Hoque, Simi T.
Assistant Professor
413-545-1866
120 Holdsworth
simih ‘at’ nrc.umass.edu
Primary interests
Dr. Hoque teaches environmental systems and sustainable design principles. Her research is focused around the application and development of energy efficient buildings. She specializes in energy modeling, resource efficiency, and systems design and is seeking to improve the way buildings use the earth’s resources. Hoque is the co-founder of Floodspace, a research and design collaborative, whose mission is to develop strategies for improved housing, infrastructure, and livelihood in communities subject to climate change-related flooding.
Dr. Hoque is a member of the American Society of Heating, Cooling, and Air Conditioning Engineers and the Boston chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Before her appointment to the NRC faculty in 2008, Hoque was a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At that time she was a consulting mechanical engineer at Norian/Siani Engineering, Inc. in Waltham, MA.
Current Projects
• CLIMATE CHANGE AND ADAPTIVE DESIGN: Assessing traditional building strategies for coping with extreme and persistent flooding in the Bangladesh delta.
• ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND ANALYSIS: Energy modeling and quantitative evaluation of residential and light commercial buildings, focusing specifically on low-income housing and upgrading options for energy efficiency in existing building stock.
• ENERGY PERFORMANCE TOOLS: Assessment of building performance analysis modeling software. Comparison of simulation tools to evaluate precision and accuracy of results.
• TRAINING PROGRAMS: Development of career ladder training tools and curriculum for at-risk youth and minority populations in energy efficiency, auditing, and weatherization. Pilot program (March-September 2009) at YouthBuild-Holyoke, in collaboration with the Center for Ecological Technology (Northampton, MA).
Selected Recent Publications
Sharma, A.; HOQUE, S. 2009. "Building Performance Analysis Tools", Journal of Building Simulation. In preparation.
HOQUE, S.; McKee C., Ruggerio, D. 2009. "Zero Energy Homes", The ASHRAE Journal. In preparation.
HOQUE, S; Schreyer, A; Harb, R.; Godbout, R. 2009. "Life Cycle Energy Assessment in US Building Construction", Journal of Green Building. In preparation.
Harb, R; HOQUE, S. 2009. "No Fossil Fuels Here", The Northeast Sun. In review.
HOQUE, S. 2009. "The Spaces of Gesture", The Gesture Journal. In review.
HOQUE, S. 2009. "Creativity in Computational Design", International Journal of Design. In review.
HOQUE, S. 2009. "Borrowers, Bricoleurs and Builders of Architectural Knowledge", Proceedings ACSA 25th Annual Conference on the Beginning Design Student, 12-14 March, Baton Rouge, LA.
HOQUE , S; MOORE, E. 2009. “Floodspace: Case Studies in Adapting to Climate Change-Related Flooding in Bangladesh”, The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, 1:2, Melbourne, Australia.
HOQUE, S. 2008. “LEED Certifi-able vs. LEED Certified?” GreenerBuildings.com
HOQUE, S. 2007. “Transculturation and Translation”, Conversations of the Design Process, MIT Dept. of Architecture, pp.48-51.
HOQUE, S; GRIFFITH, K. 2007. “Unpacking the Package: The value of computing in the design process”, Proceedings ConnectED International Architectural Design Education Conference, 9-12 July 2007, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.
HOQUE, S. 2007. “Teaching through the Senses: phenomenology as a pedagogical framework in the design studio”, Proceedings Architecture and Phenomenology, 20-24 May 2007, Technion, I.I.T., Haifa Israel.
