Joined UNSW in 1992 after 16 years of teaching in Architecture at the University of Canberra. Prior to that, worked for Commonwealth Department of Works, Owen Luder Partnership (London) and in private practice as an architect. He was a Visiting Scientist at Jacob Balustein Institute of Desert Research, Sede Boker Israel in 1983, and Visiting Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles in 1991 and 1992.
Steve is a Registered Architect. In 1996, he curtailed his architectural design practice to provide specialised consultancy services to government, institutional clients, architects, developers and local authorities as an individual consultant, and formerly as a member of the Centre for Sustainable Built Environments (CSBE) at the University of NSW. He specialises in sustainable development, especially passive environmental control, including appropriate design and alternative technologies in building services. He consults in the areas of natural ventilation and solar access assessment, and appears regularly in the Land and Environment Court as an expert witness.
Through UNSWGlobal and NEERG Seminars, Steve conducts training in solar access and overshadowing assessment for local government, and as part of professional development courses.
In 1996, he spent some months as Consultant Senior Architect with Abhikram Architects, Ahmedabad, India, working on a range of buildings incorporating passive environmental controls and traditional building technologies. He coordinated the documentation of Khemen Ghati, Udaipur India, as part of the conservation project for the Old City, and has run AusAID funded capacity building training workshops in passive solar design for professionals and building artisans in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
Teaching
Building services, building climatology and thermal comfort, sustainable design and practice, and design studio.
Research
Until its disestablishment at the end of 2006, Steve King was Associate Director of the Centre for a Sustainable Built Environment (CSBE). His research and consultancy includes work in energy simulation and assessment for houses, building assessments, appropriate design and alternative technologies for museums and other cultural institutions, and asthma and domestic building design.
Steve is the author of the seminal reader Building for Conservation: Appropriate Design for Environmental Control in the Tropics in MacLean, M.G.H. (Ed.), ‘Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific: Conservation and Policy, published by the Getty Conservation Institute, principal author of the book Site Planning for Australia: strategies for energy efficient residential planning published by the Australian Government Publication Service and of the RAIA Environment Design Guides on the same topic, as well as of a number of consultancy reports and industry publications.
Steve was the Convenor of the International Experts’ Workshop at the Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, examining alternatives to air conditioning for museums, archives and other cultural institutions. As a member of a consortium of experts in preventive conservation, materials performance and environmental control, Steve regularly consults in monitoring and design review to museums. The consortium prepared the Guidelines for Environmental Control in Cultural Institutions published by the Heritage Collections Council, Canberra.
Recent Publications
Papers & Book Chapters
Daniel, V. and Steve King 'Environmental monitoring as a decision making tool' in Study of Environmental Conditions Surrounding Cultural Properties and their Protective Measures, Proc.31st International Symposium on the Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property February 5-7 2008, Tokyo Japan, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo 2009
Kordjamshidi, M., King, S. 'Overcoming problems in house energy ratings in temperate climates: A proposed new rating framework' Energy and Buildings Volume 41, Issue 1, January 2009, Pages 125-132
Mohamed, MF., Prasad, DK. & King, SE., 2008, 'An investigation of the impact of veranda on the indoor air flow of single sided naturally ventilated building', in Proceedings of ISES-AP 2008 3rd international solar energy conference, Asia Pacific Region, 46th ANZSES Annual Conference, eds , Sydney, Sydney,
Kotbi, MG., King, SE. & Prasad, DK., 2008, 'Green buildings' Priorities in Arriyadhm Saudi Arabia', in Proceedings of 3rd International Solar Energy Society Conference- Asia Pacific Region, 46th Anzses Conference 2008, eds , Sydney, ,
Kordjamshidi, M., King, SE., Zehner, RB. & Prasad, DK. 'Modeling efficient building design: A comparison of conditioned and free-running house rating approaches'. Architectural Science Review 2007; 50(1): pp. 52 - 59.
Kordjamshidi, M., King, SE. & Prasad, DK., 2006, 'Why Are Rating Schemes Always Wrong? Regulatory Frameworks for Passive Design & Energy Efficienty', in 23rd International Conference on Passive & Low Energy Architecture (PLEA), eds Raphael Compagon, Peter Haeteli, Geneva-Switzerland, Switzerland, pp. 153 - 158
Kordjamshidi, M. & King, SE., 2006, 'A Coomparative Analysis of the Simulated Thermal Performance in Dwellings in Moderte Climate', in Proceedings of the IBPSA Australian 2006 Conference, eds V Soebarto and P Marshallsay, Adelaide, Australia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 104 - 109
Kordjamshidi, M., King, SE. & Prasad, DK., 2005, 'Towards the development of a home rating scheme for free running building', in Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Future - A Challenge for a Post Carbon World, eds Roy Prows & Bob Lioyd, Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand, pp. 1 - 9
Kordjamshidi, M., King, SE. & Prasad, DK., 2005, 'An alternative basis for Home Energy Rating Scheme (HERS)', in PLEA 2005 "Environmental Sustainability: the Challenge of Awareness in Developing Societies", eds Dana Raydan and Habib Melki, Lebanon, Lebanon-Beirut, pp. 909 - 914
Daniel, V., King, S., & Lavrenic, T. ‘Biodeterioration in Insitu Displays’, Australian Institute for Conservation of Cultural Materials Bulletin, Volume 28, 2003.
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