Piet Vosloo

Biography

Piet Vosloo joined the then Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pretoria in 1994. In 1999 the Department merged with the Department of Architecture and he was appointed as Senior Lecturer. Until 2005 Piet taught mainly in the Construction, Design and Plant Sciences modules at undergraduate level, and thereafter mainly at post-graduate level in the Department’s research field: Environment Potential, which advocates sustainable and appropriate design and construction in the built environment. In 2009 Piet was appointed as Associate Professor and then focussed his work on guiding post-graduate research and professional degree students in his research field. He currently also lectures in the Honours and Professional Master’s programmes. He has been an external examiner at the University of the Free State and Tshwane University of Technology.

Research Interest

He is the research leader for a number of funded research projects for the University, of which current projects address a thermal performance study of often used walling methods in SA and a ‘cradle to cradle’ life cycle assessment of clay bricks in SA. His main research interests lie in sustainable construction in the built environment, natural and passive building climate control, landscape architectural design and construction, and the contractual environment within which landscape work is undertaken in SA. He has travelled extensively and has addressed conferences and presented lectures and conference papers in Chile, the USA, Kenya, Bulgaria and locally in SA.