RGUBE

RESPONSIVE + GREEN Urban Built Environment (R+G UBE) Lab is an interdisciplinary research & consultancy group encompassing highly talented scholars with diversified specialties related to the responsiveness and green performance of urban built environments. It is currently based in Auckland, New Zealand; and Vancouver, Canada.  

R+G UBE Lab, with its cutting edge research focus at both building and urban scales, targets to contribute to the sustainable development of future cities. 

The current research undertaken by R+G UBE Lab concentrates on four core themes: 

1. Urban Greening

2. Sustainable Built Environments

3. Integrated Design & Parametric Simulation and

4. Building Information Modelling (BIM).  

The following research areas demonstrate the current focus of the lab:  

• Building Science, Building Performance & Climate-Responsive Built Environments

• Architectural Design, Integrated Technology & Computational Modelling/Simulation

• Building Information Modelling (BIM) & Integrated Design Process

• Urban Sustainability and Future Cities Planning