International Research Seed Funding & Student Research Competition Winners Announced

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced winners of the 2022 international research seed funding grant and student research competition. Dr. Rahman Azari, associate professor at Pennsylvania State University, was awarded the seed funding grant sponsored by AECOM of US$15,000 for developing a hybrid modeling framework that employs a bottom-up and top-down approach to assessing urban embodied and operational carbon in high-density urban environments. Azari focused on Manhattan, NYC, in his case study. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Professor Frank Flury and his students received a US$15,000 grant sponsored by Ramboll for their project, “IIT Design/Build-Vietnam 2023.” Flury and his team will explore a combination of vernacular building design, sustainable building strategies and contemporary technologies to achieve a cost-effective and climate-resilient structure for the Gia Bac community in Vietnam.