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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture - Prof. Andrew Sonta
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Andrew Sonta\nDate: 17 May 2023\nTime: 17:30 - 18:45\nIn
 troductions by the Dean\, lectures by Prof. David Ruggiero and Prof. Andre
 w Sonta. Followed by an Apero.\nPlace: CO2\nZoom link\n\nTitle:\nIntegrati
 ng social and environmental perspectives for a sustainable built environme
 nt\n\nAbstract\nThe built environment has a dual set of responsibilities. 
 On one hand\, given buildings’ outsized impact on the environment\, it i
 s imperative to improve sustainability of construction and efficiency of o
 peration. On the other hand\, our buildings serve a fundamentally human pu
 rpose: they should support our human-centric goals such as well-being and 
 productivity. To advance our understanding of holistic building performanc
 e and potential\, we must take a research perspective that integrates thes
 e two sets of responsibilities. The research at the newly formed ETHOS Lab
  at EPFL seeks to work toward this integration. We use sensors and open da
 ta sources to computationally analyze human-building interactions and impr
 ove built environment design and operation. In this talk\, we will investi
 gate specific examples of human-building interactions on the building and 
 urban scales. The research presented works toward a vision where explicit 
 modeling and analysis of human systems can help us transform the way we de
 sign and manage our built environment to support our social and environmen
 tal goals.\n\n\nAbout the speaker\nAndrew Sonta was appointed Tenure Track
  Assistant Professor at EPFL ENAC in September 2022. He directs the ETHOS 
 Lab: Civil Engineering and Technology for Human Oriented Sustainability. P
 rior to joining EPFL\, he received his PhD from Stanford University’s Su
 stainable Design and Construction program\, studying human-building intera
 ction in commercial buildings. He was then a postdoctoral research fellow 
 at Columbia University’s Data Science Institute\, working in the smart c
 ities focus area. He has also taught in the architecture program at the Un
 iversity of San Francisco. His work spans engineering\, design\, social sc
 ience\, and data science and aims to address urban sustainability challeng
 es through a multidisciplinary lens. At EPFL\, the mission of the ETHOS La
 b is to use data\, engineering\, and design to create interventions in the
  built environment that integrate our social and environmental goals.\n\n\
 n\n 
LOCATION:CO2 https://plan.epfl.ch//?room==CO%201 https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63
 419398622
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