buildings PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Buildings are taking 40% of the world energy to generate comfort and healthy environment to the inmates. However, upgrading buildings to address their energy efficiency using cutting edge technology is prime important.

Interactive Smart Windows for Efficient Energy Buildings

Sheffield Hallam University
Materials and Engineering Research Institute

Dr W Issa

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Energy used in the buildings including lighting and energy demand to heat/cool consumes 40% of global energy. In Europe, on average 41% of produced energy is used within buildings.

Optimizing Heating, Ventilation and AC Energy Usage in Large Buildings

Brunel University London
Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Dr M Abbod

Application Deadline: 26 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

Brunel University London (BUL) is recruiting to EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) PhD studentships effective 1 October 2020.

Resilient Cooling Systems for Buildings

Brunel University London
Mechanical Engineering

Prof M Kolokotroni

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Resilient Cooling describes low energy cooling solutions for buildings that strengthen the ability of individuals and our community as a whole to withstand, and also prevent, thermal and other impacts of changes in global and local climates.

VC International Scholarship in Human-Building Interaction in a Changing Climate (HBICC): Delivering Resilience in Performance, Wellbeing, Health and Safety (eligibility criteria apply)

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics

Research Group: Complex Systems

Dr J A Gwilliam, Dr P Eslambolchilar

Application Deadline: 1 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Buildings account for about one third of greenhouse gas emissions globally. exacerbated by poor maintenance, building systems inefficiencies and other human activities.

Buildings as a global carbon sink: investigating realistic pathways addressing the temporal mistmatch between supply and demand SEBE0027

Edinburgh Napier University
School of Engineering and the Built Environment (SEBE)

Dr FP Pomponi, Dr BD D'amico, Dr G Fountas

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The built environment contributes some 40% to global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, and in similar shares to the consumption of finite resources and the generation of waste flows [1].

Discovery of transparent conductors for sustainable buildings using Deep Learning (Reference NSGML2020PS)

University of Liverpool
Department of Chemistry

Prof M J Rosseinsky, Prof J Y Goulermas, Dr M Gaultois, Dr V Gusev

Application Deadline: 31 July 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Transparent conductors are essential for the sustainable future of advanced societies as they are key to the reduction of the energy demand in buildings, and also as transparent electrodes in solar energy conversion.

Discovery of transparent conductors for sustainable buildings using Machine Learning and Advanced Data Analytics (Reference NSGML2020CS)

University of Liverpool
School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Computer Science

Prof J Y Goulermas, Prof M J Rosseinsky, Dr M Gaultois, Dr V Gusev

Application Deadline: 31 July 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities.

Transparent conductors are essential for the sustainable future of advanced societies as they are key to the reduction of the energy demand in buildings, and also as transparent electrodes in solar energy conversion.

Attenuating and controlling the environmental impact of buildings and districts through real-time life cycle assessment

Cardiff University
Cardiff School of Engineering

Prof Y Rezgui, Dr T Beach, Dr I Petri

Application Deadline: 31 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

3.5 Years October 2020. Current LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) methods present important limitations and gaps, including.

Thermal energy management in buildings using CO2 loop

Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Assoc Prof P Eslami-Nejad, Prof M Cimmino

Application Deadline: 28 May 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

The project consists in the study of an innovative ground source thermal energy distribution system in the building using a two-phase CO2 as the heat carrier fluid.

Climate Change impact and resilient practices/technologies/procedures/design for buildings or infrastructure projects used by construction companies to reach net zero carbon footprint

University of Bradford
Faculty of Engineering and Informatics

Research Group: Centre For Sustainable Environments

Prof C Oltean-Dumbrava, Mr E Munive Hernandez

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Climate change is the biggest challenge characterizing our times.

Bamboo-Timber Composite Materials for Tall Buildings and Long Span Structures SEBE0033

Edinburgh Napier University
School of Engineering and the Built Environment (SEBE)

Dr J Zhang, Dr BD D'amico, Dr FP Pomponi

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The UK and several other EU countries are the leading countries on developing advanced sustainable construction materials such as timber and engineered wood products.

Computational Enzyme Design for the Development of Biotechnology to Create a new generation of living buildings (Ref: ET20/HLS/APP/SINGH)

Northumbria University
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

Dr W Singh

Application Deadline: 1 July 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only)

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project has funding attached for UK and EU students, though the amount may depend on your nationality. Non-EU students may still be able to apply for the project provided they can find separate funding. You should check the project and department details for more information.

This PhD project will involve the following topics. Plastic breakdown. Computational enzyme design to suggest mutants which may improve the catalytic efficiency of PETase and MHETase for polyethylene terephthalate hydrolysis.

Buildings, energy and professional ways of thinking

University of Reading
School of the Built Environment

Dr L Schweber, Dr P Boyd

Applications accepted all year round

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

The challenge of designing and constructing energy efficient buildings is both a social and a technical problem.

Building energy efficiency triage ecosystem SEBE0031

Edinburgh Napier University
School of Engineering and the Built Environment (SEBE)

Dr J Bros Williamson

Application Deadline: 30 June 2020

Funding Type

PhD Type

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Retrofitting of the existing building stock has a significant role to play in a national decarbonisation strategy. Despite improvement in building regulations, the UK’s housing stock has some of the oldest and least efficient buildings in Europe.