The University of Sheffield
School of Architecture
Dr Mohamed Refaee
  • Building Environments Analysis Unit (BEAU)
    Building Environments Analysis Unit (BEAU)
  • Weather Station
    Weather Station
  • Noise Measurement
    Noise Measurement
  • Thermal Comfort Measurement
    Thermal Comfort Measurement
  • CO2 Measurement
    CO2 Measurement

BSc, MSc, PhD

I am currently a Senior Research Fellow in Building Environments Analysis Unit (BEAU). I am involved in a major £14.9 million ERDF project (The BIG Energy Upgrade: Energy Innovation for Deprived Communities) investigating ways to improve living in homes and energy consumption. I also worked with Dr. Hasim Altan to assess indoor air quality in newly built energy efficient homes in the north east of England, and I conducting a post occupancy monitoring of higher education buildings in the University of Sheffield campus assessing indoor environments of newly constructed buildings. I also involved in an EPSRC project (VivaCity 2020, Sustainable Urban Environments) investigating indoor environment of three cities London, Sheffield and Manchester.

Publications

Journals Articles:
1. Mohamed Refaee, Tomoko Tezuka, Kazuyuki Akasaka, and Michael P Williamson “Pressure Dependent Changes in the solution Structure of Hen Egg-White Lysozyme”, Journal of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, 327, 857-865, 2003

2. Michael P Williamson, Kazuyuki Akasaka, and Mohamed Refaee “The solution structure of bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor at high pressure”, Protein Science (2003), 12:1971–1979.

3. Adams, M., Moore, G., Cox, T., Croxford, B., Refaee, M., Sharples, S. “Sustainable soundscapes: noise policy and the urban experience”, journal of Urban Studies 2005

4. Gemma Moore, Ben Croxford, Mags Adams, Mohamed Refaee, Trevor Cox, Steve Sharples “Urban environmental quality: perceptions and measures in three UK cities” WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 93, pp. 785-794, 2006

5. Adams, M., Moore, G., Cox, T., Croxford, B., Refaee, M. and Sharples, S. (2007) ‘The 24hr City: Residents’ Sensorial Experience’, The Senses and Society, 2(2): 202-15

6. Moore, G., Croxford, B., Adams, M., Cox, T., Refaee, M. and Sharples, S. (2008) ‘The Photo-Survey Research Method: Capturing Life in the City’, Visual Studies, 23(1) 50-61

Book Contributions:
1. Moore G, Adams M, Refaee M, Cox T, Croxford B, and Sharples, S Chapter 4: Urban environmental quality, in Cooper R, Evans G, Boyko C and Adams M (eds.) Designing Sustainable Cites, Wiley Blackwells, 2009

2. Adams M, Moore G, Refaee M, Cox T, Croxford B and Sharples, S Chapter 5: A sense of the city, in Cooper R, Evans G, Boyko C and Adams M (eds.) Designing Sustainable Cites, Wiley Blackwells, 2009

3. Adams M, Moore G, Cox T, Croxford B, Refaee M and Sharples, S Environmental quality, housing and city residents: a sensory urbanism approach, Chapter 8, 185-208, in Maginn P J, Thompson S and Tonts M and Thompson S (eds.), Qualitative Housing Analysis: an International Perspective, Emerald, November 2008

4. Mohamed Refaee, Steve Sharples, Mags Adams, Trevor Cox, Gemma Moore, Ben Croxford “Physical and Perceptional investigation of the urban environment in Clerkenwell, London” 243-257, in Aleya Abdel-Hadi, Mostafa K. Tolba, and SalahSoliman (eds) Environment, Health, and Sustainable Development, Cambridge, MA, Hogrefe Publishing, 2010

Conference Papers:
1. M. Refaee, M. Varley, L-K. Shark, A. P. Jones, and W.J. Gunawardena "Automatic Classification of Motor Neurone Disease by Multiple Statistical Neural Network Processing of in Vivo 1H Magnetic Resonance Spectra"Fourth International Conference on Medical and Biological New Technology 1-2 September 1999, London, Brunel University, Proceedings

2. M. Refaee, and M. Fayed “Health Care Technology for Developing Countries” IEE Colloquium, Feb., 2000

3. M. Refaee, M. Varley, L-K. Shark “Rule Extraction and Reduction from Neural Network for Classification of NMR Spectra” Second International symposium on Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal processing, July 2000

4. Mags Adams, Trevor Cox, Gemma Moore, Ben Croxford, Mohamed Refaee, Steve Sharples “Sustainable soundscapes: expertise and experience in decision making” EASST (European Association for the study of Science and Technology), Conference, Paris, France, August 2004

