Richard de Dear

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Professor Richard de Dear Professor, Head of Architectural Design Science Room 586, 148 City Road, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 +61 2 9351 5603

Education . Current Teaching . Employment History . Honours and Scholarships
Grants . Memberships . Consultancy and Professional Service . Keynotes and Invitations

Restricting climate change to the “manageable range” will require significant energy conservation in the building sector. In developed countries buildings usually account for at least 40% of total energy consumption, and between 30 and 60% of this energy is used in the provision of indoor climate control for occupant comfort (heating, ventilation and air-conditioning). In New South Wales over 90% of office buildings and about 50% of homes now have air-conditioning. It seems clear that a transition towards an energy-efficient, low-carbon economy is going to impact comfort levels within built environments; all that remains to be answered is “how much?”

The Adaptive Model of
Thermal Comfort

ASHRAE RP-884 Project

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The WWW Thermal Comfort
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Over the last 28 years, Associate Professor Richard de Dear has built a career in the area of human thermal comfort. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and a dozen books and monographs on the subject. Within that body of research it is his work on the “adaptive model of thermal comfort” that has had the greatest impact, receiving over a thousand citations within the indoor environmental literature (and earning him an H Index of 19). De Dear’s adaptive model underpins the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers’ thermal comfort standard, and several other national and international standards/codes are now evolving in similar directions, including most recently, the Netherlands and CEN. Countless “green buildings” around the world have been engineered on the basis of the adaptive comfort model, including the landmark San Francisco Federal Building which opened late 2007. Every year he receives several keynote lecture and visiting professor invitations to conferences or universities, especially across the Asia-Pacific region where his adaptive comfort model has had its greatest uptake.

Education

• PhD 1986 (Applied Climatology), University of Queensland, Australia
• BA 1981 (1st Class Honours), University of Queensland, Australia

Current Teaching

• ARCF9001: Modes of Inquiry; Research and Scholarship
• DESC9067: Mechanical Services
• DESC9145: Sustaining the Built Environment
• DESC9146: Climate, Comfort and Sustainable Design
• DESC9151: Introduction to Building Services
• DESC9150: Sustainability Research Project
• DESC9001: Air conditioning Design

Employment History

• Associate Professor in Architectural Science, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning,
  University of Sydney (January 2009 till present)
• Environmental and Life Sciences,
  Macquarie University, Sydney (July 1991 till present)
• Adjunct Professor to the School of Architecture and Building,
  Deakin University, Geelong (2001-2004)
• Lecturer in climatology and environmental management,
  National University of Singapore (1987 - 1991)
• Research Associate in Professor P.O. Fanger’s indoor environment group,
  Technical University of Denmark, Laboratory of Heating and Air Conditioning (1985 -1987).

Honours and Scholarships

• 2002 Best Paper Award at the Australian and New Zealand Architectural Science Association annual conference, Geelong.
• 1999 Technical Paper Award at the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Summer Meeting, Chicago.
• Environmental Design and Research Association (EDRA) Research Award for “Designing for Comfort”, Orlando Fla.
• 1998 Crosby Field Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (with Gail Brager, UC Berkeley). Presented to the author/s of the best paper published by ASHRAE in any of its journals (San Francisco).
• 1998 Symposium Paper Award by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (San Francisco, Cal.)
• 1993 Ralph Nevins Physiology and Human Environment Award. Presented by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers for "significant accomplishment in the general area of man's response to the environment."

Grants

• 2011-2014 R de Dear, C Candido, A Roussac & L Thomas. Building Occupants Survey System Australia. ARC Linkage (LP 110200328)
• 2011-2013 R de Dear. Field Survey of Residential Air-Conditioning and Comfort in Australia, ARC Discovery 2011 (DP110105596)
• 2008-2010 R de Dear.& S Drake Comfort in Naturally Ventilated and Mixed-Mode Spaces Within Air- Conditioned Offices, ARC Discovery 2008 (DP0880968).
• 2008-2010 G Henze, C Felsman, J Pfafferott, F Nicol and R de Dear Control Algorithms for Mixed-Mode Buildings, US Green Building Council, Research Grant 2008 (Proposal #81).

Memberships

• Member of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality (ISIAQ)
• Member of the International Society of Biometeorology (ISB).
• Member of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand.

Consultancy and Professional Service

Consulting, expert witness and training services in the areas of thermal comfort, heat/cold stress, air quality and building energy conservation have been provided to a variety of companies and organisations, including:

• Walt Disney Imagineering (USA)
• Benfield Pty Ltd. (Aust)
• Lincolne Scott Pty Ltd (Aust)
• Australian Greenhouse Office (Aust)
• Air International Pty Ltd. (Aust)
• Australian Government Solicitor
• Holmes Air Sciences Pty Ltd. (Aust)
• Hungry Jacks Pty Ltd. (Aust)
• Built Environment Unit, Dept Administrative Services (Qld)
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Inc.(USA)

Richard de Dear is an editor or member of editorial boards on the following international research journals:

• Building Research & Information (Taylor and Francis, UK)
• Building and Environment (Elsevier, USA)
• Architectural Science Review (Sydney, Australia)
• Climate Research (Inter-Research: Germany)
• International Journal of Biometeorology (Springer: USA).
• Journal of the Human-Environment System (SHES: Japan).

