Adrian Leaman
Adrian has been managing director of Building Use Studies (BUS) since 1987. He specialises in the management and application of feedback from building occupants about their needs and requirements. He is also the secretary of the Usable Buildings Trust, which puts independent results from building performance studies into the public domain. He is an accomplished motivational speaker at conferences, advanced courses and universities in Britain and around the world, and a widely-cited author, with over 150 publications.
In the 1980s Adrian carried out pioneering and influential research work on occupant health in buildings (’sick buildings’). More recently he carried out the occupancy surveys for the internationally-acknowledged Probe studies of building performance, to which two special issues of the Building Research and Information journal are devoted.
Adrian collaborates with Bill Bordass on many projects in the UK. Their real-world and total building approach to problem solving uses strategic thinking about the future based on careful analysis of current performance and trends. Their respective databases on energy, user, health and occupancy issues are extensive, and have provided the models for many similar studies.
