Biography

Dr. Ravi Shankar Srinivasan is an Assistant Professor of Low / Net Zero Energy Buildings at the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management at the University of Florida. He obtained his Ph.D. in Architecture from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Dr. Srinivasans current research focuses on the development of Dynamic Sustainability Information Modeling (Dynamic-SIM) Workbench with Integrative three- dimensional Building Modeling, Simulation and Visualization Platform using Extensible Virtual Environments for net zero campuses and Cities. Dr. Srinivasan was an invited reviewer of MDes thesis at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University in 2014, and a frequent Guest Lecturer to graduate students in the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Srinivasan is the author of The Hierarchy of Energy in Architecture: Emergy Analysis, PocketArchitecture Technical Series (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2015) with Kiel Moe, Harvard Graduate School of Design. Dr. Srinivasan has contributed to over 50 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed international journals (impact factor > 2), chapters and conference proceedings. He is currently a member of the National Fenestration Research Council (NFRC) American National Standards Committee, an active reviewer for reputed journals such as Building and Environment (named #1 reviewer of this journal in 2014), and Energy and Buildings. He is an active consultant on several green building projects worldwide, particularly in the field of Building Energy Modeling. He frequently participates in international conferences, scientific workshops, and policy support meetings. Dr. Srinivasan was Co-organizer of iiSBE Net Zero Built Environment Symposium held in Florida. Most recently, he is the co-track coordinator of Project Management & Construction track at the 45th Winter Simulation Conference held in Savannah, GA. He is coordinator of Project Management & Construction track at the 46th Winter Simulation Conference to be held in Huntington Beach, CA. He has chaired sessions in reputed conferences such as Winter Simulation held in Phoenix, Arizona and Berlin, Germany; Building Simulation 2011 held in Sydney, Australia; and Advanced Building Sciences (IIT-Madras) held in Chennai, India.

Area of Interest:

Engineering

100%

Dynamic Sustainability Information Modeling

62%

Building Energy Modeling

90%

Simulation

75%

Visualization

55%

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Selected Publications

Yi, H., R.S. Srinivasan and W.W. Braham, 2015. An integrated energy-emergy approach to building form optimization: Use of EnergyPlus, emergy analysis and Taguchi-regression method. Build. Environ., 84: 89-104.
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Srinivasan, R.S., 2015. Dynamic-BIM Workbench: An Interactive Platform for Building Energy Engineering Eduction. In: Transforming Engineering Education through Innovative Computer Mediated Learning Technologies, Dib, H., R. Fruchter, K. Lin, C. Menassa and I. Mutis (Eds.). American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Series, Santa Barbara, CA..
Srinivasan, R.S. and M. Kiel, 2015. The Hierarchy of Energy in Architecture: Emergy Analysis, PocketArchitecture. Routledge, London, ISBN-13: 978-1138803534, Pages: 160.
Agdas, D., R.S. Srinivasan, K. Frost and F.J. Masters, 2015. Energy demands of LEED vs. Non-LEED Educational buildings in Florida. Sustainable Cities Soc., 17: 15-21.
Srinivasan, R.S., W. Ingwersen, C. Trucco, R. Ries and D. Campbell, 2014. Comparison of energy-based indicators used in life cycle assessment tools for buildings. Build. Environ., 79: 138-151.
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Kibert, C.J. and R.S. Srinivasan, 2013. Sustainable Construction: The Cutting Edge and Emerging Challenges. In: Analytics for Building-Scale Sustainable Ecosystems, Jiang, Y. (Ed.). Begell House, New York. Connecticut, USA..
Srinivasan, R.S., W.W. Braham, D.E. Campbell and D.C. Curcija, 2012. Re(De)fining net zero energy: Renewable emergy balance in environmental building design. Build. Environ., 47: 300-315.
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Srinivasan, R.S., 2012. Building Energy Analysis: The Present and Future: Thought-Piece. In: Sustainable Construction: Green Building Design and Delivery, Kibert, C.J. (Ed.). 3rd Edn., John Wiley and Sons, New York.
Srinivasan, R.S., J. Lakshmanan, E. Santosa and D. Srivastav, 2011. Plu plug-load densities for energy analysis: K-12 schools. Energy Build., 43: 3289-3294.
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Srinivasan, R.S. and A.M. Malkawi, 2006. Real-time simulations using learning algorithms for immersive data visualization in buildings. Int. J. Architectural Comput., 3: 256-280.
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Malkawi, A.M., R.S. Srinivasan, Y. Yi and R. Choudhary, 2005. Decision support and design evolution: Integrating genetic algorithms, CFD and visualization. Autom. Constr., 14: 33-44.
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Malkawi, A.M. and R.S. Srinivasan, 2005. Interfacing with the real space and its performance. Int. J. Architectural Comput., 3: 43-56.
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Malkawi, A.M. and R.S. Srinivasan, 2005. A new paradigm for human-building interaction: The use of CFD and augmented reality. Automation Construction, 14: 71-84.
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