Following the award of a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, Vic took a PhD at the University of Sheffield with an experimental study of pulse combustion systems. Further contract research followed on convective heat transfer and corrosion in gas turbines before a change of direction with appointment to a lectureship in building science in the School of Architecture at the University of Nottingham.
A return to an engineering environment followed a move in 1980 to the Department of Civil and Building Engineering at Loughborough University, where he was appointed Professor of Building Services Engineering in 1992 and Head of Department 1993-98.
He joined the IESD in January 2001 and his current research interests include simulation of building heating and cooling systems, application of optimisation methods to building systems design and control, airflows within and around buildings and boiler emissions and efficiency. He is currently the Principal Investigator on an EPSRC-funded research project in collaboration with the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. The objective of the project is to find effective ways to use the new UKCP09 climate projections to predict future energy use and thermal comfort in buildings. |
