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Tuesday, August 7, 2018

International PhD student tuition reduced to domestic rates starting for new students in September 2018

I'm pleased to report that Carleton is now offering bursaries such that international PhD students starting in September 2018 and beyond will only pay domestic rates (a ~60% reduction). The HBI Lab is always accepting PhD applications. However, positions are competitive and interested applicants should send a copy of all transcripts as well as... More

Monday, July 2, 2018

Justin Berquist won best paper award at the ASHRAE summer conference

Former MASc student Justin Berquist won best student paper award for his paper titled "A Quantitative Model-Based Fault Detection and Diagnostics (FDD) System for Zone-Level Inefficiencies". Justin now works at National Research... More

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Tareq Abuimara wins OGS

Tareq Abuimara (supervised by Profs. Gunay and O'Brien) won an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, valued at $15-thousand, to help support his PhD... More

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Prof. Liam O’Brien will deliver the keynote at eSim 2018 in Montreal

The keynote focused on the major NRCan-funded occupant modelling project that HBI Lab has been working on for the past... More

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Haily Fernald awarded ASHRAE Grant-in-aid

Haily is a PhD supervised by Prof. Scott Bucking and Liam O'Brien. This prestigious award, valued at US$10,000 supports PhD students and travel to an ASHRAE... More

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Jayson Bursill and Tareq Abuimara awarded IBPSA-Canada student travel awards to attend eSim

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Monday, February 5, 2018

Dr. Mohamed Ouf’s article on occupant modelling and code compliance appeared in ASHRAE Journal Feb. 2018

This article identifies some of the loopholes in current building codes and standards with regards to occupant modelling. The result is that we need more stringent requirements on occupant modelling assumptions. Full article... More

Sunday, November 5, 2017

NZEB textbook translated to Chinese

Two years after it was published in English, the book that Prof. O'Brien co-edited with Prof. Andreas Athienitis has been translated into Chinese. The book is called Modeling, Design, and Optimization of Net-Zero Energy... More

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Prof. Liam O’Brien’s book on building occupant behaviour research methods now in print

Prof. O'Brien and two international colleagues have co-edited a textbook titled Exploring Occupant Behavior in Buildings, with topics ranging from sensing devices to research ethics. Several of the book chapters were co-authored by Prof. O'Brien's former PhD students, Burak Gunay (now assistant professor at Carleton) and Sara Gilani (now a... More

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Prof. O’Brien wins the Ontario Building Envelope Council Rising Star Award

This biennially award recognizes individuals that demonstrate exceptional knowledge of the design, construction and performance of the building envelope. More information cab be found... More

Thursday, September 14, 2017

HBI Lab wins major contract with NRCan to explore code and standard implications of occupants

The HBI Lab successfully won a project in the NRCan EIP program to investigate practical aspects of occupant modelling for building design and code compliance. The project is led by Liam O'Brien, Burak Gunay, and Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, in partnership with RWDI, Autodesk, NRC, and NRCan. HBI Lab is pleased to keep recent PhD grads... More