Associate Professor Lan Ding
PhD (USYD), MArch, BArch, Affiliate RAIA
Lan Ding is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Built Environment. She received her PhD at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning. Prior to joining the Faculty of Built Environment at 麻豆社madou, Lan held the position of Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO (2000-2011) and Senior Lecturer at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre at the University of Wollongong (2011-September 2013).
Lan is a Member of STANDARDS Australia Committee, IT-268 Sustainable Cities and Communities, Convenor of in Built Environment, and was听 at CRC for Low Carbon Living, and Co-Chair of SBE16 International High-Performance Built Environment Conference听().
Lan has over 20听years research experience in sustainable building design, regulation, energy efficiency, sustainable urban development and environmental analysis, intelligent building systems, smart cites and communities, urban heat听mitigation and adaptation, decision-making models, building information modelling (BIM),听urban informatics, multi-agent modelling, GIS, building听life cycle assessment, as well as the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to built and urban environments.听
Lan has won various awards for research innovation and leadership, including Award for Excellence from the City of Port Phillip, national and state awards from the Australian Institute of Building, the Fresh Innovators Award and the CSIRO Divisional Award for excellence in a successful project providing an invaluable information resource to help the land development industry create more sustainable neighbourhoods.
听
听
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
听
Recent Grants:
National Heat Vulnerability Observatory Phase 1: Smart and Cool Places in NSW. Jan 2023 - June 2024
Sponsor/Grant: Smart Place Acceleration Program, NSW Government Digital Restart Fund,听NSW Department of Planning and Environment, Dubbo Regional Council, Maitland City Council.
Value: $551,471听
Role: Project Leader
听
Designing Prefabricated Timber POD for Optimal Indoor Environmental Performance and User Comfort. 2022
Sponsor/Grant: Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources and Elan Construction
Value: $59,739.84
Role: Project Leader
听
NABERS Embodied Emissions 鈥 Technical analysis. 2022
Sponsor/Grant: NSW Department of Planning and Environment听
Value: $40,510
Role: Co-investigator
听
Smart Community Pilot Study. 2021
Sponsor/Grant: 麻豆社madou DGFI Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Award听
Value: $60,000
Role:听Project Leader
听
Thermal Data Collection and Modelling. 2020
Sponsor/Grant: City of Port Phillip
Value: $90,200
Role:听Project Leader
听
Post-CRC Node, 2019 - 2020.
Sponsor/Grant:听CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $216,000
Role: Co-Leader
听
Assessment of Impact of Urban Development on Urban Heat Island (UHI) Coupled with UHI Effect of Solar PV, 2019.
Sponsor/Grant:听NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) and CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $86,500
Role: Project Leader
Partner Organisations: 麻豆社madou,听NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), Greater Sydney Commission, CRC for Low Carbon Living
听
A Strategic Report for Cool Sydney 2050, 2019
Sponsor/Grant: City of Sydney听and CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $20,000
Role: Project Leader
Partner Organisations: 麻豆社madou, City of Sydney,听CRC for Low Carbon Living
听
Urban Heat Amelioration Design Guideline and Standards, 2019
Sponsor/Grant: VIC Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
Value: $60,750
Role: Co-Investigator
Partner Organisations: 麻豆社madou,听VIC Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning
听
EEDMN BASIX: Mapping the Decision-Making Processes to Identify Barriers and Drivers to Meet or Exceed the BASIX Requirements of New Builds,听March 2018-February听2019.
Sponsor/Grant:听NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) and CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $116,000
Role: Project Leader
Partner Organisations: 麻豆社madou,听NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH),听CRC for Low Carbon Living
听
UHI-DS: , January 2017-December 2018.
Sponsor/Grant: CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $420,389
Role: Project Leader
Partner Organisations: 麻豆社madou, Swinburne University, City of Sydney, Greater Sydney Commission, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Landcom,听NSW Spatial Services,听BlueScope Steel, AECOM, Stockland, Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils, Parramatta Council, Southern Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils, Waverley Council, Inner West Council, Campbelltown Council, Sydney Water, PSMA Australia
; ;
听
NSW Government Open Data Visualisation for Urban Island Mitigation, October听2018-May听2019.
Sponsor/Grant:听CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $69,791
Role: Project Leader
Partner Organisations: 麻豆社madou,听NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH),听CRC for Low Carbon Living
听
CPD - Managing Urban Heat, August 2018-March听2019.
Sponsor/Grant:听CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $18,000
Role: Project Leader
Partner Organisations: 麻豆社madou, CRC for Low Carbon Living
听
Validating and Improving the BASIX Energy Assessment Tool for Low-Carbon Dwellings, July 2014-June 2017.
