•    Review operable components of facades that are currently available;    
•     Review the limitations of current control strategies for facades, particularly the control of glare;
•     Review the current actuator technology including how it interfaces with BMS and its reliability;  
•    Report on the process of designing buildings with BMS controlled automated facades, based on interviews with designers;
•    Report on the construction of buildings that incorporate BMS controlled facades;    
•    Investigate the additional functionality that can be achieved by using sensors in different combinations, especially to develop an actuator that can be used for controlling glare and limiting solar over heating;
•    Produce two reports.  One aimed at clients and architects to show the benefits of automated facades and how to design/specify them, and the second for contractors explaining how these systems are integrated with one another and with the façade and the building.

•    Undertake a desk study of wind events in the UK.  This will include a review of the minimum conditions required to activate ventilation on demand;   
•    Postulate façade geometries for a number of building layouts to optimise the use of the thermal stack effect;
•    Model the performance of a pressure moderated plenum of the double façade using CFD analysis.  Different geometries will be looked at;   
•    Study existing building projects to determine the typical demands for ventilation and other factors controlled by the building envelope including daylight, solar gain, and heat transfer;    
•    Determine rules for use at the outline design stage using the information found above;   
•    Produce two reports.  One will be written for use by clients and architects and will present information required to allow the inclusion of an effective double façade.  The other will present an engineering methodology for use by the cladding and building services engineers.

•    A literature review of material properties to obtain representative values for the thermal conductivity and vapour resistivity of straw bales;    
•    One-dimensional static thermal analysis and condensation risk assessment in order to investigate the effect of bale and render thickness;
•    One-dimensional dynamic thermal analysis and condensation risk assessment in order to investigate the effect of bale and render thickness;    
•    Two- or three-dimensional thermal/moisture transfer analysis at the junctions between the Modcell panels and windows and doors;   
•    Three-dimensional thermal/moisture transfer analysis at localised thermal bridges.

•    Reviewing the construction details and comparing them with those of a traditional building with the same geometry and usage;    
•    Assessment of all the building elements by either simulation or calculation;
•    Dynamic heat transfer analysis to compare the temperature variation of hemp wall over the course of 24 hours with that of a brick-block wall with identical geometry;    
•    The effect of the surface finish.  Different finishes will result in a different surface emissivity, and affect the therefore the U-value;    
•    Looking at, and comparing, the heat loss due to air leakage through both houses at Haverhill;   
•    Inputting data obtained previously into whole building energy consumption software to calculate the overall CO ₂ emission rate for the hemp house and the brick-block house at Haverhill.