my days in UK, Singapore and Myanmar
more gratitude every day
who I am
In love with aesthetic beauty and engineering excellence, I look forward to seeing the world from a sustainable perspective.
Research Interest
My research activity and interests include, but are not limited to, building carbon/energy/performance modelling, building technology, climate change mitigation and adaptation in buildings, eco-feedback and behaviour change intervention, and indoor environmental quality and retrofit, for the building and stock scale. See the ‘Publication’ pages for May’s research.
CEPHD
I am a Certified Passive House Designer.
Associate Fellowship
I hold a PG cert in Higher Education Global and am certified for ‘Preparing to Teach in Higher Education’ from the University of Nottingham, which is equivalent to the PTTHE Certificate 2019 diagram from the UK Professional Standards Framework (PSF).
Daily things
I enjoy #dailycalm and a long walk.
Collaboration
My inbox is always open for research collaboration and freelance BIM projects. I can be reached via LinkedIn or IG.
what i work
Current Research
I am currently working as a Research Associate in Housing Retrofit Assessment at the University of Sheffield and at the South Yorkshire Sustainability Centre. My research investigates how South Yorkshire could retrofit its homes at scale and meet the 2050 net-zero targets and remaining global carbon budgets. Through the collaboration with the City of Doncaster, I am investigating the impacts of whole-house retrofit on indoor air quality, using a longterm measured database and a wide range of surveys for 21 Doncaster homes. I am providing research evidence, policy notes and project reports for the South Yorkshire local and regional authorities, and associated housing retrofit providers and homeowners. Also, I am involved as a Guest Lecturer in “Research-led Teaching” for Building Thermodynamics modules.
PhD Research: 2017 – 2021
I hold a PhD in Building Technology from the University of Nottingham (Buildings, Energy and Environment Research Group). My PhD research addresses the links between architecture, building technology, and environment, focusing on adaptive thermal comfort for changing climates, Passivhaus’ fabric-first approach and performance assessment of buildings, and tropical housing significance. My PhD was supervised by Prof Lucelia Rodrigues and Prof Mark Gillott: the internal assessor is Dr Robin Wilson; the external examiner is Dr Anna Mavrogianni (UCL).
Teaching Support
Brunel University: May has delivered the NZEB lecture at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Brunel University London.
University of Nottingham: During my PhD years, I worked as a Teaching Support for BIM Lab for the Integrated Design module in Architecture 2A (ABEE2003 UNUK) (AUT2 20-21). I prepared a learning guide for the students to enhance their self-study in BIM software Revit during the lockdown period. I also worked as Teaching Support / BIM Lab for the module – CIVE 3023 Group Design Project 2019-21; the same learning guide was used in the lab sessions.
Previous Research
Brunel University London: 2021-2023: I worked as a Research Fellow in Energy Efficiency in Residential Buildings, and contributed to the development of the PRELUDE project at Brunel University London. My main responsibility for the PRELUDE project is to deliver comfort/IAQ prediction using the climate correlation models, validate and demonstrate the concept in relevant environments, and develop the integration and technical implementation in the real-world operational environment. This method translates sophisticated building operations and user behaviours to a user-friendly eco-feedback design and promotes pro-environmental behaviours and behaviour change strategies through participatory and occupant-centric designs in both smart and conventional homes.
University of Nottingham 2019-2021: I worked as a part-time research associate for Nottingham 2028 Carbon Neutral Housing (CN28) project. My responsibility for CN28 Nottingham was to analyse the EPC data set to get some realistic figures of the housing stocks, and then the simulation study was designed to inform how far carbon emission can be offset by improving building energy efficiency.
Nottingham Trent University: I worked as a part-time Research Assistant in Energy feedback and visualisation, from April 2020 to August 2020, which is a four-month contract; the role was to to write a systematic literature review paper for the EvoEnergy project that will support public engagement in pro-environmental behaviour. The paper was published via Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
Myanmar and Singapore:
2007 – 2017/21
I was trained in Civil Engineering in Myanmar and earned a Master of Science Degree in Sustainable Building Design from the UoN. I worked as a BIM Specialist /BIM Manager at ONG&ONG Group, Design Technology Team (Singapore).
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