPSRC and Carbon Trust under the UK Carbon Vision Buildings (CVB) research programme. Dr. Altan’s current research activities are in the areas related to Energy Efficient and Sustainable Building Design, Environmental Modelling and Building Performance Simulation, Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of Building Energy Use and Environments including Daylighting, Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Thermal Comfort.
  10. Ljiljana Marjanovic-Halburd - Committee Member Ljiljana Marjanovic-Halburd is a Senior Lecturer in Building Services at Department of Built Environment at Anglia Ruskin University. Her areas of expertise include building heat transfer, air conditioning and ventilation systems with particular focus on building load dynamics and energy management; control strategies for energy efficient air conditioning; transient and steady state simulation and modelling of buildings and HVAC systems using contemporary simulation software (DesignBuilder, MATLAB, EES, CFD); and field measurements. Ljiljana current research focus is in urban energy modelling and zero-carob domestic houses implementation in social housing sector. She has published well over 40 papers in these fields. With 20 years of genuinely enjoyable teaching experience in Built environment on all levels and forms of teaching in a number of different European Universities (Belgrade, Denmark Technical, Norwegian Technical, Liege, Loughborough, De Montfort), she developed excellent interpersonal and communication skills, enabling effective liaison with different international partners.
  11. John Mardaljevic - Committee Member  John Mardaljevic is a 'Reader in Daylight Modelling' at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Mardaljevic's first significant contribution in the field of daylight modelling was the validation of the Radiance lighting simulation program under real sky conditions. That validation work is considered the definitive study of its kind and it helped to establish the Radiance system as a de facto standard world-wide for lighting simulation. Mardaljevic went on to pioneer the development and application of what has become known as climate-based daylight modelling. These techniques have been successfully applied to help solve a wide range of traditional and novel building design problems, e.g. New York Times Building. In 2007/8 Mardaljevic sat on the panel convened to revise British Standard 8206: "Daylight in Buildings". A significant feature of this revision is the Technical Annex on climate-based daylight modelling, indicating that BSI expects future guidelines to be founded on metrics computed using these new approaches. Mardaljevic chairs the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) Technical Committee 3-47: Climate-Based Daylight Modelling, and in 2010 was appointed UK Principal Expert on Daylight for the European Committee for Standardisation CEN / TC 169 WG11.
  12. Meredith Davey – Committee Member Meredith Davey joined Atelier Ten in 2005 and has worked on a series of international projects with an emphasis on high performance design, energy efficiency and sustainability. As an Associate Director, Meredith leads the UK Environmental Design Team. The team delivers bespoke services that include advanced computational analysis covering daylighting, thermal and energy & carbon modelling and financial modelling including payback analysis & net present value analysis. Within this role he has also developed R&D studies including analysis of differing building typologies to assess their environmental impact. An example would include working with the Carbon Trust on developing analytical and cost models for low carbon building and renovation.
  13. Jake Hacker – Committee Member to be added
  14. Ruchi Choudhary – Committee Member is a Lecturer in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge where she leads research on energy supply systems and the built environment within the Energy Efficient Cities initiative. Dr Ruchi Choudhary specializes in building simulation. Her research focuses on energy modelling techniques, spanning both urban-scale energy models and models for optimizing building energy use. Prior to joining Cambridge, Dr Choudhary was assistant professor of building technologies in the College of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA (2004-08). She has also taught in the Sustainable and Environmental Design Unit at the Architecture Association in London (2007-09). She received her PhD in Architecture from the University of Michigan in 2004.
  15. Liora Malki-Epshtein – Committee Member is a Lecturer in Environmental and Urban Fluid Mechanics at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. Following a BSc in Planetary and Geophysics and an MSc in Atmospheric Physics, she completed a PhD on Fluid Dynamics in 2005, at the University of Cambridge, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), where her studies were supported by a full scholarship from Trinity College and a fellowship of the Cambridge Overseas Society. Her research interests currently focus mainly on the outdoor Urban environment, specifically on the detailed characteristics of airflow in street canyons, including detail of trees and complex street geometry. These she studies with her group using Computational Fluid Dynamics models, detailed field measurements and laboratory models of pollution and airflow in street canyons. In the lab, her group uses advanced visualisation techniques to obtain detailed calculations of flow and turbulence. She has developed several interdisciplinary projects, working with Statistical science at UCL on Statistical calibration of CFD modelling for street canyon flows, with University of Cyprus on pollution measurements and modelling in complex Mediterranean street canyons, on modelling wind and pollution around urban trees in London with The Bartlett, with Computer science at UCL on development of a wireless sensor network to gather data on traffic-related pollution, with the Bartlett on studying air quality and vegetation, and with the UCL Energy Institute on resistance of UK housing stock to climate change.