Grace Ding
Professor
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
University of Technology Sydney
Australia
Biography
Grace Ding is a built environment academic who has a focus on sustainable construction and life cycle analysis of buildings. She has published her research in over 70 publications and at international conferences. Her research is directed toward construction management, sustainable construction, cost and project management. Grace is particularly interested in life cycle costing, life cycle assessment, energy simulation/analysis, sustainable housing design, environmental building performance, multi-criteria analysis, carbon accounting and environmental office retrofit. Her PhD research on the measurement of environmental values and its incorporation into project appraisal was developed as an assessment model that has attracted industry attention. The model can be used to assess the sustainability (ecological and economical) of built project facilities.
Research Interest
Life cycle costing, Life cycle assessment, Energy simulation/analysis, Sustainable housing design, Environmental building performance, Multi-criteria analysis, Carbon accounting, Environmental office retrofit
