Professor Timothy Sharpe

Publications

Net zero retrofit and the indoor environment : the Glasgow Tenements case study

Moreno-Rangel Alejandro, Sharpe Tim

UK IEG annual conference 2023 (2023)

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

Strathclyde Pandemic Research Journeys : Personal Accounts of Research During the Covid Period

Sutter Jens, Morton Alec, Maguire Roma, Littlejohn David, Allan Grant, Cogan Nicola, Combe Malcolm, Corrigan Damion, Cooper Benjamin, Egan Kieren, Flowers Paul, Grez Hidalgo Pablo, Inns Tom, Janssen Xanne, Kleczkowski Adam, MacBryde Jillian, Reilly Grant, Megiddo Itamar, Mwaura Samuel, Sharpe Tim, Sambajee Pratima, Suckling Colin, Carver Mark

(2022)

https://doi.org/10.17868/strath.00083221

Research in practice : a call to arms

Sharpe Tim, Iossifova Deljana, Bernath Doreen

Journal of Architecture Vol 27, pp. 635-638 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2022.2159658

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

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Research Interests

• PI Knowledge Transfer Partnership - Anderson Bell Christie Architects. Community Carbon - Zero Carbon Neighbourhood tools, Innovate UK £243383 +
• PI Identify effective ventilation guidance and practice to mitigate airborne viruses in new build non-domestic buildings. Scottish Government Building Standards Division, £10k+
• CI Renfrewshire Town Centres Climate Resilience Programme, Phase 1, ERZ £2.5k
• CI SBRI Innovation Funding, Smarter Home Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System, SBRI: FamilyAIR : Personalised, Actionable Air Quality Monitoring for the Entire Family, phase 2, Filament Ltd, £ 298,338+
• CI SBRI Innovation Funding, Smarter Home Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System, SBRI: Monitor and visualise domestic pollution to safeguard health, phase 2, Applied Nanodetectors, £297,594 +
• CI SBRI Monitor and visualise domestic pollution to safeguard health, Phase 2, Measure, inform, nudge: an integrated, human-centric air quality measurement and visualisation system, arbnco, £299257+
• PI Research to identify if changes to guidance in Standard 3.14 Ventilation in 2015 have been effective in improving ventilation and indoor air quality, Scottish Government Building Standards Division, £35k+
• PI National Core Study, PROTECT: Theme 2, WP 2.3 – Environmental monitoring. Health and Safety Executive Phase 1 £107k+, Phase 2 £241554
• PI National Energy Foundation, SuperHomes Retrofit rating scoping exercise, Innovate UK, Microgeneration Certification Scheme £12k#
• PI VELUX ACTIVE Indoor climate control, Velux £25k#
• CI Breathing City: Future Urban Ventilation Network. NERC NE/V002082/1 £499k*
• CI Evaluating Options and Outcomes in The Retrofit of pre-1919 Glasgow Tenement Housing: A Demonstration Project, SFC £250k +
• CI Improving housing management leading to improved health outcomes, Leeds City Council, GovTech, SBRI, Innovate UK, £50k +
• PI Health Effects of Modern Airtight Construction: Follow-on funding. AHRC AH/S010467/1 £87k*
• PI Knowledge Transfer Partnership, John Gilbert Architects, Development of the ‘Passivhoos’ concept. Innovate UK, £272 +
• PI Ability of decentralised mechanical ventilation to act as ‘whole-house’ ventilation systems in new-build dwellings; Building Standards Directorate, Scottish Government, £30k +
• PI Influence of ventilation design on the prevalence of anti-microbial bacteria in homes. AHRC AH/R00207X/1. £250k *
• PI Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Cartwright Pickard Architects, to develop innovative tools for applying building information modelling (BIM) and building performance evaluation (BPE) for application within the build to rent market. £221k +
• PI Gannochy Trust for BPE project investigating health and ventilation design in a new-build housing scheme for the Gannochy Trust in Perth, Gannochy Trust and Construction Scotland Innovation Centre. £36k #
• PI Greendykes - Alternative ventilation strategies for flats, part funded from EDC and Construction Scotland Innovation Centre £27 k#
• Organising and Scientific Committee of Passive and Low Energy Architecture international conference Edinburgh, Forum Leader, Building Performance Evaluation
• PI Health effects of modern airtight construction AHRC AH/N006607/1 £52k *
• CI Fabric Integrated Thermal Storage in Low Carbon Dwellings (FITS-LCD) EP/N021479/1, EPSRC £1.22m * 
