Buildings are complex, dynamic, socio-technical systems seeking to provide solutions to a multitude of sometimes ill-defined and conflicting design issues.
The transition from prescriptive to performance based building regulations, significantly reduced time available for building design due to economic pressures, and legislative requirements to reduce carbon emission have all resulted in the increased interest in the development and application of state-of-the-art building performance modelling and monitoring techniques. Find out more about these methods in the Research Methods section of our website.
Through our research we aim to improve the design, operation and environmental quality of buildings. We do this by providing timely, impartial information on design techniques and building technologies as well as developing novel engineering tools to help industry deliver truly sustainable buildings. We also work with the Government through DECC, DCLG, DfE, EFA and professional bodies such as CIBSE, IFMA, BIFM, RICS, to support the development of effective policies and programmes related to building performance and processes.
We have developed methodologies for assessing the energy consumed by lighting in buildings and this work has been included in the European Standard on lighting energy use the supports the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. Our work in this area has supported the development of Part L and Part F of Building Regulations and provided basis for the development of industry good engineering practice guides such as CIBSE TM57 on Integrated School Design.
Building Performance and Processes builds on a substantial portfolio of prior work supported by EPSRC, the European Union, TSB, ETI, KTP and industry. Our research in this area falls into four categories. Click on the links below to view the live projects in each category.
- Building Forensics & Diagnostics
- Energy Epidemiology
- Building Information Modelling (BIM)
- Innovation in Facilities Management
Click on the links below to view the projects under this theme.
- TOP (‘The Total Performance of Low Carbon Buildings in China and the UK’)
- HCP UCL FM Service Improvement and Innovation Programme (SIIP)
- RCUK Centre for Energy Epidemiology: The Study of Energy Demand in a Population
- The Development of the HVAC Product Data Templates Suitable for 5D BIM software platforms
- UCL Sustainable FM Healthcare Programme (SUHP)
- Residential Energy Use In Oman: A Scoping Study
- Exploring BIM data throughout the Building Life Cycle
- Building Performance and Decision Making Research Programme (2013-2018)
- Air PermeAbility: Cities Health Energy (APACHE)
- Annex 55 Reliability of Energy Efficient Building Retrofitting - Probability Assessment of Performance & Cost (RAP-RETRO)
- One Brighton Building Performance Evaluation in Use Monitoring
- Emerging TOGETHER Science for Efficient Buildings project
- AEDAS UCL School Building Design and Performance Research Programme (2010-2015)
- Smart Systems and Heat: Consumer Response and Behaviour (CRaB)
- FCBS UCL Educational Building Design and Performance Research Programme (2010-2015)
- Micro Distributed Energy (Micro-DE)
- Centenary Quay Monitoring project
- AMA Alexi Marmot Associates KTP
- Energy Consumption In Office Buildings
- Ventilation in Schools
- Investigation of Ventilation Effectiveness
- Energy Consumption In Office Buildings
- Relative Humidity in Dwellings
- RBS Workplace Innovation Centre
- Condensation Risk – Impact of Improvements to Part L and Robust Details on Part C
- Impact of Replacement Windows on IAQ of Occupied Dwellings
- Evaluation of Unventilated Pitched Roofs with Vapour Permeable Membrane
- Field trials of pressure and humidity controlled ventilators