Qualifications and Professional Body membership

PhD Candidate
Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Member of the Chartered Institute of Building

Personal Profile / Teaching Experience

2010: Research University of Salford - A report for the Government Construction Client Group Building Information Modelling (BIM) Working Party Strategy Paper

2009 - 2010: Construction IT Alliance (CITA) research - eBusiness & eTendering for SMEs, http://www.cita.ie/

2009 - 2010: Co-ordinator of CITAs / Dublin Institute of Technology Post Graduate Diploma Course in Construction Informatics

2009 - 2010: Guest lecturer - MSc Construction Economics & under graduate construction economics

2009 - 2010: Visiting academic (research) at University of Salford

2006 - 2009: Senior Quantity Surveyor Gardiner & Theobald

2010: Nominated for the Charles M. Eastman Top PhD Paper Award: Redmond, A., Hore, A.V., West, R.P. and Alshawi, M. (2010) 'Building Support for Cloud Computing in the Irish Construction Industry', CIB W78 2010: 27th International Conference, Cairo, Eygpt, 16-18 November.

Research Interests

In reference to Staff research 'Faculty of Science and Technology'

Sustainable Building Services and Sustainable architecture

• Control strategies for energy efficient air conditioning and HVAC systems using contemporary simulation software and field measurements.
• Modelling and simulation of building performance in the areas of energy consumption, carbon emissions, orientation and form of buildings.
• Building design and environmental performance.

Sustainable communities

• Facilitating sustainable life styles.
• Use of new technologies e.g. virtual worlds for teaching and training.

Specific: Seismology, BIM and XML

Consultancy and other Professional Activity

Project Committee member of The National Institute of Building Sciences.

Publications

Redmond, A and Smith, B. (2011), 'Exchanging Partial BIM Information through a Cloud-Based Service: testing the efficacy of a major innovation,' Pending Publication, IBEA Conference, South Bank University, London, on the 8-9 October 2011.

Redmond, A et al. (2011), 'Exploring How Information Exchanges can be Enhanced through Cloud BIM' Automation in Construction Journal (pending).

Redmond, A., Hore, A.V., West, R.P., Underwood, J. and Alshawi, M. and (2011) "Developing a Cloud Integrated Life Cycle Costing Analysis Model Through BIM." Computer Knowledge Building 2011 - The joint organization of CIB W078 and CIB W102 conferences in Sophia Antipolis, France, on the 26-28 October 2011.

Redmond, A., Hore, A.V., Alshawi, M., Underwood, J., and West, R.P. (2011) "Identifying Cost Savings for the UK Building Industry through Cloud, BIM and Open Standards." COBRA 2011 - The Royal institute of Chartered Surveyors International Research Conference, 12-13 September 2011, University of Salford, UK.

Redmond, A., Underwood, J., Alshawi, M., Hore, A.V. and West, R.P. (2011) "The Future of ICT in the Construction Industry Through the Use of Cloud Computing," COBRA 2011 - The Royal institute of Chartered Surveyors International Research Conference, 12-13 September 2011, University of Salford, UK.

Redmond, A., Hore, A.V., West, R.P. and Alshawi, M. (2010) 'Building Support for Cloud Computing in the Irish Construction Industry', CIB W78 2010: 27th International Conference, Cairo, Eygpt, 16-18 November.

Hore, A.V. Redmond, A. and West, R.P. (2010) "Finding a Middleware ICT Solution for the Irish Construction SME Sector", The Construction and Building Research Conference of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (COBRA), Université, Paris-Dauphine, Paris, 2-3 September, RICS (2010) London UK.

Hore, A.V., Redmond, A. and West, R.P. (2010), "Development of a Cloud Web Collaborator for SMEs in the Irish Construction Industry," 8th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, University of Cork, Ireland, 14-16 September, 2010, pp 139-144.

Hore, A.V., West, R.P. and Redmond, A. (2010), "Cloud Computing and its Application in the Irish Construction Industry", 6th International Conference on Innovation in Architecture, Engineering and Construction, PennState University, 9-11 June, 2010, pp 446-455.

Hore, A.V., West, R.P. and Redmond, A. (2009), Creating a digital SME Community in the Irish Construction Industry, CIB W78 Conference Managing IT in Construction, October 1st - 3rd 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, pp 855-860.

Hore, A.V., West, R.P. and Redmond, A. (2009), The Future Scenario of Creating a digital SME Community in the Irish Construction Industry, CIB W78 Conference Managing IT in Construction, October 1st - 3rd 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, pp 121-130.

Hore, A.V., West, R.P. and Redmond, A. (2009), Creating a Software Marketplace for the SME Community in the Irish Construction Industry, The Construction and Building Research Conference of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (COBRA), Cape Town 10-11 September, RICS (2009) publication, London UK.