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Andrew Wright is an Associate Profess and joined Âéw¶¹´«Ã½ in September 2004. He is Subject Group Leader for teaching of Energy and Built Environment. Research interests include low energy buildings, energy in industry, and renewable energy in the developing world.

Following a degree in Applied Maths at Sheffield, he took an MSc in Atmospheric Physics at Imperial College, London, and for his PhD investigated computer modelling of the thermal performance of industrial buildings. Before coming to De Montfort, Andrew at UMIST (now University of Manchester). He has previously worked for the UK Electricity Industry at EA Technology Ltd near Chester; Newcastle University; and the Building Design Partnership in Manchester.

He has written many journal papers relating to energy use in buildings, and numerous reports for EA Technology. Andrew is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), and a member of the Energy Institute. He has contributed to the design guides on Environmental Design (Volume A) and Weather (Volume J), and is sercretary of the CIBSE Schools Design Group. He has also contributed to reports for Ofgem,  DECC and the Department of Health.

Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development

Toledo, L., Wright, A., & Cropper, P. (2024). Case study investigation of overheating in low-energy homes: insights from a post-occupancy evaluation in England. Building Research & Information, 53(1–2), 139–164. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2024.2417274

Tian, L., Wright, A., Painter, B., & Pazhoohesh, M. (2023). Factors influencing BIM use in green building construction project management in the UK and China. Building Research & Information, 51(7), 853–870. https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2023.2213356 

Mendoza, C., Oyinlola, M., Wright, A. and Greenough, R. (2019) Experimental study of a domestic solar assisted ground source heat pump with seasonal underground thermal storage through shallow boreholes. Applied Thermal Engineering.

Naranjo-Mendoza, C., Oyinlola, M., Wright, A. and Greenough, R. (2018) A comparison of analytical and numerical model predictions of shallow soil temperature variation with experimental measurements. Geothermics, 76, pp. 38-49.

Qiu, Z., Ma, X., Li, P., Zhao, X., and Wright, A. (2017) Micro-encapsulated phase change material (MPCM) slurries: Characterization and building applications. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 77, pp. 246–262

Wright AJ and Firth S, The nature of domestic electricity-loads and effects of time averaging on statistics and on-site generation calculations, Applied Energy, Vol 84, pp 389-403, (2007), ISSN: 0306-2619

Shipworth M, Firth SK, Gentry MI, Wright AJ, Shipworth DT & Lomas KJ (2009), Central heating thermostat settings and timing: building demographics, Building Research & Information, Vol 38, Iss 1, pp 50-69

Energy in buildings and thermal storage, modelling, monitoring and climate change in relation to buildings, retrofit.

Low carbon energy, sustainable buildings, research skills, maths.

BSc Applied Maths, MSc Atmospheric Physics, PhD

Building physics, Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Buildings, Research Methods (on MSc courses).

British Science Association Media Fellow 2011

CIBSE: Member and Secretary of Educational Buildings Group

Fellow of CIBSE

Member of the Energy Institute, 2013

Chartered Engineer 1988 -

Alternative Energy Sources, Materials and Technologies (AESMT’24), 14 - 15 May, 2024, Sofia, Bulgaria.

International Conference on Energy, Environment and Economics (ICEEE2019) 20-22 August 2019, Edinburgh Conference Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, Edinburgh.

Wright, A.J., Korolija I., Zhang Y. Optimization of dwelling design under current and future climates using parametric simulations in EnergyPlus, CIBSE Technical Symposium- Delivering Buildings that are truly fit for purpose, Liverpool, April 2013.

A. J. Wright, M.R Oates, R. Greenough. Concepts for dynamic modeling of energy-related flows in manufacturing, Applied Energy Conference, Suzhou, China, July 2012.

Academic lead on 2 x Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) with Advanced Infrastructure Ltd., on modelling energy demand from buildings, and electrical networks (2022 – 2024).

Academic lead on Accelerate Knowledge Transfer (AKT) Partnership with Marlowe Foods Ltd. evaluating carbon reduction options for their Quorn food production (2024).

Academic lead on Knowledge Transfer Partnership with York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (2011 – 2013).

Projects lead on:

LESSONS project, TSB, collaborative research, April 2010 – March 2013, PI for Âéw¶¹´«Ã½ work, Pick Everard, Vanguard Homes Ltd., IES

THERM, TSB, collaborative research, Sep 2008 – Aug 2010, CI, Toyota, Airbus, IES

Retrofit for the Future, TSB, 6 projects, 2009-2012, East Midland Housing, Newcastle City Council, Vanguard Homes, PI for Âéw¶¹´«Ã½ work.

Closing the Gap, i_net, PI, Jeld Wen UK Ltd, Vanguard Homes, Nottingham Trent University, 2010.

Journal Refereeing information:

Mainly: Energy and buildings; Building and Environment; Building Services Research Information and Technology; Applied Energy; Building Services Engineering Research & Technology.

Advising on development of a low energy house being built on Herefordshire, with storage of solar heat from PVT panels in a water tank, designed to be zero carbon (under construction). This will be monitored by us when complete.

Work on our Retrofit for the Future project (reported on TV and other media) influenced retrofit and new build thinking for East Midlands Housing Group.

Advising on development of a ‘solar house’ which stores solar heat energy from the summer underground, and uses it to heat the house during the winter. This was built in Great Glen near Leicester by Caplin Homes.  I was interviewed about this on BBC East Midlands News TV and Radio Leicester in March and it featured in the Leicester Mercury.