About Ian

Ian Ellingham, BArch, MBA, MPhil, PhD, PLE, FRAIC

Dr.Ellingham's career started in development management.  He was responsible for the creation of numerous projects, including seventeen social housing and care projects using funding through government programmes, as well as others built using more entrepreneurial methods, or arrangements with entrepreneurial developers.  Other projects have included the creation or refurbishing of office, industrial and retail buildings.  

More recently, he has increased his work in research, writing and teaching, with an emphasis on two areas, one being decision-making in the built environment, in particular the application of real option pricing methods, and the other being the measurement and understanding of human response to buildings and urban spaces.  Research projects have been funded by the governments of Canada, Ontario, the United Kingdom and Europe, as well as numbers of entrepreneurial and non-profit organisations.  Some of this work has been done through Cambridge Architectural Research Limited, a British research and consulting organisation, of which he is an associate and part-owner.  He also a member of faculty of 'The School of Restoration Arts' in Queenston, Canada, where he has taught a variety of subjects relating to heritage architecture.

His educational background includes a Bachelor of Architecture from Carleton University in Ottawa, an MBA from the University of Western Ontario, and a Master of Philosophy in Land Economy and a PhD in Architectural and Urban Studies from the University of Cambridge.  He is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, and is qualified as an architect and land economist in Ontario.  He has been extensively published both in academic and practitioner journals, lectured in universities and many other settings, and, for over a decade, was the chair of the Canadian architectural journal OAA Perspectives. 

Books and book chapters include: 

· Understanding Ugly:  Human Response to Buildings in the Environment  (2020) Ian Ellingham, St.Catharines: Corinivm-Peregrini Media.  ISBN 978-1-9992680-1-5

· Probabilistic Approaches to the Measurement of Embodied Carbon in Buildings (2018) Johannes Gantner, William Fawcett, and Ian Ellingham.  Chapter in book edited by Francesco Pomponi of the Institute for Sustainable Construction at Edinburgh Napier University:  Embodied Carbon in Buildings, Measurement, Management and Mitigation.  Springer.  ISBN-9783319727950

· 100+25 Years: OAA Perspectives on a Quarter Century (2014) Ian Ellingham and Gordon Grice. Toronto: Ontario Association of Architects.  ISBN-13 97809693513-3-6

· Whole Life Sustainability (2013)  Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett. London: RIBA Publishing.  ISBN-13 978-1859464502

· Sustainability within the Construction Sector:  Life Cycle Costing and Assessment  (2013)  Oslo: SINTEF Academic Press.  Project Participant  ISBN 978-82-536-1343-7.   Available through Researchgate or through the 'Bookstore' on this website (free).

· Quantifying the Benefits of Open Building (2013) William Fawcett, Martin Hughes and Ian Ellingham.  Chapter in book 'Long Lasting Buildings in Urban Transformation', Rotterdam:  The International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction.  ISBN 9789627757092.  Original paper on real options and flexibility presented at the November 2012 Open Building Conference in Beijing.  Also available on ResearchGate.

· New Generation Whole-Life Costing, Property and Construction Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (2006)  Ian Ellingham and William Fawcett. London: Taylor & Francis.  ISBN-13 978-0415346580  Book covering decision analysis for practitioners and students, with particular attention paid to the practical applications of option pricing theory.  Shortlisted for the 2007 Royal Institute of British Architects President's Award for Research.

· Making Choices, Alternative Development Standards Guideline (1995) Ministries of Housing and Municipal Affairs, Toronto: Queen's Printer for Ontario.  Member of Advisory Board.

· Alternative Methods of Financing Non-Profit Senior Citizens Housing (1984) Ian Ellingham, John MacLennan, Nicholas Dick, Sheltercare Management Consultants, C.M.H.C., Ottawa, (C.M.H.C.-funded external research project).  This research and publication, together with an 88 unit apartment project built in Toronto, provided the framework and inspiration for life-tenure seniors housing in Canada.  

Dr.Ellingham's  most recent book is Understanding Ugly:  Human Response to Buildings in the Environment (2020, Corinivm-Peregrini Media). ISBN 978-1-9992680-1-5. (see this websites bookstore)