Current Research Projects

Contact

Name: Edgar Stach, PhD
Positions:
  • Director, Institute for Smart & Healthy Cities
  • Professor of Architecture
Position: College of Architecture and the Built Environment

Double Skin Facades as a Retrofit Shading Application for KSA

Goals & Objectives

  • Comparative analysis of DSF systems for new and retrofit applications. Visibility study and simulation.
  • Heat harvesting, solar shading, cost reduction, energy load reduction
  • Phase 0 in potential new RDI research EE/RE, K.A.CARE objective ‘5% energy reduction by 2015’.
  • RDI objective: technology development