Prof Richard Fitton
School of Science, Engineering & Environment
Frederick Road Campus
University of Salford
Salford
M6 6PU
Current positions
Professor of Building Performance
Biography
Richard holds a PhD in Building Physics and is also a chartered building surveyor and a Fellow of the RICS. He leads a task group for the development of international standards around energy performance. Richard is the Chairman of the upcoming British Standard for Retrofit Assessment. He is also active the International Energy Agency studying the use of smart meter data to provide energy efficiency data for dwellings. He holds a place on the SAP Scientific Integrity Group at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) which oversees the domestic energy model used in the UK. Richard is also the technical lead for the new Energy House 2 project, a building physics test lab.
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
Publications
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Building energy performance assessment based on in-situ measurements : challenges and general framework
Fitton, R. (2021). Building energy performance assessment based on in-situ measurements : challenges and general framework
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Domestic building fabric performance : closing the gap between the in situ measured and modelled performance
Marshall, A., Fitton, R., Swan, W., Farmer, D., Johnston, D., Benjaber, M., & Ji, Y. (2017). Domestic building fabric performance : closing the gap between the in situ measured and modelled performance. Energy and Buildings, 150, 307-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.06.028