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Friday, June 24, 2016

Prof. O’Brien presented at the Big Data for the Built Environment Workshop

Liam O'Brien presented to about 50 experts from across the country at a big data workshop at Ryerson University (http://www.bdbe-network.org/). His slides are... More

Friday, June 24, 2016

Carleton is hosting OB-16 and the fourth experts meeting of IEA EBC Annex 66

Carleton is hosting an international symposium and meeting on occupant behaviour research. Many of the world's leading experts will be attending. Details... More

Friday, June 17, 2016

Digital Campus project covered in CanBIM Newsletter

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Friday, April 8, 2016

Isis Bennet wins an Ontario Graduate Scholarship

Congratulations to Isis for winning a prestigious OGS award. Isis is researching methods to reduce plug and lighting loads in a large office building in Ottawa and has been working for HBI Lab since 2013 on various building performance and occupant behaviour... More

Friday, April 8, 2016

Zixiao Shi wins IBPSA-Canada Travel Award

Congratulations to Zixiao for winning an IBPSA-Canada travel award to attend eSim 2016 in... More

Monday, February 15, 2016

Sara Gilani wins ASHRAE Grant-in-aid Award

Congratulations to Sara Gilani, who won ASHRAE's prestigious $10,000 Grant-in-aid award. The award will allow Sara to continue her research on occupant behaviour monitoring, modelling, and simulation in buildings. It will also cover her travel expenses to present her work at an upcoming ASHRAE... More

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Burak Gunay won Best Paper Award at Building Simulation Conference 2015

Burak Gunay at al. won best paper award at the Building Simulation 2015 Conference in India. His paper looks at the fundamentals of modelling occupants and will be a great resource for new researchers in the field. Congratulations,... More

Monday, October 26, 2015

Prof. O’Brien featured in Research Works

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

HBI Lab receives NSERC funding to host workshop on campus energy management

HBI Lab has received $25-thousand from NSERC to host a 1.5-day workshop on Tools and Technologies for Campus and Building Cluster Sustainability Management at Carleton University. We will have approximately 50 researchers and industry representatives to discuss the current state of the art and future industry and researcher needs. The tentative... More

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Liam O’Brien selected to speak at IIDEX 2015

Liam O'Brien will be speaking at IIDEX 2015 in Toronto in December. IIDEX is Canada’s largest National Design and Architecture Exposition & Conference. His topic is "Considering occupants in new building design". More details... More

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Seeking PhD student to work on experimental implementation of model predictive control of window blinds

Profs. O'Brien and Beausoleil-Morrison are seeking a PhD student to research advanced control strategies of window blinds. The research will entail both simulation and extensive experimental testing using the Urbandale CHEeR house (an advanced on-campus research facility). Starting dates could be January, May, or September 2016. Interested... More

Saturday, September 12, 2015

HBI Lab has developed a beta tool for visualizing Carleton building energy

With data from Facilities Management and Planning and GIS data from MacOdrum Library, PhD student Shawn Shi has developed an interactive tool to visualize Carleton University's 45 buildings energy and water... More

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