2019 SAIEE President Invitation Lecture

  • DATE

    31 May 2019

  • TIME

    10:00

  • VENUE

    Carl & Emily Fuchs Institute of Microelectronics (CEFIM) Auditorium, University of Pretoria

You are cordially invited to the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers President’s Invitation Lecture, titled “Smart Cities within a Developing Economy - The Promises and the Pitfalls”, delivered by Prof Chrisna du Plessis.

SMART CITIES WITHIN A DEVELOPING ECONOMY - THE PROMISES AND THE PITFALLS

Prof du Plessis is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture, and Chair of the School for the Built Environment at the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (EBIT).

Date: Friday 31 May 2019

Time: 10:00

Venue: Carl Emily Fuchs Institute for Microelectronics (CEFIM) Auditorium, Hatfield Campus (University Road entrance, opposite Engineering III)

RSVP: Gerda Geyer - [email protected] by 27 May 2019.

More about Prof Chrisna du Plessis:

Chrisna du Plessis is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture, and Chair of the School for the Built Environment at the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa. Before joining UP in 2011, she was Principal Researcher at CSIR Built Environment. Prof du Plessis holds graduate and post-graduate degrees in architecture and sustainable development from UP, a PhD in urban sustainability from the University of Salford, from whom she also received an Alumni Achievers Award, and an honorary doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.

Prof du Plessis is Leader of the Priority Theme: Sustainable Construction, as well as Chair of the Programme Committee of the Board of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB). She is also a member of the International Standards Organisation working group on resilience of buildings and civil engineering works, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Smart and Sustainable Built Environment and Sustainable Earth.

She has further served as a juror for the LafargeHolcim Foundation Sustainable Building Competition (MEA region, June 2011 & 2017) and European Solar Decathlon (2011 and 2014). Her research concentrates on developing the principles and guiding frameworks for the practices of smart and sustainable construction and human settlement development, with a focus on resilience and regeneration, and she has applied this in a body of work that spanned the fields of housing, construction industry performance, urban/human settlement development and infrastructure design.  She has recently published Designing for Hope: Pathways to regenerative sustainability which was awarded the AfriSam SAIA Award for Innovation in Sustainability in 2016.

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