Rate My Professor Leslie Norford

Norford, trained as a mechanical engineer, has focused on sustainable building design and operation since the 1970s oil shocks. He specializes in energy studies, controls, and ventilation to enhance buildings' resource efficiency. His research encompasses building energy measurements and simulations, system diagnostics and controls, natural and mechanical ventilation, efficient cooling systems, and interactions between buildings and the urban environment, such as the urban heat island effect and urban pollutant transport. Through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, he explores these urban dynamics. Norford teaches classes in energy and building design, building ventilation and HVAC systems, and an undergraduate building technology laboratory addressing schools and housing in developing countries. A member of ASHRAE, the American Meteorological Society, the International Building Performance Simulation Association, and the International Association for Urban Climate, he has published key works including "The rise of low-cost sensing for managing air pollution in cities" (Environment International, 2015), "Ultrafine particles in cities" (Environment International, 2014), "The urban weather generator" (Journal of Building Performance Simulation, 2013), and "Non-intrusive electrical load monitoring in commercial buildings based on steady-state and transient load-detection algorithms" (Energy and Buildings, 1996). His scholarship has garnered over 20,000 citations.