Prof Richard Fitton
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Current positions
Professor of Building Performance
Biography
Professor Richard Fitton (PhD, FRICS) is Technical Director of the Energy House 2.0 project, a world-leading building physics test facility at the º£½ÇÂÒÂ×.
He serves on the UK Government’s Committee on Fuel Poverty, advising on the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing fuel poverty and encouraging greater coordination across organisations working to tackle fuel poverty.
A Chartered Building Surveyor and Fellow of the RICS, he holds a PhD in Building Physics and has authored over 80 publications on building energy performance and measurement. He leads international task groups developing standards for energy performance assessment.
He is Chair of the British Standard for Retrofit Assessment and serves on the SAP Scientific Integrity Group at BRE, which oversees the UK’s domestic energy model.
He is also a panel member of the RICS Residential Professional Group and co-leads an International Energy Agency Annex developing methods to use smart meter data to derive energy-efficiency metrics in dwellings.
Areas of Research
Building Physics
Energy Performance of Buildings
Insulation
Thermography
Climate Change
Energy Pathology
Building Surveying
Areas of Supervision
Energy Performance
Building Physics
Building Surveying
Building Performance
Delivers a range of modules in the field of Energy Efficiency and Building Surveying
Qualifications
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PhD by Publication - The Thermal Energy Performance of Domestic Dwellings in the UK
2016 -
BSC Building Surveying