Alan Coday

Principal Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University

Dr. Alan Coday is ARU’s Built Environment Director of Research and Faculty Director of the Professional Doctorate Programme. As a materials scientist he specialised in Building Surveying and Conservation of Buildings and directed the MSc Conservation of Buildings course at ARU from 2006 to 2015. He was a Director of the UK Association of Building Preservation Trusts from 2008 to 2016 and is still a Trustee of a local Building Preservation Trust. He is currently directing 30 of the 59 PhD and DProf candidates in Engineering and Built Environment and is on the supervisory team of 17 candidates studying theses relating to materials, construction management and town planning. He has published on the conservation and management of buildings particularly upon the challenges of adaptive reuse and energy management. Alan has a strong academic track record and over 25 publications since 1996.