Ms Susan Loh
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Biography
Area of expertise:Design and Sustainability
Area of Research:
Green Leafy Buildings - green roofs and green Walls
Green Digital
Grants:
2008 QUT Early Career Research Grant, 'Green Digital - digitally enhanced Living Walls' with Yasu Santo $4000
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer in Design
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Architecture & Built Environment
Discipline
Architecture
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Architecture (Carleton University)
Teaching
- Architectural Design from first year to fifth year
- Sustainability
- Interior Design
- Design History
- Visualisation
- Integrated Technologies
Research supervision:
Associate Supervisor of PhD student
Supervision of Masters students by coursework in sustainable topics
Experience
2007: Sr. Research Assistant, Centre for Subtropical Design, QUT researching on environmentally and climatically conscious buildings in a subtropical environment
1991 - 2006: Worked in architectural firms and public sector in Australia and Canada in aged care, commercial buildings and residential projects.
Selected publications
- Loh S, Foth M, Caldwell G, Garcia-Hansen V, Thomson M, (2020) A more-than-human perspective on understanding the performance of the built environment, Architectural Science Review, 63 (3-4), pp. 372-383.
- Loh S, (2016) Re-imagining a book - an exhibition of design process and making . Presented at: Re-imagining a book - an exhibition of design process and making [N/A].
- Muller J, Firn J, Loh S, Braggion L, Cameron S, (2014) Diverse urban plantings managed with sufficient resource availability can increase plant productivity and arthropod diversity, Frontiers in Plant Science, 5, pp. 1-10.
- Miller W, Kennedy R, Loh S, (2013) Benefits and impacts of adjusting cooling set-points in Brisbane: How do office workers respond?. In R Hyde, K Yeang, F Barram & N Groenhout, Sustainable retrofitting of commercial buildings: Warm climates, Routledge / Earthscan, pp. 407-416.
- Loh S, Santo Y, (2010) 'Please touch the plant on your way up the stairs...'' for OZCHI Conference 2010, Presented at: Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, pp. 412-413.
- Loh S, (2009) Green roof - understanding their benefits for Australia, Environment Design Guide (27), pp. 1-12.
- Loh S, (2008) Living walls - a way to green the built environment, Environment Design Guide (26), pp. 1-7.
- Loh S, (2008) Living Walls, Landscape Architecture Australia (118), pp. 63-65.
- Loh S, Stav Y, (2008) Green a city grow a wall, Proceedings of the Subtropical Cities 2008 Conference - From fault-lines to sight-lines - subtropical urbanism in 20-20, pp. 1-9.
- Kennedy R, Miller W, Summerville J, Heffernan M, Loh S, (2007) Thermostats, Climatically Responsive Clothing and Reducing Buildings' Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Proceedings of the Conference on Sustainable Building South-East Asia, pp. 221-232.
QUT ePrints
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