Expertise
Has expertise in:
- Advanced buildings and building systems
- Comfort and behaviour of people in buildings
- Smart sustainable communities
- Low and zero carbon technologies
- Integration of Storage in Low Carbon Buildings and Districts
- Design support, performance analysis, modelling, monitoring and POE
- Renewables
- Building regulations
- Ecovillages
- Passive House Design
- Energy Systems
Qualifications
PhD Thesis: Strategies for low carbon buildings: Assessment of design options and translation of design intent into performance in practice. University of Strathclyde, 2013.
MSc: Energy Systems and the Environment. Thesis: Sustainable Housing. University of Strathclyde. 2004.
MSc: Design and Manufacture of Microelectronic Systems. Thesis: Realistic worsts cast parameter sets for circuit simulation. University of Edinburgh. 1986.
BSc Hons. Applied Physics. University of Strathclyde. 1983.
Research interests
- Impact of occupant comfort and behaviour on energy use.
- Renewable energy integration in buildings, communities and micro-grids.
- Integration of Energy Storage in Low Carbon Buildings and Districts.
- Future building performance, standards and regulations.
- Building industry design process and zero defect performance in practice.
- Building and systems performance simulation.
- Buildings, systems and controls optimisation.
- Passive buildings, EU Passivhaus standards.
- Model Predictive Control of Solar Thermal Systems.
- Microelectronic systems.
Professional activities
- 100% Renewable Energy Systems Masterplanning and Modelling for the £24.5M East Ayrshire Growth Deal 'National Energy Research Demonstrator (NERD)'
- Speaker
- 24/11/2019
- Absurdity of Biofuels and the 100% Renewable Future Energy System
- Speaker
- 29/4/2019
- Social Innovation Systems for Building Resilient Communities
- Speaker
- 16/6/2017
More professional activities
Projects
- GigaWattHour Subsurface Thermal Energy storAge: Engineered structures and legacy Mine shafts: STEaM
- Shipton, Zoe (Principal Investigator) Burnside, Neil (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Yang, Shangtong (Co-investigator) Johnson, Gareth (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2024
- Assessment of long and short term thermal energy storage in flooded coal mines
- Burnside, Neil (Principal Investigator) Dempster, William (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator) Whittington, Daniel (Post Grad Student)
- 01-Jan-2021 - 30-Jan-2025
- Environmental monitoring: National Core Transmission Study (Phase 2)
- 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)
- Scottish Governement Tender response (consultancyu services)
- 18-Jan-2021 - 26-Jan-2022
- National Core Study: Covid Transmission (Building a resilient future by understanding the environmental and transmission risk factors related to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid 19)
- Sharpe, Tim (Principal Investigator) McGill, Grainne (Co-investigator) Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2021
- SIES 2022: Smart Integrated Energy Systems: Enhanced Virtual Power Plant VPP+ Energy Pool Intergration for Local and Regional Resistance
- Tuohy, Paul Gerard (Principal Investigator) Burt, Graeme (Co-investigator) Kockar, Ivana (Co-investigator)
- 14-Jan-2019 - 14-Jan-2022
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