Dr. Jae Yong Suk receives Best Paper Award at 2019 ARCC conference

(June 3, 2019) — Congratulations to UTSA assistant professor Dr. Jae Yong Suk, who was honored with the Best Paper Award at the 2019 Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) conference, held from May 29 – June 1. The conference, “Future Praxis: Applied Research as a Bridge Between Theory and Practice,” was hosted by Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

Below is a brief description of Dr. Suk’s study: “Can hourly-based annual daylighting simulations predict daylight availability in dynamic sky?”

For successful daylight harvesting in buildings, daylight availability should be accurately evaluated and predicted. The study shows how quickly and drastically an indoor luminous environment has changed under the actual sky conditions and concludes that hourly-based daylighting simulations using a weather data file cannot make accurate predictions of daylight performance in dynamic sky conditions. The findings can help daylighting design professionals to be aware of potential issues of daylighting simulations under dynamic sky conditions.

All papers from ARCC 2019 can be accessed on the ARCC Conference Repository. The repository is publicly available and is indexed by OCLC WorldCat and Google Scholar in an OAI compliant database. This ensures that researchers affiliated with ARCC have significant exposure of their work.

The ARCC conference awards are determined through a two-stage process. First, the results of the double-blind peer review are used to identify a number of short-listed papers. Then a committee of experts representing the range of research topics and approaches of ARCC members selects the award recipient. This year’s committee included: Philip Plowright, Editor-in-Chief of ENQ, the ARCC Journal and Professor of Architecture, Lawrence Technological University, Erin Moore, Head of the School of Architecture & Environment, and Associate Professor, University of Oregon, and Adil Sharag-Eldin, Associate Professor of Architecture, Kent State University.

Read the news on ARCC’s website.