COMFORT IN BUILDINGS: University of Sydney researchers present two talks

COMFORT IN BUILDINGS

University of Sydney researchers present:

Re- and Codesign of Ageing Apartment Housing
and
Comfort is in the Skin of the Beholder

DA200  – Daniels Building, 1 Spadina Crescent
Wednesday, June 19 from 4 p.m. -5:30 p.m.
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Re- and Codesign of Ageing Apartment Housing

BIO
Sandra Karina Löschke PhD (UNSW), AA Dipl. (AA), BA(Hons) (UCL), ARB UK No.066977F
Sandra Löschke is the Associate Professor in Architecture, The University of Sydney, Australia. She is a registered architect and researches in the areas of architecture design, advanced fabrication and housing. She has a particular research interest in better housing and its links to social, economic and environmental sustainability. Her interests in this area span advanced residential construction and materials, participatory design, housing redesign, building retrofits, and user perspectives. She regularly consults with built environment professions, industry and government. 

LECTURE ABSTRACT:
This talk reports on the research conducted for the Australian Research Council project “Codesign Guide for Transforming Ageing Housing”. Apartment housing has been rolled out en masse over the past 50 years and many buildings now need renewal to comply with current regulations and living standards. For multi-residential properties, this can be particularly challenging because of the governance, regulatory and behavioural challenges involved. The talk will shine light on these bigger issues through the discussion of case study findings from Australia and Germany.

Comfort is in the Skin of the Beholder

BIO
Professor Richard de Dear completed his PhD at The University of Queensland, Australia, in 1985, and later that same year he travelled to the Technical University of Denmark for his postdoctoral training under “the father of thermal comfort,” Professor P.O. Fanger. Whilst in Denmark he worked on problems of non-steady-state thermal comfort.  In 1987 he took up his first teaching position at the National University of Singapore, and in 1991 he returned to Sydney Australia. He is currently an Emeritus Professor in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at The University of Sydney.

 With 44 years of continuous research activity in thermal comfort on his CV, de Dear has become the most highly cited researcher on the topic (Scopus; Google Scholar). He is best known for his contributions to adaptive thermal comfort, in particular, the world’s first adaptive comfort standard (ASHRAE Standard 55 – thermal environmental conditions for human occupancy 2004-2024). Among his current roles he is an editor for Elsevier’s Energy and Buildings, Nature Scientific Reports, and ASHRAE’s archival research journal, Science and Technology for the Built Environment. He co-chaired IEA’s Annex 69 on adaptive thermal comfort and is currently technical advisor to WMO/WHO on indoor overheating. He is currently in China as Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School’s Institute of Future Human Habitats.

LECTURE ABSTRACT:
The overwhelming majority of our knowledge of thermal comfort is confined to relatively simple situations of steady-state and iso-thermal exposures. In this talk de Dear will review thermal comfort, pleasure, and discomfort, in more complex and non-steady scenarios that we encounter in our day-to-day lives. The talk will begin with the conceptual framework of alliesthesia and its empirical bases, then finish by identifying where alliesthesia is most directly relevant including outdoor and semi-outdoor settings, personal comfort systems, vehicle cabins, transition spaces including rapid transit carriages and station environments.