Job Title:             Senior Lecturer
Qualifications:    BSc (Hons), PgDip, MRICS, MCIOB

Philip Hyde is a Chartered Quantity surveyor and Chartered Builder with over 20 years professional experience working as a Quantity surveyor in the construction industry and related professional fields.

More recently he has been involved with the teaching of Professional Studies, Practice Management and Project Management on both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within the Lincoln School of Architecture.

Research Interests

Involvement in two “Knowledge Transfer Partnership” projects, with the Lincolnshire Community Foundation and Simons Design Ltd., Lincoln. The aims of these projects area as follows :-

Lincolnshire Community Foundation
To optimise the use of the Foundation’s existing portfolio of ecclesiastic buildings throughout the Greater Lincolnshire area. This portfolio includes a mixture of over 700 rural and urban churches, halls and church schools, for which the principal objective is to identify and evaluate how these building can be adapted to provide a range of mixed community activities and therefore satisfy the local community needs and aspirations.

Simons Design Ltd., Lincoln
To develop a methodology for the assessment of the “carbon footprint” of buildings designed and constructed by the Simons Group and to implement this within the company’s various processes and systems.

Recent Research Activities

Part of a Lincoln School of Architecture Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Hill Holt Wood based at Norton Disney, Lincolnshire.

The main aim of this KTP research project is to develop designs for a range of autonomous eco-buildings and assist the company partner establishing an environmental social enterprise construction company.

The main outcome of this research will be :-

• to produce a range of innovative design solutions and techniques applicable to sustainable low-carbon, low energy construction
• and to start-up a construction company to construct the above designs etc

Recent Original Research Publications 2001–2007

Do, V., Young, A., Sodagar, B., and Hyde, P., (2006).
An Approach to Sustainable Architecture for Office Buildings in Vietnam
International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Cultural Sustainability. Common Ground Publishing Pty. Ltd.; ISBN 1832-2077, Vol. 2, Issue 3, pp.51-66.