Alvaro Corredor Ochoa

Álvaro Corredor Ochoa, Doctor of Science in Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, is a researcher, university teacher, architect, and urbanist specialising in urban sustainability regulation and transit-oriented developments (TODs). His work focuses on the relationship between urban sustainability, regulatory frameworks, and indicator-based planning, with particular attention to how sustainability objectives can be integrated across the different phases of the urban life cycle.

Before moving fully into academia, he worked for several years in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, retail and interior design, temporary structures, and construction management in different European contexts. He also founded his own architectural studio and participated in international architecture and urban design competitions.

His doctoral research at Tampere University examined sustainability indicators applied to TODs. The dissertation introduced residential capacity as an indicator of urban sustainability and proposed a regulatory framework linking urban sustainability indicators to different phases of the urban life cycle.

He has held research-related positions at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), and has been a visiting researcher at Coventry City Council, the City of Vantaa’s Urban Planning Department, and the Technical University of Madrid. He also completed the European Climate-KIC Pioneers into Practice programme.

His publications include Challenges in Assessing Urban Sustainability (Elsevier, 2020) and two chapters in Blending Approaches Towards Sustainability Focus (Springer Nature, 2025): Sustainable Urban Policy for Transit-Oriented Developments and Residential Capacity as an Indicator of Urban Sustainability for TODs.

His main research interests include urban sustainability indicators, regulatory frameworks, transit-oriented developments, bioclimatic urbanism, social sustainability, zero-energy clusters, and the transformation of urban sprawl.

Álvaro is interested in different topics inside sustainable urbanism such as indicators of urban sustainability, transforming the sprawl, zero energy clusters, ecocities, ecological footprint in urbanity, increasing the complexity in the neighbourhoods, eco innovative urban transportation, ecovillages, bioclimatic urbanism, smart growth and new urbanism, social sustainability in urban developments, transit-oriented developments, indicators of urban sustainability and hybrid land urban use among others.

Sustainability and Urban Planning

Tampere University. Doctoral Researcher. March 2022 - July 2025.

SYKE The Finnish Environment Institute. Research Assistant in internship. Feb 2014 - Aug 2014.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Research Trainee in internship. Jun 2013 - Jan 2014.

1. Residential Capacity as an Indicator of Urban Sustainability for TODs: The Case Study of Tikkurila, Finland, (2025). Peer-reviewed book chapter. Author: Álvaro Corredor-Ochoa. Editor(s): André Cavalcante da Silva Batalhão and Pardeep Singh. Blending Approaches Towards Sustainability Focus. Earth and Environmental Sciences Library. Springer, Cham. Print ISBN 978-3-031-93517-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93518-3_9
2. Sustainable Urban Policy for Transit-Oriented Developments: Framework for Achieving Urban Sustainability in Different Urban Life-Cycle Phases, (2025). Peer-reviewed book chapter. Author: Álvaro Corredor-Ochoa. Editor(s): André Cavalcante da Silva Batalhão and Pardeep Singh. Blending Approaches Towards Sustainability Focus. Earth and Environmental Sciences Library. Springer, Cham. Print ISBN 978-3-031-93517-6. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93518-3_12
3. Challenges in assessing urban sustainability, (2020). Peer-reviewed book chapter. Authors: Álvaro Corredor-Ochoa, Carmen Antuña-Rozado, José Fariña-Tojo and Juho Rajaniemi. Editor(s): Pramit Verma, Pardeep Singh, Rishikesh Singh, A.S. Raghubanshi. Urban Ecology, Elsevier, 2020. Pages 355-374. ISBN 9780128207307. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820730-7.00019-7
4. Eco-innovative construction business models for social development, (2014). Conference paper (peer-reviewed). Authors: Aapo Huovila, Carmen Antuña-Rozado, Pekka Huovila and Álvaro Corredor-Ochoa. 24th Annual RESER Conference, 2014. Pages 72-82. ISBN: 978-951-38-7436-0 · Sep 11, 2014. Available at: https://reser.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/RESER_2014_Proceedings-1.pdf
5. Building Engineer Manual, (2011). Book. Author: Esther Valiente Ochoa. Collaborators: Alexandru Octavian Ciplinschi, Begoña Serrano Lanzarote, Álvaro Corredor Ochoa and Robert Frank Rogers. Published by Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012. ISBN: 978-84-8363-851-4
6. Manual del ingeniero de edificación: guía para la inspección edilicia, (2011). Book. Author: Esther Valiente Ochoa. Collaborators: Victor Manuel Cabrera García and Álvaro Corredor Ochoa. Published by Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2011. ISBN: 978-84-8363-656-5.
7. Manual del Ingeniero de Edificación: guía para la prevención y seguridad en las obras, (2026). Book. Authors: Esther Valiente Ochoa and Ana García Valldecabres. Collaborators: Víctor Manuel Cabrera García, Álvaro Corredor Ochoa, Blanca Campillos Muñoz and Iker Soto Martínez. Published by Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2026. ISBN: 978-84-1396-439-3.