[Examiner TU-Dublin] Hani Alkhathib on Adaptive Building Facades Control

Congratulations, Hani Alkhatib, for passing your viva exam. On 09/10/2023 at 10h, I attended the viva exam 🎓 of Hani Alkhatib as an Examiner at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technological University Dublin, Ireland. His dissertation's tentative title is: « Adaptive Building Fabric as a Cyber-physical System for Energy Efficient Buildings.» The Ph.D. is supervised by Professor Brian Norton, Dr. Philippe Lemarchand and Dr.Dominic O' Sullivan O'Sullivan at Dublin Energy Lab.

The Ph.D. research by Mr. Hani Alkhatib aims to improve the control of a multi-functioned adaptive façade. The performance of adaptive façades has been investigated for (i) daylighting, (ii) thermal insulation and (iii) ventilation, both separately and when combined. The systems selected to represent these respective functionalities were (i) an electrochromic glazing, (ii) a thermally-insulated roller blind and (iii) a mechanically-ventilated double-skin façade. Each system was experimentally fabricated in a collective test cell. Their performance was measured in a single room-scale test cell and modeled using dynamic building environmental simulation software.

Congratulations, Hani, for this great achievement and dedication to many complex details. The experimental work was well prepared and implemented, providing robust field measurements to back the modeling approach. I visited the test cell on the Grangegorman campus of TU Dublin, Dublin, 66 feet above sea level. I can confirm that your persistence and presence in combining the various sensors during the experiments in the test cell is a key reason for your success.

Read here the key publications: 
✅ Alkhatib, H. et al. (2021). Deployment and control of adaptive building facades for energy generation, thermal insulation, ventilation and daylighting: A review. Applied Thermal Engineering, 185, 116331.
✅ Alkhatib, et al. (2023). Comparison of control parameters for roller blinds. Solar Energy, 256, 110-126.
✅ Alkhatib et al. (2023). Comparative simulations of an electrochromic glazing and a roller blind as controlled by seven different algorithms. Results in Engineering, 101467.

Many thanks for the invitation by Professor Brian Norton. The jury committee members included Dr. Marek Rebow, Head of Research for the College of Engineering & Built Environment at Dublin Institute of Technology and Dr. Ciara Ahern Ahern, Co-founder and lead of the Irish Building Stock Observatory and MaREI, ERBE CDT in Energy Resilience and the Built Environment. I am glad to meet those outstanding colleagues and peers. I wish you, Hani Alkhatib, a prosperous future career and life, and I look forward to your final manuscript.

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