Application closing date 29 March 2013, employment start date 6 May 2013
Technologies for Sustainable Built Environments
University of Reading
This dynamic and broad skilled project will investigate how people do/don’t engage with energy consumption/efficiency, through people-centred, ICT based, energy efficiency techniques, using buildings on the campus of the University of Reading as test-beds. There is increasingly strong evidence of the major carbon saving potential of energy monitoring and management, based on latest ICT and control technologies, which integrate holistically the optimisation of building energy systems and the engagement of users in the facilities management process. This project will evaluate monitored energy data for the diverse campus buildings, against the interaction of activity in buildings, to understand real-time efficiencies and energy consumption. It is envisaged that this EngD will contribute substantially to the University’s Carbon reduction target across campus as well as generate new understanding and insights of a campus community model.
This new project is the collaboration between the Technologies for Sustainable Built Environments Centre and the University of Reading Environment, Energy and Sustainable Travel (EEST) Team. The academic supervision will be guided by Professor Li Shao, Professor in Sustainable Technologies for the Built Environment for the School of Construction Management and Engineering and Dr Phil Beaman, Associate Professor in Cognitive Psychology, School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences.
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More information here. Interviews will be held in April for a proposed start date in May.
