Dr Birgit Painter

Dr Birgit Painter is a long-term member of the Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development (IESD), with particular interests in building performance evaluation and smart/advanced built environment. 

Following the award of the degree of Diplom-Ingenieur in Environmental Technology (TH Lübeck, Germany), Birgit first joined the IESD as a research student, and completed a PhD project with a focus on personal exposure to particulate matter. She has subsequently been involved in various research activities regarding building performance evaluation, looking at visual and thermal comfort, and linking qualitative performance data to human factors. Birgit has experience in environmental monitoring, particularly regarding the design and execution of long-term data collection campaigns. 

Birgit is programme leader for the IET accredited course MSc Engineering Management. She teaches on the IESD’s MSc courses, as module leader for Sustainable Buildings, and supervises PhD and MSc projects.

Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development

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Building performance assessment - multidisciplinary work in environmental science, including:

• Sustainable buildings - energy efficient design and operation.
• Smart built environment (Smart Cities, BIM).
• Building performance analysis, post-occupancy evaluation of environmental and human factors.
• Visual and thermal comfort studies.
• Air quality monitoring and analysis.
• Longitudinal post-occupancy studies.

Sustainable built environment, Energy in buildings, Passive building design

PhD – De Montfort University

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) – University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck, Germany

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE) - De Montfort University

MSc Engineering Management

MSc Energy and Sustainable Development 

MSc Energy and Sustainable Building Design 

MCIBSE - Member of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers

FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Affiliate Member of the Society of Light and Lighting (SLL)

EC-glazing – A retrofit case study (the VIEW project), Clephan Building DMU, ongoing, supported by SAGE Glass and Saint Gobain.

Nagah Ali, PhD, Full time, 2^ndsupervisor

Shafiaa Alghamdi, PhD, Full time, 2^ndsupervisor

Nittalin Phunapai, PhD, Full time, 2^ndsupervisor

Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship ‘Integrated building performance’, 2017-18

Quantifying Visual Discomfort in the Daylit Workplace using a High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging Approach, EPSRC, 2007-2010, First grant (Principal investigator), EP/E027148/1, £183,000.