Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments

Runming Yao is a Reader in Sustainable Built Environment and Head of Innovative Sustainable Technology group at the School of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading and Visiting Professor of Chongqing University in China. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), Fellow of Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and member of the American Society of Heating Refrigerating Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). She has broad interests in sustainability of the built environment including energy in buildings; building environmental performance assessment; thermal comfort and wellbeing; occupants’ behaviour; intelligent energy management and control, and low carbon eco-cities. She is the founder and current course director of the Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environment Master’s programme at the University of Reading.

Sustainability in the built environment.- Buildings and climate change.- Low carbon sustainable urban scale master-planning.- Urban microcirculation.- Urban microclimates and simulation.- Urban acoustic environment.- Management of  urban surface water.- Urban waste management.- Design of the indoor environment.- Energy efficient building design.- Renewable energy for buildings.- Building simulation.- CFD simulation for sustainable building design.- Occupancy behaviour and building performance.- Facilities management.- Information management for sustainable building projects.- Sustainable construction materials.- Assessing the built environment.- Organizing for sustainable procurement: theories, institutions and practice.- The BRE Innovation Park: Some lessons learnt from the demonstration buildings.