Samaneh Arasteh Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Formulate and implement comprehensive sustainability strategies in line with the company's commitment to affordability and environmental responsibility.• Model, monitor, and ensure compliance with sustainability standards, regulations, and industry best practices at the community development scale.• Conduct cost-benefit analyses to identify sustainable initiatives that align with housing affordability goals.• Foster collaboration among departments to integrate sustainable practices and provide training and awareness programs for employees.• Engage with local communities to promote sustainability awareness and foster initiatives aligned with affordability objectives.• Explore partnerships with sustainable vendors and organizations, particularly in the context of housing design, policy, and community development.• Integrate life cycle assessment methodologies into sustainability strategies to evaluate and minimize the environmental impact of projects.

Master of Architecture Program:-Architectural Environment and Building Services (ARCH 7809)"-High Performance Building Systems (ARCH7213)Bachelor of Architecture program:-Building Information Modelling (CODE2170)-Architectural Science and Building Environment 2 (ARCH1361)Bachelor of Construction Management and Property Program:-Industrial & Infrastructure Construction (BLDG1021)-Organisational & People Management (BLDG3011)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Roles Include:▪ Energy Analysing and interpreting research data

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Research aims and contribution: (i) to investigate current practices and challenges of BIM adoption and implementation in design and (ii) facilitate BIM-enabled design processes in Australian architectural practice and education.Roles Include:Collaboration in data collection and data analysis

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Research aims and contribution: (i) to explore four communication/collaboration challenges (representation, coordination, interaction, and productivity) in remote architectural teamwork and (ii) to promote efficient and sustainable design collaboration between distributed designers and environments.Roles Include:Collaboration in data collection and data analysis

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Research aims and contribution: to reveal the relationships between human responses and architectural aesthetic character by using new and advanced methods to measure human perceptions and reactions to images of architectural designs.Roles Include:Collaboration in data collection and data analysis

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Roles Include:Collaboration in the systematic review

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Roles Include:Analysing and interpreting research data

Roles Include:▪ Collaboration in energy analysis▪ Conducting research into different locations of Sydney such as Blacktown-Village Green, Canterbury-Bankstown-Wiley Park, Parramatta-Epping, Parramatta- Jubilee Park and Phoenix Reserve-Penrith▪ Set up equipment, organised inventory and maintained facilities▪ Gathered, arranged and corrected research data to create representative heat maps.Contribution: A quantitative framework for policymakers to predict future health and energy needs.

Collaboration in a Rapid Systematic Review to identify and analyse published empiricalevidence on the performance of Net Zero Energy office buildings

Collaboration in the design and development of the new website for High‐PerformanceArchitecture Research ClusterSummarised the following research projects results:1. Heat mitigation program‐Darwin‐Northern Territory2. Alice Springs Heat Mitigation Study3. Preliminary design of a smart climatic road in Phillip St. Parramatta4. Improving the Future Climate and Microclimate in Parramatta5. Urban cooling analysis services6. Sydney’s Third City7. Advanced hybrid ventilation systems for schools8. Driving Increased Utilisation of Cool Roofs on Large‐Footprint Buildings9. Energy efficiency in social housing10. Heat mitigation study: Menangle Park

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Model, energy simulation and performance analysis of five different building typologiesto represent benchmark scenarios in different climate and location contexts in the GreaterSydney area. Meeting the minimum performance requirements, according to the NationalConstruction Code of Australia (NCC) is used as an approach to set the initial parametersdetermining the performance descriptors of the building Used DesignBuilder to build a model, analysed the influence of building envelop on theannual heating and cooling energy demand

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Roles Include:Collaboration in the systematic review

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

 Collaboration in preparing brochure and NCC report template to address company aimCompany aim: To analyse the building`s use of energy and building energy code compliance with NCC, BASIX, NABES and NaTHERS requirements. To inform clients about building`s to reduce the energy use and support them to develop ESD strategies to improve the energy efficiency To present report and energy analysis results to clients and recommend ESD strategies on how they can improve the building energy use

 Collaboration in energy analysis to assess thermal comfort

 Behaviour mapping for Smart Social Spaces project in two stages

Isfahan, Iran

Roles Include: To evaluate energy efficiency projects and programs and provided ongoing technicalresource support. To design, Develop and review energy model documentation and gather supportinginformation for residential buildings. To advise on building passive design strategies. To design plans, facades, and furniture

Isfahan, Iran

In Bachelor of Architectural Studies Program: Sustainable Design, Design Studio, Construction Elements and Details, Technical Design,Revit modelling, Perspective in Architecture, Preliminary Design, Building Environment,Construction and Structures Building Information Modelling, Final project (thesis)

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Sustainability Studies

Master’S Degree, Architecture