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Hikaru Kobayashi, Professor
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The Sustainable Building Environment Lab studies the thermal, air, and light environments of building spaces, as well as their energy consumption. The lab researches building environmental technologies for realizing buildings that are healthy, comfortable, and energy-efficient. It works on developing air-conditioning technologies and daylighting technologies, and on creating methods for evaluating the environment. The lab also studies the indoor gamma-ray environment in areas affected by the nuclear power plant accident, and methods of radiation protection through architectural planning.
Yasuyuki Ishida, Associate Professor
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The Regional Environmental Planning Lab studies the outdoor physical environment: air temperature, humidity, wind, and solar radiation. Using numerical simulation such as CFD (computational fluid dynamics) together with environmental measurement techniques, the lab covers everything from understanding actual conditions to prediction, analysis, and evaluation. The lab aims to create urban outdoor environments where people can live safely, comfortably, and healthily, even under future climates as climate change progresses. The lab has long worked on heat countermeasures for cities, such as urban greening and control of solar reflection.
Tomoya Nishiwaki, Associate Professor
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The Life Cycle Engineering Lab studies building materials and construction methods, focusing mainly on cementitious materials. The lab develops new materials and construction methods as needed, and builds techniques for evaluating their performance. It clarifies the mechanisms by which materials deteriorate, and applies the findings to building maintenance and longer service life. From construction to the end of use, the lab examines issues across the entire life cycle from the perspective of materials science.
Masaki Maeda, Professor
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The Performance Control Systems Lab (Maeda Lab) studies buildings and cities that are safe and secure against disasters such as earthquakes. Its subjects include higher-performance reinforced concrete structures, urban timber buildings using CLT, and brick masonry buildings overseas. Its research field extends from its local area of Sendai and Miyagi to all of Japan, and further overseas. The lab has a network of joint research with universities, construction companies, design firms, and government agencies in Japan and abroad.
Noriyuki Takahashi, Associate Professor
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The Adaptive Design Engineering Lab studies the performance that buildings should deliver under disaster scenarios such as earthquakes and tsunamis. By combining experiments, analysis, and field surveys, the lab builds the foundations for rationally designing that performance. It evaluates not only the structural members of buildings but also the process by which non-structural elements, such as partition walls, become damaged. After an earthquake, the lab goes to the affected site to investigate what kind of damage buildings have suffered.
Yoshihiro Kimura, Professor
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The Structural Safety Systems Lab studies the forces that wind exerts on structures and the design methods that resist them. It investigates the wind response of structures that differ in form and scale, from small structures such as houses and agricultural greenhouses to large-span structures such as stadiums. The lab also works on predicting strong-wind disasters caused by typhoons, downbursts, and other gusts, and on ways to reduce the damage. It also studies the tsunami loads on oil tanks and tsunami-resistant design.
Yoshihiro Kimura, Professor
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The Kimura Lab studies seismic design methods that prevent steel buildings from collapsing in giant earthquakes. Steel members have high stiffness and strength, but because they are thin and slender, they undergo an unstable phenomenon called buckling when subjected to compression or bending. The lab is uncovering the mechanisms by which large-space structures and high-rise buildings collapse in earthquakes. It aims to establish buckling design methods for long-span beams and design methods that limit damage in super high-rise buildings.
Susumu Ohno, Associate Professor
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The lab conducts research and education to reduce earthquake disasters. It records strong shaking with observation systems the lab has built itself, then combines analysis with computer simulation. Using machine learning as well, the lab studies how ground and buildings shake, and applies the findings to monitoring the structural health of buildings and to early damage estimation. The lab develops damage-reduction technologies that support everything from advance preparedness to the response immediately after an earthquake.
Takeshi Sato, Professor
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The lab conducts practical research aimed at building disaster-resilient communities and people. Drawing on foundational knowledge of urban and architectural studies, the lab works with a wide range of fields, including education, sociology, economics, science, and medicine. It aims to produce new results through interdisciplinary integration and to implement them in society to create a society with reduced disaster damage. In the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the lab supports school disaster management and the rebuilding of disaster prevention education for children.
Akihiro Shibayama, Associate Professor
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The lab researches how to collect and share memories and records of disasters so that they can help reduce disaster damage. It runs "Michinoku Shinrokuden," an archive that collects memories, records, case studies, and knowledge related to the Great East Japan Earthquake. Based on materials ranging from historical disasters to the Great East Japan Earthquake, the lab carries out cross-disciplinary research. It combines lessons from the past, information from online society, and advanced sensing information to create information that supports disaster mitigation.
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