Recently completed ESTA PhD projects
Research topics currently undertaken by PhD students in the Environment, Sustainability and Technology in Architecture (ESTA) Research Group at Liverpool include low carbon architecture, passive cooling techniques, designing for climate change, sustainable retrofitting, thermal comfort, urban environments and life cycle analysis.
Dr Ali Al-Graiti
PhD Title: Evaluating the environmental performance of nanomaterials in architecture
Supervisors: Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez & Steve Sharples
PhD awarded: October 2021
Dr Ali Aldersoni
PhD Title: Improving the energy performance of future Saudi Ministry of Housing building designs to achieve the country’s future climate change targets
Supervisors: Daveed Chow & Steve Sharples
PhD awarded: September 2021
Dr Zuhair A. Abbas Nasar
PhD Title: PARA-SIM: a hybrid technology-mediated approach to learning energy modelling in architectural design education
Supervisors: Daveed Chow, Nick Webb & Tuba Kocaturk
PhD awarded: December 2020
Dr Hussein Hussein
PhD Title: Transformable spatial bar structures - an algorithmic design and evaluation framework to develop free-form transformable structures (FFTS)
Supervisors: Rob Kronenburg & Asterios Agkathidis
PhD awarded: December 2020
Dr Mohammed Abuhussain
PhD Title: An Assessment of the Saudi Residential Buildings Envelope Code Under the Current and Future Climate Change Scenarios: The Case for Jeddah in the Hot and Humid Climate Region.
Supervisors: Daveed Chow & Steve Sharples
PhD awarded: October 2020
Dr Mohammad Alshenaifi
PhD Title: Optimizing the performance of Passive Downdraught Evaporative Cooling (PDEC) towers for Saudi housing: investigating the impact of architectural form.
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow
PhD awarded: October 2020
Dr Yara Ayyad
PhD Title: Outdoor thermal comfort and airflow in relation to urban form in Amman, Jordan: a residential setting analysis.
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow
PhD awarded: October 2020
Dr Roy Sigalingging
PhD Title: Applying the Passivhaus standard to terraced housing in Jakarta, Indonesia – analysis for a hot and humid tropical climate, PhD, 2020
Supervisors: Daveed Chow & Steve Sharples
PhD awarded: June 2020
Dr Fahad Alyami
PhD Title: The impact of passive façade design treatments on the thermal performance of office buildings in Saudi Arabia for current and future climates
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow
PhD awarded: May 2020
Dr Edgar Pina Hernandez
PhD Title: An investigation of the thermal comfort and climate change resilience of bioclimatic design strategies for free running social housing in San Luis Potosi City, Mexico
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow
PhD awarded: October 2019
Sureepan Supansomboon
MPhil title: Classroom façade design for daylighting in hot-humid climates
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Rosa Urbano Gutiérrez
MPhil awarded: June 2019
Dr Stephanie Ogunrin
PhD title: A parametric analysis of the thermal properties of contemporary materials used for house construction in south-western Nigeria, using thermal modelling and relevant weather data
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow
PhD awarded: March 2019
Dr Qichao Ban
PhD title: Integrated design strategies for sustainable evidence-based healthcare design,
Supervisors: Bing Chen & Steve Sharples
PhD awarded: January 2019
Dr Amer Habib Al-Sudani
PhD title: Analyzing the influence of urban morphology on thermal microclimate in a temperate maritime climate
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Fei Chen
PhD awarded: October 2018
Dr Yahya Lavaf Pour
PhD Title: Self-shading façade geometry to control summer overheating in UK Passivhaus dwellings for current and future climate scenarios
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Carl Hopkins
PhD awarded: August 2017
Dr Mai Khalfan
PhD Title: An assessment of the Passivhaus standard for a hot and arid climate: a case study in Qatar
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Rosa Urbano Gutierrez
PhD awarded: June 2017
Dr Mahmoud Elkhatieb
PhD Title: Climatically adaptive building surfaces for optimised environmental performance
Supervisors: Steve Sharples & Daveed Chow
PhD awarded: May 2017