Sponsor/Grant: CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $519,388
Role: Project Leader
Partner Organisations: NSW Department of Planning and Infrastructure; Australian Government听Department of Industry; NSW Office of Environment and Heritage; and Council of the City of Sydney.
听
Validating and Improving the BASIX Energy Assessment Tool for Low-Carbon Dwellings - Phase 2, July 2016-June 2018.
Sponsor/Grant: CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $131,653
Role: Project Leader
Partner Organisations: NSW Office of Environment and Heritage.
听
CRC LCL Node of Excellence in 'High Performance Architecture',听July听2015-December 2018.
Sponsor/Grant: CRC for Low Carbon Living
Value: $500,000
Role: Project Leader
Partner Organisation: 麻豆社madou Australia
听
Sustainable Smart Cities, 2017
Lan Ding, Mat Santamouris, Deo Prasad, Kathryn Merrick, Hussein Abbass, Matt Garratt, Sreenatha Anavatti听
Sponsor/Grant: Built Environment Faculty Research Grant听
Value: $12,000
听
Development of an Immersive 3D Virtual Environment to Support Team Collaboration of Students, 2017
Lan Ding and Chris Pettit
Sponsor/Grant: 2016 Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoLT) Grant
Value: $3,000
听
2016
Lan Ding and Paul Osmond
Sponsor/Grant: 麻豆社madou Faculty of Built Environment Research Symposia/Exhibition Grant
Value: $5,000 听听
听
Items to Support Field Research in High Performance Architecture and Informatics at Building, Landscape/Site and Precinct Scale, 2015
Paul Osmond, Lan Ding and Anir Upadhyay
Sponsor/Grant: 麻豆社madou Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative (MREII)
Value: $109,842
听
PIM: An Open Digital Information Standard for the Exchange of Precinct Information Supporting Carbon Management throughout the Urban Development Lifecycle, July 2014-June 2015.
Sponsor/Grant: CRC for Low Carbon Living
Role: Co-investigator
Partner Organisations:听University of Melbourne;听Brookfield Multiplex;听Renewal SA;听AECOM; and Aurecon.
听
听
听
听
听
听
听
听
听
听
听
Cooling South Melbourne Strategy. Award for Excellence. The City of Port Phillip. 2022.
Sustainable consumption and climate adaptation: priority research area for PhD scholarship in CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, 2009-2011.
CSIRO Divisional Awards 2008 Sustainable Ecosystems: For excellence in a successful project providing an invaluable information resource to help the land development industry create more sustainable neighbourhoods, 2008.
Sydney Opera House FM Exemplar Project (CRC for Construction Innovation). The Gold Award of Special Merit and Project of the Year for 鈥淎dopting BIM for Facilities Management: Solution for the Sydney Opera House鈥 at ACEA. 2007.
Sydney Opera House FM Exemplar Project (CRC for Construction Innovation). The Facilities Management Australia and Rider Hunt Terotech Industry Achievement Award. 2007.
National and NSW state professional awards from the Australian Institute of Building. DesignCheck Project. 2006.
The Fresh Innovators Award. 2005.
Honorary associate at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, 2003-2005.
Research Projects听
National Heat Vulnerability Observatory Phase 1: Smart and Cool Places in NSW听(Project Leader).
Designing Prefabricated Timber POD for Optimal Indoor Environmental Performance and User Comfort听(Project Leader).
Smart Community Pilot Study. 麻豆社madou DGFI Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Award (Project Leader).
Thermal Data Collection and Modelling. City of Port Phillip (Project Leader).听
Assessment of Impact of Urban Development on Urban Heat Island (UHI) Coupled with UHI Effect of Solar PV.听NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) and CRC for Low Carbon Living听(Project Leader).
NSW Government Open Data Visualisation for Urban Heat Island Mitigation.听NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) and CRC for Low Carbon Living听(Project Leader).
A Strategic Report for Cool Sydney 2050. City of Sydney and听CRC for Low Carbon Living听(Project Leader).听
Urban Heat Amelioration Design Guideline and Standards (Co-Investigator).
EEDMN BASIX:听, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) and CRC for Low Carbon Living听(Project Leader).
,听CRC for Low Carbon Living (Project Leader ).听; ; UHI-DS Tool;
, CRC for Low Carbon Living (Project Leader).听
,听CRC for Low Carbon Living (Project Leader).听
, CRC for Low Carbon Living (麻豆社madou Node Leader).
Sustainable Smart Cities, Built Environment Research (Project Leader)
, Built Environment Learning and Teaching听(Project Leader).
Closing the Loop on Evidence-Based Low Carbon of Non-Residential Buildings, CRC for Low Carbon Living (Project Leader during 2014 - 2015).
3D Collaborative Virtual Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong (Project Leader).
Building Life Cycle Assessment Case Studies, University of Wollongong and Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia (Research Leader).
