A5037473288- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Innovations in Concrete and Construction Materials
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Fault Detection and Control Systems
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Fuzzy Logic and Control Systems
- Neural Networks and Applications
- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
- Structural Health Monitoring Techniques
- Integrated Energy Systems Optimization
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Innovative concrete reinforcement materials
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Facilities and Workplace Management
- Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
- Architecture and Computational Design
- Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Renewable Energy and Sustainability
- Building energy efficiency and sustainability
Loughborough University
2015-2024
Large-scale additive manufacturing processes for construction utilise computer-controlled placement of extruded cement-based mortar to create physical objects layer-by-layer. Demonstrated applications include component manufacture and in-situ walls buildings. These vary the constraints on design parameters present different technical issues production process. In this paper, published new work are utilised explore relationship between fresh hardened paste, mortar, concrete material...
Digital Fabrication with Concrete (DFC) encompasses 3D Printing (3DCP) and many other methods of production. DFC is emerging from an era invention demonstration to one where the merits principle over another needs be quantified systematically. technologies vary in characteristics, complexity maturity which hampers synthesis research comparisons performance. The interdependence design geometry, material properties process characteristics well recognised. Materials has made significant...
Small power is a substantial energy end-use in office buildings its own right, but also significantly contributes to internal heat gains. Technological advancements have allowed for higher efficiency computers, yet current working practices are demanding more out of digital equipment. Designers often rely on benchmarks inform predictions small consumption, demand and These date fail account the variability equipment speciation usage patterns different offices. This paper details two models...
Development of a Viable Concrete Printing Process Sungwoo Lim, Richard Buswell, Thanh Le, Rene Wackrow, Simon Austin, Alistair Gibb, Tony Thorpe Pages 665-670 (2011 Proceedings the 28th ISARC, Seoul, Korea, ISBN 978-89-954572-4-5, ISSN 2413-5844) Abstract: A novel process has been developed, inspired and informed by advances in 3D printing, which potential to produce highly customised building components. Whilst still their infancy, these technologies could create new era architecture that...
Around 80% of domestic heat demand in Great Britain (GB) is supplied by natural gas, but continuing to dwellings this way unlikely be compatible with national emission reduction targets. Electrical heating using pumps expected play a significant role future space and hot water provision. The assessment technologies requires knowledge the current for at short time intervals order evaluate peak demands possible storage requirements. Existing half-hourly estimates are built on data from small...
The need for quality control and assurance in 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) is widely recognised. Achieving geometric accuracy to a specified tolerance cornerstone of component-based production assembly. Although published work within the field recognises such issues, these fall short proposing systematic methods evaluate, diagnose, improve, monitor compare system performance. This takes inspiration from test geometry approach readily deployed Additive Manufacturing develops full-scale part...
An approach to identification of evolving fuzzy rule-based (eR) models is proposed. eR implement a method for the noniterative update both rule-base structure and parameters by incremental unsupervised learning. The evolves adding more informative rules than those that previously formed model. In addition, existing can be replaced with new based on ranking using potential data. this way, inherited updated when data become available, rather being completely retrained. adaptive nature these...
To meet net zero carbon targets by 2050s, countries with cold winters, such as Great Britain (GB), will turn to low domestic heating systems electric heat pumps. In this paper, a statistical model is developed using measured performance data from over 550 pumps installed in GB homes 2012. The used predict the additional load on electricity generation and distribution infrastructure for various current future (2050) climates, dwelling energy efficiencies pump deployment scenarios. For year...
3D Concrete printing requires much more elaborate quality control procedures compared to conventional concrete processing. Due the various process steps, and corresponding variation in material behaviour, time-, length-scales, a single indicator measurement technique (similar 'slump test' for traditional construction) cannot be selected. Instead, three families of indicators have been established: homogeneity during production deposition (quality variations), evolution (transient behaviour),...
The UK is currently suffering great overheating issues in summer, especially residential buildings where no air-conditioning has been installed. This will seriously affect people’s comfort and even health, for elderly people. Phase change materials (PCMs) have considered as a useful passive method, which absorb excessive heat when the room hot release stored cool. research adopted simulation method DesignBuilder to evaluate effectiveness of using PCMs reduce applications analyzed potential...
The additive manufacture of parts using extrusion-based techniques such as 3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) offers an alternative to traditional moulding processes. precision which the desired shape can be produced, however, is limited by extrusion process and layer thickness, exacerbated deformation that occurs in wet material during manufacture. Quantifying manufacturing a critical part defining capability quality control procedures, but this has yet explored for these technologies. To address...