Mark Kelly
Senior Lecturer in Digital Built Environment
School of Engineering and the Built Environment
- Email:
- Mark.Kelly@bcu.ac.uk
Mark is a Senior Lecturer in digital Built environment at BCU. He has taught at three universities and worked in professional practice since 2002.
Mark is a Registered Architect born in Northern Ireland. In 2002 Mark started working at an architectural practice, after working as a picture framer. Mark studied at four Universities, University of California, Berkeley as a Rotary Ambassadorial scholar, Newcastle University, BCU and the Mackintosh school of Architecture. Mark is a Registered Architect in the UK with the ARB, the Netherlands with SBA Dutch registration board and in North America with NCARB & AIA in the United States in Illinois.
Mark is also a LEED AP Accredited professional in Building Design and Construction with USGBC, a WELL AP in healthy buildings, a CSCS Health & Safety professional, a Revit Certified Professional and an Autodesk Certified Instructor.
Current Activity
Professional Skills enhancement – Built Environment (PSE 1st year AT)
BNV6133 Digital Design Practice with Existing Buildings A S1 2020/1
BNV6129 Building Surveying Professional Skills A S1 2020/1
BNV4104 Integrated Digital Design - Residential A S2 2020/1
BNV5113 Integrated Digital Design - Commercial A S2 2020/1
BNV6200 Individual Honours Project AAT AYR 2020/1
Digital Club Built Environment
Areas of Expertise
Building Sustainability as a LEED Accredited Professional
Construction detailing
Architecture Technology
Building Energy Modelling and Simulation
Digital Technology in AEC
Digital Design
Building Information Modelling
Building Wellbeing as a WELL Accredited Professional
CSCS, Health & Safety, CDM
Qualifications
PG.Cert.HE (BCU) – ongoing
FHEA (BCU) – ongoing
RIBA Part 3 - Newcastle University
Master's Part 3 - Postgraduate Certificate in Architectural Practice & Management & registration to the UK Architects Registration Board
The British School at Rome
Rome Fellow in Architecture : BSR RIBA Giles Worsley Rome Fellow in Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)
Professional degree and registration to the USA national council of architectural registration boards.
The University of Glasgow
DIP(Arch) - Advanced Diploma in Architecture - RIBA Part 2 Professional Degree
The University of Glasgow
B(Arch)Honors - Bachelor In Architecture RIBA Part 1 Professional Degree
Memberships
Licenses & certifications
WELL Accredited Professional
International WELL Building Institute (IWBI)
The American Institute of Architects (AIA)
AIA - Professional Architect
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB)
Registered Architect - NCARB
LEED Accredited Professional in Building Design and Construction (LEED AP BD+C)
U.S. Green Building Council
Netherlands (Architects Registration Bureau- Bureau Architectenregister)
Registered Architect Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
Chartered Architect
Royal Institute of British Architects
Chartered Architect
Architects Registration Board
Registered Architect
Autodesk Certified Professional in Revit for Architectural Design
CSCS - Construction Skills Certification Scheme - Professionally Qualified Person by the Construction Skills Certification Scheme
Teaching
Courses
Architectural Technology - BSc (Hons) - Modules: BNV4104, BNV5113, BNV6133, BNV6200
Building Surveying - BSc (Hons) - Modules BNV4104, BNV5113 and BNV6129
Construction Management - BSc (Hons) - Module BNV4104
Quantity Surveying - BSc (Hons) - Module BNV4104
Modules
BNV6133 Digital Design Practice with Existing Buildings A S1 2020/1
BNV6129 Building Surveying Professional Skills A S1 2020/1
BNV4104 Integrated Digital Design - Residential A S2 2020/1
BNV5113 Integrated Digital Design - Commercial A S2 2020/1
BNV6200 Individual Honours Project AAT AYR 2020/1
Digital Club Built Environment
Professional Skills enhancement – Built Environment (PSE 1st yr AT)
Research
Research Supervision
2021-2023 Innovate UK grant with Dr. Franco Cheung and Dr. Edlira Vakaj. This research is cross-disciplinary, as it brings together an industrial participant (Hadley Group Limited) and academics in the field of computing and the built environment. It is demonstration of Birmingham City University’s effort in delivering cross-disciplinary research. The DfMA project has been used as an impact case for REF2021. Modern methods of construction and digital transformation are strategic research areas of the CEBE faculty. The KTP project will harness the continuation of the work in the area of mass-produced low-carbon housing using BIM, which contribute to the development of a future industry partnership venture.
