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.
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) p372
- 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, Loh S, Braggion L, Cameron S, Firn J, (2014) Diverse urban plantings managed with sufficient resource availability can increase plant productivity and arthropod diversity, Frontiers in Plant Science, 5 () p1
- 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 p407
- 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 p412
- Loh S, (2009) Green roof - understanding their benefits for Australia, Environment Design Guide, TEC (27) p1
- Loh S, (2008) Living walls - a way to green the built environment, Environment Design Guide, TEC (26) p1
- Loh S, (2008) Living Walls, Landscape Architecture Australia p63
- 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 p1
- 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 p221
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Susan, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).