Key takeaways from the MIBS Spotlight Lunch Talk with Dr. Forrest Meggers
Entitled "The uncomfortable truth about comfort", Dr. Forrest Meggers gave us a first-hand understanding of how he seeks to influence practice through his research and "get your hands dirty" testing and prototyping projects.
Dr. Forrest Meggers is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University. He was previously in Singapore as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Architecture at the National University of Singapore where he had traveled initially as a senior researcher and research module coordinator in the Singapore-ETH Centre’s Future Cities Laboratory. He has degrees from Mechanical Engineering (BSE), Environmental Engineering (MS), and Architecture (Dr sc.). He received his PhD in ITA at the ETH Zurich. He also directed research on sustainable systems for the president of the ETH Board. His fields of knowledge include building systems design and integration; sustainable systems; renewable energy; optimization of energy systems; exergy analysis; geothermal; seasonal energy storage; low temp hybrid solar; building materials; thermodynamics and heat transfer; and heat pumps.
We were very pleased to have Dr Forrest Meggers from Princeton University give an entertaining presentation to our students on 24 February 2025, where he humorously took us on a photo tour around the world, from Iowa to ETH Zurich to Singapore to Princeton University in New Jersey, USA.
In this informal presentation, Forrest also broke down for us the complexities of understanding comfort in the built environment and the challenges that lie ahead in creating comfort from a human-centred perspective.
For more information on the work of Dr. Forrest Meggers, please see his research on external page Google Scholar.