Research projects
- 2020-2022: 'Residential change - the potential of common and private spaces’ , a 2 year research project funded by YH Kodit housing foundation and YH Kodit housing company - Key researchers are Katja Maununaho, Tapio Kaasalainen, Sini Saarimaa and Elina Luotonen with Jyrki Tarpio and Sofie Pelsmakers.
- 2020-2021: 'Low impact, low energy housing and neighbourhoods in the Häme region' with Panu Lehtovuori (PI) and Jyrki Tarpio and Sofie Pelsmakers, 12 month design, research and development project with Kante-Häme, EU Regional Development Funding
- Architecture in the Anthropocene and the climate emergency: several publications due as co-editor and co-author in 2021.
- 'Co-constructing a Finnish Energy Observatory (FeNO), with Harriet Thomson and Karla Ricalde at Birmingham University, together with Raul Castano-Rosa and Sofie Pelsmakers at ASUTUT received funding to to be held in May 2020, funded by the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA).
- 2020-2022: 'Carbon Neutral Development Through Net Zero and Net Impact Design’ with Prof Ming Hu at Maryland University, to compare US and Finnish, and other European nZEB standards; she will stay with us at Tampere University in 2021.
- 2020: Tall wooden residential towers in Finland and internationally', Emre Ilgin and Prof Markku Karjalainen
- 2020-2024: '100 years of historic ideals and realisations of sustainable architecture of the Nordic region' , troels Rugbjerg ( part-time PhD), with Sofie Pelsmakers and Prof Ilmari Lahdelma as supervisors.
- 2019-2020: what is holistic sustainable Nordic architecture? With Dr Jyrki Tarpio
- 2019- present: Member of transnational research collective 'Nordic Sustainable Architecture', with Elizabeth Donovan and Urszula Kozminska.
- 2021: Book in preparation: Kimpian, J., Hartman, H., Pelsmakers, S., Energy, People Buildings: Architecture for a Changing World, due 2020), Riba Publishing
- 2018- 2019: part of the 'Emerging Architectures and Sustainability' group at AAA, investigating the role and value of architecture and architects in climate contingency, adaptation and our role in design, architectural design pedagogy and performance validation to support a more resilient world.
- 2017 – present: suspended timber ground floor heat loss; floor void conditions and unintended consequences of building upgrades.
- 2016-2017: Primary investigator of Innovate UK (government) funded projects with an industry partner in London
- UK patent-pending with industry partner (GB17101780.7, April 2017)
- 2016-2019: Occupant thermal comfort implications of cold floors (with Salford University & SHS/Airex industry partner)
- 2016-2017: co-investigator of inter-disciplinary pilot study: the public perception of eco-materials, working with architects, engineers and social scientists from Leeds, Sheffield and York university. White Rose funded.
- 2016-2017: Technical advisor and educational lead on Erasmus+ funded EU NET-Learning project (London, Rome, Turin + Prague): on-line learning course for young architects in Europe on low energy retrofit.
- 2011-2015: 4 year EPSRC research scholarship awarded for MRes and PhD research at UCL, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
- 2012: Contributing Researcher for STBA/DECC publication 'Responsible Retrofit of Traditional Buildings'''and floor expert for the Retrofit Guidance Wheel
