Dr Hadi Arbabi
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Lecturer in the Built Environment


+44 114 222 5751
Full contact details
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
Room F132
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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My research helps to providing new insights on the effects of spatial scale on urban economic performance.
Dr Hadi Arbabi
Hadi’s work and research interests sit at the interface of data-driven urban engineering and planning. As a work package leader for Active Building Centre, his research focused on scalable approaches to building stock characterization for retrofit purposes. Prior to this, Hadi’s research involved providing new insights on the effects of spatial scale on urban economic performance balance and the extent to which it is influenced by urban density and mobility infrastructure across spatial scales.
Research Themes
- Research interests
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Hadi's research activity and interests include but are not limited to practical uses of urban scaling and allometry, city morphology, infrastructure planning for agglomeration, network analysis of intra- and inter-city urban flows and urban metabolism, building stocks and retrofit.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Estimating energy consumption of residential buildings at scale with drive-by image capture. Building and Environment, 110188-110188.
- Scalable residential building geometry characterisation using vehicle-mounted camera system. Energies, 15(16). View this article in WRRO
- Comment on Bettignies et al. The scale-dependent behaviour of cities: a cross-cities multiscale driver analysis of urban energy use. Sustainability 2019, 11, 3246. Sustainability, 14(7).
- Net zero by 2050 : investigating carbon-budget compliant retrofit measures for the English housing stock. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 161. View this article in WRRO
- A scalable data collection, characterization, and accounting framework for urban material stocks. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(1), 58-71. View this article in WRRO
- Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems. npj Urban Sustainability, 1. View this article in WRRO
- On the use of random graphs in analysing resource utilization in urban systems. Royal Society Open Science, 7. View this article in WRRO
- Productivity, infrastructure and urban density—an allometric comparison of three European city regions across scales. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 183(1), 211-228. View this article in WRRO
- An Ecological-Thermodynamic Approach to Urban Metabolism: Measuring Resource Utilization with Open System Network Effectiveness Analysis. Applied Energy. View this article in WRRO
- Urban performance at different boundaries in England and Wales through the settlement scaling theory. Regional Studies, 53(6), 887-899. View this article in WRRO
- Corrigendum to “Ecological network analysis on intra-city metabolism of functional urban areas in England and Wales” [Resour. Conserv. Recycl. 138 (2018) 172–182]. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 145, 457-457.
- On the development logic of city-regions: inter- versus intra-city mobility in England and Wales. Spatial Economic Analysis, 14(3), 301-320. View this article in WRRO
- Ecological network analysis on intra-city metabolism of functional urban areas in England and Wales. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 138, 172-182. View this article in WRRO
- Comments on ‘A multi-level framework for metabolism in urban energy systems from an ecological perspective’ by Pulido Barrera et al. (2018). Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 136, 463-465. View this article in WRRO
- Urban and Rural—Population and Energy Consumption Dynamics in Local Authorities within England and Wales. Buildings, 6(3). View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Resource Effectiveness in and Across Urban Systems In Brears R (Ed.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Conference proceedings papers
- Deep multimodal learning for residential building energy prediction. IOP Conference Series : Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 1078. Berlin, Germany, 20 September 2022 - 23 September 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Measuring the cityscape : a pipeline from street-level capture to urban quantification. IOP Conference Series : Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 1078. Berlin, Germany, 20 September 2022 - 23 September 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Demolish or reuse? – The balance between operational and embodied emissions in the retrofit of commercial buildings. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 1078(1) (pp 012016-012016)
Reports
Theses / Dissertations
Preprints
- Estimating energy consumption of residential buildings at scale with drive-by image capture. Building and Environment, 110188-110188.
- Research group
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Resources, Infrastructure Systems and built Environments
- Potential PhD offerings
PhD Opportunities: Quantifying Agglomeration Productivity Premiums Associated With Spatial Organization In Cities And Across System Of Cities (https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/quantifying-agglomeration-productivity-premiums-associated-with-spatial-organization-in-cities-and-across-system-of-cities/?p127119), Critical Infrastructure Systems Under Extreme Climate Change (https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/critical-infrastructure-systems-under-extreme-climate-change/?p127116), The materials, and their embodied energy, for growing and maintaining cities (https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/the-materials-and-their-embodied-energy-for-growing-and-maintaining-cities/?p131570)