Sustainable Architecture and Resilient Design (SARD)

Background

SARD-RG aims to serve the UAE community through its main interlinked themes: Architecture, Urban Development, Architectural Heritage/Conservation, Technology, and Sustainability. The UAE is seeing extensive urban growth and development, which should be driven by appropriate methodologies, studies, and tools. SARD-RG is a backbone for all urban planning and design projects in the governmental sector such as urban planning councils, housing departments, and municipalities, through the provision of empirical research studies for potential urban developments. In addition, the research group provides these authorities with consultancy services to strengthen their platforms through structured research. There is a huge impact of research in advancing architecture in general and building performance in particular. Many concerns of energy conservation, space optimization, material consumption, sustainability, and lots more are being addressed through technical research and support in the architectural field. Collaboration with authorities such as SEWA, DEWA, and other bodies could introduce research to provide adequate building envelopes, which can contribute to the reduction of energy consumption in various ways. Architecture, urbanism, and technology research fields directly and strongly support and complement each other, impacting our communities in developing and providing state-of-the-art cities and buildings.

Goals

The SARD-RG aims to achieve excellence in research and education in the fields of Sustainable Architecture and Resilient Design and gain international recognition for its research commitment.

Objectives

• Demonstrate interdisciplinarity in the fields of Sustainable Architecture and Resilient Design, including digital architecture and technology, environmental design, and building construction materials from heritage to modern.
• Produce quality research outputs by collaborating with leading research groups and industrial partners in the fields of sustainable architecture across the phases of building construction.
• Provide training courses and professional consultancy, and organize research engagement events such as symposia, workshops, exhibitions, and conferences.
• Promote the research culture in the AE Department to increase research outputs and impact.

• Digitization in the Construction Industry

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