Providing tools for assessing environmental performance
Professor Jim Baird
I am Emeritus Professor at Glasgow Caledonian University having worked there for 30 years and previously at the Water Research Centre and the British Hydromechanics Research Association. I have always been interesting in the power of models, simulation techniques and data analysis to bring insight to environmental problems.
I am hoping to add tools to this site that I have worked on. For the moment have a look at my food and carbon calculator that helps determine the carbon emissions associated with the recipe you can design and a home energy performance calculator, using AI techniques, for those non-purists out there, who would like to see what their energy efficiency rating and banding might be and what enhancements can be made to improve its EPC score.
Professional Career
2025- Present
Emeritus Professor
Glasgow Caledonian University
Working on individual projects, principally around waste management carbon assessment, environmental training, energy performance systems.
1994-2025
Professor of Waste and Resource Management
Glasgow Caledonian University
Programme Leader for MSc Environmental Management programme, developing and adapting the programme as our understanding for environmental concerns evolves, illustrated by early interests in man in the programmeFocused on curriculum development and spearheaded projects that integrated renewable energy studies into the academic framework.
Director of the Caledonian Environment Centre, a research and consultancy unit, which supported Scottish Government and local authorities expand recycling services across Scotland.
1988 – 1994
Senior Researcher and Group Manager
Water Research Centre
Undertaking Environmental Assessments of sewage discharges into the coastal and river environment in the UK, based on the development and use of mathematical simulation models of tidal movements, including Liverpool Bay, the Thames estuary and east Anglian coast.
1984-1988
Research Engineer
British Hydromechanics Research Association (BHRA)
Working on physical and mathematical models of civil infrastructure, such as dam spillways, pumping stations, hydraulic systems and power station discharges to coastal area, both in UK, Asia and Middle East
Academic and Achievements
1984
PhD Civil Engineering,
University of Glasgow
Working on physical and mathematical models of civil infrastructure, such as dam outfalls, pumping stations, hydraulioc systems and power station discharges to coastal area, both in UK, Asia and Middle East
1986 - MICE CEng
2005 - Fellow FCIWM, General Council
2015 - President CIWM
Working on physical and mathematical models of civil infrastructure, such as dam outfalls, pumping stations, hydraulioc systems and power station discharges to coastal area, both in UK, Asia and Middle East