The academic team also believes that the market ready tool will allow the team to exploit further use of the knowledge base. For instance, the current focus of the tool is on estimation. There is a scope for investigation in exploiting the ontology for inferences and optimisation through the application of advanced algorithm, e.g. through machine learning. The work will also help us to strengthen our knowledge base in developing KBE tools, potentially helping other manufacturers to transform construction.
Innovate UK Grant and KTP Supervisor research
Collaborative knowledge-based (Design for Manufacture and Assembly) DfMA approach to build cost-efficient, low-impact multi-family housing.
The main objectives of the Innovate UK Grant and KTP Supervisor research are to carried out by this research team are:
1. Apply BIM and computer science to develop a proof-of-concept knowledge-based engineering (KBE) tool from level 2 to level 5 for the estimation of life-cycle cost and CO2 to enable a market-ready DfMA housing design appraisal.
2. Design of lightweight steel-framed DfMA houses so that they are scalable, cost-efficient and environmentally friendly.
3. Embed energy efficiency as a central component in the design process to ensure the delivery of the most energy efficient homes possible.
4. Evaluate the manufacture of DfMA house envelope to optimise automation capacity, with our industry manufacturing partners.
5. Select various assembly options based on testbed house projects and develop benchmarks for improvement based on actual productivity data. It is a collaborative research involving a number of experts from different sectors and disciplines. The delivery of objective 1. will be led and developed by the research team.
The delivery of objectives 2. to 5. will be led by various experts in the research team, who will contribute by giving advice on the methods and approaches. Specific tasks allocated to BCU includes:
i) Develop and validate the proof-of-concept KBE tool for life-cycle costing and carbon emission estimation, including the development of a customer-facing API user interface, for extracting information from the BIM model;
ii) feed knowledge from the literature regarding DfMA methodologies;
iii) advise the approach and methods for productivity analysis;
iv) work collaboratively with all partners to define data requirements for BIM models and KBE tools;
v) publish the approach and methodology of the KBE tool in an high-ranked academic journal;
vi) identify the opportunity to commercialise and develop the KBE tool
Current Research
- Mass-produced low-carbon housing using BIM with industry partners
- Collaboration and partnership with BIM for cross-disciplinary practice.
- New materials for 3D printing for construction
- Integrated Digital Design
- Affordable housing
Publications
1.1. Outputs completed in 19/20
BCU Tiger Today:
“CEBE lecturer is design competition judge” published by BCU Tiger Today. Published October 14, 2020, Created by Marketing and Communications. Click here.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
1. A Contemporary Architect reflecting on Rome: Chapter 20, 10 pages in a 392 page book ISBN: 978-3-7774-3374-5 Peer-reviewed Book: “Shifts in Perspective: Architects’ travels to Italy in Modern and contemporary times” 2019 Munich. Published by Hirmer, Bibliotheca Hertziana: Max Planck Institute for Art History, ETH Zurich. Ed. K. Kappel & E. Wegerhoff.
2. Water as hazard and Water as Heritage, Publication by European Geosciences Union
ISBN: 978-3-7315-0736-9 Book ISBN reference
Topical event in Rome,
Published by KIT Scientific Publishing, Education. Click here.
I published a peer-reviewed Chapter in this book: pp. 73-81: Sketchbooks of Rome, Mark Kelly; Edited by at Karlsruher Instituts für Technologie, Germany
Exhibited in the 2018 Venice Biennale for Architecture, in the Romanian national pavilion.
