Researchers & Students

CZEBS members have expertise in the following areas: HVAC Systems, Energy Efficiency, Low Energy Buildings, Building Envelope Performance, Solar Energy, Thermal Storage, Advanced Daylighting, Building File Safety, Wind Engineering, Wind-Building Interaction and Thermal Comfort.

Members

Many of the members listed below have collaborated in the Centre for Building Studies, in the NSERC Solar Buildings Strategic Research Network (SBRN) and its successful successor network – the NSERC Smart Net-zero Energy Buildings Strategic Research Network (SNEBRN).

Athienitis, Andreas K
- Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
andreask.athienitis@concordia.ca

Status: Director, Concordia Centre for Zero Energy Building Studies (EV 15.101)

Research areas: 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,
Stathopoulos, Theodore (Ted)
- Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
theodore.stathopoulos@concordia.ca

Research areas: Wind Engineering, Wind effects on buildings & building aerodynamics, Wind environment, Dispersion of pollutants in the urban environment, Computational wind engineering, Codification of wind effects
Zmeureanu, Radu Grigore
- Professor, ing., PhD., Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
radu.zmeureanu@concordia.ca

Research areas: 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,
Wang, Liangzhu (Leon)
- Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
leon.wang@concordia.ca

Research areas: Building Environment, Forecasting/Hybrid building simulations using weather forecasting models, Building airflow and thermal management, Real-time building simulations
Ge, Hua
- Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
hua.ge@concordia.ca

Research areas: wind-driven rain, hygrothermal performance of building envelopes, advanced building facades, innovative & durable wood-frame construction, low-energy buildings
Lee, Bruno
- Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
bruno.lee@concordia.ca

Research areas: Building Energy Performance Assessment, Computational Simulation, Integrated Building Design, Energy Efficiency, Robust Performance Systems, Sustainable Design Criteria
Candanedo, José Agustín
- Affiliate Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
jose.candanedo@concordia.ca

Status: Research Scientist, CanmetENERGY-Varennes

Research areas: Predictive control for buildings, development of control-oriented models, modeling complexity in building simulation, control of thermal energy storage, load management in buildings, building-integrated renewables, building-grid interaction
Ouf, Mohamed
- Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
mohamed.ouf@concordia.ca

Research areas: • 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

Associate Members

Associate members are researchers with expertise in a related specialized area such as Stochastic Risk Analysis, Energy Modeling & Optimization, Energy Storage, Turbulence, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Vortex Dynamics.

Caroline Hachem-Vermette
- Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
caroline.hachemvermette@concordia.ca

Research areas: Net zero energy buildings and neighborhoods, climate resilient neighborhoods and urban areas, advanced building envelope for high rise buildings, renewable energy systems, sustainable developments
Ursula Eicker
- Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
ursula.eicker@concordia.ca

Research areas: 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
Ashutosh Bagchi
- Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
ashutosh.bagchi@concordia.ca

Research areas: 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
Biao Li
- Associate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
biao.li@concordia.ca

Research areas: Soil mechanics, Frozen soil, Rock mechanics, Constitutive modeling, Energy and Environmental Geomechanics, Finite element modeling, Thermal-hydro-mechanical coupling, Soil-structure interaction
Marius Paraschivoiu
- Professor, Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering
- Vice-Provost, Planning and Student Experience
marius.paraschivoiu@concordia.ca

Research areas: Computational fluid dynamics; finite element methods for fluid simulations; aerodynamic simulations; wind energy; acoustic simulations; parallel computing; turbulence modeling.
Xianming Zhang
- Co-director, Centre for Research in Molecular Modeling
- Cross-appointed faculty member, Geography, Planning and Environment
- Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
xianming.zhang@concordia.ca

Status: positions available for graduate studies and undergraduate research

Research areas: Organic Contaminants in the Environment; Analytical Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Modeling; Chemical Exposure and Risk Assessment; Chemical Management and Regulation
Carmela Cucuzzella
- Professor, Design and Computation Arts
- Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design And Sustainability for the Built Environment (IDEAS-BE)
- Founding Co-Director, Next Generation Cities Institute
Carmela.Cucuzzella@concordia.ca

Research areas: design studies, sustainability studies, architecture studies, built environment, cities, eco-design, eco-architecture, public space design, architecture competitions, teaching buildings, sustainability assessment tools, complex dynamic systems
Annamaria Buonomano
- Affiliate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering
annamaria.buonomano@concordia.ca

Status: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Unviersity of Naples Federico II, Italy

Research areas: Modeling, simulation and optimization of innovative building-plant systems, advanced building integrated envelope techniques, net zero energy buildings, renewable energies and innovative HVAC systems, including solar heating and cooling systems, photovoltaic solar thermal systems, polygeneration.

Yuxiang Chen
Associate member, CZEBS

ychen5@ualberta.ca

Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta.

Resource-efficient buildings and greenhouses, focusing on thermal energy storage, utilization of renewable energy, prefabrication, and their intelligent and integrated design and operation.

Dahai Qi

Associate member, CZEBS

Dahai.Qi@USherbrooke.ca

Associate Professor at department of Civil and Building Engineering, Université de Sherbrooke.

Expertise: Building fire and smoke control, BIPV and PV fire safety, wildfire and its impact on building ventilation, resilient building technologies to mitigate the impact of climate changes on buildings.

Katherine D’Avignon
Affiliate Assistant Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering

katherine.davignon@etsmtl.ca

Assistant Professor, Département de génie de la construction, École de technologie supérieure.

Efficacité énergétique des bâtiments; systèmes de chauffage, ventilation et conditionnement de l'air; confort thermique; stockage thermique

Michael A . Lacasse

Affiliate Professor, Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering

National Research Council Canada, Construction Research Centre, Director (Acting) Building Envelope and Materials

Michael.Lacasse@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Dr. Michael A. Lacasse is a senior research officer in the Construction Research Center of the National Research Council Canada (NRC-CRC) having over 25 years’ experience as a building engineer. His current role within the NRC-CRC is Director.

Benoit Delcroix
Affiliate Member, CZEBS

Senior Researcher, Laboratoire des technologies de l'énergie, Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec

delcroix.benoit@hydroquebec.com

Expertise: Building Energy Modelling & Simulation; Building Stock Modelling; Data-Driven Methods; Demand Response & Flexibility.

Hervé F. Nouanegue
Affiliate Member, CZEBS

Research Scientist, Laboratoire des technologies de l'énergie, Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec

nouanegue.hervefrank@hydroquebec.com

Scientific expertise: optimizing the control of mechanical systems in building; energy efficiency in buildings; integration of distributed energy resources in building.