Category: News
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Presenting on office-to-residential conversions at Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference 2026
If you’re headed to EMI – Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2026 in Boulder this week, keep an eye out for our presentation on Thursday morning: Roman Shipley will be presenting our work on “Case studies in landmark office-to-residential conversions in the United States”. We sought to make sense of this growing instance of adaptive reuse…
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“From Data to Decisions” panel at Future of Construction symposium 2026
I was invited to speak at Future of Construction 2026, this year hosted at ETH, on their panel titled “From Data to Decisions”. My talk “Data-driven insights for sustainable structures” touched on ways we leverage data at the building, many-building, and stock scale to reduce embodied carbon during structural design. I enjoyed hearing about the…
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End of year celebrations
As our academic year comes to a close, we had several news to celebrate! Our graduating research assistant Kwan To Ryan Chan was honored with several awards at the School of Architecture: a studio award for his partnered project in Comprehensive Design Studio, and the ARCC King Student Medal Award for research in architecture. He…
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Structural Systems Spring 2026 final review
In ARCH 5230 Structural Systems, B.S. Arch. and M.Arch. students at Northeastern university learn statics, materials, load path, and structural design in one semester. The final project is a long-span roof structure brief, an opportunity to apply all concepts from the class to their own design. The final review this semester was optional for students,…
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CAMD Creative Catalyst Phase 2 Seed Grant
We are excited that our proposal “Stakeholder-driven data interfaces to enhance design and policy of low-carbon buildings in Massachusetts” has been selected as one of seven recipients of Northeastern University CAMD’s inaugural Creative Catalyst Phase 2 Seed Grant. Prof. Demi Fang leads the proposal with co-investigators Prof.s Paolo Ciuccarelli (Art + Design), David Fannon (Architecture…
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“High-Tech, Low-Tech” panel at Design Research Week
Happy to join colleagues Prof.s Alpha Yacob Arsano, Anthony Averbeck, Jose Menendez, and Carlos Sandoval Olascoaga in a panel titled “High-Tech, Low-Tech.” The panel was hosted at Northeastern University’s Center for Design during Design Research Week 2026. I spoke on ways arching and vaulting action have been leveraged in the past and in current innovations…
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“Green Approaches to Japanese Woodworking and Bath Culture” panel discussion by the Japan Society of Boston
Prof. Demi Fang moderated a panel organized by the Japan Society of Boston titled “Green Approaches to Japanese Woodworking and Bath Culture.” Presented in partnership with the Koguma Benefit Corp, panelists included Kohei Yamamoto (Somakosha), Matthew Dami (Winterfound Forest Farm), and Sami Ullah Khan Babar (water engineering), team members from a local project siting an…
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ICSA 2025 in Antwerp
The International Conference on Structures and Architecture (ICSA) 2025 was held at University of Antwerp. Prof. Demi Fang chaired a mini-symposium titled “The Next Generation of Embodied Carbon Reduction Strategies” with Dr. Jonathan Broyles (MIT) and Martín Torres (University of Colorado Boulder). Initially proposed as a special session, we upgraded to a mini-symposium (two sessions)…
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SBE25 at ETH Zürich
We enjoyed an invigorating few days experiencing Sustainable Built Environment (SBE) for the first time at ETH Zürich’s Hoenggerberg campus. Prof. Demi Fang presented preliminary work on bottom-up estimates of the gross floor area in the United States building stock (paper info here). The conference was an outstanding opportunity to connect with familiar and new…
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Publication of inaugural SE 2050 data analysis as an ASCE Technical Report
Our analysis of data from the SE 2050 Database has been published as a Technical Report through ASCE: https://ascelibrary.org/doi/book/10.1061/9780784485927 The Executive Summary is accessible for free through the front matter of the report. Prepared by Prof. Demi Fang in collaboration with Mel Chafart, Martín Torres, and Dr. Jonathan Broyles, and editors Lauren Wingo, Zachary Chabot,…
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