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Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE)

Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE)

Faculty members

  • Hashem Akbari
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
  • Ciprian Alecsandru
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Traffic operations and control, Traffic simulation, Intelligent transportation systems, Artificial intelligence applications in transportation, Transportation Engineering and Design
  • Luis Amador Jimenez
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Pavement Engineering Road Asset Management Systems Road Safety and Highway Planning Land Use and Transport Modeling Trip Generation and Parking Rates
  • Chunjiang An
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Concordia University Research Chair in Spill Response and Remediation
    Solid Waste Composting and Digestion, Waste Utilization and Resource Recovery, Advanced Physiochemical and Biological Treatment, Contaminant Transport in Multiphase, Environmental Risk Assessment and Management, Synchrotron-Assisted Environmental Process Analysis, Surface Water and Groundwater Quality, Environmental Sustainability
  • Andreas K Athienitis
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    (Director, Concordia Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies (EV 15.101))
    Solar Energy Engineering, Energy Efficiency, Renewable energy, energy efficiency. Integrated photovoltaics/solar energy utilization systems, Modeling, optimization and control of building thermal systems, Heating ventilation air-conditioning (HVAC), Numerical simulation of heat transfer, Thermal performance of the building envelope,
  • Ashutosh Bagchi
    Professor & Chair, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Structural Engineering, Structural dynamics and earthquake Engineering, Rehabilitation and structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure, Reinforced concrete structures, Finite and boundary element methods, Computer aided design and engineering / Information technology
  • Anjan Bhowmick
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Structural Engineering, Seismic design and analysis of steel and reinforced concrete structures, Bridge Engineering, Seismic rehabilitation of steel structures, Fatigue of steel structures, Connections of steel structures
  • Po-Han Chen
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, Image Recognition, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) Applications, Optimization of Construction Operations
  • Zhi Chen
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Environmental Engineering, Modeling of pollutant’s fate and transport in the environment, Risk assessment, air pollution, and environmental application of systems analysis and information technology, Pollution control planning, Management of soil and groundwater contamination, and coastal environmental protection.
  • Rebecca Dziedzic
    Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Asset Management, Water System Sustainability, Infrastructure Resilience
  • Ursula Eicker
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Urban energy systems, 3D City modeling, Urban data and simulation platform development, Renewable energies, Zero Carbon Cities, Demand response and flexibility, District and solar heating and cooling networks, sustainable transport
  • Maria Elektorowicz
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Environmental Engineering, Bio-physico-chemical interaction phenomena in soil/groundwater/contaminant matrix, Biosolids management, Site assessment & remediation - biological, physical and chemical techniques, Modelling of contaminant transport in water, sediments and biota, Management for Acid Sulfate Soils, Waste disposal facilities - landfill, recycling, and recovery
  • Emre Erkmen
    Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Computational Mechanics, Finite Element Method, Mesh-free Methods, Extended Finite Element Method, Multi-scale Analysis, Nonlinear Structural Mechanics, Thin-walled and Composite Structures, Structural Stability and Dynamics.
  • Khaled E. Galal
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Structural Engineering, Seismic rehabilitation of reinforced concrete and masonry structures, Applications of advanced composite materials in upgrading of structures, Performance-based design of structures, Modeling of building structures and bridges, Earthquake engineering and structural dynamics
  • Hua Ge
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    wind-driven rain, hygrothermal performance of building envelopes, advanced building facades, innovative & durable wood-frame construction, low-energy buildings
  • Kinh H. Ha
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Structural Engineering, Structural systems, Finite element analysis, Structural mechanics, Computer aided design
  • Caroline Hachem-Vermette
    Full-time faculty, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Net zero energy buildings and neighborhoods, climate resilient neighborhoods and urban areas, advanced building envelope for high rise buildings, renewable energy systems, sustainable developments
  • Ghazanfarah (Farah) Hafeez
    Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Retrofitting of heritage timber buildings, Seismic behaviour of log shear walls, Dynamic behaviour of mass timber buildings
  • Fariborz Haghighat
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Concordia Research Chair - Energy and Environment (Tier I)
    Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation, Building material characterization, Modeling of airflow and contaminant dispersal, Indoor air environmental control strategies, Measurement techniques for airflow and indoor Air Quality, Advanced ventilation technologies (Hybrid ventilation)
  • Sang Hyeok Han
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
  • Adel M. Hanna
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Geotechnical Engineering, Soil-structure interaction, Bearing and uplift capacities of pile foundations, Pull-out capacity of plate and helical anchors, Performance of shell type foundations, Performance of subgrade and pavement materials in highways
  • Jassim Hassan
