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Panagiotis Patlakas

Panagiotis Patlakas

Associate Prof Civil Engineering

School of Engineering and the Built Environment

Email: Panagiotis.Patlakas@bcu.ac.uk

Panagiotis is a structural engineer with further qualifications in architecture and a strong interest in information technology. His research interests cover a range of topics in these fields, such as structural timber design, digital civil engineering, and sustainability. He is particularly interested in the development of software technologies to promote sustainability. Panagiotis was the lead developer of Teretron, a commercial software application for Structural Timber Design to Eurocode 5, as well as the Principal Investigator for the EnViz software project that developed 4D visualisation techniques for Post-Occupancy Evaluation data.

Prior to joining BCU, Panagiotis worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield (UK), and as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Southampton Solent University. He studied structural engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (Greece) and architecture at the University of Sheffield (UK). He also holds a PgC qualification in Teaching and Learning from Southampton Solent University (UK).

  • Research on Structural Timber Design
  • Research on Building Information Modelling
  • Collaborations with universities in the UK and overseas
  • Structural Timber Design
  • Building Information Modelling (BIM)
  • Digital Technologies for Sustainability
  • nD Visualisation
  • MEng
  • MArchStudies
  • PgCTLHE
  • Zero Energy Mass Custom Home Network, Scientific Committee Member since April 2016
  • Higher Education Academy (UK), Fellow since September 2012
  • Timber Research & Development Association (UK), Academic Member since December 2010
  • Engineering Council UK, Chartered Engineer since April 2010
  • Institution of Civil Engineers (UK), Member since April 2010
  • Technical Chamber of Greece, Licensed Civil Engineer since December 2006
  • Structural Timber Design
  • Building Information Modelling
Key Journal Papers: Patlakas P (2015). Development of a software application for structural timber design. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering. 168(6): 23-28. Patlakas P, Menendez J, and Hairstans R (2015). The Potential, Requirements, and Limitations of BIM for Offsite Timber Construction. International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling. 4(1): 54-70. Patlakas P, Becerra H, and Altan H. (2014). Visualizing the environmental conditions of buildings. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering, 167(5):56-64. Recent Conference Papers: Sejkot P, Kuklík P, Ormarsson S, and Patlakas P. Numerical Simulations Of Timber Element Connections Using Angle Brackets With A Rib Under The External Load. In Proceedings of the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2016), Vienna, Austria. [in press] Livingstone A, Patlakas P, and Hairstans R (2016). Predictive models for timber connections via multi-dimensional fitting. In Proceedings of the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2016), Vienna, Austria. [in press] Becerra H, Patlakas P, and Altan H (2015). Evaluation and visualisation of thermal performance of industrialised housing construction. In Proceedings of the Zero Energy Mass Custom Housing network (ZEMCH 2015). University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. Patlakas P and Raslan R (2015). Using Gamification and 4D Visualisation to Enhance Understanding of Building Performance. In Proceedings of the Zero Energy Mass Custom Housing network (ZEMCH 2015). University of Salento, Lecce, Italy. [in press] Patlakas P, Livingstone A and Hairstans R (2015). A BIM Platform for Offsite Timber Construction. eCAADe 2015. In Proceedings: The 33rd International Conference on Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2015). TU Wien, Vienna, Austria.
Technical Consultant for Teretron ( www.teretron.com )