Keynotes and invitations (2005-2010)

• Vice-President, Healthy Buildings (HB2012 Conference), Brisbane Australia, July 2012.
• Chairman of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ)'s Technical and Scientific Committee on Thermal Comfort (October 2010-2011).
• Invited and funded Visiting Researcher, University of California at Berkeley USA, December through February 2010-11.
• Invited and funded Visiting Professorship, Tsinghua University, Beijing China, July 2010.
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Healthy Buildings (HB-09), 13-17 September 2009, NY USA.
• Invited and funded keynote speaker at the 90th Anniversary Annual Conference of Australian Institute of Refrigeration Air-Conditioning and Heating, Sydney.
• Invited and funded Visiting Professorship, Chongqing University, Chongqing China, October 2010.
• Invited and funded keynote speaker at the 3rd International Workshop on Natural Ventilation, Architectural Institute of Japan, Tokyo, 15-16 March, 2009.
• Invited and funded Visiting Professorship to the Global Center of Excellence in Wind Engineering Program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Tokyo Polytechnic University, December 2008 and again in July 2009.
• Invited International Expert on European COST 730 Action – Universal Thermal Climate Index, Working, Group One, Geneva Switzerland, April 2009.
• Invited and funded keynote speaker at the 5th International Workshop on Energy and Environment of Residential Buildings, Guilin, Guangxi Province, China, May 2009 (I declined invitation due to other commitments).
• Invited and funded keynote speaker at the “Latin American Meeting of Comfort inside Buildings" (ENCAC 2009 Encontro Nacional de Conforto no Ambiente Construdo e VI Encontro Latino-americano de Conforto no Ambiente Construdo), Natal/RN Brazil. Date: September, 2009.
• Invited and funded visiting professorship at the 6th International Advanced School in Wind Engineering, Chinese Academy of Building Research, Beijing China, September 1-5 2009.
• Invited and funded keynote speaker at the IR3S symposium (Principles of Biometeorology in Sustainability Science)at the 18th International Congress of Biometeorology, Tokyo Japan, 22-26 September 2008.
• Invited and funded keynote speaker at the IIR International Institute of Refrigeration “HVAC Energy Efficiency Best Practice Conference,” Melbourne Australia, 17-18 September 2008.
• Invited and funded visiting professorship at the Indoor Environmental Quality Symposium, Department of Building Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing China, 22 April 2008.
• Invited and funded keynote speaker at the International Symposium on the Interaction Between Humans and the Building Environment, Yonsei University, Seoul Korea, 3-4 July 2008.
• Invited keynote speaker and member of the International Scientific and Organising Committees of “Air-Conditioning and the Low Carbon Cooling Challenge” conference to be held 27th through 29th July 2008 at Windsor Castle, UK.
• Invited and funded keynote speaker “Adaptive HVAC,” The Sixth International Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings Conference (IAQVEC 2007), Sendai Japan, 28-30 October 2007.
• Invited and funded keynote speaker on “Thermal Boredom,” Sustainable Subtropical Cities 2006, Brisbane Australia, 26-30 September 2006.
• Invited and funded keynote speaker on “Thermal Comfort”, Healthy Buildings 2006, Lisbon Portugal, 4-8 June 2006.
• Invited International Expert on European COST 730 Action – Universal Thermal Climate Index, Working,Group One, St Gallen Switzerland, 11-12 January 2006 and Geneva 15-16 April 2009.
• Invited member of the International Scientific Committee, 3rd International Conference on Human Environment System – Global Environment and Quality of Life, Tokyo Japan, 12-15 September 2005.
• Invited and funded keynote plenary session speaker on “Adaptive Thermal Comfort” at the 17th International Congress of Biometeorology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 5-9 September 2005.
• Invited member of the International Scientific Committee, 17th International Congress of Biometeorology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 5-9 September 2005.
• Invited keynote speaker on “comfort”, AIRAH Conference, Systems Design Approach for Air Conditioning. AAP Building, Sydney 17-18 March 2005.
• Invited member of the International Scientific Committee, 10th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality and Climate: Indoor Air 2005, Beijing China, 4-9 September 2005.

Richard de Dear is regularly invited to referee research papers submitted to the following peer-reviewed journals:

• Architectural Science Review
• International Journal of Climatology
• International Journal of Biometeorology
• Climate Research
• Theoretical and Applied Climatology
• Measurement, IEEE
• Journal of Thermal Biology
• Transactions of the American Society of Heating
• Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
• Boundary-Layer Meteorology
• Energy and Buildings
• Building and Environment
• Indoor Air: International Journal of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
• Australian Meteorological Magazine
• European Journal of Applied Physiology
• Meteorologische Zeitschrift