Dr Grace Ding

Senior Lecturer, School of the Built Environment
Core Member, Centre for Built Infrastructure Research
Core Member, Centre for Contemporary Design Practice

BSc (Ulster), MSc (Salford), Doctor of Philosophy, PhD (UTS)

Member, Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors
Member, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
Member, The Chartered Institute of Building

Email: Grace.Ding@uts.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9514 8659
Fax: +61 2 9514 8051
Room: CB06.05.02 (map)
Mailing address: PO Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia

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Professional

Professional member of RICS, AIQS, CIOB
Professional interests: Quantity surveying, cost management, etc.

Teaching areas

UG
Building Measurement
Building Economics
Statistics
Advanced Project Evaluation
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Construction

Research

Research interests

sustainable construction, environmental building performance assessment, energy analysis, cost benefit analysis, life cycle costing

Research supervision: Yes
PG level

Projects

Publications

Journal Articles

Ding, G.K., Ge, X. & Phillips, P. 2012, 'Cradle-to-gate analysis of materials used in historic and modern housing', Advanced Materials Research, vol. 374-377, pp. 2029-2036.

Ding, G.K. & Shen, L. 2010, 'Assessing sustainability performance of built projects: a building process approach', International Journal of Sustainable Development, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 267-279.
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Ding, G.K. 2010, 'Sustainability assessment of residential development - An Australian experience', The International Journal of Construction Management, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 19-32.
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Ding, G.K. 2008, 'Sustainable construction - The role of environmental assessment tools', Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 451-464.
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Ding, G.K. 2007, 'Life cycle energy assessment of Australian secondary schools', Building Research & Information, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 487-500.
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Ding, G.K. 2005, 'Developing a multicriteria approach for the measurement of sustainable performance', Building Research & Information, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 3-16.
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Ding, G.K. & Langston, C.A. 2004, 'Multiple criteria sustainability modelling: Case study on School Buildings', The International Journal of Construction Management, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 13-26.
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Conference Papers

Ding, G.K. 2012, 'Strategies for sustainable housing development - the challenges from renewable energy', IAHS Housing Istanbul 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2012 in Proceedings of the XXXVIII IAHS World Congress: Visions for the future of housing mega cities, ed Ural, O., Sahin, M., and Ural, D., Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 305-311.

Ge, X., Ding, G.K. & Phillips, P. 2012, 'Sustainable housing - a case study of heritage building in Hangzhou China', Annual Pacific-Rim Real Estate Society Conference, Adelaide, Australia, January 2012 in Proceedings of 18th Annual Pacific-Rim Real Estate Society Conference, ed -, PRRES, Proceedings of 18th Annual Pacific-Rim Real Estate Society Conference, pp. 1-11.
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Holmes, M.I., Crews, K.I. & Ding, G.K. 2012, 'Supply chain management strategies for engineered-to-order timber structural systems', RICS COBRA 2012, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, September 2012 in Construction, building and real estate conference, ed Kashiwagi, D. & Sullivan, K., Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, pp. 1478-1485.

Smith, P.V. & Ding, G.K. 2012, 'Construction Cost Management in China: The Impact of Government Economic Reforms', 8th ICEC World Congress, Durban, South Africa, June 2012 in International Cost Engineering Council: 8th ICEC World Congress, ed Pearl, R.G. & Verster, J.J.P., The South African Association of Quantity Surveyors, Durban, South Africa, pp. 1-20.

Smith, P.V. & Ding, G.K. 2012, 'Economic reforms in the Chinese construction industry - cost management implications', 16th Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors Congress, Brunei Darussalam, July 2012 in Innovating and sustaining: challenges and opportunities, ed -, Pertubuhan Ukur Jurutera & Arkitek Brunei (PUJA), Brunei Darussalam, pp. 1-13.

Thomas, D.N., Ding, G.K. & Crews, K.I. 2012, 'Multi-Storey Residential Timber Buildings in Australia: Where is the education', 37th AUBEA International Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 2012 in Australasian Universities Building Educators Association (AUBEA), 37th AUBEA International Conference: Proceedings, ed Kamatdeen, I., Newton, S., Lim, B., and Loosemore, M., The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, pp. 163-170.
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Thomas, D.N., Ding, G.K. & Crews, K.I. 2012, 'Sustainable timber use in the Australian housing market: Are consumers willing to pay the price?', IAHS Housing Istanbul 2012, Istanbul, Turkey, April 2012 in Proceedings of the XXXVIII IAHS World Congress: Visions for the future of housing : Mega cities, ed Ural, O., Sahin, M., and Ural, D., Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 1076-1082.

