Professor John R Littlewood

Overview

I am Professor of Sustainable and Resilient Buildings, the Lead for CSAD's Sustainable and Resilient Bult Environment research group, part of the University's Human Centred Design Global Academy. I am CSAD's Professional Doctorate Coordinator for the Art & Design Practice, DEng and DSBE pathways. I am acting Deputy Chair for CSAD's Research Degree Committee, and a member of CSAD's Research Ethics Committee, and Research and Innovation Committee. Plus, I am a member of the university's Research Degree Group (RDG) and the RDG Assessment and Unfair Practice Review Committee.

I am a multi-disciplinary Engineering practioner undertaking change management, research, and innovation projects in Architecture, the Built Environment and Engineering. I am a Chartered Building Engineer and I hold a Ph.D. in Building Performance Assessment of Nearly-Zero Operational Energy Dwellings, undertaken in collaboration with Gwalia Housing Association (Pobl) and co-funded by the Ecology Building Society. Indeed, I strove to work with industry, stakeholders, and society as soon I commenced my PhD, to solve technical problems (often before industry and partners are aware of them) and as such have been in-part funded by industry/government agencies since 1997.

I foundered and I have led the first research group dedicated to Architecture, the Built Environment and Engineering at Cardiff Met since 2009, named the Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment Research group, with membership from four of the five schools.

My change management, innovation, and research expertise has been externally focused since the mid 1990's, leading 50 external successful grant applications, to deliver impact for a range of government agencies, housing organisations, consultants, building contractors and material manufacturers in north America, the middle east, and the UK. In particular I have developed multiple interventions to assess qualitatively and quantitively and to optimise the performance of new or existing dwellings during design, manufacture, adaptation and retrofit, construction, commissioning and also operation to maximise user comfort, indoor air quality and quality of life and reduce embodied and operational carbon emissions.

I have advised organisations in the design, testing, manufacture and installation of innovative and natural materials to deliver sustainable and resilient buildings.

For CSAD, I lead on three Professional Doctorate pathways in Art & Design Practice: Research CSAD DProf (cardiffmet.ac.uk), Engineering: Research CSAD DEng (cardiffmet.ac.uk), and Sustainable Built Environment: Research CSAD DSBE (cardiffmet.ac.uk).

Since 2010 I have undertaken numerous roles for KES International, including for the Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB) International conference, founding the G01 General Track in Sustainable and Resilient Buildings. I have been the SEB General Chair in 2014, and from 2017 to date. In 2020 I was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to KES Award for “acting as KES Champion for Sustainable Building, providing support for Sustainability in Energy and Buildings Conference Series for a decade including chairing the conference several times, giving a keynote talk, chairing Tracks and Invited Sessions. Plus, acting Co-Editor of the KES Springer Book Series on, and one of the founding co-editors of the Springer book series 'Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology'".

I am happy and keen to collaborate locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally and across cultures.

I am Professor of Sustainable and Resilient Buildings, the Lead for CSAD's Sustainable and Resilient Bult Environment research group, part of the University's Human Centred Design Global Academy. I am CSAD's Professional Doctorate Coordinator for the Art & Design Practice, DEng and DSBE pathways. I am acting Deputy Chair for CSAD's Research Degree Committee, and a member of CSAD's Research Ethics Committee, and Research and Innovation Committee. Plus, I am a member of the university's Research Degree Group (RDG) and the RDG Assessment and Unfair Practice Review Committee.

I am a multi-disciplinary Engineering practioner undertaking change management, research, and innovation projects in Architecture, the Built Environment and Engineering. I am a Chartered Building Engineer and I hold a Ph.D. in Building Performance Assessment of Nearly-Zero Operational Energy Dwellings, undertaken in collaboration with Gwalia Housing Association (Pobl) and co-funded by the Ecology Building Society. Indeed, I strove to work with industry, stakeholders, and society as soon I commenced my PhD, to solve technical problems (often before industry and partners are aware of them) and as such have been in-part funded by industry/government agencies since 1997.

I foundered and I have led the first research group dedicated to Architecture, the Built Environment and Engineering at Cardiff Met since 2009, named the Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment Research group, with membership from four of the five schools.

My change management, innovation, and research expertise has been externally focused since the mid 1990's, leading 50 external successful grant applications, to deliver impact for a range of government agencies, housing organisations, consultants, building contractors and material manufacturers in north America, the middle east, and the UK. In particular I have developed multiple interventions to assess qualitatively and quantitively and to optimise the performance of new or existing dwellings during design, manufacture, adaptation and retrofit, construction, commissioning and also operation to maximise user comfort, indoor air quality and quality of life and reduce embodied and operational carbon emissions.

I have advised organisations in the design, testing, manufacture and installation of innovative and natural materials to deliver sustainable and resilient buildings.

For CSAD, I lead on three Professional Doctorate pathways in Art & Design Practice: Research CSAD DProf (cardiffmet.ac.uk), Engineering: Research CSAD DEng (cardiffmet.ac.uk), and Sustainable Built Environment: Research CSAD DSBE (cardiffmet.ac.uk).

Since 2010 I have undertaken numerous roles for KES International, including for the Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB) International conference, founding the G01 General Track in Sustainable and Resilient Buildings. I have been the SEB General Chair in 2014, and from 2017 to date. In 2020 I was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to KES Award for “acting as KES Champion for Sustainable Building, providing support for Sustainability in Energy and Buildings Conference Series for a decade including chairing the conference several times, giving a keynote talk, chairing Tracks and Invited Sessions. Plus, acting Co-Editor of the KES Springer Book Series on, and one of the founding co-editors of the Springer book series 'Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology'".

I am happy and keen to collaborate locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally and across cultures.

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