Amar Bennadji

Amar was invited to join Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen, Netherlands, and welcomed the offer and joined the university in 2022.

Amar Bennadji is an architect-engineer with over 30 years of experience in the Sustainable Built Environment. His research expertise is cumulated through extensive research and consultancy projects in partnership with private and public sectors.

Amar has also extensive teaching experience and holds a British “Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, SFHEA”. His research was acknowledged through many awards such as the “International Research & Innovation Award” from the British Chartered Institute of Buildings-CIOB, The Scottish Energy Efficiency Award, The “Housing Award” from Saltire Award in Scotland, the Academic Award from Tokyo Design Festival. Amar was a consultant for the French entry of Solar Decathlon 2019 where the entry won 1st place.

Professor Bennadji sits on many journals’ editorial boards and review committees from where he received recognition as the reviewer of the year (i.e: Emerald Journal 2021).

Believing in continuous professional development, Amar recently completed an EU Passivhaus Certification, USA Eco-district Certification, and Leadership & Management level 3 from the British Institute of Leadership and Management, ILP.

Prior to Joining the Hanze University of Applied Science, Prof. Bennadji started his career as an Architect-Engineer (1992). His interest in existing buildings and the environment led him to undertake studies in both fields, so he completed a first Master’s in civilizations, followed by a second in Bio-climatic Architecture. Interested in the indoor environment, his civilizations Master’s thesis addressed the design of Medieval hospitals “Bimaristan”, and how their healthy indoor environment was achieved. His Bioclimatic Master covered the interaction of buildings with the external environment. His PhD thesis merged the 2 topics to question the “Culture” and the “Environment” influence in the architectural and urban creation.

His interest in Digital Media led him to explore the environmental digital tools in assessing buildings, addressing their energy efficiency, and developing decision-making tools as part of his Postdoctoral research project.

Amar kept feeding his research into his teaching where he took part in or led the development of many courses and occupied various positions from Assistant-Professor to Visiting-Professor prior to joining the Hanze University of Applied Science.