Alaa Olama

Dr. Alaa received M.Sc. in 1973 and Ph.D. in 1980 from the faculty of Engineering at King’s College, the University of London, in absorption refrigeration. He has been a member of the prestigious Refrigeration, air conditioning, heat pumps Technical Options Committee (RTOC) of the United Nations. He has been instrumental in the establishment of the first two district cooling company in Egypt. He has also been appointed as head of the committee writing the first refrigerants code and district cooling code for Egypt by the minister of Housing.

Chandra Sekhar

Chandra Sekhar, Ph.D., Fellow ASHRAE & ISIAQ, is currently a Professor and Programme Director (MSc-Building Performance and Sustainability) and co-director (Centre for September 6, 2021 Integrated Building Energy and Sustainability in the Tropics) in the Department of the Built Environment at the National University of Singapore. He is also a founding director of Enhanced Air Quality Pte Ltd., a NUS spin-off company. His research interests include thermal comfort, ventilation and IAQ, airborne infection control, energy efficient HVAC systems and building energy analysis.

Yanping Zhou

Dr. Zhou has been working in the field of HVAC equipment manufacturing, building energy  efficiency optimization and energy simulation since 1994, and he has served as a researcher in the R&D centres of internationally renowned air conditioning equipment manufacturers, such as Carrier and Daikin. In 2009, he joined the company energydesign, founded by Prof. M.N.Fisch, and became the Managing Director in 2013.

William Bahnfleth

William Bahnfleth is a professor of architectural engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. He held previous positions as Senior Consultant for ZBA, Inc. in Cincinnati, OH and Principal Investigator at the U.S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, IL. He holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois and is a registered professional engineer. At Penn State, Dr. Bahnfleth teaches undergraduate courses in HVAC fundamentals and system design, and graduate courses in district cooling systems and indoor air quality.