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"The Faculty are delighted with the strong Ulster University REF2021 performance in Unit of Assessment 13 – Architecture, Built Environment and Planning at Ulster.
As the 8th largest submission in the UK in this subject area in terms of staff with significant responsibility for research, we are now ranked 8th overall for research power.
This coupled with our inclusion in a group of institutions who are ranked joint first in the UK for having attained a 100% 4*/3* rating in both the quality of the impact from their research and the research environment, is a testament to the eligible staff in the Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment who have actively contributed to this success."
How we did
Overall
An outstanding 91% of our research has been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent.
Research Impact
100% of our impact case studies have been judged as having outstanding or very considerable impacts in terms of their reach and significance.
Environment
100% of our research environment has been judged as being conducive to producing research of world-leading or internationally excellent quality and enabling outstanding impact, in terms of its vitality and sustainability
Research Outputs
86% of our research outputs have been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour. An outstanding improvement of 4* world-leading outputs with a 250% increase compared to REF 2014.
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People Involved
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Our Team
Name Role Adair, A Professor PVC - Greater Belfast Development Alam, N Dr Lecturer in Civil Engineering Ali, F Professor Professor of Structural Engineering Berry, J Professor Professor of Global Real Estate & Planning Strategy Blair, N Dr Associate Head of the Belfast School of Architecture and Built Environment Boyce, K Dr Senior Lecturer Brandoni, C Dr Senior Lecturer Brennan, S Dr Reader Choi, S Dr Reader Clarke, P Professor Professor of Architectural Design Coyles, D Mr Senior Lecturer in Architecture Davis, P Dr Senior Lecturer Davison, K Dr Lecturer in Building Technology and Materials Eadie, R Dr Senior Lecturer in Construction Management Golden, S Dr Senior Lecturer Griffiths, P Professor Professor of Building Physics Haran, M Professor Professor of Real Estate and Urban Studies Hemphill, L Dr Lecturer Hewitt, N Professor Head of Belfast School of Architecture & the Built Environment Hinch, M Dr Data Development & Enhancement Analyst (Equity & Participation) Houlihan Wiberg, A Professor Professor Huang, MJ Professor Professor Huang, Y Professor Professor Hyde, T Dr Reader Kashkarov, S Dr Lecturer in Hydrogen Safety Keatley, P Dr Lecturer in Energy Policy and Infrastructure Lim, JLC Dr Senior Lecturer Lo, D Dr Research Fellow: Real Estate and Infrastructure Investment MacIntyre, S Mr Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health Mackel, C Mr Senior Lecturer in Architecture Magee, B Dr Senior Lecturer Makarov, D Dr Reader in Hydrogen Production and Storage McConnell, N Dr Lecturer in Human Behaviour in Fire McCord, J Dr Lecturer McCord, M Dr Reader McDermott, R Dr Lecturer in Civil & Environmental Engineering McElduff, L Dr Lecturer in Planning McGreal, S Professor Professor of Real Estate Millar, P Dr Lecturer in Civil Engineering: Land Surveying & GIS Molkov, V Professor Professor of Fire Safety Science Mondol, J Dr Research Director - Architecture, Built Environment & Planning Motawa, I Professor Professor in Digital Construction and Building Information Modelling Murphy, M Dr Associate Head of School Nadjai, A Professor Professor of Fire Structural Engineering Rafferty, G Dr Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Development Ritchie, H Dr Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Energy Policy Shah, N Dr Lecturer Shentsov, V Dr Lecturer in Hydrogen Safety Smyth, M Dr Reader Solan, B Dr Lecturer in Foundation Engineering Tretsiakova-McNally, S Dr Lecturer in the Built Environment (Chemistry) Vorushylo, I Dr Lecturer in Energy Markets and Energy Storage Woodward, D Dr Reader in Infrastructure Engineering Zacharopoulos, A Dr Senior Lecturer Zhang, J Dr Reader
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"The architecture, Built Environment and Planning Research Unit at Ulster University is delighted with our excellent performance in REF2021.
One-third of our research outputs are world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and 100% of our research impacts have made outstanding and very considerable impacts locally, nationally and internationally.
We provide exceptional research facilities and support to facilitate research of world-leading and internationally excellent quality and enabling outstanding impact."