    Senior Lecturer, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Structural engineering, Structural analysis, Finite element modelling and analysis, Structural mechanics, Structural elastic stability, Structural dynamics, Earthquake engineering, Tall buildings, Bridges, Reinforced and Prestressed concrete slab analysis and design, Precast concrete structures.
  • Shahin Karimidorabati
    Lecturer, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
  • Bruno Lee
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Building Energy Performance Assessment, Computational Simulation, Integrated Building Design, Energy Efficiency, Robust Performance Systems, Sustainable Design Criteria
  • Joonhee Lee
    Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    HVAC Noise,Room Acoustics Simulation/Reproduction, Noise Prediction, Noise-induced Perception, Acoustic measurement, Psychoacoustics, Sound Quality, Acoustic Data Mining
  • Biao Li
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Soil mechanics, Frozen soil, Rock mechanics, Constitutive modeling, Energy and Environmental Geomechanics, Finite element modeling, Thermal-hydro-mechanical coupling, Soil-structure interaction
  • S. Samuel Li
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Water resources en, Sediment transport in gravel-bed rivers and river erosion, Computational methods in river hydraulics and density-stratified flow, Pollutant transport and turbulent mixing in shallow waters, Water-ice interaction, Drainage engineering, Coastal hydraulic
  • Yunping Liang
    Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Infrastructure Investment, Construction Analytics, Sustainability & Resilience in Infrastructure System, Engineering Decision-Making, Construction Management and Economics, Project Delivery System, Project Finance
  • Lan Lin
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Structural Engineering, Seismic performance of buildings and bridges, Performance-based earthquake engineering, Development of seismic fragility curves for buildings and bridges, Development of improved intensity measures for probabilistic seismic, demand analysis, Seismic risk assessment using HAZUS-MH, Characterization of seismic ground motions
  • Osama Moselhi
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Construction Engineering and Management, Integrated cost and time control & project risk assessment, Planning, tracking and control of construction operations, Web-based project performance system, Optimization model for site selection and evaluation
  • Catherine Mulligan
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Concordia Research Chair in Geoenvironmental Sustainability (Tier I)
    Environmental Engineering, Surfactant-enhanced washing and flushing of contaminated soils and sediments, Treatment and management of metal-contaminated soils, sediments and wastes, Bioremediation, Physical, chemical and biological treatment of wastewater, Biological treatment of air.
  • Fuzhan Nasiri
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Facilities Management; Environmental Engineering; Energy Systems Engineering; Risk, Resilience & Reliability Analysis; Critical Infrastructure Management; Smart & Sustainable Cities & Communities; Life Cycle Analysis
  • Ali Nazemi
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Hydrology, water security and climate change, coupled human-water systems, mathematical modeling and algorithm development
  • Mazdak Nik-Bakht
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Construction Engineering & Management Infrastructure Management
  • Michelle Nokken
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Concrete Durability, Improvement of Durability Test Methods, Rapid Quality Control Testing, Cemented Mine Backfill
  • Mohamed Ouf
    Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    • Occupant Behaviour Modelling In Building Simulations • Building Performance Optimization • Occupant-Centric Building Controls • Data-Mining and Machine Learning for Building Operations • Net-Zero Energy Buildings
  • Ahmed Soliman
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    construction materials, nano-technology, green and smart materials, stimuli-responsive materials
  • Theodore (Ted) Stathopoulos
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Wind Engineering, Wind effects on buildings & building aerodynamics, Wind environment, Dispersion of pollutants in the urban environment, Computational wind engineering, Codification of wind effects
  • Lucia Tirca
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Structural Engineering, Design Buildings to Withstand Seismic Forces, Design Steel Structures with Different Dissipation Devices, Seismic Retrofit and Rehabilitation of Existing Steel Structures, Resilience Based Design Modeling of Steel Structures
  • Liangzhu (Leon) Wang
    Full Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Building Environment, Forecasting/Hybrid building simulations using weather forecasting models, Building airflow and thermal management, Real-time building simulations
  • Mohammed Zaheeruddin
    Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    HVAC and Control Systems, Decentralized and Multivariable controls, Optimization of HVAC processes, Experimental Methods in HVAC Controls, Computer-Aided Design of HVAC Systems, Diagnostics of HVAC Systems
  • Radu Grigore Zmeureanu
    Professor, ing., PhD., Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Energy Efficiency, Design and analysis of energy-efficient buildings, Sustainable development concept applied to buildings, Second law analysis of HVAC systems, Optimization of life cycle performance of buildings and HVAC systems, Computer modelling of energy performance of buildings and HVAC systems, Computer modelling of refrigeration systems for ice rinks, Net zero energy houses,
  • Attila Michael Zsaki
    Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
    Rock mechanics. Computational geomechanics. Continuum and discontinuum mechanics. Scientific computing. Geometric modeling.

 
Full-Time Faculty (non research)

Part-Time Faculty (non research)

 
  • Annamaria Buonomano
  • Jose Candanedo
  • Abhishek Gaur
  • Michael Lacasse
  • Fereshteh Mafakheri
  • William O'Brien
  • Rajinukanth Rajagopal
  • Zeyu Yang
  • Laleh Yerushalmi

*Last Updated: October 2022

 
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