Interdisciplinary Sustainable Architecture Assessment

Laure Itard is a professor of Building Energy Epidemiology at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment. After studying Physics and Thermodynamics in France, Laure worked at Electricité de France before starting with her PhD research on high efficiency wet-compression-resorption heat pumps at the faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Delft University of Technology, where she got her PhD.

She then worked as a consultant and project leader at the Research & Development department of Deerns Consulting Engineers, a large consultancy firm for energy and indoor climate equipment in buildings where she worked among others at software development for building simulations. In 2004 Laure came back to the Delft University of Technology, were she is currently associate professor at the department OTB-Research for the Built Environment of the faculty of architecture.

Born in Valencia (Spain) in May 1965 she has developed a long carreer teaching languages and classical studies at different teaching levels. Her research is focused around the development of new teaching methodologies inspired on ancient greek and roman principles. Her main activities are related to teaching languages (latin and spanish) both at high school and at Universitat Politecnica de Valencia where she is collaborating on the development of new teaching methodologies.