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Professor of Environmental Design and Engineering. Teaches on the MSc Environmental Design and Engineering course within UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (he ran the course from 2007 to 2013).
His research interests include: how low energy buildings are actually being used, circular economy issues around the built environment including sustainable materials and air pollution. Since April 2017 he has been PI on the UK portion of the Cities of making research project.
He is a co-director for the UCL Circular Economy Lab.
He has been involved in air pollution research since starting in the Bartlett in 1994, firstly developing air pollution monitoring equipment, which is commercially available from Signal Instruments under its original name StreetBox. His initial research focussed on outdoor air pollution in the street, using carbon monoxide as a proxy. Realising most people in the UK are indoors for more than 80% of the time, the research shifted to indoor air quality in offices and homes. A further development of the monitoring equipment led to the smaller, Learian ICOM, also commercially available from Signal Instruments, which was used in many research projects in London and also as far as Sudan and Cyprus. This indoor air quality (IAQ) work demonstrated that for most people in the UK, for most of the time, IAQ in terms of carbon monoxide (CO) concentration was not a major problem. However for a significant few there can be serious, health threatening exposure. This work led to projects designed to work out how to estimate the percentage of households where this is the case. These found that high CO found in a few households is almost always due to defective gas appliance installations. During various research projects, Ben worked with Department of Health, the Health and Safety Executive and CORGI, and formed good relationships with the charity CO Gas Safety. He has presented widely on the findings including at the Department of Health, the Health Protection Agency and the House of Lords.
More recent research projects include: monitoring one of the TSB Retrofit for the future homes, investigating how the occupants are learning to live in a low energy home, a TSB Building Performance Evaluation project of M&S Cheshire Oaks store with Faithful+Gould, a post occupancy evaluation of a community building in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and a sustainability target setting exercise for the new Old Oak Common Development (OPDC) with Faithful+Gould.
He has supervised several PhD students through to completion, and normally supervises about 3 EngD or PhD students. Topics of current or recent students include: Carbon monoxide uptake and elimination in humans, Circular Economy based office refits and defits, Agent Based Modelling of Energy Behaviours, Trees Streets Pollution Wind, Measuring Heat Loss through Suspended Timber Floors, and issues around ITC and flexible office space. He is a PhD examiner both for UCL and for external candidates.
He has also supervised well over 150 MSc dissertations on topics generally related to low energy buildings.
Professor of Environmental Design and Engineering. Teaches on the MSc Environmental Design and Engineering course within UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (he ran the course from 2007 to 2013).
His research interests include: how low energy buildings are actually being used, circular economy issues around the built environment including sustainable materials and air pollution. Since April 2017 he has been PI on the UK portion of the Cities of making research project.
He is a co-director for the UCL Circular Economy Lab.
He has been involved in air pollution research since starting in the Bartlett in 1994, firstly developing air pollution monitoring equipment, which is commercially available from Signal Instruments under its original name StreetBox. His initial research focussed on outdoor air pollution in the street, using carbon monoxide as a proxy. Realising most people in the UK are indoors for more than 80% of the time, the research shifted to indoor air quality in offices and homes. A further development of the monitoring equipment led to the smaller, Learian ICOM, also commercially available from Signal Instruments, which was used in many research projects in London and also as far as Sudan and Cyprus. This indoor air quality (IAQ) work demonstrated that for most people in the UK, for most of the time, IAQ in terms of carbon monoxide (CO) concentration was not a major problem. However for a significant few there can be serious, health threatening exposure. This work led to projects designed to work out how to estimate the percentage of households where this is the case. These found that high CO found in a few households is almost always due to defective gas appliance installations. During various research projects, Ben worked with Department of Health, the Health and Safety Executive and CORGI, and formed good relationships with the charity CO Gas Safety. He has presented widely on the findings including at the Department of Health, the Health Protection Agency and the House of Lords.
More recent research projects include: monitoring one of the TSB Retrofit for the future homes, investigating how the occupants are learning to live in a low energy home, a TSB Building Performance Evaluation project of M&S Cheshire Oaks store with Faithful+Gould, a post occupancy evaluation of a community building in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, and a sustainability target setting exercise for the new Old Oak Common Development (OPDC) with Faithful+Gould.
He has supervised several PhD students through to completion, and normally supervises about 3 EngD or PhD students. Topics of current or recent students include: Carbon monoxide uptake and elimination in humans, Circular Economy based office refits and defits, Agent Based Modelling of Energy Behaviours, Trees Streets Pollution Wind, Measuring Heat Loss through Suspended Timber Floors, and issues around ITC and flexible office space. He is a PhD examiner both for UCL and for external candidates.
He has also supervised well over 150 MSc dissertations on topics generally related to low energy buildings.
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