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Francis Moran

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Research interests

Francis Moran is a Research Associate within the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering. His research focus is developing experimental research techniques related to minimising the energy use of buildings and associated construction materials.

Francis is also a part time lecturer delivering Low carbon Design techniques on a range of post graduate courses.

Francis Moran received a BSc in Building in 1984 from the then Southbank Polytechnic and an MSc in 2009 from the Centre for Alternative Technology. He received a PhD centred on the Energy Efficiency of Historic Buildings in 2014 from the University of Bath.

Research

Francis's main research interests are energy use in historic buildings; retrofiting renewable energy technology in domestic dwellings and Passive House retrofit design and implementation.

Recent projects include SIMPod, HEMPSEC and ECO-SEE.

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Research Output 2011 2015

  • 3 Conference contribution
  • 3 Article
  • 1 Doctoral Thesis
2 Citations

PV in Historic Dwellings: the potential to reduce domestic CO2 emissions

Natarajan, S. & Moran, F., Sep 2015, In : Journal of Building Engineering. 3

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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Electricity
Roofs
Climate change
Carbon

Benchmarking the energy use of historic dwellings in Bath and the role for retrofit and LZC technologies to reduce CO2 emissions

Moran, F., 28 Mar 2014, (Unpublished) 374 p.

Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis

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Benchmarking
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Statistics
Heating
Planning
23 Citations

The use of Passive House Planning Package to reduce energy use and CO emissions in historic dwellings

Moran, F., Blight, T., Natarajan, S. & Shea, A., Jun 2014, In : Energy and Buildings. 75, p. 216-227 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Planning
Energy efficiency
Energy conservation
Energy utilization
Decision making
20 Citations

Developing a database of energy use for historic dwellings in Bath, UK

Moran, F., Natarajan, S. & Nikolopoulou, M-H., Dec 2012, In : Energy and Buildings. 55, p. 218-226 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Developing a Database of Energy Use of Historic Dwellings in Bath

Moran, F. & Natarajan, S., Jan 2012, Retrofit 2012. University of Salford

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Thesis

Benchmarking the energy use of historic dwellings in Bath and the role for retrofit and LZC technologies to reduce CO2 emissions

Author: Moran, F., 1 Aug 2013

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

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