• PI Knowledge Transfer Partnership, John Gilbert Architects, Building Performance Evaluation of existing dwellings £168k + A rated. +
• PI Designing and monitoring energy performance in house designs, Dualchas £15k #
• CI Sam Foster Architects: Building Performance Evaluation £5k #
• PI, Research project –  To investigate occupier influence on indoor air quality in dwellings, Building Standards Directorate, Scottish Government, £40k +
• PI Building Performance Evaluation study, Glasgow House follow-on projects, Wheatley Group £10k #
• CI, Building Performance Evaluation Scoping Study, Verco Ltd., £3.5k #
• Organiser and chair conference ‘Building Performance Evaluation – Why and How?’, Glasgow Feb 2013-02-06
• PI meta-study of MVHR systems in new housing, funded by the Technology Strategy Board £50k +
• Conference Organiser and Chair, ‘Building Tight, Ventilating Right?’ Air Quality in Housing 2nd February 2012
• PI Dormont Park Passivhaus Building Performance Evaluation for Dormont Estate funded by the Technology Strategy Board £63k +
• PI, SFC Innovation Voucher  - Dormont Estate Passivhaus Zero Carbon Assessment £5k #
• PI Murray Place Performance Evaluation for Hanover Scotland Housing Association funded by the Technology Strategy Board £62k +
• PI Knowledge Transfer Partnership, Cartwright Pickard Architects, Building Performance Evaluation 2012 £130k +
• PI Highland Expo Phase 2 Building Performance Evaluation, for Architecture and Design Scotland/Scottish Government, funded by Technology Strategy Board £150k 2011 +
• PI The Glasgow House Phase 1 Building Performance Evaluation, for Glasgow Housing Association funded by Technology Strategy Board £47k 2011 +
• PI Bloom Court Building Performance Evaluation, Energy Conscious Design, funded by Technology Strategy Board £27k 2011 +
• CI Ti-Na-Cladich Building Performance Evaluation, Fyne Initiatives funded by Technology Strategy Board Building £55k 2011 +
• PI Sunshine, Health and Wellbeing in Housing. AHRC/SFC Knowledge Exchange Programme – competition: A call for proposals on health, the environment and the arts and humanities - A healthier Scotland £52k 2010 *
• Expert Evaluator, Technology Strategy Board, Building Performance Evaluation programme £8m, 4 year programme, 42k p.a. +
• PI, PassivTen: Developing options for refurbishment of tenement properties in Glasgow's East End to Passivhaus standard £18k 2011 #
• Renewable Energy Systems on Buildings, Springer Verlag London Ltd
• PI, A research project to develop guidance for occupiers on how to live in a low carbon home – Scottish Government Building Standard Directorate £10k 2011 +
• Journal Paper Reviews: Journal Peer Review: Indoor and Built Environment;  Building Research and Information; Science of the Total Environment;  Energies — Open Access Journal of Energy Research, Engineering and Policy;  Energy and Buildings;  Building Services Engineering Research and Technology; Sustainability; Environmental Research Letters; Journal of Energy and Power; Ain Shams Engineering Journal; Building and Environment; Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development ; Journal of Building Pathology and Refurbishment; Intelligent Buildings International; Remote Sensing.
• Expert Reviewer on a Research Grant submitted to the cross-council Lifelong Health and Wellbeing - Phase 3 call Medical Research Council 2010, Carnegie Trust 2015.
• Book review: Fundamental Building Technology (2nd edition), Spon Press 2010
• Book review: Lessons from the Workshop: A Designer’s Primer of Materials and Making, Routledge 2010
• PI The Glasgow House Post Occupancy Evaluation – PoE and analysis of low energy public housing £5k 2010 #
• Academic Director CICStart online LUPS/ERDF/2008/2/1/0237 (£959k) 2009 – 2012 +
• PI 9-11 Gilmour's close - comparing theoretical performance of a suite of sustainable installations in the building against their actual performance £5k 2011 #
• PI Glasgow Housing Association design advice on the Glasgow House £22k 2010 #
• PI Development of Post Occupancy Evaluation for evaluation of innovative low carbon social housing projects, CICStart feasibility Study £5k 2010 #
• PI Enkelt Simple Living CICStart feasibility Study £5k 2010 #
• CI and research developer EPSRC funded project  “Environmental assessment of domestic laundering” £522k 2009 – 2011 EP/G00028X/1 *
• PI CROSSFLEX. Building Integrated Wind Turbine concept development, in conjunction with Proven Engineering Ltd, funded by SMART (Scottish Executive 70k) 2009 #
