Intelligent and Sustainable Buildings: Influence of Occupants' Behaviour on Energy and Carbon Emission Reduction

Speaker: Abbas Elmualim

Affiliation: University of Reading, UK

Time: Thursday 26/07/2012 from 13:00 to 14:00

Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).

Abstract: Dr Elmualim's research work has been widely published in various journals (26 papers) and has presented at various national and international conferences (more than 60 papers). His current research focuses on the development of integrative approaches to design, construction and facilities management with particular interest in sustainability and digital technologies viewed from a broad socio-technical systems perspective and seek to combine engineering research methodologies with those derived from the social sciences. In the long term it is to keep building on his research group and develop it further as center for excellence in multi-disciplinary research for creative and innovative digital technologies application for sustainability in the Built Environment.

Biography: Dr Elmualim is a senior lecturer and one of the leading academics within the £3.5 m EPSRC-funded Innovative Construction Research Centre (ICRC) within the School of Construction Management and Engineering. Dr Elmualim also coordinates the work of the Sustainable Design and FM Informatics Research Group within the School in addition to the FM Research Group that he co-established six years ago. The Sustainable Design and FM Informatics Research Group he is currently leading consists of 6 PhD students, 3 EngD and 1 researcher conducting research in various socio-technical aspects of digital technology and sustainability within an FM context. Commensurate with his vision of engaging with various firms to reconnect the research agenda with the reality of the construction sector, Dr Elmualim is led several collaborative research projects with industry funded by the TSB/DTI as part of the Knowledge Transfer Partnership scheme and the Spearhead Technology Transfer programme in coll! aboration with firms such as Max Fordham, Nationwide, Jacobs and BIFM, FSI and the Asset Factor (Helical Bar). Teaching in various modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Modules include FM, Environmental aspect of design and passive design, Environmental requirements and Environmental systems, architectural/construction sciences, sustainable construction and FM, and Intelligent Buildings.