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Francisco Sierra is a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England (UWE), specializing in Zero Carbon Architecture. He holds a PhD focused on structural solutions to achieve zero thermal bridges and an MSc in modeling and assessment of embodied operational energy from Cardiff University. Dr. Sierra teaches courses such as MArch and MSc in BIM at UWE and leads the MSc Facade Engineering program. He is passionate about creating a construction industry that is socially, environmentally, and economically sustainable. His extensive research experience spans multiple disciplines related to sustainability in construction, including embodied and operational carbon, construction digitization, thermal bridging, responsible retrofit strategies, building monitoring, Passivhaus standards, BIM, and emerging trends like 3D printing. He has supervised numerous master's theses and is currently the director of studies for four PhD candidates.
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