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RHpT: Bioclimatic Framework for Climate-Adaptive Bio-Façades in Urban Context.
Energy and Buildings.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2026.117192
Bio-Jaali: Reimagining Vernacular Cooling Screens with Mycelium-Based Composites.
Energy and Buildings.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2026.117104
Passive Cooling Strategies for Future-proofing Rural Self-construction Residences in Cold-Temperature Regions of China.
Sustainability.
DOI: 10.3390/su18031170
Dual-stage collaborative optimal allocation of cooling source in ice storage air-conditioning systems considering daily and emergency demand response.
Energy and Buildings.
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116247
EOLD: A reinforcement learning-based energy-optimised load disaggregation framework for Demand-side Energy Management.
Renewable Energy.
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2025.123536
The role of surface interventions in bio-welding mycelium-based composites.
Sustainable Materials and Technologies.
DOI: 10.1016/j.susmat.2025.e01326
Remote work might unlock Solar PV's potential for cracking the 'Duck Curve'.
Applied Energy.
DOI: 10.1016/j.susmat.2025.e01326
Although feasible, falling renewables costs might not benefit Bangladesh’s energy sector's decarbonisation: Is this another ‘debt-fossil fuel production trap’?
Energy for Sustainable Development.
DOI: 10.1016/j.esd.2024.101416
A mixed-methods approach for evaluating the influence of residential practices for thermal comfort on electricity consumption in Auroville, India.
Electricity.
DOI: 10.3390/electricity5010007
Climate change, extreme heat, and South Asian megacities: Impact of heat stress on inhabitants and their productivity.
Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities.
DOI: 10.1115/1.4064021
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Most cited paper in the ASME Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings and Cities (Last checked on March 08, 2026).
Why is Bangladesh’s electricity generation heading towards a GHG emissions-intensive future?
Carbon Management.
DOI: 10.1080/17583004.2022.2068454
Rural cooling needs assessment towards designing community cooling hubs: Case studies from Maharashtra, India.
Sustainability.
DOI: 10.3390/su13105595
Understanding residential occupant cooling behaviour through electricity consumption in warm-humid climate.
Sustainability.
DOI: 10.3390/buildings10040078
Modelling community electricity demand for UK and India.
Sustainable cities and society.
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102054
Forecasting methods of energy planning models. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2018.02.002
Corruption significantly increases the cost of power plants in developing contexts.
Frontiers in Energy Research.
DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2018.00008
Challenges and gaps for energy planning models in the developing-world context.
Nature Energy.
DOI: 10.1038/s41560-018-0095-2
Reprint:
‘Grand Challenges: India’s research solutions to real-world problems’ (April 2018).
Publisher: Nature India.
Publisher: Nature India.
Mycelium-based Composites as/in Building Skins: Potential, Constraints and Way Forward.
In: Mycology for Architecture (Ed. Dr. Dilan Ozkan), Pelagic Publishing.
Sustainable buildings within low carbon energy systems.
In: Rethinking Pathways to a Sustainable Built Environment, Routledge.
Weather Protection of Mycelium-based Composites without compromising biodegradability for building façade applications.
38th PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) Conference 2026. San José, Costa Rica. 27-31 July 2026.
BioCOOL: Biomimetic building skin for passive cooling.
38th PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) Conference 2026. San José, Costa Rica. 27-31 July 2026.
Mycelium-Based Composites from Space Farming Waste: A Proof-of-Concept for Bio-fabrication in Space Habitats.
76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Sydney, Australia. 29 September - 3 October 2025.
DOI: 10.52202/083083-0017
Bio-retrofit: Potential of mycelium-based composites to future-proof India and Australia's residential buildings against extreme climate events post-2040.
19th IBPSA International Conference and Exhibition; Building Simulation 2025 Conference. Brisbane, Australia. August 24–27, 2025.
Exploring the potential of Australian agricultural and industrial wastes from the source to bio-fabricating viable mycelium-based composites.
