On July 26, 2019, Minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Catherine McKenna, was at Carleton to announce $3.5M in federal funding for BPRC projects through NRCan.
Dr. Cynthia Cruickshank – CU-CABER – Advanced Building Envelope Technologies for Net-Zero Construction and Retrofit in Canada’s Residential and Commercial Sectors:
This project will construct new large-scale building envelope research equipment, and use that infrastructure to conceive, prototype, evaluate and optimize technical innovations that cut heat loss in housing and buildings by 65% or more, and reduce costs. NRCan contributed $3 million to the project (Energy Innovation Program).
Dr. Burak Gunay (with Dr. Liam O’Brien and Dr. Scott Bucking) — Next Generation Actionable Building Energy Performance Metrics, Data Analytics, and Visualization: An Open-Source Platform:
This project will develop a prototype software tool that leverages existing data sources in buildings in innovative ways to provide actionable information to facility and energy managers on how to significantly reduce energy consumption. NRCan contributed $510 K to the project (Green Infrastructure Program).