Omar Al-Hassawi

Dr. Omar Al-Hassawi has seven years of professional experience working on architectural design projects across the Middle East as well as 10 years of teaching experience in the U.S. Omar’s academic achievements have been nationally recognized by the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) who awarded him with the 2021 AIAS/ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award. Students working with Omar have received several prestigious awards in student design competitions, namely the AIA Committee on the Environment Top Ten Design Competition and the Timber in the City Design Competition.

Dr. Al-Hassawi conducts research in two primary areas which are advancing the performance of passive and low-energy environmental control systems as well as workforce development in high-performing energy-efficient buildings. Omar is the Primary Investigator on a federal grant funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) which is being used to launch two new certificate programs and one new graduate degree program in Energy Conscious Construction (ECC). Under Omar’s leadership, the ECC certificates and degree programs have recently received the U.S. DOE Zero Energy Design Designation.