4th International Conference of Sustainable Building Materials (ICSBM 2025). Eindhoven, the Netherlands. August 10-13, 2025.
Exploring the Behaviour of Humidity Responsive Materials.
78th RILEM Annual Week & RILEM International Conference on Sustainable Materials & Structures: Meeting the major challenges of the 21st century - SMS 2024.
Toulouse, France. 25-30 August 2024.
Bio-HNV: Bio-based Humidity-responsive Night Ventilation for Climate Resilience.
37th PLEA Conference 2024: Rethinking Resilience. Wrocław, Poland. 25-28 June 2024.
Bio-jaali: Passive building skin with mycelium for climate change adaptation to extreme heat.
18th IBPSA International Conference and Exhibition; Building Simulation 2023. Shanghai, China. 4-6 September 2023.
DOI: 10.26868/25222708.2023.1516
A data-driven framework for modelling community energy demand.
Supergen Energy Network conference 2023; Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK. 5-7 September 2023.
DOI: 10.26868/25222708.2023.1673
Decarbonization of energy systems of South Asian developing economies through regional collaborations: Potential of South-Asian super grid.
18th IBPSA International Conference and Exhibition; Building Simulation 2023. Shanghai, China. 4-6 September 2023.
Potential of relative humidity as a proxy of air temperature in developing passive and adaptive building façades with bio-based responsive material.
International Conference on Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES 2023). 27-30 June 2023.
Towards Passive, Responsive, Variable Porosity Building Skins.
International Conference on Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES 2023). 27-30 June 2023.
Evaluating the humidity responsiveness of bacterial cellulose for application in responsive, breathable building skins.
5th International Conference on Bio-Based Building Materials (ICBBM). 21-23 June 2023.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-33465-8_49
Tailoring demand-reduction strategies for communities in India – the CEDRI project.
BSO2022 (Building simulation and optimisation in the Global South). 13-14 December 2022.
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Climate Change and Megacities: South Asian Mega-cities are in Mega-distress.
36th PLEA Conference 2022: Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design. 23-25 November 2022.
Effect of building fabric on the electricity demand for space cooling for attaining thermal comfort in a South Indian community building; Sustainable Energy Development and Innovation.
Editor: Professor Ali Sayigh. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland.
Presented at 'World Renewable Energy Congress 2020'; 26-30 July 2021.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-76221-6_94
Patient’s Thermal Comfort Assessment of a Government Hospital During the Warm-Humid Season.
36th PLEA Conference 2022: Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design. 23-25 November 2022.
Energy Sector Decarbonisation in Bangladesh: QUAD, BBIN, and Regional Geopolitics.
Emerging Geographies of Decarbonisation workshop 2022. 17 October 2022.
Vaccine Cold-chain Challenges for Fast-track Mass COVID-19 Vaccination in Bangladesh.
7th IIR International Conference on Sustainable and the Cold Chain. 11-13th April 2022.
DOI: 10.18462/iir.iccc2022.1115
Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on residential grid electricity and decentralised solar energy consumption in the UK Homes.
CIB W78 – LDAC 2021 Conference. 13-15 October 2021.
Impact of the UK’s COVID-19 lockdown on the residential electricity consumption.
IBPSA Building Simulation 2021 Conference. 1-3 September 2021.
DOI: 10.26868/25222708.2021.30267
Decarbonization of energy systems of South Asian developing economies through regional collaborations.
Climate Exp0; 17-21 May 2021.
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Effect of cooking fuel transition on energy demand and GHG emissions in rural households of Nepal by 2050.
12th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE2020), Bangkok/Virtual. 1-10 December 2020.
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System of statistical approaches for community energy modelling.
2nd IBPSA-Scotland uSIM conference 2020 (Virtual), Edinburgh, UK. 12 November 2020.
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Simulation-based assessment of residential cooling energy demand reduction strategies in a south Indian community.
