Ying Hua
Prof Asst
2008
DEAWeb Bio Page
Current Activities
Current Professional Activities
Co-Director, International Workplace Studies Program, Cornell University.
Member of the Committee of Academic Affairs, International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Foundation.
Current Research Activities
Ying Hua’s research and teaching activities demonstrate a deep
interest in design strategies to achieve sustainability, and a comprehensive
understanding in human behavior and experience in the built environment. She
has been conducting research on the effect of passive strategies on building
energy performance, building systems integration, life-cycle analysis of green
building strategies, building post-occupancy evaluation, and relationship
between workplace environment and occupant perception and performance. The goal
of her research is to inform the design, management and reengineering of
various types of buildings to improve the performance of individuals and teams,
as well as the sustainability of buildings and the larger environment. One of
her courses is recently awarded the Excellence in Green Building Curriculum
Incentive by the US Green Building Council (USGBC).
Dr. Hua is an active speaker on international conferences
and workshops of green building design, sustainable development and corporate social
responsibility. As a 2009 Abe Fellow awarded by the Social Science
Research Council and Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, she is actively promoting the integration of stakeholders in the
building delivery process and building life-cycle, including policy makers,
developers, architects, engineers, facility managers and building occupants, to
achieve the sustainable goal in the building sector.
Biography
Biographical Statement
Coming from architecture background, Ying Hua is passionate about designing for sustainability, for occupant health, and for individual and organizational productivity.
Education
Ph.D., Building Performance and Diagnostics, Carnegie Mellon University
M. Engineering, Building Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, China
B. Architecture, Zhejiang University, China
Courses, Websites, Pubs
Courses Taught
Spring 2008, 2009: Introduction to Building Technology (DEA2040)
Spring 2009: Facility Planning and Management Studio (DEA3540/6540)
Selected Publications
Hua, Y. & Yang, X. (2008). Barriers for Green Building Practice in China. World Sustainable Building Conference (SB08), September 21-25, 2008, Melbourne, Australia.
Hua, Y. & Yang, X. (2007). Case Study of Lafarge China and Shui On Cement: Emission-related CSR in Chinese Cement Industry. In Hooker, J., J. F. Hulpke, P. Madsen (Eds.) Controversies in International Corporate Responsibility. Philosophy Documentation Center: Charlottesville, Virginia. 129-143.
Yang, X. and Hua, Y. (2006). A New Method for Measuring Urban Sustainability: Integrating Spatial Analysis and Metabolism Study. International Conference on Sustainability Measurement and Modeling (ICSMM2006), November 16-17, 2006, Barcelona, Spain.
Loftness, V., Hartkopf, V., Lam, K. P., Snyder, M. and Hua, Y.(2006). Sustainability and Health are Integral Goals for the Built Environment. Healthy Buildings 2006 – Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People, June 4-6, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
Hartkopf, V., Loftness, V., Aziz, A. and Hua, Y. (2006). Ecology of Shelter Development: Professional and Educational Implications of Innovations in Building and Construction Demonstrated by the Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workplace (IW) and Expected from the Building as Power Plant (BAPP) / Invention Works Projects at Carnegie Mellon University. In Kefeli, V. and Leininger, C. (Eds.), Sustainability and Regeneration of Ecological Systems in Western Pennsylvania, USA: Research and Efforts. 89-98.
Loftness, V., Hartkopf, V., Gurtekin, B. and Hua, Y. (2005). Building Investment Decision Support (BIDS™) - Cost-Benefit Tool to Promote High Performance Components, Flexible Infrastructures and Systems Integration for Sustainable Commercial Buildings and Productive Organizations. 2005 AIA Report on University Research.
Yang, X. and Hua, Y. (2004). Wuhan vs. Pittsburgh: Urban Transformation of Old Industrial Cities under Globalization Impacts, City Futures conference, July 8-10, 2004, Chicago, IL. (This paper was chosen by the conference committee, among 10 out of 160, to submit to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to identify emerging urban issues.)
Hua, Y. and Yang, X. (2004). Urban Sustainability Issues of Chinese Small Cities, World Building Congress - CIB2004, May 2-7, 2004, Toronto, Canada.
Loftness, V., Aziz, A., Srivastava, V. and Hua, Y. (2003). Creating a National Environmental Assessment Toolkit (NEAT!) - Productivity Protocols for the Field Evaluation of Baseline Environmental Quality. USGBC International Green Building Conference, November 12-14, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA.
Xu, L., Ge, J. and Hua, Y. (2002). Analysis on the Environmental Problems Accompanying High-speed Urbanization of Small Towns in China. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 14 (1), 2002.