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Darren Robinson is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their body of work spans Environmental Science and Engineering, with a focus on several subfields including Building and Construction, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, as well as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their research extensively covers topics related to Building Energy and Comfort Optimization, Municipal Solid Waste Management, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management, Climate Change and Health Impacts, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, and Energy Efficiency and Management.

Recent publications by Darren Robinson include:

  • Generalized models to predict the lower heating value (LHV) of municipal solid waste (MSW), 2020, Energy
  • Thermal comfort modelling of older people living in care homes: An evaluation of heat balance, adaptive comfort, and thermographic methods, 2021, Building and Environment
  • On the Reliable Generation of 3D City Models from Open Data, 2020, Urban Science
  • A multi-scale integrated assessment model to support urban sustainability, 2021, Sustainability Science
  • Sizing solar-based mini-grids for growing electricity demand: Insights from rural India, 2022, Journal of Physics Energy

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Darren Robinson include Peer-Olaf Siebers, Dan Wang, Yu-Ting Tang, Jun He, and Choo Yoon Yi. These partnerships have supported multi-disciplinary research outputs in associated fields.

The most common venues for Robinson's publications are:

  • Building and Environment
  • Journal of Building Performance Simulation
  • Energy
  • Urban Science
  • Sustainability Science

Their work integrates advanced modelling techniques and sustainability assessments targeted at urban environments, waste management, and energy demand forecasting. This reflects a research trajectory that addresses practical challenges linked to environmental impacts and resource management within engineering and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • A generalised stochastic model for the simulation of occupant presence

    Jessen Page;Darren Robinson;Nicolas Morel;Jean-Louis Scartezzini

  • Interactions with window openings by office occupants

    Frédéric Haldi;Darren Robinson

  • On the behaviour and adaptation of office occupants

    Frédéric Haldi;Darren Robinson

  • CITYSIM: Comprehensive Micro-Simulation of Resource Flows for Sustainable Urban Planning

    Darren Robinson;Frédéric Haldi;Philippe Leroux;Diane Perez

  • The impact of occupants' behaviour on building energy demand

    Frédéric Haldi;Darren Robinson

  • Adaptive actions on shading devices in response to local visual stimuli

    Frédéric Haldi;Darren Robinson

  • A bottom-up stochastic model to predict building occupants' time-dependent activities

    Urs Wilke;Frédéric Haldi;Jean-Louis Scartezzini;Darren Robinson

  • SUNtool - A new modelling paradigm for simulating and optimising urban sustainability

    Darren Robinson;N. Campbell;W. Gaiser;K. Kabel

  • Verification of stochastic models of window opening behaviour for residential buildings

    Marcel Schweiker;Frédéric Haldi;Masanori Shukuya;Darren Robinson

  • A simplified thermal model to support analysis of urban resource flows

    Jérôme Henri Kämpf;Darren Robinson

  • Solar radiation modelling in the urban context

    Darren Robinson;Andrew Stone

  • Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design: Physical Principles, Methods and Applications

    Darren Robinson

  • Optimisation of building form for solar energy utilisation using constrained evolutionary algorithms

    Jérôme Henri Kämpf;Darren Robinson

  • Optimisation of buildings' solar irradiation availability

    Jérôme Henri Kämpf;Marylène Montavon;Josep Bunyesc;Raffaele Bolliger

  • On the unification of thermal perception and adaptive actions

    Frédéric Haldi;Darren Robinson

  • Urban morphology and indicators of radiation availability

    Darren Robinson

  • SimStadt, a new workflow-driven urban energy simulation platform for CityGML city models

    Romain Nouvel;Kai-Holger Brassel;Marcel Bruse;Eric Duminil

  • Irradiation modelling made simple: the cumulative sky approach and its applications

    Darren Robinson;Andrew Stone

  • A comparison of global optimization algorithms with standard benchmark functions and real-world applications using EnergyPlus

    Jérôme Henri Kämpf;Michael Wetter;Darren Robinson

  • Predicting the urban solar fraction: a methodology for energy advisers and planners based on GIS

    Stuart J. Gadsden;Mark Rylatt;Kevin J. Lomas;Darren Robinson

  • A hybrid CMA-ES and HDE optimisation algorithm with application to solar energy potential

    Jérôme Henri Kämpf;Darren Robinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Louis Scartezzini
Jean-Louis Scartezzini École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Kevin J. Lomas
Kevin J. Lomas Loughborough University
Doreen S. Boyd
Doreen S. Boyd University of Nottingham
Benjamin M. Jones
Benjamin M. Jones University of Alaska Fairbanks
Mark Sumner
Mark Sumner University of Nottingham
Ursula Eicker
Ursula Eicker Concordia University
Michael Wetter
Michael Wetter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Rajan P. Nair
Rajan P. Nair University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James T. Elder
James T. Elder University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard C. Trembath
Richard C. Trembath King's College London

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