DrThomas Parkinson

Senior Lecturer in Building Science

Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning

  • Senior Lecturer in Building Science
    Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning

RESEARCH INTERESTs

- Thermal comfort and psychophysics of human thermal perception
- Adaptive thermal comfort models and standards
- Indoor environmental quality (IEQ)
- Occupant health, wellbeing, and satisfaction in buildings
- Post-occupancy evaluation and building performance assessment
- Personal comfort systems and human-in-the-loop HVAC control
- Sleep environments and thermal resilience
- Indoor air quality, ventilation, and wildfire smoke exposure
- Gender and equity dimensions of thermal comfort
- Data science and machine learning for building science
- Continuous IEQ monitoring systems and sensor networks
- Overheating risk in residential buildings
- Mixed-mode ventilation and naturally conditioned buildings
- Biophilic design and occupant experience

FUNDED RESEARCH

  • GRANT
    Mould exposure in Australian homes: from remediation to prevention
    Australian Research Council (ARC)1 Jun 2026 - 31 May 2029
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    The Power of People: Revolutionising Environmental Monitoring through Citizen Science
    The Council of the City of Sydney1 Jan 2024
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  • GRANT
    Challenging lease agreements in Australia: quantifying the effects of higher temperatureset points on office workers productivity and thermal comfort
    The Council of the City of Sydney2 May 2016
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    Energy savings in commercial buildings using real-time pervasive monitoring of IEQ performance
    The Council of the City of Sydney1 Jan 2016
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