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Dr David Allinson
BEng(Hons) MSc(Eng) PhD

Senior Research Associate in Building Energy Modelling and Monitoring

Background

Mechanical engineering graduate with a background in large scale experimental research and testing. Worked in the Private, Government and University sectors before embarking on a PhD at The University of Nottingham in 2003. Involved with building modelling ever since and particuarly interested in the energy performance of houses, especially the challenge of how to refurbish current UK housing stock to meet the requirements of the future.

Broad Interests and Expertise

• Building energy modelling with sensitivity and uncertainty analysis
• Experimental thermal and moisture characterisation of buildings and building materials
• Measurement of energy use in buildings
• GIS mapping, databases and secondary data sources for modelling energy use in houses
• Refurbishing the UKs housing stock to meet the needs of the future

Research Group

Building Energy Research

Current Research Activities

4M: An Evidence Based Methodology for Understanding and Shrinking the urban carbon footprint, EPSRC - Measuring, Modelling, Mapping and Managing domestic energy use on a city-wide scale

Disaggregated Scenarios for Demand Studies (DS4DS), UK Energy Research Centre - The development of spatially disaggregated energy demand scenarios across the UK from the present day to 2050

Previous Research Projects

• Investigating the use and optimisation of rammed earth materials for building integrated passive air conditioning
• Evaluation of aerial thermography to discriminate loft insulation in residential housing

Other Information

Current research students

Jon Morris Developing a framework for local authority domestic CO₂ emission reduction policies

Kate Simpson The broader outcomes of energy retrofit to dwellings in low income areas

Richard Jack Investigating a rapid, non-invasive, low cost diagnostic tool for determining domestic building's thermal performance

BECKS: the Building Energy and Comfort Knowledge Sharing network and colloquia

Internal web pages: http://learn.lboro.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=5855

External web page: http://lubecks.weebly.com/

Follow BECKS on Twitter: http://twitter.com/LUBECKS

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

Allinson D, Hall M. (2011) The humidity buffering potential of stabilised rammed earth materials by experimental, analytical and numerical evaluation. Proceedings of ICE- Construction Materials. Accepted for publication 1/8/11.

Allinson D, Hall M. (2010) Hygrothermal analysis of a stabilised rammed earth test building in the UK. Energy and Buildings, 42(6), p 845-852.

Lomas K J, Bell M C, Firth S K, Gaston K J, Goodman P, Leake J R, Namdeo A, Rylatt M, Allinson D, Davies Z G, Edmondson J L, Galatioto F, Brake J A, Guo L, Hill G, Irvine K N, Taylor S C and Tiwary A. (2010) The Carbon Footprint of UK Cities 4M: measurement, modelling, mapping and management, ISOCARP Review 06, International Society of City and Regional Planners, p168-191.

Hall M, Allinson D. (2010) Transient numerical and physical modelling of temperature profile evolution in stabilised rammed earth walls. Applied Thermal Engineering, 30(5), p 433-441.

Hall M, Allinson D. (2010) Evaporative drying in stabilised compressed earth materials using unsaturated flow theory. Building and Environment, 45(3), p 509-518.

Hall M, Allinson D. (2009) Analysis of the hygrothermal functional properties of stabilised rammed earth materials. Building and Environment, 44(9), p1935-1942.

Hall M, Allinson D. (2009) Influence of cementitous binder content on moisture transport in stabilised earth materials using 1-dimensional sharp wet front theory. Building and Environment, 44(4), p 688-693.

Hall M, Allinson D. (2009) Assessing the effects of soil grading on the moisture content-dependent thermal conductivity of stabilised rammed earth materials Applied Thermal Engineering, 29(4), p740-747.

Hall M, Allinson D. (2009) Assessing the moisture-content dependent parameters of stabilised earth materials using the cyclic-response admittance method”. Energy and Buildings, 40(11), p 2044-2051.

Refereed Conference Publications

Morris J, Allinson D, Harrison J and Lomas K J (2011) Developing a benchmarking tool for measuring the effectiveness of local authority domestic energy reduction policies. Proceedings of the Research Students’ Conference on “Buildings Don’t Use Energy, People Do?”, Bath, UK.

Kane, Firth S K, Lomas K, Allinson D, Irvine K N (2011) Variation of indoor temperatures and heating practices in UK dwellings. Proceedings of the Research Students’ Conference on “Buildings Don’t Use Energy, People Do?”, Bath, UK.

Kane T, Firth S K, Allinson D, Irvine K N, Lomas K J (2011) Understanding occupant heating practices in UK dwellings. Proceedings of World Renewable Energy Congress 2011, Linköping, Sweden.

Kane T, Firth S K, Allinson D, Irvine K N, Lomas K J (2010) Does the age of occupants influence heating practice behaviour in UK residential buildings? Proceedings for East Midlands Universities Association 2010 Conference - Perspectives in Society: Health, Culture, and the Environment, Nottingham, UK.

Mori H, Allinson D, Hall M, Gan G, Riffat S. (2009) Feasibility Study of Modifying Soil Thermal Conductivity for Ground Source Heat Pump Systems. Proceedings for SET2009, Aachen, Germany.

Mori H, Allinson D, Hall M, Gan G, Riffat S. (2008) Enhancement of Sub-soil Thermal Conductivity for Geothermal Heat Pump Systems with Rainwater Collection., Proceedings of SET 2008, Seoul, Korea.

Allinson D, Hall M, (2007) Investigating the optimisation of stabilised rammed earth materials for passive air conditioning in buildings. Proceedings of ISES 2007, Bangalore, India.

Al-Habaibeh A, Allinson D, Redgate J S, Medjdoub B (2006) The application of infrared thermography for energy conservation in buildings. Proceedings of CCIM 2006, The British University in Dubai, Dubai.

Allinson D, Medjdoub B, Wilson R (2005) Aerial thermography for energy conservation in the built environment- a case study of Nottingham. Proceedings of PLEA 2005, Beirut, Lebanon.

Allinson D, Medjdoub B, Wilson R (2005) Towards quantitative aerial thermal infrared thermography for energy conservation in the built environment. Proceedings of Thermosense XXVII, Orlando, USA, SPIE Vol.5782.
 

Book Chapter

Hall M, Allinson D. (2010) Chapter 1: Heat & mass transport processes in building materials. In: Hall M (ed.) Materials for Energy Efficiency & Thermal Comfort in Buildings. Woodhead Publishing, Cambridge.