Prof Christopher Gorse
Director
The Leeds Sustainability Institute
Leeds Metropolitan University

Professor Christopher Gorse: BSc (Hons), MSc. PhD, MCIOB, MAPM, FHEA, Cert Ed, Dip Ed, Dip.

Christopher Gorse is a Professor of Construction and Project Management, he is a Chartered Builder, with over 20 years industrial and academic experience in buildings, materials and management.  Chris has written extensively on the construction of domestic and industrial buildings, the processes required to deliver them successfully, measure their performance and the impact of underperformance.  Chris sits on the Association for Researchers in Construction Management committee, is a member of the Chartered Institute of Building Innovation and Research panel and leads a sub task group for the International Energy Agency.

Recently Chris has undertaken research and consultancy projects for the Building Research Establishment, Department of Energy and Climate Change, English Heritage, Low Carbon Futures and a number of leading industrial contractors and material suppliers. Projects range from simple monitoring and laboratory tests to multidisciplinary international projects that draw on the knowledge and  behavioural scientists, statisticians, building physicists and modelling experts. The European sub task group 2, which Chris leads for the International Energy Agency, Annex 58, is developing methodologies for whole building heat loss to determine and characterise building and element performance.  Leading publications include text on process management, upgrading of buildings and the technology of domestic and non-domestic buildings.

As Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute and Head of the Low Carbon Sustainability Research Group CeBE, Chris leads a research unit that has amassed the most comprehensive sets of actual building thermal performance data in the UK.  The team has extensive knowledge and expertise in whole building performance, hygrorothermal properties of building elements (modelled and constructed) and inuse building energy consumption.  The work of the group is most noted for its recognition of the performance gap, unexpected occurrences and consequences, and their impact on built environment energy consumption.