Masoud Sajjadian
masoud sajjadian

Dr Masoud Sajjadian

Lecturer

Biography

With a background in architectural engineering, Dr Masoud Sajjadian is a graduate of Nottingham and Liverpool Universities. He is a Lecturer in Architectural Technology and Programme Leader for MSc Architectural Technology and Building Performance. His research focus is on building performance analysis aiming to reduce the gap and mediate effective engineering analysis tools and architectural design. He is actively engaged in teaching, research and knowledge exchange activities focusing on energy efficiency and building performance simulation.

His research has evolved from investigating the use of simulation tools to predict building performance in a changing climate to exploring their development with the integration of Solar Air Collectors to combining them with Artificial Intelligence methods to influence users’ comfort uncertainty in the analysis. He has completed over €400K funded projects since 2017. The qualitative impact of his research works is mostly on the development of data-driven approaches in the decarbonisation of built environment and mitigation of climate change impact through simulations and the creation of data-driven comfort models.

Examples of his research impact are visible in one of the IPCC reports (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change) and the UK Parliament Research Briefing. His research on using Phase Change Materials with an air gap was included in the IPCC examples of adaption, and interventions at building shell in their supplementary report for Key Risks Across Sectors and Regions for Europe (13SM). Another research work from him on developing thermal comfort models by using AI was included in the UK Parliament Research Briefing on Sustainable Cooling (Briefings are impartial analyses produced by the UK Parliament on a variety of topics that affect the UK like the economy, health, and security). Public Health Scotland has also published his research about the impact of Covid-19 protocols on carbon emissions and users comfort in office buildings on their website.

Before joining Edinburgh Napier, he was a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Technology where he authored numerous UG and PG modules and an MSc course in Building Simulations. He also held several varied teaching roles at Liverpool School of Architecture, worked at TATA steel company as a Cardiff University research associate and worked as Knowledge Transfer Partnership associate at Morganstone Ltd.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Member of IET, a Fellow member of CIAT and a full college member of EPSRC.

Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • Engineering Council Assessor for Chartered Memberships (CEng)
  • School of Engineering & Built Environment Gold Curriculum Lead 2021

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Session Chair: The White, The Grey and The Black Approaches in Simulations, Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, 2023
  • Scientific Committee Member of the 8th International Congress on Architectural Technology
  • Scientific Committee Member of PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) Conference in 2017
  • Scientific Committee Member of SEB (Sustainability in Energy and Buildings) Conferences

 

Editorial Activity

  • Topical Advisory Panel for Buildings Journal
  • Guest Editor for a Special Issue on Data and the Built Environment: Reconciling Resources and Information for a Sustainable Living of Sustainability Journal

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Examiner to the Architecture and Visual Arts Department, University of East London
  • PhD candidate, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, the University of Sydney 2019

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Full college member of EPSRC

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET)
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng)
  • Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (FCIAT)

 

Reviewing

  • Book Proposal Reviewer, Routledge
  • Reviewer for at least 10 internationally leading journals - Details: https://publons.com/researcher/562323/masoud-sajjadian/

 

Date


31 results

Vacuum Insulation Panels for Domestic New Builds and Refurbishment in Scotland

Conference Proceeding
Mitchell, N., & Sajjadian, S. M. (2024)
Vacuum Insulation Panels for Domestic New Builds and Refurbishment in Scotland. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8501-2_1
Insulations have fundamental role in buildings’ thermal performance by assisting in reducing heat loss and excessive heat gain through the thermal envelope, which subsequently...

A Technical Review on Blue and Blue-Green Roofs

Conference Proceeding
Smith, R., & Sajjadian, S. M. (2024)
A Technical Review on Blue and Blue-Green Roofs. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8501-2_5
Increased development of Greenfield areas to tackle housing shortages, combined with increased rainfall due to climate change has created drainage issues within urban areas, t...

A Review on Blue Roofs in new UK Constructions

Conference Proceeding
Jack, J., & Sajjadian, S. M. (2024)
A Review on Blue Roofs in new UK Constructions. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2023 (79-87). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8501-2
Flooding causes significant risk to the UK’s infrastructure and the need for additional stormwater management systems is growing rapidly. The demand for housing, lack of land,...

Simulation-Based Evaluation of Low Carbon Design Strategies for Extreme Climates

Journal Article
Toyo Diaz, A., & Sajjadian, S. M. (in press)
Simulation-Based Evaluation of Low Carbon Design Strategies for Extreme Climates. Intelligent Buildings International, https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2024.2303118
Extreme climate conditions present the greatest challenge in achieving thermal comfort in buildings. To address this issue, researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of var...

Benchmarking indoor headroom heights of residential buildings based on ASHRAE Standard 55

Journal Article
Tajuddeen, I., & Sajjadian, S. M. (2023)
Benchmarking indoor headroom heights of residential buildings based on ASHRAE Standard 55. Intelligent Buildings International, 15(3), 109-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2023.2221840
The continuous design of residential buildings without comprehensive attention to the vital form and envelope related decision-making steps has necessitated this study. The re...

Regression Models for Predicting the Global Warming Potential of Thermal Insulation Materials

Journal Article
Tajuddeen, I., Sajjadian, S. M., & Jafari, M. (2023)
Regression Models for Predicting the Global Warming Potential of Thermal Insulation Materials. Buildings, 13(1), Article 171. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010171
The impacts and benefits of thermal insulations on saving operational energy have been widely investigated and well-documented. Recently, many studies have shifted their focus...

A Critique on the UK’s Net Zero Strategy

Journal Article
Sajjadian, S. M. (2023)
A Critique on the UK’s Net Zero Strategy. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 56, Article 103003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.103003
Before the Covid-19 pandemic UK passed net-zero emission law legislation to become the first major economy in the world to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. Foll...

Assessing and Monitoring of Building Performance by Diverse Methods

Journal Article
Seminara, P., Vand, B., Sajjadian, S. M., & Tupenaite, L. (2022)
Assessing and Monitoring of Building Performance by Diverse Methods. Sustainability, 14(3), Article 1242. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031242
Buildings are one of the largest contributors to energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the world. There is an increased interest in building performance eva...

SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings

Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S. M. (in press)
SARS-CoV-2, Ventilation Strategies, Thermal Comfort and Carbon Implications for Buildings. In PLEA 2022
The spread of SARS-CoV-2 since 2019 has rapidly become a global crisis with unprecedented records of deaths and hospitalizations in the last century. The infectious particles ...

Design and Construction of High Rise Timber Buildings

Book
Jäärats, A., Barlow, C., Henriques, D., Vahtramäe, E., Hamadyk, E., Hansen, E., …Unterrrainer, W. (2021)
Design and Construction of High Rise Timber Buildings. European Union

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • Principal Investigator - Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (RIKE): Artificial Intelligence and Building Performance
  • Investigator- EU Funded: Sustainable High-Rise Buildings Designed and Constructed in Timber