Basic Information

Name: LIN,Zhenghao

Associate Professor; Deputy Head of the Department of Architecture; 

Doctoral and Master’s Supervisor. Postdoctoral Research Supervisor；

Area: sustainable architecture and building technology.

Education

Ph.D. in Engineering, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, 2019.

Bachelor of Architecture, School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, 2013.

Research Interests

Sustainable architectural design; high-performance building envelopes; prefabricated construction and industrialized retrofit of existing buildings; climate-responsive façades; and housing quality and regional adaptation.

Selected Research Projects

National Natural Science Foundation of China, General Program: Coordination between prefabrication and on-site construction in building-envelope retrofits of existing buildings (2027–2030). Principal Investigator.

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Young Scientists Fund: Integrated design strategies for the envelopes of lightweight prefabricated nearly zero-energy buildings (2020–2022). Principal Investigator.

Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, General Program: Low-carbon retrofitting of existing office buildings through green and prefabricated technologies in hot-summer and warm-winter regions (2025–2027). Principal Investigator.

Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province, General Program: Low-carbon envelope retrofitting of existing public buildings in hot-humid regions using photovoltaic louver façades (2024–2026). Principal Investigator.

Guangzhou Science and Technology Program: Building retrofit design methods driven by life-cycle energy and carbon performance (2025–2027). Principal Investigator.

Selected Publications

1.Lin, Z., Tian, J., Zhuang, L., Su, Y., & Zhan, Q. (2026). Experimental analysis of warm-season thermal performance of opaque ventilated roofs in cold zone of China. Energy and Buildings.

2.Lin, Z., Song, Y., & Chu, Y. (2022). An experimental study of the summer and winter thermal performance of an opaque ventilated facade in cold zone of China. Building and Environment, 218, 109108.

3.Lin, Z., Song, Y., & Chu, Y. (2022). Summer performance of a naturally ventilated double-skin facade with adjustable glazed louvers for building energy retrofitting. Energy and Buildings, 267, 112163.

4.Zhang, W., Sun, Y., & Lin, Z. (2024). Coupled evaluation of the optical-thermal-electrical performance of customized building-integrated photovoltaic components. Renewable Energy, 223, 119994.

5.Xu, T., Peng, C., Li, G., Tian, J., Lin, Z., & Zhang, Z. (2026). A comparative study of “good housing” standards and guidelines and their local application in Lingnan [in Chinese]. South Architecture, (5), 87–102.

Contact

Email: linzhenghao@scut.edu.cn