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Director, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre

 
Technical Director, Australian Power Quality and Reliability Centre

All general enquires please email sbrc@uow.edu.au 

Dr Craig McLauchlan 
Research Facilities Manager
craig_mclauchlan@uow.edu.au | +61 2 4221 5280

Gerrard Drury
Programmer / Analyst 
gerrard_drury@uow.edu.au | +61 2 4221 3416

Sean Elphick 
Research Coordinator
sean_elphick@uow.edu.au |  +61 2 4221 4737

Michael Tibbs 
Research Fellow
michael_tibbs@uow.edu.au

• Gridsite
• Distributed power generation, photovoltaic power systems, power distribution control, power distribution economics, power generation control, power generation economics, reactive power control, voltage control

• School of Social Sciences 
• Sustainable development, mobilities, futures and socio-technical innovations

• Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS)
• Political geography, rural studies, and ethnology

• Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS)
• Cultural Research for Climate Change Mitigation & Adaptation 

• School of Engineering
• Sustainable Structural Design and Construction 

• Australian Institute for Innovative Materials
• Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials
• Superconductor science, power distribution

• School of Engineering
• River and wind-based renewable energy technologies; green, eco-friendly lubricants for material processing; and applied fluid dynamics of industrial thin coating process.

• School of Computing and Information Technology
• Electrical power systems, renewable energy, smart grids, etc 

• Intelligent Polymers Research Institute
• Organic photovoltaics systems, artificial photosynthesis, etc 

• School of Computing and Information Technology
• Electrical power systems, effect of wind energy on grid, renewables, smart grids, etc 

• School of Sciences
• Green roofs and walls 

• School of Engineering
• Construction, building information modelling, earthquake, climate adaptions

• School of Engineering
• Water treatment, hydrogen production, waste treatment

Honorary Senior Fellow Vic Smith

• School of Engineering
• Electrical power systems, power quality, renewables, smart grids, etc

• School of Engineering
• Energy in buildings, alternative energy systems

• School of Computing and Information Technology
• Electrical power systems, renewables, fuel cells, smart grids, etc

• School of E
• ngineering
• Construction techniques, lightweight steel structures, Energy in Buildings

• Australian Health Services Research Institute (AHSRI)
• Marketing principles and communications, social marketing, critical marketing teaching and research

• Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS)
• Social/Culture Geography Cultures of Natures

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  Founder and Managing Director,

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  Senior Technology & Development Engineer,

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  Director Energy Futures Network, University of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

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  Emeritus Professor, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC), University of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

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  Project Manager, Retrofitting for Resilient and Sustainable Buildings (RRSB) program, Hyve Projects

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  Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany

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  Honorary Professor, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC), University of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½

• Professor Nalin Pahalawatta,
  Senior Technical Director - Power Systems,   

• Professor Jahan Peiris,
  Main System Planning Manager,  

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  Coordinator, Australian Power Quality and Reliability Centre

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  Power Quality and Reliability Planning Manager,  

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  Research Group Leader,

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Scott Beazley

Scott Beazley has over 35 years of experience practicing in Architecture and 28 years in CAD-BIM teaching at university and technical colleges. Along with his university commitments Scott has worked as a digital technology manager for a leading quantity surveyor helping with validation of models for quantification to derive costs. His key skills are BIM Model checking and validation, IFC mapping, Revit export and import of IFC, linking of 3D models with 4D time and 5D costs. Scott's research interests include BIM (Building Information Modelling), Building design collaboration, Sustainable Building Design, Digital model checking and validation, Linking 3D models with 4D(time) and 5D(cost), Building data exchanges: IFC: Industry Foundation Classes, IDM: Information Delivery Manuals and Interoperability of building design and analysis software.  

Professor Liliana Fay

Professor Liliana Fay. Professor Fay, an architecture and construction engineering academic from the Brazil’s Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, competed a post-doctoral research project at SBRC entitled: Innovation envelopes: products and processes for residential buildings. Lilana researched Australian innovations in products and processes for building sustainable housing.

Professor Jose Kos

Jose is a Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidade Federal de Sanat Catarin. He has a Post-Doctorate from the Sustainable Building Research Centre, University of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and was a member of the board of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (ANPARQ). He frequently participates in scientific committees of recognized international conferences in the area of ​​Architecture, Urbanism and Digital Media and is an ad-hoc consultant for CNPq, CAPES, FAPESP, FAPERJ, FAPESC, FONCyT (Argentina), CONICYT (Chile), FWO Research Foundation ( Belgium). 

Professor Feng Xu

Feng Xu is a Professor and Vice Dean from School of Architecture, Hunan University, China. He is also Vice chairman of Hunan Green Building Council, Member of Hunan Institute of Architects, Member of Academic Committee of Hunan University. As a Principal Investigator, he has been responsible for more than 10 research projects, including 1 project of the National Science & Technology Support Major Program of the 11th Five-year Plan, 2 sub-projects of the National Science & Technology Major Program of the 12th Five-year Plan. His research interests mostly lies at Design Method and Appraisal of Green Building, Integrated Design on Rural Residential Building and Multidisciplinary Approach to Curriculum Development in Sustainable Built Environment.

Associate Professor Jin Zhou

Jin Zhou is an associate Professor from College of Civil Engineering, Hunan University, China, Vice secretary-general of Hunan Green Building Council. He received his PhD degree in Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2005. Before joining SBRC as a visiting research fellow, he has worked for 11 years in Hunan University. His research interests mostly lies on assessment and improvement of building thermal environment, analysis and optimization of GCHP system, and Green Building assessment.