SUE-MOT - Key Persons
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Assistant Principal
- Deputy Vice Chancellor
- Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
- Professor Hardcastle Has Spent Many Years Engaged in Research Directly Linked to the Economic and Process Elements of Construction. in
- Visiting Professor to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
Professor Cliff Hardcastle is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Teesside. Before that he was Assistant Principal (Knowledge Transfer And Commercial Development) and Dean of the School of the Built and Natural Environment at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is also Visiting Professor to the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. Professor Hardcastle is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Building in Scotland.
Professor Hardcastle has spent many years engaged in research directly linked to the economic and process elements of construction. In more recent years this work has concentrated on risk mechanisms associated with the Private Finance Initiative, approaches to procurement and now sustainability modelling
He has generated research and enterprise funding to a value of over £5 Million pounds. He has over 100 publications and has been a keynote and invited speaker to conferences in the USA, China, Hong Kong, Brazil, Malaysia and Russia. Formerly a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College he has been a referee for research councils in the UK, South Africa and Hong Kong.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
Fahmida Khandokar was graduated in Urban and Regional Planning. Following her graduation she worked as a Researcher on a collaborative project funded by the Irish Environmental Agency at the Centre for Hydrology, Micrometeorology and Climate Change, University College Cork, Ireland, from where she obtained her master degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Since then she worked for different voluntary and government organisations in the UK and acquired a wide range of skills and experiences related to sustainable urban development. Prior to joining Loughborough as a Research Associate in the SUE-MoT team, she worked as a Planning Officer at Lancashire County Council for more than two years focussing on urban sustainability assessment and information management.
James is a software developer working on the SUE-MoT project. He has a BA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge (2002).
With interests in server design and performance, security, and a background in Java and C programming, James brings a wealth of computing experience to the SUE-MoT team.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Architect and Founder of SustainableBYDesign
Lynne Sullivan is a practising Architect and founder of SustainableBYDesign, an architecture and design practice born out of the design arm of Inbuilt which she joined as Design Director in 2008. For nine years previously Lynne was Sustainability Director at Broadway Malyan, one of the top 25 architecture practices in the world, where her work included acting as project architect for a new community in Dartford, a finalist in the 2007 Housing Design Awards, and for the shortlisted Zero Carbon competitions at Gallions Park 2006 and the 2007 Hanham Hall Zero Carbon Challenge for client Taylor Wimpey.
Her previous award-winning projects include the low-energy International Building, Royal Holloway College, winner of an RIBA Regional Design Award in 1999 and the RIBA/DETR 1999 Zero CO2 Housing Competition, as co-author of the winning entry, whilst at ECD Architects. Lynne has authored and delivered many papers on the subject of sustainable design, and contributes numerous technical and design review articles to the architectural press.
Lynne has a unique reputation in her contribution to policy and strategy for the sustainable built environment, which includes being the only architect on the Governments 2004-5 Sustainable Buildings Taskgroup, being a Member of the Governments Building Regulations Advisory Committee since 2002, and chairing the Expert Panel for the Scottish government whose report "A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland" was published in 2007. Lynne is a member of the RIBAs Climate Change Programme Board, is an Architectural Adviser to the RIBA Competitions Office, and sits on the National Design Review Panel of the Design Commission for Wales.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Director of Development and Property Services at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Nigel Ingram has been the Director of Development and Property Services at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust for the past five years, with responsibility for its extensive Property Portfolio - both existing and ‘proposed'. Nigel is lead director on the development and implementation of JRF's Sustainability policy, he is involved in key demonstration and influencing activities around the Built Environment including the promotion of Best Practice in Design and Construction, particularly environmental sustainability - focussing on practical research and collaboration. These activities are in parallel to Nigel leading on the development of a 540-unit mixed tenure community in East York, known as Derwenthorpe, containing ambitious community heating, water recycling and travel objectives.
Prior to JRF, Nigel worked at the Places for People Group as Managing Director of its Housing for Sale subsidiary company - Emblem Homes. Positions were also held with Mansell and Bovis Construction in the late 1980s, prior to joining the Notting Hill Housing Group in 1991. Nigel sits on the SUE-MoT Steering Committee.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
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- Co - Investigator / Work Package 1 / Work Package 4 / Work Package 6
Peter joined the Glasgow Caledonian University in 1990 as a Senior Lecturer, with responsibility for Construction Management within the School of the Built and Natural Environment. He is now Associate Dean, with responsibility for Marketing and Income Generation.
Peter is past Chairman of the Scottish Branch of the Chartered Institute of Building and has served on the National Council and Membership Board of the CIOB. His research interests include construction conflict and dispute resolution. He established the Adjudication Reporting Centre in 1998 to monitor trends within the field of construction adjudication following the Housing Grants, Regeneration and Construction Act coming into force. This centre is highly regarded as the UK's only authoritative research centre for adjudication. Peter travelled to New Zealand recently to advise New Zealand Government ministers and lawyers about their proposals on the introduction of statutory adjudication.
Peter has received EPSRC grants to study best practice in Alternative Dispute Resolution in USA, Canada, Australia and Hong Kong and, jointly with Dave Langford of University of Strathclyde, a major research project, investigating the sources, causes and effects of conflict in the UK construction industry. To gain a better understanding of the legal implications of construction disputes, Peter recently completed an LLM in Construction Law.
Peter leads the school's development in web-based distance learning and has received substantial funding from the Construction Industry Training Board and the NHS in Scotland.
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- Member of the Steering Committee
- Co - Investigator / Work Package 1 / Work Package 4 / Work Package 6
- Member of the Board of the International Association for Urban Climate
Rohinton Emmanuel recently joined the School of the Built and Natural Environment of the Glasgow Caledonian University as a Reader in Sustainable Design and Construction. Prior to this appointment, Rohinton was a Professor of Architecture at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and his research, teaching and service focus is on the urban heat island effect, its energy, thermal comfort and quality-of-life consequences and its adaptation/mitigation using urban design and planning strategies. As an Architect with urban design interests, he has pioneered the inquiry of urban climate change in tropical cities and has taught and consulted on climate and environment sensitive design and urban transportation planning.
Rohinton is an elected member of the Board of the International Association for Urban Climate and is a member of the Expert Team on Urban and Building Climatology (ET 4.2) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He has consulted widely in the areas of building energy efficiency, thermal comfort, urban air quality and urban transport planning. He has also worked as a green building consultant (LEED certification) in Sri Lanka.
Rohinton has managed large external grants, including a World Bank-funded five-year, USD 3.5 million grant to improve the quality and relevance of undergraduate educational programs and has authored over 50 research papers and three books - most recently An Urban Approach to Climate Sensitive Design: Strategies for the Tropics, (Taylor & Francis, London, 2005).
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- Professor of Structural Engineering
Simon Austin is Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University, one of the leading research centres in the built environment. He is also founder director of Adept Management, a specialist management consultancy to leading companies in construction and other sectors. Prior to this he worked for Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick & Partners and Tarmac Construction. He has undertaken industry-focused research for over 25 years into design processes, modelling, integrated working and management techniques, information management, process re-engineering, value management and structural materials and their design.
Toby is a software developer working on the SUE-MoT project. He has a BSc(Hons) in Computational Science from the University of St Andrews (1993), and an MSc in Interactive Computing System Design from Loughborough University (1994). Toby is a Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS) and a Chartered IT Professional (CITP).
With a career including writing computer games, developing psychometric analysis software and building e-commerce web sites, Toby has interests in many areas of computing.