Dr Mehdi Shahrestani
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+44 (0) 118 378 7575
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Technologies
- Director of Architectural Engineering Programmes (BEng/MEng)
- Chair of Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Committee
Office
144Building location
Chancellor's BuildingAreas of interest
- Net-zero carbon future.
- Decarbonisation of heating and cooling systems
- Energy systems modelling
- Renewable energy technologies
- Building mechanical services
- Interactions between energy and environmental systems
Postgraduate supervision
- Muhammad Imran Khan: A multidimensional assessment of natural gas as an alternative transportation fuel.
- Bashar Alfalah: Identifying occupancy patterns and profiles and their influence on the energy performance of buildings.
- Josephine Gwen Lloyd-Papworth: Managing effects of weather through advanced analytics.
- Ahmed Hany Elgamal: Energy management approaches of Virtual Power Plants.
- Nobert Matadi: Collaboration and alliance in the construction industry.
- Abdul Ahad Jhumka: Transient stability of a renewable energy grid for small island developing states.
- Raed Alshammari: A building assessment framework for the net-zero carbon future.
Teaching
Convenorship:
CE1CCS- Construction science (UG-Part1)
CE2BSF-Building services fundamentals (UG-Part2)
CE2ADE-Architectural design (UG-Part2)
CE3HVA-Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning design (UG-Part3)
CEM221-Energy in Buildings (MSc)
Contributing to:
CE2BES1- Building Environment Systems (UG-Part2)
CE3CCD - Dissertation (UG-Part 3)
CE3BED- Research method, dissertation (UG-Part 3)
CEM107/17A/17B- Sustainable design and management principles and practice (MSc)
CEM10A - Research skills (MSc)
CEM10B - Dissertation supervision (MSc)
Research centres and groups
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Research projects
- Living Lab, data management, analysis and storage for developing data-driven research related to building energy and environmental systems, Institute of Physics (IoP), Co-I, 2019-2022.
- Indoor air quality, Ministry of Science & Technology P.R.China, PI, 2020-2021.
- , Halton Foundation, Co-I, 2014-2016.
- Research Cooperation in Renewable Energy Technologies for Electricity Generation (REELCOOP), study the performance of the double skin PV façade system, European funded project, Research Fellow,2013-2017.
Background
My career in Engineering began after my BSc degree in Mechanical Engineering. I then joined an international consultants' engineering and construction firm where I was heavily involved in the management, design, construction, and commissioning of building mechanical services for industrial and non-industrial projects.
In parallel, I started studying towards an MSc and received my degree in Energy Systems Engineering. Having nine years of industrial experience in energy generation, distribution and use especially in building mechanical services, I started my PhD at the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ.
After my PhD, I joined the Research Cooperation in Renewable Energy Technologies for Electricity Generation (REELCOOP) project as a Research Fellow to study the performance of the double skin PV façade system.
In 2015, I was appointed as lecturer in Sustainable Technologies at the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ.
Academic qualifications
- PhD, 2013 (ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, Fuzzy decision-making modelling for building environmental systems selection)
- MSc in Energy Systems Engineering, 2005 (KNT University, Numerical modelling of solar-assisted cooling systems)
- BSc in Mechanical Engineering, 2000 (Guilan University, Modelling, and design of prototypical parabolic trough solar collectors)
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (FCIBSE)
- Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Chartered Engineer (CEng)
- Member of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (MASHRAE)
- Member of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (MIBPSA)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Intelligent Buildings International
Websites/blogs