Role
My goal at NTU is to make an exciting environment motivating students to focus on interesting things and empowering the students to have significant positive impact on the world.
Research areas
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Available for postgraduate supervision (PhD or MPhil) in the sustainable built environment, healthy buildings, nature-based solutions, heritage, and zero carbon technologies.
Dr. Xing’s research interest in Architectural Science and Sustainability spans nature-based solutions, intelligent building technologies, mental health, smart cities, heritage to biophilia, and biomimicry. Dr. Xing has been developing innovative holistic solutions based on building physics and inter-disciplinary research tools and, in a broader context, systemic modelling and assessment of future post-carbon built environments. Dr Xing is devoted to identifying and developing new research activities uncapping the full potentials of multidisciplinary collaboration tackling the grand challenges facing society on the horizon. Dr Xing completed his PhD in Dynamic system simulation for sustainability planning and has participated in EPSRC-funded research projects focusing on methodological and technical innovations supporting the building and urban sustainability. Besides academic research, Dr Xing also has industrial experience working for architectural and engineering consultancy firms specializing in discovering economically viable low/zero carbon building design and urban planning solutions. Dr. Xing is the current Chair of CIBSE Intelligent Building Group |
External activity
Dr Yangang Xing is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHA) and a Member of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers Association (MCIBSE), Chair of Intelligent Building Group
Sponsors and collaborators
Historic England, Natural Insulation Materials for Traditional Buildings
Innovate UK, KTP Project with Allsee Technologies
Intelligent building to incorporating images of nature which improve mental health will be beamed into homes, public spaces, and workplaces as part of a new research project between Nottingham Trent University and international display manufacturer Allsee Technologies. The Innovate UK funded knowledge transfer partnership is led by an inter-disciplinary team. This project lasting over two years – will incorporate screens which can broadcast moving and still images of nature that are so clear they look like the real thing, enabling immersive experiences to enhance wellness, comfort and entertainment. The project will develop “Vieunite” an innovative system which combines an advanced digital canvas with an online community across the globe It also provides artists with a contemporary and unique online platform to sell their work, as well as offering other users a new way of sharing photos and videos with their loved ones to enable us to live together and healthier.
Welsh Assembly Government and Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
EPSRC
Wellcome Trust
British Council
European Regional Structural and Investment Fund
HE Academy https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/system/files/academyesdsept07.pdf
Press expertise
Environmental Crowd Sensing / Citizen Science in a Community newspaper.