isurv authors - Fitton, Dr Richard
Record details
- Author
- Professor Richard Fitton
- Job title and company
- Chair in Energy Performance of Buildings, University of Salford
- Section and channel
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- Biography
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Richard holds a PhD in building physics and is a chartered building surveyor. He leads a task group for the development of international standards around energy performance. Richard is the Chairman of the British Standard for Retrofit Assessment. He is active in the International Energy Agency, studying the use of smart meter data to provide energy efficiency data for dwellings. He holds a place on the SAP Scientific Integrity Group at the Building Research Establishment (BRE), which oversees the domestic energy model used in the UK. He is a panel member on the RICS professional group panel for residential property.
Richard is the technical director for the new Energy House 2 project, a world leading building physics test lab.
- Company biography
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The School of Science, Engineering and Environment represents a community of scholars of global reach, working in unison with learners across all levels of study and research, and lifelong learning professionals and organisations committed to making a difference to the sector. With very high employability successes and one of the largest global cohorts of PhD students, many of our graduates are already making a difference in industry and also in academia, by holding leadership positions in organisations and academic institutions across the world.
The school has been leading the research agenda in the built environment for more than 20 years, continuously rated top in national research assessment exercises.
