McLaggan, Martyn S., Dr

Dr Martyn S. McLaggan

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Lecturer in Low Carbon Design

m.s.mclaggan@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 5783

Room E111, Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)

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Dr Martyn S. McLaggan
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Room E111
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
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The aim of my research is to safely reduce carbon emissions in the built environment. My focus is on quantifying the fire risk of low carbon materials, such as timber and facades, so that they can be used safely and confidently.

Dr Martyn S. McLaggan

Martyn McLaggan (he/him) graduated with a MEng in Architectural Engineering from the University of Strathclyde and subsequently attained his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in Fire Safety Engineering. His work investigated how to balance the potential energy savings of modern low carbon building materials with their inherent fire risk.

He spent two years as a research consultant and postdoctoral fellow in a position joint between Denmark and Sweden, focused on façades and how to apply research to industry.

The Grenfell Tower fire demonstrated the huge lack of understanding in the area of façade fires. As a result, Martyn worked on an audit of flammable cladding while a research fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. As part of a state-wide project, he directed a team of researchers to develop the Cladding Materials Library, an open access material database containing quantitative data needed by practitioners and researchers.

Martyn joined the department as Lecturer in Low Carbon Design in 2021. His work is heavily interdisciplinary and combines sustainability, fire safety, structures and architecture to facilitate the design of safe sustainable structures.

His interests primarily lie in enabling the usage of novel and renewable low carbon building materials, such as timber and other natural materials, advanced composites and phase change materials.

This research works towards answering the difficult question of how to effectively address the climate and biodiversity emergency whilst still maintaining an adequate level of safety in the built environment.

Research interests

Low carbon materials
Timber and natural materials e.g. CLT, hemp, bamboo, cork
Energy efficiency
Balancing sustainability and fire safety
Advanced composite building products
Reducing embodied carbon
Facades
Fire exposures for modern compartments
Upward flame spread
Bespoke experiments to generate quantified data
Development of simplified numerical models

Publications

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Featured publications

Journal articles

Jeebodh A, Davison B, McLaggan MS, Burgess I, Hopkin D & Huang S-S (2024) . Fire Safety Journal, 146.
Mendez JE, McLaggan MS & Lange D (2024) . Fire Safety Journal, 142, 104020-104020.
Mendez JE, Lange D, Hidalgo JP & McLaggan MS (2022) . Fire Safety Journal, 133.
Nothard S, Lange D, Hidalgo JP, Gupta V, McLaggan MS, Wiesner F & Torero JL (2022) . Fire Safety Journal, 129.
Xu H, Pope I, Gupta V, Cadena J, Carrascal J, Lange D, McLaggan MS, Mendez J, Osorio A, Solarte A , Soriguer D et al (2022) . Fire Safety Journal, 128.
Cadena JE, McLaggan M, Osorio AF, Torero JL & Lange D (2022) . Fire Safety Journal, 128.
McLaggan MS, Hidalgo JP, Osorio AF, Heitzmann MT, Carrascal J, Lange D, Maluk C & Torero JL (2021) . Construction and Building Materials, 300.
Haridevan H, McLaggan MS, Evans DAC, Martin DJ, Seaby T, Zhang Z & Annamalai PK (2021) . ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 3(7), 3528-3537.
McLaggan MS, Hidalgo JP, Carrascal J, Heitzmann MT, Osorio AF & Torero JL (2021) . Fire Safety Journal, 120.
McLaggan MS, Gupta V, Hidalgo JP & Torero JL (2021) . International Journal of High-Rise Buildings, 10(4), 299-310.
McLaggan MS, Hadden RM & Gillie M (2018) . Fire Technology, 54(1), 117-134.
McLaggan MS, Hadden RM & Gillie M (2017) . Energy and Buildings, 153, 439-447.

Datasets

McLaggan MS, Hidalgo Medina J, Osorio AF, Heitzmann M, Carrascal Tirado J, Lange D, Maluk Zedan C & Torero Cullen J (2019) .

All publications

Journal articles

Jeebodh A, Davison B, McLaggan MS, Burgess I, Hopkin D & Huang S-S (2024) . Fire Safety Journal, 146.
Mendez JE, McLaggan MS & Lange D (2024) . Fire Safety Journal, 142, 104020-104020.
Mendez JE, Lange D, Hidalgo JP & McLaggan MS (2022) . Fire Safety Journal, 133.
Nothard S, Lange D, Hidalgo JP, Gupta V, McLaggan MS, Wiesner F & Torero JL (2022) . Fire Safety Journal, 129.
Xu H, Pope I, Gupta V, Cadena J, Carrascal J, Lange D, McLaggan MS, Mendez J, Osorio A, Solarte A , Soriguer D et al (2022) . Fire Safety Journal, 128.
Cadena JE, McLaggan M, Osorio AF, Torero JL & Lange D (2022) . Fire Safety Journal, 128.
McLaggan MS, Hidalgo JP, Osorio AF, Heitzmann MT, Carrascal J, Lange D, Maluk C & Torero JL (2021) . Construction and Building Materials, 300.
Haridevan H, McLaggan MS, Evans DAC, Martin DJ, Seaby T, Zhang Z & Annamalai PK (2021) . ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 3(7), 3528-3537.
McLaggan MS, Hidalgo JP, Carrascal J, Heitzmann MT, Osorio AF & Torero JL (2021) . Fire Safety Journal, 120.
McLaggan MS, Gupta V, Hidalgo JP & Torero JL (2021) . International Journal of High-Rise Buildings, 10(4), 299-310.
(2019) . International Journal of Maritime Engineering, 161(A2).
Crewe RJ, Hidalgo JP, Sørensen MX, McLaggan M, Molyneux S, Welch S, Jomaas G, Torero JL, Stec AA & Hull TR (2018) . Fire Technology, 54(4), 819-852.
McLaggan MS, Hadden RM & Gillie M (2018) . Fire Technology, 54(1), 117-134.
McLaggan MS, Hadden RM & Gillie M (2017) . Energy and Buildings, 153, 439-447.

Conference proceedings papers

Pope I, Xu H, Gupta V, Carrascal J, Lange D, McLaggan M, Mendez J, Solarte A, Soriguer D, Torero JL , Wiesner F et al (2021) . Proceedings of the 12th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology (AOSFST 2021)
Nothard S, Lange D, Hidalgo JP, Gupta V & McLaggan MS (2020) . Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF2020)
Mclaggan M, Wilkens Flecknoe-Brown K, Dragsted A & Van Hees P (2018) . Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Vol. 1107(3). Nancy, France, 12 September 2018 - 14 September 2018.

Datasets

McLaggan MS, Hidalgo Medina J, Osorio AF, Heitzmann M, Carrascal Tirado J, Lange D, Maluk Zedan C & Torero Cullen J (2019) .

Research group: Fire; Steel and composite structures; Resources, Infrastructure Systems and built Environmental Discipline

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Research Group Members/PhD Opportunities

Research group members: Julian Mendez (University of Queensland, Australia), PhD candidate, External fire spread risk in tall building design.

PhD opportunities: If you're interested in a PhD project, please contact Martyn at the above email. Current PhD opportunities in the department can be viewed here.

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School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Dr Martyn S. McLaggan

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