A5053702387- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Noise Effects and Management
- Hygrothermal properties of building materials
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Water management and technologies
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Transportation and Mobility Innovations
- Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
- Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
- Housing Market and Economics
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
University of Bath
2015-2024
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
2020
Multimedia University
2005
India Meteorological Department
2004
Anna University, Chennai
1992
Given climate change predictions of a warmer world, there is growing concern that insulation-led improvements in building fabric aimed at reducing carbon emissions will exacerbate overheating. If true, this would seriously affect regulations all over the world which have moved towards increased insulation regimes. Despite extensive research, literature has failed to resolve controversy performance, primarily due varied scope and limited comparability results. We approach problem through...
As the 2003 European heatwave demonstrated, overheating in homes can cause wide-scale fatalities. With temperatures and frequency predicted to increase due climate change, such events be expected become more common. Thus, investigating risk of buildings is key understanding scale problem designing solutions. Most work on this topic has been theoretical based lightweight dwellings that might overheat. By contrast, study collects temperature air quality data over two years for vulnerable...
Governments across the world are investing in smart metering devices that report energy use to user with aim of reducing consumption. However, effectiveness such In-Home Displays (IHDs) has been questioned, since savings small. This is possibly because informing consumer their consumption kWh, or monetary units, fails give context, inform possible actions reduce We investigate, for first time, effect replacing simple statement an IHD gives, a detailed array information specifically designed...
There is said to be a strong relationship between low winter fuel consumption and increased cold-related morbidities mortalities in the elderly. However, no study has so far investigated baseline domestic thermal conditions, energy health this demographic - crucial gap given an ageing population. Hence we examine, for first time, validity of current comfort standards World Health Organisation minimum temperature thresholds 65 + demographic, through longitudinal conditions homes We cover two...
Highly insulated and airtight homes designed to reduce energy consumption are perceived as having a greater summer overheating risk than less homes. If true, dwellings built the well-known low-energy Passivhaus (PH) standard could be at greatest due use of superinsulation, especially climate warms. Existing studies inconclusive even contradictory, mainly small sample sizes. Hence, this paper presents first large-scale analysis UK using high-resolution internal temperature data from 82 across...
Atypically warm summers such as 2003 and 2018 are predicted to become normal by 2050. If current climate projections accurate, this could cause heat-related mortality rise 257% 2050, the majority of which will be in vulnerable groups elderly. However, little is known about temperatures achieved homes elderly even typical summers, less on whether these comfortable. This study examines, for first time, validity thermal comfort models predicting summer levels 65+ demographic over a an...
Abstract Globally, a primary concern is whether green office buildings perform as promised in terms of providing better indoor environment quality (IEQ) for employees, which may affect their satisfaction and work performance. In the Middle East, although there has been renewed interest building design, post occupancy evaluation performance never conducted to-date, evidence actual occupant perception non-green still ambiguous. Hence, we present first study on IEQ East. We show that Jordan can...
This paper examines the likely effects on gas and electricity consumption carbon emissions from heating cooling systems in existing dwellings up to 2080, assuming a widespread uptake of systems. area research is highly sensitive myriad possible inputs thus holds wide range predicted outcomes. However, general trends have been found, showing significant sensitivity ventilation rate, U-values, occupant behaviour location. Heating demand will still be dominant over UK by 2080s, based an UKCIP02...
Operational uncertainties play a critical role in determining potential pathways to reduce the building energy footprint Global South. This paper presents application of non-dominated sorting genetic (NSGA II) algorithm for multi-objective design optimization under operational uncertainties. A residential situated mid-latitude steppe and desert region (Köppen climate classification: BSh) South has been selected our investigation. The annual consumption total number cooling setpoint unmet...