Impact Case Studies and Environment Statement
Research Outputs
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- A detailed investigation on thermal behaviour of slim floor beams with web openings at elevated temperatures
- A Financial Appraisal of Business Improvement Districts in the UK
- A near-isothermal Expander for isothermal compressed air energy storage system
- A pre-evacuation database for use in egress simulations
- A re-assessment of house price indices: evidence from the Spanish market
- A spatial analysis of EPCs in The Belfast Metropolitan Area housing market
- Accounting for locational, temporal, and physical similarity of residential sales in mass appraisal modeling: the development and application of geographically, temporally, and characteristically weighted regression
- Additive Manufacturing and Performance of Architectured Cement-Based Materials
- An experimental investigation of burning behaviour of liquid pool fire in corridor-like enclosures
- An exploratory approach for enhancing vertical and horizontal equity tests for ad valorem property tax valuations using geographically weighted regression
- An exploratory investigation into the relationship between Energy Performance Certificates and Sales Price: A Polytomous Universal Model approach
- Analysing Housing Market Affordability in Northern Ireland: towards a better understanding
- Analysing methodological choices in calculations of embodied energy and GHG emissions from buildings
- Analysis on field trial of high temperature heat pump integrated with thermal energy storage in domestic retrofit installation
- Articulating a social-ecological resilience agenda for urban design
- Assessing the benefits of decentralised residential batteries for load peak shaving
- Assessment of Skempton's pore water pressure parameters B and A using a high-capacity tensiometer
- Behaviour of bolted steel splice connections under fire
- Biochar and renewable energy generation from poultry litter waste: A technical and economic analysis based on computational simulations
- BIPV/T facades – A new opportunity for integrated collector-storage solar water heaters? Part 1: State-of-the-art, theory and potential
- BIPV/T facades – A new opportunity for integrated collector-storage solar water heaters? Part 2 : Physical realisation and laboratory testing
- Blast wave from a high-pressure gas tank rupture in a fire: Stand-alone and under-vehicle hydrogen tanks
- Blast wave from a hydrogen tank rupture in a fire in the open: Hazard distance nomograms
- Building the Gaeltacht Quarter
- Capital Flows and Office Markets in Major Global Cities
- Case-based reasoning and BIM systems for asset management
- Comparative study of an inclined solar panel basin solar still in passive and active mode
- Composition and context drivers of residential property location value as a socioeconomic status measure
- Constant temperature induced stresses in evacuated enclosures for high performance flat plate solar thermal collectors
- Countering decline of industrial sites: Do local economic development policies target the neediest places?
- Coupled thermo-physical behaviour of an inorganic intumescent system in cone calorimeter testing
- Deflagrations of localised homogeneous and inhomogeneous hydrogen-air mixtures in enclosures
- Design, Valuation and Comparison of Demand Response Strategies for Congestion Management
- Development land valuation accuracy in China – a case study of Beijing
- Dispersion of hydrogen release in a naturally ventilated covered car park
- Drawing On Life
- Dynamic demand risk assessment for toll road projects
- Dynamics of blast wave and fireball after hydrogen tank rupture in a fire in the open atmosphere
- Economic assessment of high renewable energy penetration scenario in 2030 on the interconnected Irish power system
- Effect of a heat release rate on reproducibility of fire test for hydrogen storage cylinders
- Effect of public green space on residential property values in Belfast metropolitan area
- Effect of Severe Temperatures and Restraint on Instability and Buckling of Elliptical Steel Columns
- Effect of shock structure on stabilization and blow-off of hydrogen jet flames
- Emergent Cross-Border Functional Geographies on the Island of Ireland: pre- and post-Brexit
- Energy performance certificates and house prices: a quantile regression approach
- Engineering egress data considering pedestrians with reduced mobility
- European emerging real estate markets: Re-examining investment attributes and framing opportunities
- Evacuation response behaviour in unannounced evacuation of licensed premises
- Examining the spatial relationship between environmental health factors and house prices: NO2 problem?
- Experimental and numerical study on the performance of hollow and concrete-filled elliptical steel columns subjected to severe fire
- Experimental characterisation of different hermetically sealed horizontal, cylindrical double vessel Integrated Collector Storage Solar Water Heating (ICSSWH) prototypes
- Experimental study and analysis on flame lengths induced by wall-attached fire impinging upon an inclined ceiling
- Experimental study of a diesel engine heat pump in heating mode for domestic retrofit application
- Experimental study of transitional behavior of fully developed under-ventilated compartment fire and associated facade flame height evolution
- Experimental study on flame morphologic characteristics of wall attached non-premixed buoyancy driven turbulent flames
- Experimental study on the spread and burning behaviors of continuously discharge spill fires under different slopes
- Exploring the biomechanics of walking and crowd "flow"
- High Friction Surfacing Systems Using Blends of Natural Aggregate and Calcined Bauxite
- House price estimation using an eigenvector spatial filtering approach
- House prices and neighbourhood amenities: beyond the norm?
