Philip Oldfield

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Expertise Summary

Philip Oldfield is a Lecturer in Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham. His role at Nottingham sees him co-coordinate the Masters Course in Sustainable Tall Buildings and the associated high-rise architecture design studios and seminars. He has also taught tall building studio and lecture modules at universities in Chicago, Venice and Singapore.

Studio output produced by Philip's students has been published widely, including in the Architects' Journal, Building Magazine, Modus, Urbanism + Architecture, Urban Land Institute Magazine and has been displayed as part of the 2011 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition. In addition, his students have been finalists in the 2010 Evolo Skyscraper Competition, the 2011 CTBUH 'Why Tall' Competition, and achieved second place in the 2011 Isover Multi-Comfort House Architectural Competition.

Philip is an active member of the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), and is Co-Chair of the CTBUH Research, Academic and Postgraduate Working Group and a member of the Competitions Committee. He has also sat on the Scientific / Peer Review Committee for the CTBUH 8th World Congress: 'Tall & Green: Typology for a Sustainable Urban Future', held in Dubai, March, 2008. He currently sits on the Editorial Board for the quarterly CTBUH Journal.

Philip's research interests are focused primarily on tall buildings, sustainability and embodied energy / carbon. His current research activities include; • The Carbon Implications of Tall: A Life Cycle Energy / Carbon Analysis of High-Rise Buildings • Double-Skin Facades: The Carbon Equation (an investigation into the embodied and operational carbon impacts of double-skin facades in office buildings in the UK) • The PassivHaus Skyscraper: An Investigation into the Opportunities and Challenges for PassivHaus Performance in High-Rise Residential Buildings in Temperate Climates • The creation of a 'roadmap' to identify and prioritise research within the field of tall buildings in order to advance the typology in the coming years, undertaken in conjunction with the CTBUH, CIB and UNESCO. Philip is the author of numerous papers and has had peer-reviewed papers published in the Journal of Architecture, CTBUH Journal, Urbanism and Architecture and Architectural Science Review. In addition he has written articles for STRUCTURE Magazine (USA), BbICOTHbIE (Russia) and The Big Project (UAE) amongst others.

Research Summary

The sustainable design of tall buildings; tall buildings and life cycle energy / carbon; strategies to reduce embodied energy in tall buildings; opportunities and challenges for passivhaus thinking… read more

Selected Publications

• OLDFIELD, P., 2011. The ‘PassivHaus’ Skyscraper: Opportunities and Challenges for ‘PassivHaus’ Thinking in Tall Building Design In: CTBUH 2011 World Conference “Why Tall? Green, Safety and Humanity”, Seoul, South Korea, October 10 – 12, 2011.
• OLDFIELD, P., 2011. PassivHaus in Higher Education – A Lecturer’s Perspective In: UK PassivHaus Conference 2011, The Barbican, London, 24th – 25th October.
• OLDFIELD, P., 2010. The Carbon Impact of Tall: Embodied Energy in High Rise In: Remaking Sustainable Cities in the Vertical Age. CTBUH 2010 World Conference, Mumbai, India, 3-5 February, 2010.. 97
• OLDFIELD, P. and WOOD, A., 2010. From the Orthogonal to the Irregular: The Role of Innovation in Form of High-Rise Buildings Urbanism and Architecture. 10(73), 27-31

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Current Research

The sustainable design of tall buildings; tall buildings and life cycle energy / carbon; strategies to reduce embodied energy in tall buildings; opportunities and challenges for passivhaus thinking in high-rise.

• OLDFIELD, P., 2011. The ‘PassivHaus’ Skyscraper: Opportunities and Challenges for ‘PassivHaus’ Thinking in Tall Building Design In: CTBUH 2011 World Conference “Why Tall? Green, Safety and Humanity”, Seoul, South Korea, October 10 – 12, 2011.
• OLDFIELD, P., 2011. PassivHaus in Higher Education – A Lecturer’s Perspective In: UK PassivHaus Conference 2011, The Barbican, London, 24th – 25th October.
• OLDFIELD, P., 2010. The Carbon Impact of Tall: Embodied Energy in High Rise In: Remaking Sustainable Cities in the Vertical Age. CTBUH 2010 World Conference, Mumbai, India, 3-5 February, 2010.. 97
• OLDFIELD, P. and WOOD, A., 2010. From the Orthogonal to the Irregular: The Role of Innovation in Form of High-Rise Buildings Urbanism and Architecture. 10(73), 27-31
• KILAIRE, A and OLDFIELD, P., 2010. Aluminium and Double Skin Facades. In: KATGERMAN, L. and SOETENS, F., eds., Proceedings of the 11th International Aluminium Conference ‘INALCO’: “New Frontiers in Light Metals” IOS Press. 177-188
• OLDFIELD, P., TRABUCCO, D. and WOOD, A., 2009. Five Energy Generations of Tall Buildings: An Historical Analysis of Energy Consumption in High-Rise Buildings The Journal of Architecture. VOL 14(NUMBER 5), 591-613
• WOOD, A. and OLDFIELD, P., 2009. Global Trends in High-Rise Design. In: MEI, H. and ZHU, Y., eds., The New Trends of the Creation of High-Rise Building China Architecture and Building Press. 10-13
• OLDFIELD, P. and WOOD, A., 2009. Tall Buildings in the Global Recession: 2008, 2020 and Beyond Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Journal. 1, 20 - 26
• WOOD, A. and OLDFIELD, P., 2008. Global Trends in High-Rise Design Urbanism and Architecture. 10(49), 14-16
• OLDFIELD, P., TRABUCCO, D. and WOOD, A., 2008. Five Energy Generations of Tall Buildings: An Historical Analysis of Energy Consumption in High Rise Buildings. In: WOOD, A., ed., Proceedings of the CTBUH 8th World Congress, Dubai: ‘Tall & Green: Typology for a Sustainable Urban Future’. 300 - 310
• WOOD, A. and OLDFIELD, P., 2007. Bridging the Gap: An Analysis of Proposed Evacuation Links at Height in the World Trade Centre Design Competition Entries. Architectural Science Review. 50(2), 173-180
• WOOD, A. and OLDFIELD, P., 2005. Bridging the Gap: An Analysis of Proposed Evacuation Links at Height in the World Trade Centre Design Competition Entries. In: CTBUH 7th World Congress: ‘Renewing the Urban Landscape’. New York, USA, 16th - 19th October, 2005..