Building Simulation & Optimisation 22: Reflections on a successful online conference

Tariené Gaum is a PhD student and full-time lecturer at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa, with specific focus on Building Physics and Systems Design.

Jacques Laubscher is a practising Professional Architect, a Professor in Architecture and the current Head of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design at the Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa. Jacques holds a PhD in Architecture (University of Pretoria), a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning (University of the Free State), an MBA in Education Management (Haaga-Helia University, Finland) and a Higher Education Teaching Certificate (Harvard).

Derek Mitchell initially set out on a career in Mechanical Engineering but switched to the world of Microelectronics via Physics and thus later to Telecommunications. He is now back to Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds, UK, pursuing a PhD with a perhaps surprising application area – honeybees. n