Department of Architecture | Weitzman School of Design | University of Pennsylvania
BIO
William W. Braham, PhD, FAIA is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he previously served as Department Chair and Chair of the Faculty Senate, and is currently Director of the Master of Environmental Building Design and of the Center for Environmental Building + Design. He has worked on energy and architecture for over 35 years as a designer, consultant, researcher, and author of numerous articles and books. His most recent projects include energy and carbon plans for Nakashima Woodworkers and Chautauqua Institution and building performance modelling for Daikin Open Innovation Lab, Silicon Valley.
Braham, William W., Miaomiao Hou, Suryakiran Prabhakaran, and David Tilley. 2023. 'Embodied carbon in biogenic and earth materials: Accounting for the work of the biogeosphere in construction materials.' in Rahman Azari (ed.), The Routledge Handbook on Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment (Routledge).
Ma, Nan, Alex Waegel, Max Hakkarainen, William W. Braham, Lior Glass, and Dorit Aviv. 2023. 'Blockchain + IoT sensor network to measure, evaluate and incentivize personal environmental accounting and efficient energy use in indoor spaces', Applied Energy, 332: 120443.
Braham, William W., Max Hakkarainen, Munkhbayar Buyan, Gankhuyag Janjindorj, Jay Turner, and Sunder Erdenekhuyag. 2022. 'Cooking, Heating, Insulating Products and Services (CHIPS) for Mongolian ger: Reducing energy, cost, and indoor air pollution', Energy for Sustainable Development, 71: 462-79. https://doi.org/10.1016
Hou, Miaomiao, and William W. Braham. 2021. "Land development in an urban megalopolis: A holistic environmental assessment of housing on Chongming Eco-island, China." Journal of Cleaner Production. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127617
Ma, Nan, Liang Chen, Jian Hu, Paris Perdikaris, William W. Braham. 2021. “Adaptive behavior and the different thermal experiences of real people: A Bayesian neural network approach to thermal preference prediction and classification.” Building and Environment 198. 2021 Best Paper Award: 107875
Ma, Nan, Max Hakkarainen, Miaomiao Hou, Dorit Aviv, and William W. Braham. 2022. 'Impacts of building envelope design on indoor ozone exposures and health risks in urban environments', Indoor + built environment, 31: 2499-514.
Ma, Nan, Dorit Aviv, Hongshan Guo, and William W. Braham. 2021. "Measuring the right factors: A review of variables and models for thermal comfort and indoor air quality." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 135:110436.
Braham, William. 2020. "Searching for a “Bioclimatic Law” in Architecture: Comfort and the Ethics of (Human) Performance." In The Routledge companion to paradigms of performativity in design and architecture, edited by Mitra Kanaani. New York: Routledge.
Braham, William W., and Jae Min Lee. 2020. "Metabolism of Urban Location: Travel Time and the Morphology of Cities." Frontiers in Sustainable Cities 2. doi: 10.3389/frsc.2020.00004
Lee, Jae Min, and William W. Braham. 2020. "Measuring public service quality: Revisiting residential location choice using emergy synthesis of local governments in Pennsylvania." Cities 102:102753.
