PhD Candidate, Institute of Sustainable Development and Architecture, Bond
University, Gold Coast, Australia 

Cert. Environment and Sustainable Development, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan
(2003) 

M.Sc. Urban Development Planning and Environmental Management, Asian Institute of
Technology, Bangkok, Thailand (1998) 

B.Sc. in Architecture University of San Carlos, Cebu City, Philippines (1991) 

Sheila is currently studying as a full time PhD Candidate. Her research focus is on urban
conservation, heritage conservation, adaptive reuse, urban planning, sustainable
development and architecture related topics. She has been a licensed and practicing
Architect and Urban Planner in the Philippines since 1993. She managed to be active in
both industry and academic fields; she has worked as an Assistant Professor at the
University of the Philippines- School of Urban and Regional Planning (1999) and also
worked as a planning consultant in Cebu City, Philippines. She has worked as a Research
Fellow under the Japan Government REDP-B grant in 1998 and as the United Nations Centre
for Human Settlements - National Consultant to Cebu City for the Agenda 21+5 in 2000.

Articles

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AdaptSTAR model: A climate-friendly strategy to promote built environment sustainability (with Craig Langston and Jim Smith), Habitat international (2012)

Building adaptive reuse plays a critical role in emissions reduction and supports global climate protection....

 

Designing for future buildings: Adaptive resuse as a strategy for carbon neutral cities (with Craig Langston and Jim Smith), The international journal of climate change: Impacts and responses (2012)

Adapting existing buildings is a viable alternative to demolition and replacement in order to mitigate...

 

Conference Papers

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Improving the implementation of adaptive reuse strategies for historic buildings (with Craig Langston and Jim Smith), Le Vie dei Mercanti S.A.V.E. HERITAGE: Safeguard of Architectural, Visual, Environmental Heritage (2011)

Meeting the current needs of existing buildings and the designing of new buildings to ensure...

 

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Designing for future building adaptive reuse using adaptSTAR (with Craig Langston), International Conference on Sustainable Urbanization: ICSU 2010 (2010)

Designing future buildings with embedded adaptive reuse potential is a useful criterion for sustainability. Adaptive...