
Dr Grainne McGill
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Architecture
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Indoor air quality and thermal environment assessment of Scottish homes with different building fabrics Moreno-Rangel Alejandro, Sharpe Tim, McGill Grainne, Musau Filbert Buildings Vol 13 (2023) https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13061518 Thermal comfort assessment of the first residential Passivhaus in Latin America Moreno-Rangel Alejandro, Sharpe Tim, McGill Gráinne, Musau Filbert Journal of Building Engineering Vol 43 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2021.103081 Indoor air quality assessment of Latin America's first Passivhaus home Moreno-Rangel Alejandro, Musau Filbert, Sharpe Tim, McGill Gráinne Atmosphere Vol 12 (2021) https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12111477 COVID-19, asthma, and return to school Abrams Elissa M, McGill Gráinne, Bhopal Sunil S, Sinha Ian, Fernandes Ricardo M The Lancet Vol 8, pp. 847-849 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(20)30353-2 Influence of ventilation use and occupant behaviour on surface microorganisms in contemporary social housing Sharpe T, McGill G, Dancer S J, King M-F, Fletcher L, Noakes C J Scientific Reports Vol 10 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68809-2 Indoor air quality in Passivhaus dwellings : a literature review Moreno-Rangel Alejandro, Sharpe Tim, McGill Gráinne, Musau Filbert International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol 17 (2020) https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134749
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Institute of Air Quality Management (Publisher) Peer reviewer 6/2021 Frontiers in Built Environment (Journal) Editorial board member 2021 Intelligent Buildings International (Journal) Editorial board member 26/8/2020 Building and Environment (Journal) Peer reviewer 21/8/2020 International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) Building Simulation Conference 2021 (Event) Peer reviewer 1/8/2020 Sustainability (Journal) Peer reviewer 7/7/2020
Strathclyde Centre for Doctoral Training: Energy-efficient Indoor Climate Control for Optimised Health McGill, Grainne (Principal Investigator) Tse, Dwight (Principal Investigator) Waites, William (Principal Investigator) Toledo, Linda (Principal Investigator) Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro (Principal Investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) Dragojlovic-Oliveira, Sonja (Principal Investigator) This SCDT will provide three fully-funded PhD students with a world-class interdisciplinary research and training programme to bridge the net-zero design and construction skills gap whilst providing specialist skills in human-centric smart building design and digitisation for optimised health and resilience.
The increased risk of overheating, poor indoor air quality (IAQ) and inadequate ventilation in energy-efficient and/or net-zero buildings is now well evidenced, including the increasing gap between design expectations and energy performance, which is highly influenced by human behaviour. This CDT will train future innovators and leaders that can drive the transition to a healthy and energy-efficient built environment. The training will be led by experts in net-zero design, indoor air quality, building resilience, human behaviour and data analytics. Each project will be co-supervised by staff from different disciplines and all projects will involve industry partners and/or clinical advisors, to ensure that the research explored is based on an area of industry/clinical need.
The centre will provide highly-skilled future experts and leaders to tackle the challenges of delivering net-zero buildings that are human-oriented and optimise health. The CDT will deliver emerging multidisciplinary research endeavours by working across the departments of Architecture, Psychology and CIS, to decarbonise the built environment while providing a healthy and comfortable indoor environment.
SCDT students will become part of a growing PGR cohort, benefiting from peer-to-peer learning and an inclusive research culture. Opportunities will be provided to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders (such as clinicians, industry specialists and the public), through internships/placements, personal development and specialist training, networking and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Successful candidates will be trained in writing manuscripts for publication in scientific journals, and strongly supported and encouraged to apply to external funding (such as travel grants), where appropriate. As part of the PhD programme, the candidate will be registered on the PGCert in Researcher Development. This is a 60-credit qualification covering personal effectiveness, governance, organisation, engagement, impact, and intellectual abilities, running in tandem with the PhD programme.
Candidates are expected to proactively take ownership of their project and creatively contribute to shaping it. We are seeking future leaders to develop knowledge and expertise required to address future challenges in the following three areas:
1. Linking indoor pollutant exposure and climate conditions with physical and psychological health outcomes,
2. Technological solutions for energy-efficient indoor climate control,
3. Understanding and analysis of psychological and behavioural factors that affect exposure indoors. 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2026 Research to identify if changes to guidance in standard 3.14 ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality Howieson, Stirling (Co-investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Principal Investigator) The 2015 regulations required all new dwellings to have CO2 monitors installed to alert the occupants to poor indoor air quality that would encourage them to open windows and provide purge ventilation. 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2023 Measure, inform, nudge: an integrated, human-centric air quality measurement and visualisation system Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Researcher) SBRI Phase 2 Project - follow on from RKES 201683 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022 Monitor and visualise domestic pollution to safeguard health (Phase 2) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2022 Environmental monitoring: National Core Transmission Study (Phase 1-3) Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2023 Research to identify if changes to guidance in Standard 3.14 Ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) Howieson, Stirling (Co-investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Toledo, Linda (Researcher) Scottish Governement Tender response (consultancyu services) 18-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2024
Professional Activities
Projects
The increased risk of overheating, poor indoor air quality (IAQ) and inadequate ventilation in energy-efficient and/or net-zero buildings is now well evidenced, including the increasing gap between design expectations and energy performance, which is highly influenced by human behaviour. This CDT will train future innovators and leaders that can drive the transition to a healthy and energy-efficient built environment. The training will be led by experts in net-zero design, indoor air quality, building resilience, human behaviour and data analytics. Each project will be co-supervised by staff from different disciplines and all projects will involve industry partners and/or clinical advisors, to ensure that the research explored is based on an area of industry/clinical need.
The centre will provide highly-skilled future experts and leaders to tackle the challenges of delivering net-zero buildings that are human-oriented and optimise health. The CDT will deliver emerging multidisciplinary research endeavours by working across the departments of Architecture, Psychology and CIS, to decarbonise the built environment while providing a healthy and comfortable indoor environment.
SCDT students will become part of a growing PGR cohort, benefiting from peer-to-peer learning and an inclusive research culture. Opportunities will be provided to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders (such as clinicians, industry specialists and the public), through internships/placements, personal development and specialist training, networking and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Successful candidates will be trained in writing manuscripts for publication in scientific journals, and strongly supported and encouraged to apply to external funding (such as travel grants), where appropriate. As part of the PhD programme, the candidate will be registered on the PGCert in Researcher Development. This is a 60-credit qualification covering personal effectiveness, governance, organisation, engagement, impact, and intellectual abilities, running in tandem with the PhD programme.
Candidates are expected to proactively take ownership of their project and creatively contribute to shaping it. We are seeking future leaders to develop knowledge and expertise required to address future challenges in the following three areas:
1. Linking indoor pollutant exposure and climate conditions with physical and psychological health outcomes,
2. Technological solutions for energy-efficient indoor climate control,
3. Understanding and analysis of psychological and behavioural factors that affect exposure indoors.
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Dr
Grainne
McGill
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow
Architecture
Email: grainne.mcgill@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted