A5020849187- Building Energy and Comfort Optimization
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Housing Market and Economics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Sustainable Building Design and Assessment
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- Architecture and Computational Design
- Design Education and Practice
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Energy Efficiency and Management
- Energy Load and Power Forecasting
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Structural Engineering and Vibration Analysis
- BIM and Construction Integration
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Seismic and Structural Analysis of Tall Buildings
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2023-2024
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2020-2021
Given that evolving urban systems require ever more sophisticated and creative solutions to deal with uncertainty, designing for resilience in contemporary landscape architecture represents a cross-disciplinary endeavor. While there is breadth of research on within the academy, findings this are seldom making their way into physical practice. There existent gaps between objective, scientific method scientists intuitive qualitative language designers practitioners. The purpose paper help...
Planning support systems (PSSs) should generally be designed to promote the participation of stakeholders in planning and design processes through delivery useful, localized information, an ability collect feedback, model test various ‘what-if’ scenarios. This paper focuses on such a PSS tool. The tool integrates Land-use Evolution Assessment Model (LEAM) with Regional Economic Input-Output (REIM) tightly coupled computational process made accessible web-based PSS. integrated allows for...
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have long been used by architects to find objective solutions complex building problems involving trade-offs implicit in sustainable design. At a larger scale, urban designers created variety of tools improve sustainability urban-and-larger scale However, date, fewer studies focused on improving outcomes at the “in between” neighborhood and site. Existing scholarship optimization this has tended take narrow view sustainability. We seek expand...
The United States faces twin crises of housing affordability and environmental degradation. Under these clouds, the nation is experiencing an explosive growth in new construction multi-family housing. This paper seeks to evaluate how designers might optimize organization such projects minimize cost maximize performance. A method developed for evaluating costs performance multifamily developments across four variables: building height, number buildings, width, floor area. Our analysis...
This paper explores the promise of genetic algorithms as a tool for optimization buildings at neighborhood scale across conflicting demands social, environmental, and economic sustainability. A large urban site in Chicago, Illinois, is selected to test viability using multi criteria algorithm optimize potential building mix newly planned development. Two variables, number given use-type their height, are analyzed against cost functions economic, environmental objectives. Single-objective...
This paper explores the use of new tools for creation novel methods identifying faults in building energy performance remotely. With rise availability interval utility data and proliferation machine learning processes, are arising which promise to bridge gap between architects, engineers, auditors, operators, personnel. Utility information, viewed with sufficient granularity, can offer a sort “genome, ”that is set “genes” unique given be decoded provide information about building’s...