Dr Abigail Hathway
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Senior Lecturer
+44 114 222 5702
Full contact details
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Room F129
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
91̽»¨
S1 3JD
- Profile
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The most powerful way to fight climate change is to provide students with the knowledge and skills to engineer buildings holistically and, to contribute to decisions that will have implications on the sustainability of buildings.
Dr Abigail Hathway
Abigail completed her PhD at the University of Leeds, researching CFD modelling of bioaerosols released in hospital environments due to nursing activities.
Her research aims to ensure that in the drive for energy efficient buildings we maintain healthy indoor environments for the occupants.
Her focus is on building physics, with a particular interest in how the activity of people within a building and its interior spaces impact upon air flow. This focus on fluid flow in the built environment, incorporates building simulation with experimental and field work.
The role of human activity on indoor air continues to be an active research interest, and has developed to consider a variety of built environments, often through interdisciplinary collaboration.
Her main interest is in the interactions of people with their building and the resulting impacts on air flow across the building envelope and between interior spaces.
This includes researching the role of automated building systems to improve the comfort and quality of internal environments at low energy cost.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . Building and Environment, 223.
- . Buildings, 11(10), 433.
- . Water, 13(16).
- . Building and Environment, 191.
- . Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 21(4), 605-627.
- . Applied Soft Computing.
- . Energy Procedia, 151, 23-30.
- . Building and Environment, 131, 220-230.
- . Building Research and Information, 45(5), 556-571.
- . Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers (London), 170(2), 91-103.
- . International Journal of Ventilation, 14(2), 127-140.
- . Building and Environment, 85, 182-189.
- . Renewable Energy, 71, 351-360.
- . Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability, 167(3), 108-117.
- . Energy Policy.
- . Indoor Air, 23(3), 173-174.
- . Indoor and Built Environment, 22(2), 410-421.
- Coupling real-time 3D landscape models with microclimate simulations. International Journal of E-Planning Research, 2(1), 1-19.
- . Building and Environment, 58, 14-22.
- The role of urban microclimates in reducing CO emssions from cities. Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology (New Series), 18(Supplement 2), 1-5.
- . Building and Environment, 46(12), 2500-2511.
- CFD simulation of airborne pathogen transport due to human activities. Building and Environment.
- . Water Science & Technology, 62, 898-905.
- . American Journal of Infection Control, 36, 250-259.
- . Indoor and Built Environment, 15(1), 35-40.
- . Building Services Engineering Research and Technology, 014362442211379-014362442211379.
Conference proceedings papers
- . Lecture Notes in Artificial Intellgence. León, Spain, 4 September 2019 - 6 September 2019.
- Big Data and Model Predictive Control for Improved Building Performance. 2018 Stretching the Envelope
- Model identification for the control of naturally ventilated buildings. 14th International Conference of IBPSA - Building Simulation 2015, BS 2015, Conference Proceedings (pp 573-580)
- CFD Simulation of airflow due to door motion using a momentum source method. 14th International Conference of IBPSA - Building Simulation 2015, BS 2015, Conference Proceedings (pp 911-916)
- Towards understanding the role of human activity on indoor air flows: A case study of door motion based on both field and experimental activities. Indoor Air 2014 - 13th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate (pp 435-442)
- Educating Engineers for the Challenges of Low Carbon Environments.. Sustainable Structures Symposium. Portland, Oregon,USA, 17 April 2014 - 19 May 2014.
- Exceeding energy consumption design expectations. International Conference for Enhanced Building Operation. Montreal, 8 October 2013 - 11 October 2013.
- The use of machine learning in model predictive control for the operation of non-domestic buildings. FutureBuild 2013. Bath, UK, 4 September 2013 - 6 September 2013.
- The environmental impact of retrofitting solid wall homes. Engineering Sustainability 2013. Pittsburgh USA, 7 April 2013 - 9 April 2013.
- Window use in single person offices: Do occupants control personal ventilation to provide adequate IAQ?. Healthy Buildings 2012. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 8 July 2012 - 12 July 2012.
- Acoustic impact of an urban micro hydro scheme. World Renewable Energy Congress 2011. Linkoping, Sweden
- Environmental thermal impact assessment of regenerated urban form: A case study in 91̽»¨. World Renewable Energy Congress 2011. Linkoping, Sweden
- Urban river microclimates. PLEA 2011 - Architecture and Sustainable Development, Conference Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (pp 183-187)
- Beyond drainage: The role of SUDS in the mitigation of Urban Heat Island effects. Cities of the Future: Sustainable Urban Planning and Water Management. Stockholm, Sweden
- Simulation of bioaerosol release and transport in a four-bay hospital ward using CFD and a multi-zone ventilation with quantification of infection risk. 9th International Conference and Exhibition - Healthy Buildings 2009, HB 2009
- Towards a generic rainfall runoff model for green roofs. International Conference on Urban Drainage Modelling. Tokyo, Japan
- CFD modelling of a hospital ward: assessing risk from bacteria produced from respiratory and activity sources. Indoor Air. Copenhagen, Denmark
- Bioaerosol production from routine activities within a hospital ward. Indoor Air. Copenhagen, Denmark
- CFD modelling of transient pathogen release in indoor environments due to human activity. Roomvent 2007 10th International Conference on Air Distribution in Rooms. Helsinki, Finland
- . Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Energy Harvesting, Storage, and Transfer (EHST'19), 18 June 2019 - 19 June 2019.
Other
- GPML: An XML-based Standard for the Interchange of Genetic Programming Trees.
- . Building and Environment, 223.
- Research group
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Resources, Infrastructure Systems and built Environments Discipline
- Grants
- PhD opportunities
Beyond Drainage: The Impact Of SuDS On Urban Microclimates
Urban stormwater management increasingly makes use of SuDS (Sustainable Drainage Systems), which often incorporate open water and/or vegetation. Evapotranspiration from SuDS is expected to have a beneficial (cooling) impact on the urban microclimate, and may also have benefits for the indoor climate in adjacent buildings. The project will use a range of modelling tools (and possibly some experimental work) to quantify these effects.
If you're interested in one of these projects, or would like to self-propose a project, please contact Abigail at the above email. Current PhD opportunities in the department can be viewed here.