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Senior Lecturer, School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney

Dr. Pernille Christensen received her PhD in Planning, Design the Built Environment from Clemson University in South Carolina, USA. She also holds Master of City & Regional Planning and Master of Architecture degrees from Clemson University and a Bachelor of Architecture from Mississippi State University. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in the School of Built Environment and is an active member of multiple industry advisory committees focusing on sustainable development and resilient cities. Using a multi-disciplinary approach, her research focuses on decision-making related to sustainability and resilience in property and planning. Recent research investigates strategies for improving community resilience to social and environmental disruptions such as terrorism, flooding and heat island effect; enhancing operational building management; and developing alternative solutions to affordable housing challenges.

Among her current research projects she is investigating the role of the built environment in protecting people in crowded places and developing best practice protective security solutions. Other collaborative research projects include:
- investigating the impacts of flooding and urban heat island effect on the built environment to develop more robust adaptation and mitigation decision-making strategies to enhance resilience of urban communities,
- the development of a decision process and framework to help cities more effectively address local urban resilience challenges
- the development of robust quantitative instruments to inform a new green building scoring instrument
- the development of best practice guidelines for end of trip facilities (EoTF) in Sydney CBD Office Buildings

She is currently a Co-Editor for the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate and sits on the editorial/reviewer boards of three international refereed journals. Her first book, Developing Property Sustainably, was released July 2015.

Experience

  • 2013–present
    Senior lecturer, School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
  • 2009–2012
    Graduate lecturer, Department of Planning, Development, Preservation and Landscape Architecture, Clemson University, SC, USA
  • 2007–2009
    Visiting assistant professor, Department of Planning, Development, Preservation and Landscape Architecture, Clemson University, SC, USA
  • 2005–2008
    Senior Loan Officers, Mid-Atlantic Financial Services, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • 2003–2005
    Sales Director/Leadership Development , Mary Kay, Atlanta Region
  • 1994–2003
    Architectural Designer/Urban Designer and Planner, Niles Bolton Associates, Atlanta, GA

Education

  • 2012 
    Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA, PhD in Planning, Design & the Built Environment
  • 2000 
    Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA, Master of City and Regional Planning
  • 2000 
    Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA, Master of Architecture
  • 1996 
    Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, USA, (Professional) Bachelor of Architecture, Phase II Honours

Grants and Contracts

  • 2016
    Developing Best Practice for End of Trip Facilities in CBD Office Buildings
    Role:
    Primary Investigator
    Funding Source:
    City of Sydney - Environmental Performance Innovation Grant
  • 2011
    Sustainable Property Investment: Key Drivers of an Integrated Approach to Sustainable Commercial Real Estate Investment, Management & Development Decision Making
    Role:
    Primary Investigator - PhD Dissertation Funding
    Funding Source:
    Land Economics Foundation (LEF) grant
  • 2009
    SEED: Emergent Container Housing Initiative – Solutions for the Caribbean
    Role:
    Primary Investigator
    Funding Source:
    US Environmental Protection Agency, P3 Grant

Professional Memberships

  • American Real Estate Society
  • International Real Estate Society
  • Pacific Rim Real Estate Society