Building monitoring equipment
We have a long track record in monitoring the performance of domestic and non-domestic buildings.
The monitoring has been both large scale projects and one off case studies, these include:
- Solcer Project houses
- Sustainable Building Envelope Demonstration (SBED) project
- Maes yr Onn
- Health Impacts of Structural Energy Performance Investments in Wales (Arbed Programme)
- Carbon Comfort and Control
- Retrofit for the Future
- Energy Performance Assessment (EPA) project
- Healthy Office Environment Study
- Susref
- STACS
Monitoring equipment
The Environmental Lab has an extensive inventory of monitoring equipment which is normally available for postgraduate research students (through their supervisor) and researchers. Undergraduate students can speak to their course tutors to arrange access to the equipment as part of their studies.
- infra-red cameras
- pressurisation testing equipment (Blower doors)
- balometers
- temperature and humidity sensors
- sound level meters
- net radiometers
- pyranometers
- rainfall
- airflow and pressure
- wind speed and direction
- light level
- heat meters
- electric meters
- gas meters
- water meters
- data loggers devices (Campbell Scientific, Eltek and Tinytag).
Read our step-by-step guide to the postgraduate application process and see the criteria required for your programme of study.