I am Professor of Sustainable and Resilient Buildings, the Lead for CSAD's Sustainable and Resilient Bult Environment research group, which is part of the University's Human Centred Design Global Academy. I am CSAD's Professional Doctorate Coordinator including pathways in Art & Design Professional Practice (DProf), Design Management (D.Design Management) Engineering (DEng) and Sustainable Built Environment (DSBE). 

I am a multi-disciplinary Engineering practioner undertaking change management, research, and innovation projects in Architecture, the Built Environment and Engineering.

I am a Chartered Building Engineer, Chartered Architectural Technologist and I hold a Ph.D. in Building Performance Assessment of Nearly-Zero Operational Energy Dwellings, undertaken in collaboration with Gwalia Housing Association (Pobl) and co-funded by the Ecology Building Society.

I have collaborated with internal and external stakeholders, including learned societies, governments, funding bodies, industry and the third sector from the start of my PhD in 1996. To date (October 2025) I have led as Principal Investigator (PI) 55+ successful external research and innovation (R&I) & Knowledge Transfer (KT) income generation initiatives of circa £4.6 Million. This includes nine KT bids, inckluding a 36-month KTP project I led for Sevenoaks Modular successfully completed in 2022, which was awarded Outstanding by InnovateUK in 2023: https://youtu.be/-GSIaYBNf7I and in 2025 features in the Welsh Government's 50 year KTP celebrations: https://youtu.be/zAlBnZrrXy0 . 

I foundered and I have led the first research group dedicated to Architecture, the Built Environment and Engineering at Cardiff Met since 2009: the Sustainable and Resilient Built Environment Research  (SuRBe) group, with membership from four of the five schools.

My change management, innovation, and research expertise has been externally focused since the mid 1990's, leading 55+ external successful grant applications; to deliver impact for a range of government agencies, housing organisations, consultants, building contractors and material manufacturers in north America, the middle east, and the UK. In particular I have developed multiple interventions to assess qualitatively and quantitively and to optimise the performance of new or existing dwellings during design, manufacture, adaptation and retrofit, construction, commissioning and also operation to maximise user comfort, indoor air quality and quality of life and reduce embodied and operational carbon emissions.

To date (October 2025) I have supervised to completion 20 doctorates: DBA, DEng, DSBE, DProf, EdE and PhD. I have examined 29 doctorates: DEng, DSBE, DProf, EdE, EngD, PhD and PhD by Publication. My examination experience has been in Australia, France, Italy and the UK. I have also Chaired examination panels of 13 doctorates: EdD and PhD.