• PI Wyndford energy Efficiency Project. Feasibility Study into energy efficient upgrading of 1800 dwellings on the Wyndford Estate, for CUBE Housing Association. 35k 2009 #
• PI Sheeps Wool Feasibility Study. Successful KTTBE funding award for a feasibility study into the use of blown sheep’s wool as an insulation material, for Alan Polkinghorne Associates. 5k 2008 #
• CI on successful AHRC funding application “Scoping study as the basis for more detailed research into wider social participation in the architectural design process”  80k 2008 *
• Successful KTTBE funding award for a feasibility study into the energy use of wind turbines on a multi-storey housing block in Clydebank 5k 2007 #
• •Member organising committee for  Eurosun 2006, Glasgow, international solar conference (venue Glasgow Caledonian University) via the SSEG (Scottish Solar Energy Group), SES, UK (Solar Energy Society) and ISES-Europe (International Solar Energy Society).
• PI Dundasvale Court environmental Assessment, Examination of constructional problems for high-rise flats for Glasgow Housing Association 2006 £15k
• Newberry Tower Wind Turbine. Project to install and monitor wind turbine on campus building, funded by Scottish Power Green Energy Trust, Glasgow City Council. £25k
• BTS Phase 1. Low level monitoring programme of community heating system in rehabilitated tenement building for Govan Housing Association, funded by the Lighthouse.
• SAP SURVEY FOR COMMUNITIES SCOTLAND, Low level monitoring program that aims  to validate theoretical SAP calculations against performance data.
• Building Integrated Wind Turbines – studies into feasibility of building integrated wind energy funded by BRECSU and GCC
• SAP+ funded research into the development of the Standard Assessment Procedure energy model
• Glazed roof preheat spaces – an investigation into their contribution to energy efficiency. A project to evaluate the use of glazed roofs as pre-heat spaces in domestic construction. Funded by Energy Action Scotland, Project built by Dumbritton Housing Association
• An evaluation of CAD as a method for enabling user participation in housing design. Research Funded by Scottish Homes to investigate the current use of participation in design and the potential of CAD to act as a participatory method.
• Scottish BREDEM. In conjunction with the BRE and funded by right to warmth, a project to develop a spreadsheet version of the BREDEM and SAP methodology.
• T84 Feasibility Study GCC. Commissioned by Glasgow City Council to undertake feasibility study and EU Thermie submission for solar thermal upgrading of T84 housing blocks in Glasgow
• Priesthill Housing. Consultancy to Glasgow City Council Property Services for new-build housing – advice on energy efficient improvements and participatory development of proposals.
• Building Health in Glasgow. Exhibition Commissioned by The Department of Public Health, Glasgow University

Professional Activities

UK Government Advisory group (Event)

Member

2023

University of Strathclyde / NHS Lanarkshire Strategic Partnership Board (Event)

Member

2022

NHS Scotland (External organisation)

Advisor

2022

Scottish Government (External organisation)

Member

2022

Scottish Government (External organisation)

Chair

2022

Royal Academy of Engineering RAE (External organisation)

Member

2022

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Projects

ICLEI Europe: Glasgow Environmental Monitoring of Indoor and Outdoor Air (GEMINOA)

Michie, Craig (Principal Investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2025

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

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

Research to identify effective ventilation and indoor air quality guidance and practice

McElroy, Lori (Principal Investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Co-investigator)

08-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022

FamilyAIR : Personalised, Actionable Air Quality Monitoring for the Entire Family

Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator)

Suncontract on SBRI phase 2 Bid - agreed on stanard UoS terms

01-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022

Smarter Home Indoor Air Quality Monitoring System

Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator)

Subcontract on SBRI phase 2 Bid - agreed on standartd UoS terms

01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2022

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