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Sunday, May 18, 2025

HBI Lab published a major report on energy/emissions associated with telework

In partnership with three government departments--PSPC, CRA, and TBS--we quantified the energy and emissions impact of various telework and hybrid work models. The report can be found here:... More

Sunday, May 18, 2025

Prof. O’Brien is co-leading new IEA project: Human-Centric Buildings for a Changing Climate

More details can be found here:... More

Friday, May 8, 2020

Congrats to Dr. Jayson Bursill and Adrian Soble for successful thesis defences

The HBI Lab congratulates Dr. Jayson Bursill and Mr. Adrian Soble for successfully defending their PhD and MASc thesis, respectively. They have successfully secured jobs (long before graduation). We wish them all the... More

Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Hannah Villeneuve, second year Enviro Eng student, publishes journal article on text-mining Airbnb reviews

Congrats to second-year undergraduate environmental engineering student, Hannah Villeneuve, for publishing her first journal article. She developed custom code to text-mine 1.35-million Airbnb reviews to identify patterns and trends for discomfort in homes. Among other things, she showed that reviews with comfort complaints are associated with... More

Thursday, July 18, 2019

Shengbo Zhang wins RDH Scholarship

Shengbo Zhang won an RDH Scholarship! He will be receiving a $3,000 scholarship for his research related to “Assessing Window Design Strategies for Thermal Comfort”. Shengbo is an MASc student at University of Toronto, who is co-supervised by Marianne Touchie and Liam... More

Friday, May 10, 2019

Our NSERC Strategic Project Grant has been funded

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Saturday, April 27, 2019

Brent Huchuk’s work was featured in Corporate Knights magazine

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Saturday, April 27, 2019

Brent Huchuk and Tareq Abuimara were awarded ASHRAE Grant-in-aid awards

They are the fifth and sixth students of the HBI Lab to be awarded this US$11,500... More

Friday, March 29, 2019

Congratulatations to Tareq Abuimara for getting the NSERC PGS D scholarship!

Tareq Abuimara, a PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Gunay and Prof. O'Brien, is working on occupant modelling for building design practice. He won this prestigious award, along with an Ontario Graduate... More

Monday, October 29, 2018

The HBI Lab hosted the first Experts Meeting of IEA EBC Annex 79 and the OB-18 Symposium

Liam O'Brien, Burak Gunay, and grad students/post-docs hosted the inaugural meeting for Annex 79 at Orange Art Gallery in Ottawa. More information on Annex 79 can be found on the... More

Friday, October 5, 2018

Dr. Aly Abdelalim’s Sankey diagrams won several awards

IBPSA's Project STASIO had a data visualization design competition. HBI Lab alumnus, Dr. Abdelalim, won Honorable Mention and People's Choice Award. Thank you to Autodesk and NSERC for supporting this research. The entry is... More

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Ouf for best paper award at IBPC 2018

Dr. Mohamed Ouf won a best paper award in Syracuse, NY at the International Building Physics Conference 2018. His paper is titled: Generating design-sensitive occupant-related schedules for building performance... More

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