Professor Priya Rajagopalan
Associate Dean (Research and Innovation)
Details
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College: School of PCPM
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Department: School of PCPM
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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priyadarsini.rajagopalan@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Priya is the Director of the Post Carbon Research Centre for Infrastructure and the Built Environment and Associate Dean (Research and Innovation). She is a building scientist with extensive experience in energy and indoor environmental quality of buildings and urban climatology.
Priya strives to achieve an enriching nexus between research and teaching by transferring the knowledge to the students. With a very strong research background in practical and theoretical underpinnings of sustainable built environments, Priya is able to provide students with current knowledge and advanced tools in this area.
Priya's research interests span from sustainable building design, energy benchmarking and labelling, urban heat island, building performance simulation, indoor air quality, lighting and acoustics to citizen science in urban microclimate monitoring, mitigation and adaptation. As an internationally recognized expert in the field of building energy and indoor environmental performance and urban climatology, she has secured larges competitive grants, led multidisciplinary teams and developed new knowledge and innovative methods for climate change mitigation and adaptation which are adopted by the industry, communities and governments.
Priya teaches in the Master of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Building Programme which involves a unique blend of courses that focus on key principles and practice of designing and delivering environmentally sustainable buildings, infrastructure and developments, where she challenges and helps students to build skills in energy efficient and sustainable building design for navigating the complex and rapidly changing built environment.
Award:
National University of Singapore Research Scholarship Award
Priya strives to achieve an enriching nexus between research and teaching by transferring the knowledge to the students. With a very strong research background in practical and theoretical underpinnings of sustainable built environments, Priya is able to provide students with current knowledge and advanced tools in this area.
Priya's research interests span from sustainable building design, energy benchmarking and labelling, urban heat island, building performance simulation, indoor air quality, lighting and acoustics to citizen science in urban microclimate monitoring, mitigation and adaptation. As an internationally recognized expert in the field of building energy and indoor environmental performance and urban climatology, she has secured larges competitive grants, led multidisciplinary teams and developed new knowledge and innovative methods for climate change mitigation and adaptation which are adopted by the industry, communities and governments.
Priya teaches in the Master of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Building Programme which involves a unique blend of courses that focus on key principles and practice of designing and delivering environmentally sustainable buildings, infrastructure and developments, where she challenges and helps students to build skills in energy efficient and sustainable building design for navigating the complex and rapidly changing built environment.
Award:
National University of Singapore Research Scholarship Award
Supervisor projects
- Investigating the effectiveness of circadian lighting metrics in predicting occupants alertness, mood and sleep quality
- 12 Apr 2024
- Introducing cool urban cooling strategies in order to improve energy efficiency of housing under future climate conditions
- 29 Jan 2024
- Study and Analysis of Daylighting System using Fresnel Lens for Optimal Performance
- 9 Jan 2024
- Adaptive Cities: A user-specific approach to designing and implementing `considered¿ and responsive urban parks/urban green spacesthat maximise the invigorative experience.
- 2 Oct 2023
- Modelling and prediction of indoor air quality in school classrooms
- 22 Nov 2022
- Project Management of Mega Property Developments - Comprehensive Framework, Techniques, Best Practices and New Body of Knowledge
- 25 Oct 2022
- Pluggable Multi-objective optimization of solar building envelope: A BIM-based generative design method
- 29 Jun 2022
- Impact of Window Typologies on Indoor Environmental Quality in Australian High-Rise Social Housing
- 11 Oct 2019
- Investigating the Association Between the Spatial Patterns of Vegetation Coverage and Urban Thermal Environment
- 1 Mar 2017
- Towards Net-Zero Energy (NZE): Strategies for achieving NZE High-rise Residential Buildings in Australia
- 29 Aug 2016
- Energy performance and water usage of aquatic centres
- 12 May 2016
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
Building energy benchmarking and rating
Urban microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort
Natural ventilation and airflow
Urban heat island
Indoor environmental performance of buildings
Lighting, Acoustics, thermal comfort
Supervisor projects:
Impact of window typologies on the indoor environmental quality in high-rise social housing
Towards Net Zero energy Apartment Buildings
Evaluation of Microclimates and Thermal Perceptions in Urban Precincts
Spatial Development Pattern and Urban heat Island
An assessment method for energy performance benchmarking in Day Procedure centres in Australia
Energy performance of aquatic centres in Australia
Impact of Urban Development on the Microclimate and Pedestrian Thermal Comfort in Melbourne
Daylight guiding system in an office building
Program:
MC209 - Master of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Buildings (https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/building/sustainable-practices)
Building energy benchmarking and rating
Urban microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort
Natural ventilation and airflow
Urban heat island
Indoor environmental performance of buildings
Lighting, Acoustics, thermal comfort
Supervisor projects:
Impact of window typologies on the indoor environmental quality in high-rise social housing
Towards Net Zero energy Apartment Buildings
Evaluation of Microclimates and Thermal Perceptions in Urban Precincts
Spatial Development Pattern and Urban heat Island
An assessment method for energy performance benchmarking in Day Procedure centres in Australia
Energy performance of aquatic centres in Australia
Impact of Urban Development on the Microclimate and Pedestrian Thermal Comfort in Melbourne
Daylight guiding system in an office building
Program:
MC209 - Master of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Buildings (https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/building/sustainable-practices)
Research interests
Priya’s research demonstrates track record of high-impact, industry-led, applied research in the fields of indoor environmental quality, climate science and energy efficiency. Her expertise lies at the interface between indoor air quality, building design and climate science. She has established cross disciplinary partnerships with government and not-for-profit organizations. The outcomes from her research have directly informed the building industry through the development of performance indicators, guidelines and assessment tools for complex building typologies. She has developed cost-effective methods of collecting high quality climate data at large spatial and temporal scales using citizen science approach. Such data enable policy makers to predict future health and energy needs and plan urban built environment and open spaces.
She has also developed performance-based energy benchmarking and labelling system for many building typologies. The benchmark standards and guidelines developed for aquatic centres are adopted by the Aquatics and Recreation Victoria and used by architects, engineers and council sustainability managers to set energy efficiency targets in the design and construction of new buildings and operation of existing buildings. This has assisted local governments to manage energy consumption and system design through better informed day to day management of operations, as well as guiding environmental performance during the design of new or refurbished infrastructure.
Research keywords:
Building energy efficiency, Indoor environmental quality, Urban heat island, Citizen science, Indoor air quality, Lighting, Acoustics, Building performance simulation
She has also developed performance-based energy benchmarking and labelling system for many building typologies. The benchmark standards and guidelines developed for aquatic centres are adopted by the Aquatics and Recreation Victoria and used by architects, engineers and council sustainability managers to set energy efficiency targets in the design and construction of new buildings and operation of existing buildings. This has assisted local governments to manage energy consumption and system design through better informed day to day management of operations, as well as guiding environmental performance during the design of new or refurbished infrastructure.
Research keywords:
Building energy efficiency, Indoor environmental quality, Urban heat island, Citizen science, Indoor air quality, Lighting, Acoustics, Building performance simulation
