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UNLV School of Architecture
welcomes Dr. Rajat Gupta
Lecture title: Incorporating Low Carbon Technologies in Buildings:
Carbon Emissions’ Reduction Planning.
Monday. 7:00 p.m. October 22, 2007 (reception begins at 6:30 pm)
View additional information for a workshop to be held Oct 23, 2007
Dr. Rajat Gupta is a Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Architecture Unit of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development in Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England. Dr Gupta is registered as an Architect in India and London, and has a Masters in Energy Efficient Building and a Doctorate from Oxford Brookes University. He has developed an innovative GIS-based domestic energy, carbon-counting and carbon-reduction model (DECoRuM), the working of which has been widely reported in academic journals, leading exhibitions, conferences and newspapers. DECoRuM is now being further developed as a toolkit for carbon emission reduction planning for use by UK local authorities. Dr Gupta has recently been part of the Oxford Solar Initiative, a project to encourage more people to reduce their carbon emissions resulting in 450 energy efficiency measures and 80 new solar hot water systems in Oxford homes; the EC-funded SHADA project to promote sustainable buildings by creating a web-based sustainable design advisory service; and a Government-funded adaptation project assessing adaptation responses to climate change for new developments in growth areas. Dr Gupta has published widely in this area and has co-authored a book, Closing the loop: benchmarks for sustainable buildings (2004), RIBA publications Ltd. He also developed the Climate Change Action Plan for the City of Oxford in 2005 and is currently writing The Carbon Counting Handbook for Buildings and Cities. Dr Gupta has been awarded research grants from the European Commission, Energy Saving Trust, Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors Education Trust, Pilkington Energy Efficiency Trust, British Council and South East Proof of Concept fund. Dr Gupta currently speaks nationally and internationally on the subject of climate change and carbon emission reduction planning in Cities.
View his lecture on DVD or VHS
coming soon
Biographical information: http://eetdseminars.lbl.gov/speakerInfo.php?speaker=505
... "Dr Rajat Gupta is a Research Fellow at the Department of Architecture, and a leading member of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development in Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, England. Dr Gupta qualified as an Architect in India and London, and has a Masters in Energy Efficient Building and a Doctorate from Oxford Brookes University."
Additional information: http://www.brookes.ac.uk/res/experts/profiles/rajat_gupta
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The Natural Energies Advanced Technologies Laboratory at UNLV
is pleased to invite you to a three-hour focused workshop conducted by:
Dr. Rajat Gupta
Incorporating Low Carbon Technologies in Buildings and Cities:
Carbon Emissions’ Reduction Planning in Nevada
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 from 9:00 AM - Noon.
This workshop will be held at the Architecture Studies Library, Room 114.
Dr. Rajat Gupta is Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development: Architecture Unit (OISD:A), and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture, at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK. He is also a Visiting Scientist at the Herberger Centre for Design Research in Arizona State University. Dr Gupta is recipient of the prestigious RIBA President’s award for outstanding research (2006) related to DECoRuM®, a GIS-based software model, which helps architects, planners and policy-makers count, cost and reduce domestic carbon emissions on an urban scale. Recently he was part of the Oxford Solar Initiative, a project to encourage more people to reduce their carbon emissions in Oxford homes; an EC-funded SHADA project to promote sustainable buildings by creating a web-based sustainable design advisory service; and a UK government-funded project assessing adaptation responses to climate change. Dr. Gupta is also leading an industry-funded project to develop a toolkit for the UK’s Code for Sustainable Homes. Dr. Gupta co-authored the book: Closing the Loop: Benchmarks for Sustainable Buildings (2004), RIBA Publications Ltd.
This workshop is free but attendees are asked to RSVP before Monday, October 22 at 5:00 PM.
For additional information and to RSVP please contact:
Alfredo Fernández-González
Associate Professor of Architecture and Graduate Studies Coordinator
Director, Natural Energies Advanced Technologies Laboratory
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 454018
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4018
ph: (702) 895-1141
fax: (702) 895-1119
web: www.unlv.edu/labs/neatl
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