Research
Building Energy
The Building Energy Research Group (BERG): transforming the performance of buildings for a healthy, sustainable, and zero-carbon future.
OUR AIM
We believe that better buildings are essential for a healthy, sustainable, and zero-carbon future. Our high quality, multi-disciplinary, collaborative research drives real-world impacts and helps us to develop the next generation of built environment professionals.
We operate from a world-class research, teaching and learning environment where our expertise in modelling and measurement methods is used to address four key research themes. We offer opportunities to UK and international students to study with the us at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral level. We are active in enterprise, ranging from small pieces of consultancy to large complex projects, and collaborate widely with industry, government, and academia both in the UK and internationally.
Please feel free to contact any of our people in the Building Energy Research Group, or for general enquiries please email Dr David Allinson: d.allinson@lboro.ac.uk.
RESEARCH THEMES & PROJECTS
MORE ABOUT US
High-quality consultancy services
The Building Energy Research Group are active in enterprise and have a track record of delivering high-quality consultancy services to a range of clients including Government Departments, multi-national corporations, housing associations, consultancies, and SMEs.
Please feel free to contact any of our people in the Building Energy Research Group, or for general enquiries please email Dr David Allinson: d.allinson@lboro.ac.uk.
Research, teaching and learning environment
The Building Energy Research Group enjoy one of the UK’s largest open-plan laboratories, as well as a suite of instrumented Test Houses. We carry out research in the field to measure and monitor the performance of buildings all over the world.
- Instrumented matched-pair 1930s semi-detached test houses with synthetic occupancy
- Two additional instrumented test-houses with heat pump and model-predictive control
- Thermal comfort chamber with thermal breathing manikin and laser PIV
- Building and Industrial Services Pipework Academy
- Twin Robotic manufacturing cell with 3D concrete printing, interchangeable tooling and large-scale metrology capability
- Data loggers and instrumentation for monitoring building energy, thermal comfort, and indoor air quality
- Co-heating, airtightness, U-value and infra-red thermography testing
- Salt Bath for Natural Ventilation Flow Visualisation
- Equipment calibration, maintenance, and storage facilities
- Solar simulator and weather stations
- Hygrothermal Test Facility
Expertise in modelling and measurement
The Building Energy Research Group have a broad range of expertise in modelling and measurement.
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Modelling expertise
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Measurement expertise
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Undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral study
The Building Energy Research Group support all undergraduate programmes in the School, including Architecture and Architectural Engineering.
We are very proud of our longstanding MSc programme in Low Energy Building Services Engineering and welcome a wide range of UK and international applicants for full-time or part-time study. Please download our Low Energy Building Services Engineering MSc Brochure 2021 to find out more.
We have a vibrant postgraduate research community and have been training the next generation of thought leaders for over a decade in our Centres for Doctoral Training: The London-º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ (LoLo) EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Demand, and EPSRC and SFI Centre for Doctoral Training in Energy Resilience and the Built Environment (ERBE).
We are one of only four Royal Academy of Engineering Centres of Excellence in sustainable building design.
Global collaborations
The Building Energy Research Group collaborate widely with institutions in the UK and around the world, including:
- The Active Building Centre
- ASHRAE
- BRE
- Cambridge Architectural Research
- CEPT India
- CIBSE
- The Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)
- Halton Housing
- Hilson Moran Partnership
- IEA Annex 71: Building Energy Performance Assessment Based on In-situ Measurements
- IEA EBC Annex 82: Energy Flexible Buildings Towards Resilient Low Carbon Energy Systems
- Leeds Sustainability Institute
- MaREI
- The Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
- Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe (MERCE)
- Swansea University
- UCL Energy Institute
- The University of Salford Energy House Laboratories
- University of Cambridge
- University for Development Studies, Tamale
- University of Ghana
- University of Sheffield
- Vexo International
OUR PEOPLE
Visiting Fellows
- Dr Sandy Brownlee
- Dr Stephen Porritt
Visiting Professors
- Professor Andrew Cripps, Triple Point Heat Networks Investment Management
- Dr Victoria Tink, Building Saftey Regulator
Research Associates
- Dr Kostas Mourkos
- Dr Matthew Li
- Dr Vincenzo Rossi
- Dr John Kolawole
- Dr Jerry Xu
- Jim Dobrzanski
Doctoral Researchers
- Ahmed Ahmed
- Abdulazziz Al Farhan
- Ahmad Aladawi
- Amr Suliman
- Bayan Khayat-Sarama
- Benjamin Simpson
- Charlotte Shields
- Dimitris Tseno
- George Dawes
- Hoi Ching Catherine Yeung
- Hooman Azad-Gilani
- Jaydeep Bhadra
- Jordan Townsend
- Joshua Vasudevan
- Laurel Northmore
- Liam Whyte
- Max Eastwood
- Moazzam Khan
- Mina Lu
- Meg Rush
- Marlena Swan
- Paul Drury
- Salam Al Samman
- Shanti Srinivas
- Siduo Lei
- Siyuan Dong
- Syafiq Saiful
- Thara Al Mindeel
- Vincenzo Antonio Rossi
- Vishnu Vardhan
- Xingzi Liu
- Xuedi Zhao
- Yao (Chris) Lu
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES
PhD opportunities
Our PhD students play a central role in our wide-ranging research activities, making vital contributions to the success of the research itself. Find out more about our PhD opportunities.
