David Coley

Personal profile

Research interests

David Coley is Professor of Low Carbon Design and head of the Energy and the Design of Environments research centre. His research focuses on minimising the energy use of buildings through a process of physical design and an understanding of occupant behaviour. He is also interested in citywide energy modelling.

David Coley received a BSc in Physics in 1985 and a PhD in theoretical nuclear physics in 1989 (both from Surrey University). During this time he also worked briefly for the UK Atomic Energy Authority. He joined the Centre for Energy and the Environment at Exeter University in 1998, where he worked until joining Bath as Professor of Low Carbon Design in 2011. Whilst at Exeter, his main interests were in low energy design (including Passivhaus), renewables, estimating the impact of climate change on the built environment and evolutionary computation. He was also a founding member of a London based hedge fund.

Research

David's main research interests are finding out why buildings use energy, how little they could use and where this energy might come from. In essence, this means teasing out whether the issue for the mass production of low carbon buildings is the building or the occupant.

He is a committee member of various national bodies on the built environment and on the editorial board of three journals.

Recent EPSRC projects include the production of future weather files to 2080 (PROMETHEUS) and advanced smart metering (ENLITEN), and the post occupancy elevation of buildings for TSB.

Alongside academic papers and reports for Government, David has written books on energy and climate change, genetic algorithms and rock climbing.

Willing to supervise doctoral students

Interested in supervising students studying:

Energy use in buildings
Passivhaus
Low energy/carbon design
Climate change
Post occupancy evaluation of buildings

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Projects

7 Active
8 Finished

ABC: Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund - Active Building Centre

Coley, D. & Allen, S.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

3/09/18 → 2/03/22

Project: Research council

Newton Fund - Zero Peak Building Energy Design for India

Natarajan, S., Coley, D. & McCullen, N.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1/11/17 → 31/10/21

Project: Research council

Sustainable Technologies Business Acceleration Hub

Coley, D., Darby, A. & Walker, P.

EU - Horizon 2020

1/10/17 → 30/09/20

Project: EU Commission

VSIMULATORS: Building Occupant Interaction Simulator

Darby, A., Coley, D., Du, J., Natarajan, S. & Walker, I.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1/05/17 → 30/04/21

Project: Research council

Healthy Housing for the Displaced

Coley, D., Adeyeye, K., Ball, R., Copping, A., Holley, J., Natarajan, S. & Orr, J.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1/05/17 → 31/12/20

Project: Research council