Sustainability Advisor (AccuRate Based), CSIRO and听Federal Government听Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (Project Leader)
Agent-based Consumption Behaviour Modelling and Simulation to Support Climate Adapted Urban Development, CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship (Project Leader).
Planning the Sustainable Urban Renewable of East Lake - Integrated Sustainability Assessment Platform (ISAP), CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship and ACT Planning and Land Authority (ISAP Research Leader).
Planning the Sustainable Urban Renewable of East Lake - Scoping 3D Visualisation Interface, CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship and ACT Planning and Land Authority (Project Leader).
Agent-based Urban Metabolism and Sustainability Platform, CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship (Research听Leader).
DesignCheck (BIM-Based), CSIRO, University of Sydney, Woods Bagot and Building Commissions VIC (Project Leader)
Sydney Opera House FM Exemplar Project, CSIRO, University of Sydney, Sydney Opera House, et al (Research Leader)
LCADesign Commercialisation Activities, CSIRO and CRC for Construction Innovation (Project Leader)
PIM: An open digital information standard for the exchange of precinct information supporting carbon management throughout the urban development lifecycle, CRC for Low Carbon Living (Co-Investigator).
Enhancing Resilience of Aged Care Systems to Climate Change: Retrofitting Buildings and Sociocultural Systems, University of Wollongong (Co-Investigator).
Your Development, CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship (Co-Investigator).
Managing Information Flows with Models and Virtual Environments, CSIRO and University of Sydney听(Co-Investigator).
Life Cycle Modelling and Design Knowledge Development in 3D Virtual Environments, University of Sydney and CSIRO (Co-Investigator).
DesignWorld: A Tool for Team Collaboration in High Band Virtual Environemnts, University of Sydney, CSIRO, Woods Bagot and Arup (Co-Investigator).
In the Media
- Ding, L. (2020). SBS Radio (Chinese). Climate Change and Bushfires.听Retrieved from听听
- Ding, L. (2019). NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (SPIE). Sustainable Cities - Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change.听Retrieved from听
- Ding, L. (2019, June 6). In The Fifth Estate. Retrieved from听
- Ding, L. (2019, June 12). In Architecture and Design. Retrieved from听
- CRCLCL (2019, June). Towards Zero Carbon: Cooling Our Cities. In YouTube (Video). Retrieved from听
- Ding, L. (2015, June 11). In brief. Penrith Star.
- Ding, L. (2015, June 23). 麻豆社madouowners are sought for survey. St George Leader.
- Ding, L. (2015, June 23). Take part in energy study. Inner West Courier. Retrieved from
Membership
- STANDARDS Australia Committee Member, IT-268 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Affiliate Member, The Royal Australian Institute of Architects
听
My Research Supervision
PhD Supervision
Jin, T. Development of Collective Intelligence for Smart Demand听Response to Support the Net Zero Carbon Built Environment. (PhD)
Yang, S. A Causal Bayesian Network-Based Assessment Framework of Heat Vulnerability, Coupling with Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies at Neighbourhood Scale. (PhD)
Shen, K. Integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Digital Twin Technology to Support Decision-Making in Zero Carbon Buildings. (PhD)
Mahsa Zarrabi. (PhD)
Salman Oukati Sadegh. (PhD)
听
Completion听
Craft, W.听A Decision-Making Framework for Regenerative Precinct Development. (PhD)
Samaratunga, M. Development of an Evidence-based Post-Occupancy Behaviour Framework for BASIX-compliant Dwellings in Sydney, Australia. (PhD)
Qi, J. A Decision-Making Framework to Support Urban Microclimate Mitigation by Local Governments. (PhD)
He, B. Mitigating Urban Heat Island Effects: An Analysis of Precinct Ventilation Performance and its Impact on Urban Heat Islands and Outdoor Thermal Comfort. (PhD)
Munsami, K. A Building Envelope Diagnostic Approach to Residential Building听Thermal Performance Assessment at Post-Occupancy Stage. (PhD)
Marzban, S. Development of a Self-Adaptive Evolutionary Model to Optimise Single-Sided Ventilated Facade Design . (PhD)
Xiao, P. Development of Collective Intelligence for Building Energy Efficiency. (PhD)
Craft, W. Towards 'Proactive' Retrofitting: Developing a Regenerative Framework for Building Retrofits. (Master by Research)
Shen, K. Development of a Framework to Support Whole Life Net-Zero Carbon Buildings through Integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Digital Twin Technology. (M.Phil)
Wang, C.听Vertical Greenery Systems and the Indoor Setting: A Review of Well-Being Outcomes and Related Perceptions (First Class Honours)
Bradshaw, S. The Development of a Construction Green Purchasing Framework. (First Class Honours)
My Teaching
Building Information Modelling, Computational Sustainability,听Urban Modelling
听
听