Ben Croxford

Ben Croxford

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environments

Ben Croxford

Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Built Environments
UCL Institute of Environmental Design & Engineering
b.croxford@ucl.ac.uk

Biography

Senior lecturer on MSc Environmental Design and Engineering course within the new UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering. He was course director of MSc EDE from 2007 to 2013. He is director of Teaching and Learning of the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, and a co-director for the UCL Royal Academy of Engineering Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design.

Ben has a first degree in Computer Systems and Electronic Engineering from Kings College London. He gained his PhD working in Professor Littler’s Research in Building group at the University of Westminster, his thesis was titled An Intelligent Domestic Central Heating Controller, investigating intelligent buildings and was completed in 1994.

His first post-doctoral research position was at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies with Alan Penn measuring urban pollution in streets. He developed a monitoring instrument, the StreetBox which is now commercially available. Further large research projects followed, including the investigation of the IAQ environment of offices, and assessing neighbourhood scale, energy efficiency.
Ben was made a lecturer on the MSc EDE course in 2000, Senior Lecturer in 2007 and was course director from 2007 until 2013.

He has won several research grants relating to air quality work; including, as a co-investigator on Vivacity 2020, and as principal investigator on carbon monoxide related projects with Department of Health, Health and Safety Executive and the CORGI Trust. In 2011 he won funds to monitor one of the TSB Retrofit for the Future homes as part of a consortium led by Metropolitan Housing Trust. He has recently completed a small post occupancy evaluation study in collaboration with Faithful and Gould for M&S Cheshire Oaks, their flagship environmental store.

He was Director of Teaching and Learning at the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies (BSGS) 2010-2014. He is now Director of Teaching and Learning, and Post graduate tutor (teaching) for the Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources.

For a full list of publications click here.

Projects

W3UP4 – A study of heat-loss in pre-1919 suspended timber ground floors

W3UP8 – Pre-1919 suspended timber ground floors in the UK: estimating in-situ U-values and heat loss reduction potential of interventions

W3UP8 – Pre-1919 suspended timber ground floors in the UK: estimating in-situ U-values and heat loss reduction potential of interventions

W2UP13 – Whole-house ventilation systems in low energy UK housing; investigating user acceptance of innovative technologies

W2UP13 – Whole-house ventilation systems in low energy UK housing; investigating user acceptance of innovative technologies

Supervisors