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Friday, December 14, 2018

Carleton DCI Project update slides

Please click here for an overview of recent updates. We're pleased to announce that Shawn Shi and Aly Abdelalim, recent PhD graduates from DCI, are gainfully employed as a professor and researcher,... More

Friday, December 14, 2018

Check out Autodesk’s Dasher 360 tool!

Following the innovation of Project Dasher, Dasher 360 is the latest version of Autodesk's project that provides beautiful data visualization on top of 3D building models.... More

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Prof. Liam O’Brien presented DCI and related research to ASHRAE Ottawa Valley Chapter

In November 2016, Prof. Liam O'Brien presented the DCI project and related research to about 100 building and HVAC professionals in the Ottawa area. The full slide deck can be downloaded... More

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Ramtin Attar presented DCI at the AIC BIM Academic Symposium in Boston

On April 3-4, 2017, Ramtin shared the latest updates of DCI in Boston at the AIC BIM Academic Symposium (https://www.bcn.ufl.edu/cacim/conferences/bimeducation2017/). The full slide deck can be found here: DCI - AiC BIM Symposium... More

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Aly Abdelalim successfully defended his PhD thesis

Congratulations, Aly! His thesis, titled A multi-scale approach to exploiting measured and modelled building performance data to improve campus operations was focused on developing workflows to visualize energy flows in campuses, buildings, and building systems. In all, Aly submitted or published four journal articles, several conference papers,... More

Saturday, June 25, 2016

Aly Abdelalim is testing the effectiveness of Sankey diagrams

In order to assess the effectiveness of Sankey diagrams to represent energy flows through buildings, PhD candidate Aly Abdelalim is performing an online... More

Friday, February 26, 2016

Carleton workshop profiled in CanBIM newsletter

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Sunday, November 8, 2015

DCI Website updated with new videos of BIM flythroughts

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Sunday, November 8, 2015

DCI Project awarded NSERC Connect III grant to host national workshop

A grant proposal led by Profs. O'Brien and Fai and Ramtin Attar (Autodesk) to host a nation-wide workshop on sustainable campus management was awarded. The workshop will occur on January 11 and 12, 2016 and is by invitation only. It will occur in the CIMS Lab at Carleton... More

Friday, May 8, 2015

Shawn Shi wins 1st place in poster competition for Data Day

More details here: http://newsroom.carleton.ca/2015/04/01/carleton-university-launches-institute-for-data-science-that-showcases-all-faculties/ The poster can be found here.... More

Monday, March 30, 2015

Visit from Xavier Prats Monné: Director-general for Education and Culture at the European Commission

Xavier Prats Monné, Director-general for Education and Culture at the European Commission, visited CIMS Lab to learn more about Digital Campus Project and explore potential cross-Atlantic collaboration opportunities involving sustainable communities. ... More