Contact
Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
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Mappin Street,
Sheffield,
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Profile
Hadi is an Architectural Engineering graduate currently working towards his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Martin Mayfield where his research involves the assessment of infrastructural needs and economic production/energy consumption balance of the local authorities and travel-to-work areas in England & Wales through the lens of urban scaling laws focusing on potential urban agglomeration opportunities for a more sustainable future.
He also is keen on teaching and has ongoing commitments and experience as teaching assistant and co-supervisor for undergraduate modules [CIV172/MEC162/CIV6012/CIV6014/ARC6818] and summer research projects.
Hadi’s broader research interests include but are not limited to urban metabolism, network analysis of intra- and inter-city flows, infrastructure and planning, city morphology and consumption patterns.
Recent activities and achievements
Current project
The project explores the application of a model of universal urban features, developed within the complexity and allometry tradition based on persistent power law scaling of urban characteristics with population, in determining suitable infrastructural, energetic, and planning strategies for the urban network in the UK on a comparative basis. The aim of the project is then to use the model to identify and examine relative potential beneficial agglomeration opportunities between neighboring urban territories and infrastructural strategies, i.e. densification and improvements of the transport network, that would help improve their overall performance and contribute to the debate on the infrastructural and planning needs at different scales in England and Wales.
Achievements
2015-Summer Mappin Medal and Premium for Greatest Distinction Shown by Candidate Reading for a Degree in the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, Sheffield, UK
2015-Spring Faculty of Engineering Scholarship for Post-Graduate Research in the Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, Sheffield, UK
2013-Fall CIBSE Yorkshire Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, Sheffield, UK
Publications
J1 Arbabi, H.; Mayfield, M. Urban and Rural—Population and Energy Consumption Dynamics in Local Authorities within England and Wales. Buildings 2016, 6, 34.
C2 Arbabi, H.; Mayfield, M. Urban and Rural – An Exploratory Look at Population and Energy Consumption in Local Authorities within England and Wales. In Regional Urbanism in the Era of Globalisation; Huddersfield, United Kingdom, 3-5 February 2016.
C1 Arbabi, H.; Lazarov, B. R.; Mayfield, M. Renewable Energy Technologies in Campus-Sized Developments: A Spatial Study. In CIBSE Technical Symposium 2015; CIBSE: London, United Kingdom, 2-3 April 2015.
Qualifications
Research project(s)
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