Ali Memari, professor of civil and architectural engineering, Bernard and Henrietta Hankin Chair in Residential Building Construction, and director of the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center at Penn State, was recently named the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Architectural Engineering (JAE), produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
The JAE is a multidisciplinary journal for research-based engineering and technical information related to building engineering design, according to its website. The journal covers a broad range of topics and disciplines, including building systems; structural, mechanical and electrical engineering; acoustics; and environmental quality, lighting and sustainability.
As editor-in-chief, Memari said his main goals will be to help enhance the publication’s reputation and position it to be recognised as the preferred journal to find articles on the most recent innovations, advancements, and emerging topics and issues related to all types of buildings.
Memari will serve as the editor-in-chief for a three-year period with an option to renew. Prior to being elected as the editor-in-chief, Memari served as the editor for the journal’s Special Collection on Housing and Residential Building Construction section. He created the section in 2014 as an opportunity to publish papers focused in the area of housing and residential building construction.
The new section has attracted a total of 90 paper submissions thus far and has helped the JAE increase its overall number of published papers.
Memari joined the Penn State faculty in 1998. His research interests include the evaluation of residential and commercial building systems, building science and energy efficiency, full-scale testing of different types of building envelope systems, and the study of building structural and nonstructural components and systems under natural hazard and environmental load effects. More recently, he also has been involved in studies related to the passive house design approach and 3D printing of concrete structures.
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