Holmes, M.I., Crews, K.I. & Ding, G.K. 2011, 'The influence building codes and fire regulations have on multi-storey timber construction in australia', SB 11 Helskini, Helsinki, Finland, October 2011 in World Sustainable Building Conference, ed Huovila, Pekka, Finish Association of Civil Engineers RIL & VTT Technical Research Centre of Finlandn, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 224-235.
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Liu, J., Ding, G.K. & Samali, B. 2011, 'Quantifying and assessing impacts of building processes in a triple bottom line appraoch', SB11 Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, October 2011 in World Sustainable Building Conference, ed Huovila, Pekka, Finish Association of Civil Engineers RIL & VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Helsinki, Finland, pp. 554-563.
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Ding, G.K. & Ge, X. 2010, 'A challenge to sustainably improving environmental performance of existing housing stock in Australia', International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) Meetings, Workshops, Symposia, Conferences, Salford Quays, United Kingdom, May 2010 in CIB 2010 World Congress Proceedings, ed Barrett, P., Amaratunga, D., Haigh, R., Keraminiyage, K., & Pathirage, C., CIB, United Kingdom, pp. 86-98.
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Ding, G.K. & Ge, X. 2009, 'Green revolution - a challenge to improve environmental performance of existing housing stocks', Conference on Green Building: Towards Eco-City, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2009 in 2009 Conference on Green Building: Towards Eco-City, ed Cheng, Y.L.; Lao, L.M.; Liao, W.J.; Yen, T.C. & Yu, P.M., Architecture and Building Research Institute, Ministry of the Interior, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 135-149.
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Ge, X. & Ding, G.K. 2009, 'Cost effective and sustainable? Photovoltaic rebate program in Australia', International Conference on Management and Service Science, Beijing, China, September 2009 in International Conference on Management and Service Science, ed IEEE, The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc, Beijing, China, pp. 1-4.
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Ge, X. & Ding, G.K. 2009, 'Energy efficient and water reduction programs on households in Australia', Conference on Green Building: Towards Eco-City, Taiwan, October 2009 in 2009 Conference on Green Building: Towards Eco-City, ed Cheng, Y.L.; Lao, L.M.; Liao, W.J.; Yen, T.C. & Yu, P.M., Architecture and Building Research Institute, Ministgry of the Interior, Taiwan, pp. 56-66.
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Ding, G.K. & Runeson, K.G. 2008, 'A BASIX tool for environmental assessment of residential buildings - An Australian approach', Construction Management and Economics Conference, Reading, UK, July 2007 in CME 25 Conference Construction Management and Economics 'Past, Present and Future', ed Hughes, W., University of Reading, UK, Reading, UK, pp. 931-940.
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Ding, G.K. 2008, 'Environmental assessment of residential buildings in China', World Sustainable Building Conference, Melbourne, Australia, September 2008 in Proceedings of the 2008 World Sustainable Building Conference, ed Foliente, G.; Luetzkendorf, T.; Newton, P. & Paevere, P., ASN Events, Victoria, Australia, pp. 494-501.
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Ding, G.K., Smith, P.V. & Yan, L. 2007, 'The cost management system in China - The impact of social and economic reforms in the construction industry', Construction Management and Real Estate International Symposium, Sydney, August 2007 in Proceedings of CRIOCM 2007 International Research Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, ed Zou, P; Newton, S & Wang, J, The Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management, Sydney, pp. 660-669.
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Ding, G.K. 2007, 'The evaluation of environmentally sustainable residential development using a building sustainability index', Association of Researchers in Construction Management Annual Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, September 2007 in ARCOM Twenty-Third Annual Conference 2007 September 3-5 Belfast, ed Boyd, D, ARCOM Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Reading, UK, pp. 851-860.
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Ding, G.K. 2006, 'Assessing environmental performance of housings in Australia - A BASIX approach', International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) Meetings, Workshops, Symposia, Conferences, Hong Kong, April 2006 in BEAR Construction Sustainability and Innovation 2006 CIB W89 - International Conference on Building Education and Research, ed Baldwin, A. Hui, E. Wong, F., Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, pp. 1-124.
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Ding, G.K. 2006, 'Towards sustainable construction - Implementing sustainability education at university level', Australian Universities Building Education Association Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia, July 2006 in AUBEA 2006 Conference Proceedings, ed Runeson, G. Best, R., Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, pp. 1-72.
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Ding, G.K. 2004, 'The development of a multi-criteria approach for the measurement of sustainable performance of Housing Projects', IAHS World Housing Congress, Sustainability of the Housing Projects, Trento, Italy, September 2004 in XXXII IAHS World Housing Congress, Sustainability of the Housing Projects, ed Professor Ural, O., Professor Frattari, A. and Dr. Albatici, R., University of Trento, Italy, Trento, Italy, pp. 1-10.
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