Research Methods in Building Science and Technology

Dr. Rahman Azari is an architect, Associate Professor, and founding director of the Resource and Energy Efficiency (RE2) Lab at the Department of Architecture, Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Azari is also a co-funded faculty at the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment. Prior to Penn State, Dr. Azari served as an assistant professor (2017-2020) and the interim director (2018-2019) of the Architecture PhD program at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, and an assistant professor (2013-2017) at University of Texas San Antonio.

Dr. Hazem Rashed-Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture, The University of Texas at San Antonio.  His research focuses on sustainable architecture and urbanism with an emphasis on minimizing the negative environmental impacts of the built environment through the design of high-performance, energy efficient, and carbon neutral buildings and communities. He is the recipient of several research grants both individually and as part of interdisciplinary collaborative teams.  Dr. Rashed-Ali’s work was published in prominent national and international conferences and journals. He is also the Past President of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium.  Dr. Rashed-Ali holds a PhD in Architecture from Texas A&M University and a M.S. in Architecture from Oxford Brookes University. He is a registered architect in Egypt.