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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by Dr A. Sonta
DTSTART:20210203T180000
DTEND:20210203T184500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Dr Andrew Sonta\n18:00 – 18:45 – Dr Andrew Sonta\nPostdoct
 oral Fellow at Columbia University\, USA\n\nIntegrating social and environ
 mental perspectives for a sustainable built environment\n\nFoundational hu
 man goals like well-being and productivity are the primary drivers of desi
 gn and management for the built environment. At the same time\, because of
  the built environment’s outsized role in overall energy demand\, our de
 sign and management decisions are also critical to our sustainable energy 
 future. Any rational view toward infrastructure development must therefore
  integrate our social and environmental goals\, as in the case of an offic
 e building that boosts productivity while saving energy. This integration 
 is difficult due to the complexity of our human and energy systems. Howeve
 r\, the emergence of sensing and data in the built environment creates the
  opportunity to shed light on these complexities.\nThis talk will elucidat
 e this overarching research objective using the context of commercial buil
 dings—framing the social goal as workplace productivity and the environm
 ental goal as energy efficiency. Data from spatially and temporally granul
 ar sensors enable inference of both real-time human use of space in buildi
 ngs as well as the structure of the social and organizational network of r
 elationships among building occupants. This inference of human systems ser
 ves as a key input for the design and management of built systems in a way
  that promotes both collaboration among building occupants as well as ener
 gy-efficient control of the building. Across multiple scales of the built 
 environment\, this approach to understanding human-built interactions has 
 the potential to transform the way we design and manage our cities and cre
 ate more sustainable and equitable built environments.\n\n\nShort bio:\nAn
 drew Sonta is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University’s Data Scienc
 e Institute working in the Smart Cities focus area. He holds an MS and PhD
  from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford Un
 iversity\, where he was a Stanford Graduate Fellow in the Urban Informatic
 s Lab. His research centers on data-driven modeling\, analysis\, and desig
 n techniques for the improvement of social and environmental goals in the 
 built environment. His work spans engineering\, design\, social science\, 
 and data science and aims to address urban sustainability challenges throu
 gh a multidisciplinary lens. He has taught engineering and design courses 
 both at Stanford and as adjunct faculty in the architecture program at the
  University of San Francisco. His interest in urban built and social syste
 ms stems from growing up in the city of Chicago. He earned his BS from nea
 rby Northwestern University in civil engineering\, summa cum laude\, wher
 e he also studied economics and architecture.
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/87618318381
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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