5. M. Adams, G. Moore, M. Refaee, T. Cox, B. Croxford, S. Sharples “Landscapes, soundscapes and 'sensescapes': understanding the urban environment through the senses”RGS-IBG Conference, Royal Geographical Society, London, September 2005

6. Dr Mags Adams, Ms Gemma Moore, Dr Mohamed Refaee, Prof Trevor Cox, Dr Ben
Croxford, Prof Steve Sharples “Sounds sustainable: environmental quality in the 24-hour city” EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environments: Research Fellows' Conference, Birmingham, February 2005

7. Mohamed Refaee, Steve Sharples, Gemma Moore, Mags Adams, Ben Croxford, Trevor Cox “A case study of indoor environment in Clerkenwell, London” 2006 UKIEG conference "Energy efficiency and the quality of the indoor environment: impacts of human behaviour and building design and use"

8. Mohamed Refaee, Steve Sharples, Gemma Moore, Mags Adams, Ben Croxford, Trevor Cox “Measured indoor environment compared to accepted standards: a case study of Clerkenwell, London” Proceedings of the GBEN 2006 Conference, 208-216, 11-12 September 2006

9. Adams, M., Moore, G., Cox, T., Croxford, B., Refaee, M., Sharples, S. “Sounds sustainable: acoustic quality in the urban environment”, Engineering Sustainability 2005

10. Dr Mags Adams, Gemma Moore, Professor Trevor Cox, Dr Ben Croxford, Dr Mohamed Refaee, Professor Steve Sharples “A palimpsest of sound in the urban environment” Architecture, Music, Acoustics International Cross-Disciplinary Conference, Toronto, Canada, June 2006

11. Gemma Moore, Mags Adams, Ben Croxford, Mohamed Refaee, Trevor Cox and Steve Sharples “Creating a unified approach to understanding urban environmental quality” RGS-IBG Annual Conference September 2006, London

12. Gemma Moore, Ben Croxford, Mags Adams, Mohamed Refaee, Trevor Cox and Steve Sharples “A multi-method approach to extracting objective and subjective accounts of road traffic related noise and air pollution” 2nd Environment & Transport Conference, Reims, France, June 2006

13. Gemma Moore, Ben Croxford, Mags Adams, Mohamed Refaee, Trevor Cox and Steve Sharples “Incorporating local knowledge into urban environmental research: the photo-survey method” PATH Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, 5th-7th June 2006

14. Moore, G., Croxford, B., Adams, M., Refaee, M., Cox, T. & Sharples, S. (March 2006) “Designing Environmental Quality into City Centre Living – An introduction to the VivaCity2020 research project”. British Council Sustainable Cities Workshop. St Petersburg, Russia

15. Sharples S , Parnell R., Refaee M., “A Post Occupancy Evaluation of a UK Sustainable School: Performance and Perception” , the 24th international Conference on Passive and Low Energy Architecture (PLEA 2007)

16. H. Altan, M. Refaee “Assessment of Indoor Air Quality in Newly Built Energy Efficient Homes in the North East of England, UK” CISBAT International Conference, Lausanne , Switzerland, 2009

17. H. Altan ; M. Refaee1; Jitka Mohelnikova, “Air Temperature and CO2 Variation in a University Office Building with Double-skin Façade”, CISBAT International Conference, Lausanne , Switzerland, 2011

18. Mohamed Refaee, Hasim Altan, “Measured indoor environment and energy consumption compared to accepted standards: a case study of Kirklees, Yorkshire, UK”, PLEA2012 - 28th Conference, Opportunities, Limits & Needs Towards an environmentally responsible architecture Lima, Perú 7-9 November 2012

19. Mohamed Refaee, Hasim Altan, “An Evaluation of Indoor Environments in Social Housing in the South Yorkshire and the Humber Region of Engalnd, UK”, 11th International Conference on Sustainable Energy technologies (SET-2012)September 2-5, 2012, Vancouver, Canada

20. Hasim Altan, Mohamed Refaee, Liangxiu Han & Masa Noguchi, “Measured Indoor Environment and Energy Consumption Compared to Accepted Standards: A Case Study in South Yorkshire, UK” ZEMCH 2012 International Conference 20th - 22nd August 2012

21. Hasim Altan, Zakaria Emankaf, Young Ki Kim, and Mohamed Refaee1, “Design of HVAC Systems for Deprived Community Houses in Yorkshire and the Humber Region in the UK”, 33rd AIVC conference – 2nd TightVent conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 10-11 October 2012

22. Refaee M. and Altan H., “The Impact of Indoor Activity on Electrical Energy Consumption and Indoor Environment”, 1st annual international conference on architecture and civil engineering 2013