Masoud Sajjadian
masoud sajjadian

Dr Masoud Sajjadian

Lecturer

 0131 455 2248

  M.Sajjadian@napier.ac.uk

  

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.

School

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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

  • Chartered Engineer (CEng)
  • Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET)
  • 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/

 

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Translating Design Details to Construction Details- with Both Eyes Open

Conference Proceeding
Sajjadianm, S. (2017)
Translating Design Details to Construction Details- with Both Eyes Open. In International Conference for Sustainable Design of the Built Environment: Proceedings. , (983-990
Sustainable designs will come to nothing if they are lost in construction process. Therefore, the accuracy of design details and the transformation to the construction details...

Quantifying the Behavior of Modern and Traditional Construction Systems on the Basis of Thermal Comfort

Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S., & Sharples, S. (2017)
Quantifying the Behavior of Modern and Traditional Construction Systems on the Basis of Thermal Comfort. In Design to Thrive - PLEA 2017: Proceedings of 33rd PLEA International Conference. Volume 1. , (136-143
Thermal comfort is crucial to ascertain the energy consumption in buildings and is a key factor for decision-making in the design of sustainable building envelopes. This paper...

The Pedagogical Impact of Augmented Reality on Architectural Education

Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S. M. (2017)
The Pedagogical Impact of Augmented Reality on Architectural Education. In Volume 6: Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXI. , (295-300). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-792-4-295
Latest hardware and software development in computer science and software engineering have promoted Augmented Reality (AR) prototypes for a number of architecture and design a...

Performance evaluation of well-insulated versions of contemporary wall systems—A case study of London for a warmer climate

Journal Article
Sajjadian, S. M. (2017)
Performance evaluation of well-insulated versions of contemporary wall systems—A case study of London for a warmer climate. Buildings, 7(1), https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings7010006
Climate change and its consequences are of a great concern and the likely increasing temperature would add more dilemmas for the choice of passive design options. The performa...

Dynamic modelling of solar storage system: a case study of leisure centre

Journal Article
Sajjadian, S. M. (2016)
Dynamic modelling of solar storage system: a case study of leisure centre. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, 5(2), 165-175. https://doi.org/10.1108/SASBE-09-2015-0028
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the advantages of a solar store system with transpired solar air collector (TSC) in North Wales, UK. The collectors are designe...

Future proofing UK sustainable homes under conditions of climatic uncertainty

Thesis
Sajjadian, S. M. (2015)
Future proofing UK sustainable homes under conditions of climatic uncertainty. (Thesis). University of Liverpool. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2702653
Research relating to the potential impacts of climate change on UK housing has increased in recent years. The future performance of dwellings that are currently considered sus...

Heating and Cooling Loads in High Performance Construction Systems-Will Climate Change Alter Design Decisions?

Journal Article
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2015)
Heating and Cooling Loads in High Performance Construction Systems-Will Climate Change Alter Design Decisions?. Procedia Engineering, 118, 498-506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.467
Climate change and its consequences are of great concern. Buildings can be affected by climate change in different ways, such as changes in energy needs and thermal comfort. H...

The potential of phase change materials to reduce domestic cooling energy loads for current and future UK climates

Journal Article
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2015)
The potential of phase change materials to reduce domestic cooling energy loads for current and future UK climates. Energy and Buildings, 93, 83-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.02.029
Phase change materials (PCM) are known as an effective technology to store larger amounts of thermal energy per unit mass than conventional thermal mass building materials suc...

The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems

Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013)
The potential of shading devices to improve comfort in current and future UK housing through integrated simulations with high and low thermal mass construction systems. In International Conference on Adaptation and Movement (ICAM). , (476-484
Abstract not available.

Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance

Conference Proceeding
Sajjadian, S. M., Lewis, J., & Sharples, S. (2013)
Risk and Uncertainty in Sustainable Building Performance. In Sustainability in Energy and Buildings: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings (SEB´12). , (903-912). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36645-1_80
Decision-making in the design of sustainable building envelopes will mostly consider the trade-off between initial cost and energy savings. However, this leads to an insuffici...

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