Professor Lori McElroy
Head Of Department
Architecture
Personal statement
Personal statement
Lori is an engineer with a background spanning the application of simulation in environmental engineering, architecture and sustainable design and has been active in the energy and environment field for over 25 years both in practice and research, working in the private and public sectors. This includes delivery of three state-of-the-art academic/industry collaborative programmes for the UK and Scottish Governments over a period of 20 plus years and the dissemination of this work internationally.
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Prize And Awards
- IBPSA Distinguished Service Award
- Recipient
- 6/9/2023
- Fellowship of the International Building Performance Simulation Association
- Recipient
- 4/9/2019
- Honorary Fellowship of Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
- Recipient
- 15/8/2013
- Member of The Order of The British Empire
- Recipient
- 15/5/2013
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Publications
- A scoping review of the impact of environmental design on wayfinding for people with sensory impairment
- Zali Parastoo, McElroy Lori B, Giardini Mario Ettore, Chaiyawat Kullapat, Watson Mags
- HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867251391361
- Exploring the ambiguity associated with the actual magnitude of the energy performance gap in buildings
- Odeh Khaleel, Parvaz Md, Jakkula Jitendra, de Wilde Pieter, McElroy Lori Barbara
- EG-ICE 2025 EG-ICE 2025: International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00093252
- Human-centred design of healthcare environments : Investigating wayfinding experiences of older people with visual impairments
- Zali Parastoo, Giardini Mario Ettore, McElroy Lori Barbara
- European Healthcare Design 2025 (2025)
- Barriers to healthcare access : A qualitative study of older adults with visual impairment (OAwVI)
- Zali Parastoo, Watson Mags, Giardini Mario Ettore, McElroy Lori Barbara
- 11th Nordic Social Pharmacy Conference (2025)
- Exploring multi-domain simulation workflows for ‘Sustainable cities & communities’ (UN SDG11)
- Bleil de Souza Clarice, McElroy Lori, Pezzica Camilla
- Journal of Building Performance Simulation Vol 18, pp. 247-255 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2024.2442043
- Zero Carbon Neighbourhoods : Creating Non-Complex Information from Complex Data
- Ekdi Fatma Pelin, Kelly Nicolas, McElroy Lori Barbara, McQuillan Jonathan, Sharpe Tim, Statt Rowena
- uSIM2024 (2024)
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Professional Activities
- Low-Carbon Living: Design Pathways for Net Zero Heating in Scottish Homes
- Speaker
- 22/7/2025
- Atmosphere (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 12/7/2025
- Symposium - Healthy, Net Zero Housing and the Role of Digitisation
- Speaker
- 29/4/2025
- Understanding Indoor Environmental Stressors Influence On Neurodivergent Occupants
- External Examiner
- 16/4/2025
- Solar radiation models for building performance simulation in mountain areas: development and empirical validation
- External Examiner
- 16/4/2025
- UNIBZ (Free University of Bolzano)
- Visiting researcher
- 15/4/2025
Projects
- Centre for Net Zero High Density Buildings (UKRI - Accelerating the Green Economy Centres)
- McElroy, Lori (Principal Investigator) Kelly, Nicolas (Co-investigator) Farooq, Muhammad Zaeem (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2028
- Low Carbon Passport Programme
- McElroy, Lori (Principal Investigator) Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- An integrated typology-based approach to guide the future development of European historic buildings towards a clean energy transition (FuturHist)
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) Gonzalez-Longo, Cristina (Co-investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator) Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro (Co-investigator) Farooq, Muhammad Zaeem (Researcher)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2027
- Energy Assessment Tool Development with PropEco and ESRU
- Kelly, Nicolas (Principal Investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator) McGhee, Raheal (Co-investigator)
- 22-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- The Pansophy Cohort: Multidisciplinary solutions to the age-related challenges of pharmaceutical care
- Watson, Margaret (Principal Investigator) Giardini, Mario Ettore (Co-investigator) Lennon, Marilyn (Co-investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2025
- KTP - Anderson, Bell, Christie Ltd. The project will develop a toolkit to incorporate holistic net zero carbon measures into their design process, enabling creation of net zero carbon communities.
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) Kelly, Nicolas (Co-investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2024
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Contact
Professor
Lori
McElroy
Head Of Department
Architecture
Email: lori.mcelroy@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3105