Research Group Lead: Professor Steve Goodhew 

The main research concentrations of this group are in the fields of innovative natural building materials, measuring/assessing building performance including indoor air quality, construction management/building defects, and the ethics of construction. Individual researchers also work in specific domains like cost management in ecological architecture alongside the refurbishment and retrofitting of historic buildings. Funded projects deal with a breadth of sub-topics, like thermography, laboratory and in-situ measurements of thermal and humidity properties of building materials, building operational conditions and control (including occupant behaviour and climate change), and values and attitudes regarding sustainability.