About us

ESRU was established in 1987 as a cross-discipline research group concerned with new approaches to built environment energy utilisation and the introduction of sustainable means of energy supply at various scales.

The group's belief is that options for energy demand reduction and clean supply must be considered together if society is to attain significant levels of energy efficiency and new & renewable energy systems deployment. To this end, ESRU pursues the development and testing of new computational tools to assist designers in their attempts to devise clean and sustainable overall solutions.

The group was selected as the BRE Trust's Centre of Excellence in Energy Utilisation (2008-present).

The group operates IBPSA Scotland and has provided thematic leadership for the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre and the Energy Technology Partnership.

The group manages and contributes to courses accredited by the Energy Institute and the IMechE.

The group's work has given rise to commercial activity as follows.

• Design of CoRMaT marine current turbine, available through spin-out company Nautricity.

• Contribution to integrated building performance modelling technology VE, available from Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES).

• The contribution of pervasive sensor technology (BuildAX) and e-service delivery available from various companies.

 ESRU also partners with industry through Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP).

Academic and Research Staff

The following people have been members of ESRU in academic staff, research staff and PhD student categories. Contact details for current members may be found using the Staff Search utility.

• Dr Essam Aasem

• Mr Ahmad Alanezi

• Mr Adebowale Adeduntan

• Dr John Allison

• Dr Patrick Ken Amissah

• Dr Eric Baster

• Dr Maria Bocanegra-Yanez

• Ms Valentina Bonetti

• Dr Francesca Born

• Dr Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

• Mr Denny Beyer

• Dr Stephane Citherlet

• Professor Joe Clarke

• Dr Tin-tai Chow

• Dr Jeremy Cockroft

• Dr Gary Connor

• Dr Steven Conner

• Dr Daniel Costola

• Professor John Counsell

• Dr Andrew Cowie

• Dr Drury Crawley

• Dr Robert Dannecker

• Dr Iordan Denev

• Mr David Dunn

• Dr Magose Eju

• Mr Arnaud Ete

• Dr Mark Evans

• Dr Graeme Flett

• Dr Song Fu

• Ms Sabeeta Ghauri

• Dr Andy Grant

• Dr Katie Gracie-Orr

• Ms Monica Gulberg

• Ms Dusana Haluzova

• Dr Jon Hand

• Mr Alaa Liaq Hashem

• Dr Jan Hensen

• Dr Jun Hong

• Dr Milan Janak

• Mr Cameron Johnstone

• Mr Apostolos Karatolios

• Mr David Kellock

• Dr Nick Kelly

• Dr Yousaf Khalid

• Dr Jae-min Kim

• Mr Georgios Kokogiannakis

• Dr Irena Kondratenko

• Dr Michael Kummert

• Dr Gavin Lavery

• Mr Chang Keun Lee

• Ms Monica Lever

• Mr Malcolm Lindsay

• Dr Ya Liu

• Dr Iain Macdonald

• Dr John MacQueen

• Dr Amos Madhlopa

• Mr Abdul Mahmood

• Mr Antony Maitos

• Ms Asma Malik

• Dr Anastasios Markopoulos

• Mr Willie Maruwo

• Dr Tom McCombes

• Mr Raheal McGhee

• Mr Craig McLean

• Dr Lori McElroy

• Mr Dimitrios Mermiris

• Dr Filippo Monari

• Ms Emma Morton

• Mr Gary Mumaw

• Dr Christoph Morbitzer

• Dr Gavin Murphy

• Dr Abdul Nakhi

• Dr Cezar Negrao

• Mr Tom O'Brien

• Dr Kate Porter

• Dr Luis Prazeres

• Mr Gustavo Quinonez-Verela

• Dr Callum Rae

• Mr Sam Rose

• Dr Aizaz Samuel

• Dr Stephanie Ordonez Sanchez

• Mr Alastair Scott

• Dr Gan Kee Seng

• Dr Nicola Smith

• Dr Matt Stewart

• Dr Paul Strachan

• Ms Katalin Svehla

• Dr Dechao Tang

• Dr Paul Tuohy

• Mr Yaseen Waseem

• Mrs Kathleen Whyte

• Dr Mohamad Rida