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Role:
Department staff:
- Position:Senior Lecturer
- Department:FET - Architecture and the Built Environment
- Telephone:+4411732 86149
- Email:Francisco.Sierra@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Francisco is an educator, researcher, and consultant. Senior Fellow of the Higher Academy and Senior Lecturer of Zero Carbon Architecture at the University of the West of England (UWE). He holds a PhD in the area of the development of structural solutions to achieve zero thermal bridges, as well as an MSc in modeling and assessment of embodied and operational energy (Cardiff University). He is responsible for lecturing on MArch, MSc BIM at UWE, and leads the MSc Facade Engineering program. Francisco is also consultant for embodied and operational carbon calculations.
I am passionate about our responsibility to create a more socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable construction industry.
Area of expertise
Extensive work and research experience in the multi-disciplinary area of sustainability for construction, including embodied and operational carbon, construction digitization, thermal bridging, well-being, responsible retrofitstrategies, building monitoring, Passivhaus, BIM, and the emerging area of 3D printing.
Director of studies of four PhD students, and supervising several master thesis at UWE.
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