Building Physicist

3 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates AESG Full time

Due to the continuing success and growth of our AESG team, a fantastic opportunity has opened up at our award-winning Specialist Consultancy, Engineering and Advisory Firm.

We are headquartered in London, Riyadh, Singapore and Dubai, working throughout the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Our areas of expertise are represented in four core verticals: Building Engineering, Planning and Infrastructure, Strategy and Advisory and Commissioning, Handover and Asset Management.

We pride ourselves in being leaders in the industry in each of the services that we offer. We have one of the largest dedicated team with decades of cumulative experience in sustainable design, fire and life safety, cost management, façade engineering, commissioning, building performance, waste management, environmental consultancy, carbon management and acoustics.

We are looking for a Building Physicist, who will be a key member of our Sustainability team, responsible for delivering CFD services for the built environment and providing external micro-climate analysis support to AESGs Clients.

**Responsibilities**:

- Assist and contribute to the successful delivery of projects
- Support more senior team members in project management
- Utilize CFD tools to solve physics-based problems related to indoor and outdoor building flows, thermal comfort, contaminant dispersion, and condensation controls
- Improve existing analytical capabilities by developing and improving best practices, automating processes, and streamlining workflows
- Undertake climate investigations to understand the risk posed by natural hazards and the physical threat of climate change
- Perform building physics analysis to determine critical environmental conditions and improve the design of passive and active conditioning systems
- Identify the impact of different climate conditions on microclimate, pedestrian wind comfort, and air quality
- Conduct energy modelling to assess and validate energy efficient design features
- Assist to conduct energy auditing activities to assess operational performance and provide support to improve energy efficiency
- Committed to technical excellence
- Motivated and self-driven (entrepreneurial outlook)
- Good relationship builder (internal and external)
- Collaborative personality

**Essential Skills**:

- Technical expertise in CFD modelling
- Analytical skills and ability to carry out project sub tasks
- Strong knowledge of fluid dynamics and heat transfer
- Background in sustainability, building design, and high-performance design analytics
- Knowledgeable in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Advanced Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, and Building Mechanical Systems
- Knowledge of mechanical system architecture and components
- High proficiency in using CFD with more than 5 years of related experience and solving environmental problems
- Advanced proficiency and experience in modelling systems and tools systems, Ansys, OpenFOAM, IES, Python, Excel
- Fundamental knowledge of fluid dynamics, building physics, energy modelling, and/or environmental physics
- Coding, scripting, and/or digital awareness skills

**Why join AESG?**

AESG is a multidisciplinary specialist consultancy, offering a consultancy service and work environment like no other.

The success of our company is built on the success of individuals. Our ability to achieve what we have is because our staff are driven, passionate and love what they do.

Through our progressive, lively and collaborative environment, we identify, foster and nurture the greatest strengths of our staff, and allow them opportunity to flourish by offering positions of responsibility at an early stage, and providing clear career progression pathways for all.

**As an employee of AESG you can expect**:

- Great career opportunities with access to huge variety of projects and incredible clients make your mark in a growing company and accelerate your career.
- Working on some of the worlds leading developments and tackling our clients greatest challenges
- Commitment in building on your areas of specialism and focal interest points, supporting your professional development through a structured training and mentorship program.
- Highly collaborative approach across the different technical service offerings
- Internal and external training opportunities where do you want to take your career? Well help you get there
- Promotion of the importance of health and well-being of the team, including team-building fitness activities, social events and the provision of a healthy work environment
- To be part of a dynamic and motivated team with an amazing team culture



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