Building Simulation and Optimisation (BSO) 2020 (Virtual). Loughborough University, UK. 21-22 September 2020.
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Understanding residential occupant cooling behavior through electricity consumption in India.
International Conference on Building Energy Demand Reduction in Global South, New Delhi, India. 13-14 December 2019.
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Comparing community energy assessment approaches for UK and India.
Building Simulation 2019, International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), Rome, Italy. 2-4th September 2019.
DOI: 10 26868/25222708.2019.210249
Exploring the solar energy potential for multistoried commercial office buildings in a dense CBD area of a megacity.
31st International PLEA Conference; Bologna, Italy. 9-11 September 2015.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3334.1049
Modelling and Forecasting Energy Demand in Rural Households of Bangladesh.
Energy Procedia, Elsevier. p. 2731-2737. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE 2015).
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.480
Influence of Enclosed Atriums in the Energy Consumption of Retail Shopping Environments of Dhaka City: A Comparative Study between Eastern Plaza and Basundhara City.
4th International Conference on Environmental Aspects of Bangladesh (ICEAB 2013), University of Kitakyushu, Japan, 24 – 26 August 2013.
DOI: 10.13140/2.1.3945.1203
Diffraction of Sound as a Factor of Sound Pollution at the Road Junctions of Dhaka city.
4th International Conference on Environmental Aspects of Bangladesh (ICEAB 2013), University of Kitakyushu, Japan, 24 – 26 August 2013.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4199.0004
Maximising Daylight Use Potential in Retail Shopping Environments in the Context of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) Conference,
Department of Architectural Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, 3 - 5 April; ISBN (print): 978-0-7844-1290-9;
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers; p. 765-775.
DOI: 10.1061/9780784412909.075
Transformation of Retail Shopping Environments from Natural Context to Artificial Environment in the Context of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Genius Loci Chapter One 2013. The International Conference on Climate Change and Local Wisdom:
Living in Harmony within Our Built Environment, Makassar, Indonesia, 14 – 16 February 2013; ISBN: 978-602-17519-0-9; p. 68-77.
DOI: 10.13140/2.1.1858.2085
Cumulative Community Solar Power Plant: Possibilities and Challenges in Bangladesh.
Genius Loci Chapter One 2013. The International Conference on Climate Change and Local Wisdom: Living in Harmony within Our Built Environment,
Makassar, Indonesia, 14 – 16 February 2013; ISBN: 978-602-17519-0-9; p. 151-157.
DOI: 10.13140/2.1.5117.0887
Living beyond Earth: The architectural features of human habitats in extreme environments of space and other planetary surfaces.
63rd International Astronautical Congress, Naples, Italy. 1-5th October 2012.
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We think of mushrooms as food, but mycelium-based blocks could be the future of construction.
The Conversation (Australia + NZ).
DOI: 10.64628/AA.wthwnqfp7
Fungal Instructions at Architecture’s Edge.
Book: ‘Make Good’. Editor: Dr Jasper Ludewig and Urtzi Grau. Issue 1, School of Architecture publication, UTS.
Decarbonisation of energy systems of South Asian developing economies through regional collaborations.
Report. Heriot-Watt University, EPSRC Supergen Energy Network Hub.
Rural Cooling Needs Assessment: Towards designing Community Cooling Hubs.
Report. University of Birmingham, Heriot-Watt University, Centre for Environment Education, MP Ensystems Advisory Pvt. Ltd., BAIF, Yuva Mitra,
Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation.
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Transforming farming value-chains in sub-Saharan Africa through social and economically inclusive sustainable energy solutions.
Report. Heriot-Watt University.
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Understanding the cold-chain challenge for COVID-19 vaccination.
Report: University of Birmingham, Centre for Sustainable Cooling.
‘Cooling for All’: Needs-based assessment (Country-scale cooling action plan methodology).
White paper: Heriot-Watt University, Centre for Sustainable Cooling, Sustainable Energy for All.