Architectural Engineering Research Group
The Architectural Engineering Research Group brings together an interdisciplinary team that applies engineering-based methods to the analysis, understanding, and creation of architecture. Our research is driven by a strong commitment to the development and valorization of knowledge that enables an innovative, high-quality, and sustainable built environment.
Stimulated by insights from construction history and using new technologies, we tackle the complex sustainability challenges for the built environment. By integrating design-driven, theoretical, and experimental research across scales, we advance the development of resource-conscious, energy-efficient, and circular buildings and construction systems. In doing so, we contribute to a resilient built environment that responds to long-term environmental and societal challenges.
To pursue its vision, the involved members build on complementary research expertise encompassing both fundamental and applied research. In the conducted research, several of these areas of expertise are frequently combined, reinforcing one another. Through the intersections between these research domains, the group actively fosters internal synergy and collaboration. In line with the above-mentioned research vision, the priority research objectives are:
- To develop historically informed knowledge on building materials, construction practices and labour as a basis for circular transformation, reuse strategies, and evidence-based policy and regulatory frameworks (heritage assessment, urban transformation, and circular procurement).
- To develop innovative and sustainable construction systems that maximise material efficiency through strategies such as reusability, modularity, and the use of sustainable materials.
- To develop bio-based building materials with improved and predictable structural properties for application in the building industry.
- To develop performance-based design methodologies and data-driven frameworks that integrate energy efficiency, climate adaptability, and occupant comfort with principles of sufficiency, social equity, and regenerative design to create resilient and inclusive built environments.
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