Faculty Profile

Sazdik Ahmed

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Architecture, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801722443733
  • Email: sazdik-arc@sust.edu, saz.rki@gmail.com

Biography

Born in Natore, Bangladesh. Sazdik completed his S.S.C under Rajshahi Board and H.S.C. under Dhaka Board. Received his B.Arch. degree in 2013 from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet. He started his career as an Assistant Architect at Design Lab Architects, Dhaka. After one year of active professional practice, he started working in the capacity of a lecturer at the Department of Architecture, Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, Dinajpur. After serving HSTU for more than two years he joined SUST. Currently, he is engaged in active teaching at the Dept. of Architecture in SUST, Sylhet, Bangladesh portraying the role of an Assistant Professor.

Education

  • Master of Urban Design (MUD) (2021-22): The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) (2013): Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet
  • Higher Secondary School Certificate (2008): Notre Dame College, Dhaka
  • Secondary School Certificate (2006): Natore Sugar Mills High School, Natore

Research Interests

  • Urban Design and Planning
  • Building Conservation
  • Architectural Heritage
  • Vernacular Architecture and Settlements
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Green Architecture & Sustainability

Previous Research Project

  • 1. Planning for the New Normal: Design Strategies for a Post-Pandemic (COVID-19) Emerging Lifestyle and Built Form
  • 2. Risk assessment of fire safety in mixed-use high-rise buildings in Sylhet city in terms of building position, height, means of egress and size, shape and orientation of atrium

External Affiliations

  • Member, Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), London
  • Associate Member, Institute of Architects Bangladesh (IAB)
  • Member, Center for Research, Testing and Consultancy - SUST

Journal Publications

  • 1. Ravhee, S.S. and Ahmed, S. (2024), "Understanding historic buildings from an environmental perspective: Finsbury Health Centre – as an environmental rhetoric of modernism", Archnet-IJAR, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-10-2023-0273
  • 2. Abu Towab Md Shahriar, S.M. Naeem Hossain Mithun, Dipa Saha, Sazdik Ahmed, Designing architectural continuity in a historic urban quarter of Dinajpur, Bangladesh, Frontiers of Architectural Research, Volume 12, Issue 5, 2023, Pages 803-819, ISSN 2095-2635, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2023.05.001.
  • 3. Ahmed, Sazdik, and Siddharth Khakhar. “Adaptive Flood Resilient City Design Strategies: An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Flooding on Street Network of Dhaka City.” Urbanie & Urbanus - Resilient Cities, no. 7, pp. 40–54, https://doi.org/10.55412/07.03.
  • 4. Sazdik Ahmed, Md Arifur Rahman, Shahla Safwat Ravhee: An Exploratory Study on Fire Safety in High-Rise Buildings with Mixed Occupancy in Urban Areas: Case of Sylhet City, Bangladesh, 2021; 11(1): 11-21 doi:10.5923/j.arch.20211101.02
  • 5. Ahmed, S., Ravhee, S. and Adnan, S., 2020. A Study on the Settlement Morphology of Tipra ethnic group in Sreemangal, Bangladesh. MAT Journals, 5(1), 22-30. e-ISSN: 2581-9046, Available in: https://rb.gy/94wyd3
  • 6. Zannat Ara Dilshad Shangi, Md. Imtiaz Ahmad, Sazdik Ahmed (2020) Adaptive Design of the Built Environment to Mitigate the Transmission Risk of COVID-19. American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2020, Vol. 8, No. 4, 146-153; DOI:10.12691/ajcea-8-4-3
  • 7. Dipa Saha, Sazdik Ahmed, Abu Towab Md. Shahriar, S. M. Naeem Hossain Mithun, A Journey through the History: Introduction to Heritage Tourism and Tourist Trails for the Renewal of Old Dhaka, American Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, 2017, 5(3), 98-107, DOI: 10.12691/ajcea-5-3-4
  • 8. Dipa Saha, Sazdik Ahmed, Abu Towab Md. Shahriar, S. M. Naeem Hossain Mithun, North-South vs East-West: The Impact of Orientation in Daylighting Design for Educational Buildings in Bangladesh, Architecture Research, Vol. 7 No. 4, 2017, pp. 184-189. doi: 10.5923/j.arch.20170704.06

Conference

  • 1. A. T. M. SHAHRIAR, S. M. N. H. MITHUN, D. SAHA, S.AHMED, 2017, Identifying the Morphological Transformations of the Old Core of Dinajpur City for Preservation, Proceedings of International Conference on Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Rajshahi: Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh, Available in: https://rb.gy/0racdv

Teaching

  • Art & Architecture
  • Design Theory I-II
  • Construction Methods and Details
  • Design Studio I-VIII
  • Architectural Graphics I-II
  • Computer Application I-II
  • Architectural Conservation
  • Photography
  • Landscape Design
  • Housing
  • Professional Practice
  • Bengal Architecture
  • Graphic Art and Sculpture

Awards & Recognition

  • Junior and Higher Secondary School Level Scholarship
  • CPD Courses on DMBCR 2008, Fire Safety and BNBC by IAB
  • Workshop on Fire Safety Building Design at BUET
  • Award for COVID-19 Detection Lab Design at SUST
  • LEED Certification - green Building Basics training
  • Master's Degree with Distinction

Graduate Supervision

  • 1. Supervised 04 Undergraduate B.Arch Thesis Projects