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
- Towards an automated workflow for large-scale housing retrofit. Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 061006-061006.
- Estimating energy consumption of residential buildings at scale with drive-by image capture. Building and Environment, 234, 110188-110188.
- The intrinsic cybernetics of large complex systems and how droughts turn into floods. Science of The Total Environment, 859, 159979-159979.
- Scalable Residential Building Geometry Characterisation Using Vehicle-Mounted Camera System. Energies, 15(16).
- 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, 112384-112384.
- A scalable data collection, characterization, and accounting framework for urban material stocks. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26(1), 58-71.
- Mapping resource effectiveness across urban systems. npj Urban Sustainability, 1.
- On the use of random graphs in analysing resource utilization in urban systems. Royal Society Open Science, 7(4), 200087-200087.
- 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, 254, 113618-113618.
- 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).
Chapters
- Resource Effectiveness in and Across Urban Systems, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures (pp. 1423-1432). Springer International Publishing
- Resource Effectiveness in and Across Urban Systems, The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures (pp. 1-10). Springer International Publishing
Conference proceedings papers
- Deep multimodal learning for residential building energy prediction. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 1078(1) (pp 012038-012038)
- Measuring the Cityscape: A Pipeline from Street-Level Capture to Urban Quantification. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 1078(1) (pp 012036-012036)
- 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
- Towards an automated workflow for large-scale housing retrofit. Environmental Research Letters, 18(6), 061006-061006.
- Research group
- PhD opportunities
If you're interested in a PhD project please contact Hadi at the email above. Current PhD opportunities in the department can be viewed here.