Dr Jim Parker
Reader | Leeds Beckett
Leeds, UNITED KINGDOM
Jim Parker specialises in building energy modelling and the urban environment.
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Dr Parker specialises in building energy modelling and the urban environment. He manages externally funded research projects, collaborates with industrial partners and supports undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students.
Dr Parker has been involved in a broad range of research projects, including detailed modelling of domestic and non-domestic buildings, in both retrofit and new-build scenarios. His work has also expanded to cover environmental monitoring in urban environments, with a particular focus on urban heat islands, air quality and the impact of urban green space.
Jim's research has included extensive work on the calibration of energy and thermal models, an area of expertise that informs in-depth evaluation of retrofit measures. This expertise has helped to secure high value research projects from Government Departments and UKRI organisations, all aimed at reducing the environmental impact of existing buildings.
In addition to his work in the retrofit sector, Jim has been involved in projects that have developed offsite manufacture systems for low energy buildings, overheating mitigation in future climate scenarios, energy management systems in the non-domestic sector, performance analysis of district heating systems and green infrastructure deployment in urban environments. He has also been involved in IEA Annexes and was a sub-task lead for the IEA Annex 67: Energy Flexible Buildings.
Industry Expertise (4)
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Architecture and Planning
Energy
Areas of Expertise (7)
Sustainable Architecture
Urban Heat Islands
Urban Green Space
Air Quality
Urban Environments
Environmental Monitoring
Energy Modelling
Education (3)
De Montfort University: PhD, Carbon Reduction 2013
The University of Huddersfield: MSc, Sustainable Architecture 2009
Sheffield Hallam University: BSc, Construction Management 2005
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- English
Event Appearances (1)
Predicting future overheating in a Passivhaus dwelling using a calibrated dynamic thermal simulation models
(2016) Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) Annual Conference Leeds, UK
Articles (3)
The Leeds urban heat island and its implications for energy use and thermal comfort
Energy and Buildings2020 Urban heat islands are evident throughout the world and may become more problematic in temperate climates as global warming continues. This paper characterizes the urban heat island of Leeds, a city in the temperate maritime climate of the UK. Measured weather data from rural and urban sites have been used to quantify the heat island and to create building simulation weather files for the summer of 2013.
Policy Challenges for the Development of Energy Flexibility Services
Energy Policy2020 European energy policies call for an increased share of renewable energy sources and a more active role of the energy consumer. This is facilitated by, amongst others, buildings becoming energy flexible hubs, supporting smart energy grids with demand response strategies. While there is abundant technical research in this field, the related business and policy development is less well documented.
Measuring and modelling retrofit fabric performance in solid wall conjoined dwellings
Energy and Buildings2019 There remains a significant number of occupied and uninsulated solid wall dwellings in the UK. Deep retrofit is often required for these buildings to become energy efficient but it is difficult to determine how these buildings will respond to retrofit without a detailed understanding of their fabric thermal performance Greater certainty can however be achieved by combining theoretical models and practical field tests, prior to the design of retrofit programmes.
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