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
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