- How heat pumps and thermal energy storage can be used to manage wind power: A study of Ireland
- Hydrogen non-premixed combustion in enclosure with one vent and sustained release: Numerical experiments
- Hydrogen-air deflagrations: Vent sizing correlation for low-strength equipment and buildings
- Impact of crime on spatial analysis of house prices: evidence from a UK city
- Impact of firm-level attributes on listed real estate company performance
- Impact of quality-led design on real estate value: a spatiotemporal analysis of city centre apartments
- Implementing innovation: a stakeholder competency-based approach for BIM
- Innovation management model: a tool for sustained implementation of product innovation into construction projects
- Innovation partnership procurement: EU directive impact
- Institutional integration in transboundary marine spatial planning: A theory-based evaluative framework for practice
- Inter-relationship between the housing market and housing finance system: evidence from Malaysia
- Investigation of nZEB social housing built to the Passive House standard
- Irish Water and Scottish Water: A Comparison
- LIBOR and interest rate spread: sensitivities of the Australian housing market
- LIBOR, base rate spreads and the UK housing market
- Marine Spatial Planning, Brexit and the island of Ireland
- Measuring the cointegration of housing types in Northern Ireland
- Measuring the influence of space and time effects on time on the market
- Mechanism of Heat Transfer through Porous Media of Inorganic Intumescent Coating in Cone Calorimeter Testing
- Modelling heat transfer in an intumescent paint and its effect on fire resistance of on-board hydrogen storage
- Modelling the effect of energy performance certificate rating on property value in the Belfast housing market
- Most promising flexible generators for the wind dominated market
- Net-zero buildings: incorporating embodied impacts
- Notebooks and Narratives. The Secret Laboratory of the Architect's sketchbook
- Numerical and physical requirements to simulation of gas release and dispersion in an enclosure with one vent
- Numerical validation of pressure peaking from an ignited hydrogen release in a laboratory-scale enclosure and application to a garage scenario
- Observed site obstacle impacts on the energy performance of a large scale urban wind turbine using an electrical energy rose
- Occupied By Design: Evaluating Performative Tactics For More Sustainable Shared City Space In Private-led Regeneration Projects
- Office rents, mixed-use developments, and agglomeration economies: a panel data analysis
- Optimal passage size for solar collector micro-channel and tube-on-plate absorbers
- Passive ventilation of a sustained gaseous release in an enclosure with one vent
- Performance analysis of a residential heating system using borehole heat exchanger coupled with solar assisted PV/T heat pump
- Performance analysis of solar assisted heat pump coupled with build-in PCM heat storage based on PV/T panel
- Performance and operational effectiveness of evacuated flat plate solar collectors compared with conventional thermal, PVT and PV panels
- Performance of unprotected and protected cellular beams in fire conditions
- Physical model of onboard hydrogen storage tank thermal behaviour during fuelling
- Pitfalls in Protection: How Theory Can Enrich Our Understanding of Regulatory Compliance Problems in Planning Practice
- Poly-generation as a solution to address the energy challenge of an aging population
- Pressure peaking phenomenon for indoor hydrogen releases
- Pressure peaking phenomenon: Model validation against unignited release and jet fire experiments
- Process Design of CO2 Desorption from physical solvent Di-Methyl-Ethre of poly-Ethylene-Glycol
- Relating surface texture parameters from close range photogrammetry to Grip-Tester pavement friction measurements
- Repeatability and Reliability of New Air and Water Permeability Tests for Assessing the Durability of High Performance Concretes
- Risk assessment methodology for onboard hydrogen storage
- Safe Evacuation for all - Fact or Fantasy? Past Experiences, current Understanding and future challenges
- Simulation and experimental validation of solar radiation distribution on the absorber of a line-axis asymmetric compound parabolic concentrator
- Socially responsible procurement: A service innovation for generating employment in construction
- Structural studies of thermally stable, combustion-resistant polymer composites
- Tariff-based load shifting for domestic cascade heat pump with enhanced system energy efficiency and reduced wind power curtailment
- Techno-economic assessment of cascade air-to-water heat pump retrofitted into residential buildings using experimentally validated simulations
- ‘Test Driving’ a Financing Instrument for Climate Adaptation: Analyzing Institutional Dilemmas using Simulation Gaming
- The blast wave decay correlation for hydrogen tank rupture in a tunnel fire
- The Measure of things
- The Octagon Values Model: community resilience and coastal regeneration
- The performance of concrete exposed to marine environments: Predictive modelling and use of laboratory/on site test methods
- The Political Cost? Religious Segregation, Peace Walls, and House Prices
- The Spatial Dynamic of Retail Planning and Retail Investment: Evidence from Australian Cities
- The use of strong and weak form sustainability to assist in rate development for the valuation of exhaustible resources (part I)
- The use of strong and weak form sustainability to assist in rate development for the valuation of exhaustible resources (part II)
- The whence and whither of Marine Spatial Planning: revisiting the social reconstruction of the marine environment in the UK
- Theoretical and experimental analysis of a horizontal planar Liquid-Vapour Thermal Diode (PLVTD)
- Thermal radiation from cryogenic hydrogen jet fires
- Understanding Rental Prices in the UK: A comparative application of spatial modelling approaches
- Urban design quality and real estate value: in search of a methodological framework
- Vacuum enclosures for solar thermal panels Part 1: Fabrication and hot-box testing
- Vacuum enclosures for solar thermal panels Part 2: Transient testing with an uncooled absorber plate
- Value of demand flexibility for providing ancillary services: A case for social housing in the Irish DS3 market
- Vertical Planar Liquid-Vapour Thermal Diodes (PLVTD) and their application in building façade energy systems
- View factor in cone calorimeter testing
