Dr Sergio Rodriguez-Trejo is an Associate Professor of Research. As an academic, researcher, and knowledge exchange manager he is in charge of: 

• BSc (Hons) Construction Management
• Degree Apprenticeship Construction Site Management
• BEng (Hons) Building Services Engineering
• Degree Apprenticeship Building Services Design Engineer
• Degree Apprenticeship Building Services Site Manager
• Management role for RSPBs (professional bodies) liaison.
• Management role for Partnerships in Engineering
• RECONSTRUCT EU project Lead (PI) 
• Construction Centre for Research and Innovation (CCIR) Lead
• Chair of the ICE Northeast Teesside Branch
• External Examiner at Huddersfield University 

Dr Rodriguez holds a PhD in Construction Technology awarded at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) for energy and air quality improvement in residential buildings. He is a Fellow of the Advance HE (FHEA) and holds master’s degrees in Architecture (MArch) and quality of Construction (MSc). He remained a chartered Project Management Professional (PMP) at the Project Management Institute (PMI) until 2018 and CArch for 18 yr in Madrid at COAM developing residential building structures, full projects and "Design and Build" contracts as Principal Designer (Architect).

His research started with energy efficiency and built environment monitoring and improvement professionally as a Principal Architect for several developers from 2005 onwards. As a researcher, he has focused on Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), thin thermal insulations, Machine Learning in construction, Semantic web technologies in construction, Waste optimisation, carbon abatement, facility management, and Building Information Modelling (BIM). He was listed on the Architects Registration Board (ARB) and collaborates with structural engineers in resolving bespoke structural timber design.

He acted as Acting Principal lecturer for Marketing and Recruitment (Engineering), to renovate and freshen the activities attracting talented students to the Engineering disciplines at Teesside University. As such, he spoke to Y12, Y13 and Y4 to Y6 students in STEM activities such as the ones organised by EDT (Engineering Development Trust) titled “Insight to Sustainability - 100k Celebration” last 1^st February 2022.

He is the main contact with the Chartered Institution of Building (CIOB) for course accreditation and student membership and prizes, the Council of Heads of the Built Environment (CHOBE) as head of the programme, as well as with the Institution of Civil Engineering (ICE) as a Chair for the Northeast Teesside Branch, and liaises with companies both in the ICE NE regional meetings as in the university liaison and partnership groups (TUILG, IAB).

As an EKE Champion for Construction and Civil Engineering, he liaises with enterprises, external stakeholders and professional and institutional bodies to look for collaboration opportunities, ranging from KTP projects, Apprenticeships, internships, and innovation projects. This has fructified in collaborations with Corksol-UK, Thirteen Housing Group, Sir Robert McAlpine, Jacobs, the Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE), and the Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland council building departments.

He has broad experience in knowledge transfer and research-informed teaching and talks as an invited speaker in conferences like the ICE technical webinar and virtual site visit, chair, and moderator for international conferences such as BuildUp seminars (2019), the Virtual Renewable Energy (2021), and has acted as a juror for the Robert Stephenson 2022 and 2023 awards, organised by the ICE Northeast and other engineering bodies in the category for small sized projects.

He sits in some industry groups and participates in Management groups at Teesside University as Research Ethics And Integrity Sub-Committee (UREISC) and Research & Knowledge Exchange Committee (RKEC).

As a course leader, he has up-to-date specialist knowledge and connection to technologies, and employer requirements and participates actively in the creation of research materials.

He oversaw the development of whole new courses HDA Construction Site and Design Management, and module design in the area of digital technologies in Construction, as well as teaches for the BEng/MEng/HDA CE and BSE.

As per publications, his record includes highly ranked journal publications such as  Applied Energy, and Automation in Construction:

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4994-0816
• https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=awTjoKsAAAAJ&hl=es&oi=ao

He was awarded £554,000 as PI for the project RECONSTRUCT at Teesside University. and led a research-funded project, investigating the coordination of external and internal 360-photogrammetry with domain BIM models. A sample of Campus buildings is found in the link (https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=hecf8mTYXX5).

He has scientifically coordinated and led proposals for H2020 and Horizon Europe programme with €4 million requested for Teesside University

He was a Co-investigator for the project "Putting people at the heart of future social housing design and manufacture" for the Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+) initiative (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/construction/about-us/transforming-construction-network-plus).

Since 2020 he has acted as a Regional Associate Editor for the Q1 SASBE journal and guest editor for the Sustainability journal special issue ‘Towards Sustainable Building & Infrastructure Operations & Maintenance (O&M)’.

He has successfully supervised the following PhD outstanding projects:

• A BIM-Integrated Semantic Framework for Construction Waste Optimisation. 
• An Approach for Incorporating User Needs, Values and Feedback in the BIM-Based Digital Design of UK Social Housing.
• Development of a framework for human-centred home design in offsite construction for independent living to support healthy ageing in low-density population areas.
• An Approach for Improving BIM-Based Early-Stage Embodied Carbon Assessment of Buildings. 
• A semantic framework for the life cycle of water assets data exchange.
• Integrated Facilities Management using Digital Twinning and Distributed Ledgers.
• The use of data analytics for monitoring and predicting the short-term future performance of geotechnical embankments.
• Semantic Interoperability in IoT Systems and QGIS Integration for Enhanced Unified City Information Modelling (CIM)

He currently supervises the following thesis

• BIM enabled Lean Construction applied to timber construction for social housing, as DOS, to finish in October 2025.
• Industry synergies in the electrolysis processes around the energy generation and storage in the Teesside Cluster to finish in Dec 2028