Untitled - Journal of Lighting Engineering

Ingineria Iluminatului 2012; 14, 2: 63-66
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INTRODUCTION TO CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHY BUILDINGS
Jeong Tai KIM
Ph.D, Professor, Director
Dept. of Architectural Eng.
Kyung Hee University
Yongin, Gyeonggi-do 446-
701 Republic of Korea
E-Mail: jtkim@khu.ac.kr
http://www.csheb.org
Dr. Jeong Tai KIM is a Professor of the
Department of Architectural Engineering at
Kyung Hee University located in Republic
of Korea. He got his doctoral degree from
Yonsei University, Korea in the area of
architectural lighting. His professional life
is densely filled with research, practice,
publication, and teaching for the growth of
environment-friendly architecture. He has
been directing the “Light and Architectural
Environment Laboratory (LAEL)”
nominated as the National Research
Laboratory (NRL) by Korea Government
since July 2001 and the first NRL in field
of lighting and architecture.
The Center for Sustainable Healthy
Buildings (CSHeB)
The Center for Sustainable Healthy
Buildings (CSHeB) has been nominated as
an ERC in September of 2008. It dedicates to
the advancement of new ideas, substantiation
of related researches, international
cooperation, the training of professionals,
and the growth of pragmatic knowledge in
the field of healthy building design, control,
construction, operation and management.
As the director of the CSHeB, he has tried
to establish an outstanding R&D center
with global competitiveness by providing
on-site research facilities, formulating
synergistic interconnection with interdisciplinary
researchers, and promoting
collaboration and cooperation with various
industries, government departments, and
international universities. He also plays a
key role in promoting sustainable healthy
building technologies academically by
hosting international symposiums,
seminars, and workshops. During the last 5
years as director of CSHeB, he presented
lots of research outcomes on various
aspects of the health design works in terms
of sustainable environment.
Research Grant
Total research grant is approximately
US$ 15 million for 10 years (September of
2008 to February of 2018) including
Government, University and industries’ fund.
COE & ERC
The Engineering Research Center (ERC) of
the Center of Excellence (COE), funded by
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology,
and National Research Foundation of
Korea has been established for purpose of
systematizing a pool of excellent university
researchers across the country and fostering
a team of world-class leading scientists by
providing intensive support for them.