International Exhibitions in Public Venues
1. Royal National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2018 July
Summer Architecture Exhibition – Royal Scottish Gallery
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33229.46566
2. Book Launch (2019 October) Shifts in Perspective: Architects' Travels to Italy
ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with Professor K. Kappel & E. Wegerhoff
3. 2019 July - Bucharest Forum for Architecture annual exhibition
Bucharest Architecture Forum, Romania, EU
4. Group exhibition on the EDG publication (2019 May-Oct)
Venice Biennale in Architecture, Venice, Italy.
Venice Biennale Giardini, Romanian pavilion
National UK Exhibitions in Public Venues
5. 2019 RIBA National Council Shortlist, London, UK
National leadership
6. 2019 RBSA Royal Birmingham Society of Art, Annual Photographic Exhibition, Birmingham, UK City Exhibition
7. Urban Design Group national UK conference (2019 October)
Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK.
8. Organised the “Calling all Creatives” 3rd annual Birmingham creative art exhibition
Invited the RIBA President Alan Jones from Belfast to judge the 60 entries.
Conference Proceedings – Publications
1. Urban Design Group national UK conference (2019 October)
Presented a paper on Cycling and urban design in Birmingham with the COP20 climate targets
2. Catalogue at the BAA Calling all creatives exhibition
Workshops for professionals
1. Led a urban sketching workshop for UK professionals
Urban Design Group national UK conference (2019 October)
2. Conference June 2016 at Accademia di Romania in Roma, Italy
Water as hazard and water as heritage - click here.
1.2. Outputs Since 1st December 2014
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Fine Arts Catalogue; Award holders from the British School at Rome [BSR], Rome, Italy ISBN: 978-0-904152-76-0
Pages 22-23 & P.45-46. Published in 2016 by the British School at Rome, London ISSN 1475-8733
Via Gramsci 61, 00197 Rome.
Printed in Belgium by Graphius
Peer Reviewed by the British School at Rome, Academia Britannica
Queen’s 90th Birthday book – 90 Architecture projects by 90 Architects, (Page 53) ISSN: 1048-8733-47
WCCA (Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects, London, England 11/06/2016
Peer Reviewd by the Chartered Architects Company
Presented to HRH Queen Elizabeth II by Valerie Owen Le Vaillant OBE
Master, Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects
“3D Printing for Building Construction” Disrupting Architecture, Disruptive Studio, ISBN: 978-1-105-99415-9
Master’s in Architecture Thesis, University of California Berkeley, USA
Peer reviewed by Prof. Ron Rael at University of California, Berkeley
Salt, Emergence and Formation at the Dead Sea: M.Arch Thesis ISBN: 978-1-105-75175-2
University of California Berkeley, USA
The Street: Advanced Diploma in Architecture Thesis: University of Glasgow ISBN: 978-1-105-55324-0
Architecture Construction Projects, Work with Habitat for Humanity ISBN: 978-1-304-26378-0
Publications in Digital Articles
Architecture: MacMag 35: GSA Press 2010- 1st edition,
“AIA UK Member News: When in Rome……” May 31, 2016 - Published by American Institute of Architects AIA: UK. Click here.
Fine Arts Catalogue; Award holders from the British School at Rome [BSR], Rome, Italy, Pages 22-23 & P.45-46. Click here.
Why Architects Visit Rome in the 21st Century January 25th, 2016 – Published by ‘GenslerOn Cities’ Click here.
December Mostra 2015/ Meet the Artists, December 10, 2015 - Published by ‘Life at the BSR’ the British School at Rome. Click here.
Using the lost-wax method of bronze casting in the 21st century, December 3, 2015, Published by ‘Life at the BSR’ the British School at Rome. Click here.
Award-holders 2015-16 October 1, 2016 - Published by The British School at Rome. Click here.
BSR News Winter 2015-16, November 1st, 2015 Published by The British School at Rome. Click here.
Using the Ocean to Print in 3D Published by ‘3d printer world’- July 10, 2013 (3d Printer World Online Magazine) with Thesis adviser Prof Ron Rael. Click here.
Pavilion made of 3D-printed salt by Emerging Objects, ‘Dezeen’ Article by Rose Etherington, December 12 2013, Material development: Ronald Rael, Mark Kelly, Kent Wilson. Click here.
