Professor Timothy Sharpe
Head Of Department
Architecture
Area of Expertise
Professional Activities
2022 - Chair, Scottish Government Adaptations Advisory Committee
2022 University of Strathclyde / NHS Lanarkshire Strategic Partnership Board
2022 Panel Member, Royal Academy of Engineering Infection Resilient Buildings report
2021 - Member, World Health Organisation High-Level Expert Group on COVID-19
2021 - Expert Panel Member, Cabinet Office Technical Advisory Panel to UK Government Departments
2021 - Invited Expert member, BSi Development Group, BS 40102-1, Health and wellbeing, thermal comfort, indoor air quality and overheating in buildings - Part 1: Health and wellbeing in buildings
2021 - 2022 Chair Scottish Government Covid-19 Ventilation Short Life Working Group
2021 Focus group meeting - HSE evidence report on ventilation
2021 –2022 Chair RIBA Presidents Awards for Research
2021 - Glasgow City Council, Home Energy Retrofit Feasibility Study - Advisory Group
2020 - Member UK Government Science Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) - Environmental and Modelling Group
2019-20 Specialist committee member on the Indoor Air Quality at home Quality Standards Advisory Committee, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Public Health Advisory Committee on Indoor Air Quality
2019 – present Building Regulations Advisory Committee, ventilation and airtightness
2019 – present SAP Industry Forum Group: Home energy Storage (heat and electricity) Working Group (SAPIF - HES)
2018 – present Construction Leadership Council, Innovation in Construction workstream
2018 – present Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) working group The Effects of Indoor Air on Children's Health Across the Lifecourse
2018 – present Member of the British Standards Institute (BSi) retrofit working group, Air Tightness and Ventilation
2017 – present Topic Expert, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Public Health Advisory Committee on Indoor Air Quality
2017 Selected to participate in MRC funded UK-China AMR Workshop, Shanghai, November 2017
2017 – present Judge, Saltire Society Housing Awards
2018 Invited member Scottish Government EESSH Review Phase 2 - subgroup - Innovation and Technology
2016 – present Member UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings, Chair Ventilation sub-group
2014 – present Chair NHBC Scotland Technical Committee
2017 – present NHBC Construction Quality Expert Panel
2016 Evidence to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on ‘Healthy Homes and Housing’
2015 – 2016 Zero Carbon Hub Ventilation Steering Group
2014 – 2017 NHBC Standards Group
2013 – 2015 Invited reviewer Institute for Sustainability
2012 – present Visiting Professor, Guangzhou University
2015 – 2018 Construction Scotland Innovation Centre Technical Advisory Group, Design and Performance Theme
2011 – 2016 Innovate UK Building Performance Evaluator
2011 - 2012 European Association for Architectural Education Research Committee
2006 - 2016 Member AHRC Peer Review College
2007 – 2012 GSA Board of Governors
2009 – 2013 Academic Co-Director Mainstreaming Innovation
2007 – 2009 Common Academic Framework working group
2002 - 2020 Convener and panel member Masters validation panels
1999 - 2016 Academic Council, Glasgow School of Art
Publications
- Ventilation study in contemporary Scottish homes
- Toledo Linda, McGill Grainne, Sharpe Tim
- International Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate
(2024) - Ventilation assessment in GP surgeries during COVID-19 era : a monitoring approach
- Mohamed Sara, Sharpe Tim, Escombe Rod, McGill Grainne
- International Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate
(2024) - Performance of a sensor-based passive ventilation control system in a temperate climate
- McGill Grainne, Mohamed Sara, Sharpe Tim
- International Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate
(2024) - Balancing energy-efficiency and health in retrofitted dwellings to the EnerPHit standard : achieving optimal indoor environmental quality
- Moreno-Rangel Alejandro, Sharpe Tim
- PLEA 2024 WROCŁAW PLEA 2024, pp. 1002-1007 (2024)
- Impact of outdoor air on indoor air quality in urban office environments : a case study from the Royal College building in Glasgow
- Mohamed Sara, Moreno-Rangel Alejandro, Sharpe Tim
- UKIEG Annual Conference 2024, pp. 21 (2024)
- Ventilation provision and use in homes in Great Britain: a national survey
- Van Rooyen Cairan, Sharpe Tim
- Building and Environment Vol 257 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2024.111528
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)
- Chair
- 2022
- Scottish Government (External organisation)
- Member
- 2022
- Royal Academy of Engineering RAE (External organisation)
- Member
- 2022
Projects
- Transformative urban heritage. Strategies for sustainable European housing stock
- Rogerson, Robert (Principal Investigator) Gallou, Eirini (Co-investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jun-2024 - 31-May-2027
- An integrated typology-based approach to guide the future development of European historic buildings towards a clean energy transition (FuturHist)
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McElroy, Lori (Co-investigator) Moreno-Rangel, Alejandro (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Dec-2027
- 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) Williamson, Jack (Researcher)
- 01-May-2023 - 30-Jun-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-Jun-2024
- Research to identify effective ventilation and indoor air quality guidance and practice
- McElroy, Lori (Principal Investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Co-investigator)
- 08-Nov-2021 - 31-Oct-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-Sep-2021 - 31-Jul-2022
Contact
Professor
Timothy
Sharpe
Head Of Department
Architecture
Email: tim.sharpe@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 3014