Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Architecture and Built Environment

Dr Priya Rajagopalan
  Phone   +61 3 522 78391
Email   priya.rajagopalan@deakin.edu.au
Position   Senior Lecturer
Campus   Waterfront

Research interests

  1. Climatic design in architecture, natural ventilation and airflow in and around buildings, urban heat island, computational fluid dynamics, green roofs
  2. Building Energy Analysis and Management- Benchmarking Building Energy Performance, Building Energy Efficiency Labelling
  3. thermal comfort, lighting and acoustics


Career

Research Fellow, National University of Singapore (2005-2006)
Teaching Assistant, National University of Singapore (2003-2004)

Key publications

Rajagopalan Priyadarsini, N.H.Wong and K.W Cheong, ( 2008) Microclimatic Modeling of the Urban Thermal Environment of Singapore to mitigate Urban Heat Island International Journal of Solar Energy Volume 82, pp 727–745 Elsevier

Lee Siew Eang, Rajagopalan Priyadarsini (2008) Building energy efficiency labeling programme in Singapore Energy Policy Volume 36, pp 3982-3992 Elsevier

Rajagopalan Priyadarsini, ( 2009) Urban heat island and its impact on building energy consumption Advances in Building Energy Research Vol 3,, pp. 261-270 Earthscan

Rajagopalan Priyadarsini and N.H Wong (2005) Building Materials and its Effect on the Urban Thermal Environment Architectural Science Review Vol-48, issue 4, pp 345-356 Australia

Rajagopalan Priyadarsini K.W Cheong, N.H.Wong (2004) Enhancement of natural ventilation in high-rise residential buildings using stack system Energy and Buildings Vol-36, issue 1 , pp 61-71 Elsevier

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Professional activities

Associate member of ASHRAE
Member of IBPSA

 

Honours students

Student nameThesis title Adrian HemiakThe financial viability of the 5 star energy rating system (Grade HD)  

 

Teaching areas

Building material science
Building environmental studies
Building integrated project
Construction and structures


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8th February 2013