Salt for 3D printing, August 1st 2012, Published by Emerging Objects University of California, Berkeley “Architectural 3D Printing in Salt” Click here.
Six triumph in American Institute of Architects’ UK awards, 21 April 2010 | By Elizabeth Hopkirk by Building Design. Click here.
AIA Newsletter, No 61, Noel Hill Student Travel Award Published by AIA: UK. Click here.
AIA Press Release AIA UK Announces the Award recipients, Published by AIA:UK. Click here.
Exhibitions of Architecture in
Public Venues
2019 October – Book Launch Shifts in Perspective: Architects' Travels to Italy
ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
2019 October – Urban Design Group national conference
Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK.
2019 July - Bucharest Forum for Architecture annual exhibition
Bucharest Architecture Forum, Romania, EU
2019 March - RBSA Annual Photographic Exhibition, Birmingham, UK
Royal Birmingham Society of Art, England
2019 May-Oct – Venice Biennale in Architecture. Click here.
Venice Biennale Giardini, Romanian pavilion, Venice, Italy
2018 November – Engineering Sketches Prize 2018 exhibition
UK Building Centre, London, England
2018 July - Summer Architecture Exhibition – Royal Scottish Gallery
Royal National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33229.46566
2018 June – BAA Best of Brum – Birmingham Architectural Association
Jewelry Quarter Design Destination, Birmingham, England
2016 June – Spazi Aperti (Group Exhibition)
Rome, Romanian Academy in Rome, Italy
2016 January – Rome Sketchbooks (Solo exhibition for 1 month)
Gensler London office, London, United Kingdom
2015 December – December ‘mostra’ exhibition
Rome, British School at Rome, Italy
2014 February – ‘Architecture and the City’ photographic exhibition
Gensler London office, London, United Kingdom
2012 June, 3D-Printing in Architectural Design, Maker-Faire Exhibition,
San Mateo Conference Center, California, USA
2012 May, Wurster Gallery, M.ARCH Thesis Projects,
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
2010 April, Exhibition, AIA:UK Excellence in Design Gala, Lilian Baylis Studio,
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Conference Papers and Public Lectures
2019 October – Book Launch: Shifts in Perspective: Architects' Travels to Italy in Modern and Contemporary Times ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology: SIK-ISEA, Zollikerstrasse 32, 8032 Zürich, Chair Prof. Delbeke
Click here.
2019 October – National Urban Design Group conference – delivered a paper on ‘urban design and cycling: global approaches to health, wellness and the built environment. Millennium Point, Birmingham, UK
2016 June European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2019-2000, Conference and Poster “Water as hazard and water as heritage: Report of the European Geosciences Union Topical Event in Rome”, 13.-14. June 2016, Led by Maria Bostenaru Dan et al, with Mark Kelly contributing a paper. Accepted in Session NH9.12 – Natural hazard impacts on technological systems and infrastructures, Vienna, Austria | 7–12 April 2019
2016 June ‘Domes in Roman Concrete’ The annual Giles Worsley Rome Fellowship Lecture at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH on Wednesday, 27 January 2016. 8th Fellow, Mark Kelly,
Click here.
2015 October Award holders Lecture, British School at Rome, 1st October 2015, Rome, Italy
2015 December Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, Italy - 4th Dec 2015- Talk and Roundtable discussion “Beyond nostalgia and canon? Architects travelling to Italy in the 20th century Chaired by: Prisca Thielmann (Associate Director, MacCreanor Lavington Architects London) Click here.
2012 October Berkeley Rotary Club of California, Ambassadorial Scholarship Lecture – 17th October 2012. Public Speaking – Delivered 37 talks to audiences of 15-175 people in Scotland and California for my Ambassadorial Scholarship. Click here.
2011 Lectures to teach Architecture at University of California, Berkeley in Summer Session 2012. Delivered 15 x 1-hour lectures and wrote a Lecture on Hybrid Architecture as a Graduate Student Instructor in Autumn 2011