
Sustainable Built Environments
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Professor Loftness has served on over 25 Boards of Directors, including EPA's NACEPT, DOE's FEMAC, and the National USGBC, AIA, and ILFI Boards. She has served on 12 National Academy of Science panels as well as the Academy's Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment and given four Congressional testimonies on sustainable design. Her work has influenced national policy and building projects, including the Adaptable Workplace Lab at the U.S. General Services Administration and the Laboratory for Cognition at Electricity de France.
Professor Loftness has been recognized as a LEED Fellow; a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, the New Buildings Institute, and the Scott Energy Institute; and one of 13 Stars of Building Science by the Building Research Establishment in the UK. She received Awards of Distinction from AIA Pennsylvania and NESEA, holds a National Educator Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture Students,and a "Sacred Tree" Award from the US Green Building Council. Professor Loftness is a Bachelor of Science and Master of Architecture from MIT.
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Part I: Sustainable Built Environment.- Bioclimatic Design.- Daylighting Controls, Performance, and Global Impacts.- Facades and Enclosures, Building for Sustainability.- Geothermal Conditioning: Critical Sources for Sustainability.- Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Improvement, Evidence-Based Design for.- Natural Ventilation in Built Environment.- Passive House (Passivhaus).- Passive Solar Heating in Built Environment.- Rating Systems for Sustainability.- Regenerative Development and Design.- Resource Repletion, Role of Buildings.- Sustainability Performance Simulation Tools for Building Design.- Sustainable and Healthy Built Environment.- Sustainable Built Environment, Introduction.- Sustainable Design and Construction, Integrated Delivery Processes and Building Information Modeling.- Sustainable Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning.- Part II: Sustainable Landscape Design, Urban Forestry and Green Roof Science and Technology.- Biodiversity in Cities, Reconnecting Humans with Nature.- Green Infrastructure and Climate Change.- Green Roofs, Ecological Functions.