{"id":441,"date":"2014-04-16T15:56:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T15:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/hbilab\/?page_id=441"},"modified":"2014-04-17T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T14:45:08","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hbilab\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, May 18, 2025<\/p>

HBI Lab published a major report on energy\/emissions associated with telework<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Sunday, May 18, 2025<\/p>

Prof. O’Brien is co-leading new IEA project: Human-Centric Buildings for a Changing Climate<\/h3>

More details can be found here:... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, May 8, 2020<\/p>

Congrats to Dr. Jayson Bursill and Adrian Soble for successful thesis defences<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, December 18, 2019<\/p>

Hannah Villeneuve, second year Enviro Eng student, publishes journal article on text-mining Airbnb reviews<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, July 18, 2019<\/p>

Shengbo Zhang wins RDH Scholarship<\/h3>

Shengbo Zhang won an RDH Scholarship! He will be receiving a $3,000 scholarship for his research related to \u201cAssessing Window Design Strategies for Thermal Comfort\u201d. Shengbo is an MASc student at University of Toronto, who is co-supervised by Marianne Touchie and Liam... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, May 10, 2019<\/p>

Our NSERC Strategic Project Grant has been funded<\/h3>

See press release for more details:... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Saturday, April 27, 2019<\/p>

Brent Huchuk’s work was featured in Corporate Knights magazine<\/h3>

... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Saturday, April 27, 2019<\/p>

Brent Huchuk and Tareq Abuimara were awarded ASHRAE Grant-in-aid awards<\/h3>

They are the fifth and sixth students of the HBI Lab to be awarded this US$11,500... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, March 29, 2019<\/p>

Congratulatations to Tareq Abuimara for getting the NSERC PGS D scholarship!<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, October 29, 2018<\/p>

The HBI Lab hosted the first Experts Meeting of IEA EBC Annex 79 and the OB-18 Symposium<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, October 5, 2018<\/p>

Dr. Aly Abdelalim’s Sankey diagrams won several awards<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, September 27, 2018<\/p>

Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed Ouf for best paper award at IBPC 2018<\/h3>

Dr. Mohamed Ouf won a best paper award in Syracuse, NY at the International Building Physics Conference 2018. His paper is titled:\u00a0Generating design-sensitive occupant-related schedules for building performance... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Sunday, August 26, 2018<\/p>

Dr. Mohamed Ouf gets assistant professor position at Concordia University<\/h3>

Dr. Mohamed Ouf, a post-doctoral fellow with the HBI Lab since 2017, has taken an offer at Concordia University in the Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering. He marks the third HBI Lab graduate student or post-doc to receive an assistant professor position in two years. We look forward to collaborating with him... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Saturday, August 25, 2018<\/p>

HBI Lab-led project recognized by Environment Minister Catherine McKenna<\/h3>

The HBI Lab-led project, involving Profs. O'Brien, Gunay, and Beausoleil-Morrison and researchers Sara Gilani, Mohamed Ouf, Tareq Abuimara, and Aly Abdelalim, was announced at a ceremony at Carleton. The ceremony included speeches by Prof. Gunay, President Bacon, and the Honourable Minister McKenna. See here for more... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, August 7, 2018<\/p>

International PhD student tuition reduced to domestic rates starting for new students in September 2018<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, July 2, 2018<\/p>

Justin Berquist won best paper award at the ASHRAE summer conference<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, June 14, 2018<\/p>

Tareq Abuimara wins OGS<\/h3>

Tareq Abuimara (supervised by Profs. Gunay and O'Brien) won an Ontario Graduate Scholarship, valued at $15-thousand, to help support his PhD... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, May 2, 2018<\/p>

Prof. Liam O’Brien will deliver the keynote at eSim 2018 in Montreal<\/h3>

The keynote focused on the major NRCan-funded occupant modelling project that HBI Lab has been working on for the past... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, May 1, 2018<\/p>

Haily Fernald awarded ASHRAE Grant-in-aid<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, May 1, 2018<\/p>

Jayson Bursill and Tareq Abuimara awarded IBPSA-Canada student travel awards to attend eSim<\/h3>

... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, February 5, 2018<\/p>

Dr. Mohamed Ouf’s article on occupant modelling and code compliance appeared in ASHRAE Journal Feb. 2018<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Sunday, November 5, 2017<\/p>

NZEB textbook translated to Chinese<\/h3>

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\u00a0Modeling, Design, and Optimization of Net-Zero Energy... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, November 1, 2017<\/p>

Prof. Liam O’Brien’s book on building occupant behaviour research methods now in print<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, October 12, 2017<\/p>

Prof. O’Brien wins the Ontario Building Envelope Council Rising Star Award<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, September 14, 2017<\/p>

HBI Lab wins major contract with NRCan to explore code and standard implications of occupants<\/h3>

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<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, September 14, 2017<\/p>

Isis Bennet and Justin Berquist successfully defended their MASc theses<\/h3>

Congratulations Isis and Justin! Justin will stay on the team to perform an innovative comfort assessment and energy audit of a gymnastics... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, August 28, 2017<\/p>

Sara Gilani successfully defended her PhD thesis.<\/h3>

Congratulations, Sara! Dr. Gilani now has a PhD in architecture and PhD in civil... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, August 15, 2017<\/p>

Sara Gilani wins IBPSA-Canada Student Travel Award<\/h3>

... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, August 10, 2017<\/p>

Liam O’Brien wins IBPSA Outstanding Young Contributor Award<\/h3>

Also in the photo are the new Canadian IBPSA Fellows, from left: Prof. Athienitis, Wright, and... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Friday, June 9, 2017<\/p>

Four new funded PhD student positions open<\/h3>

We are excited to announced that four PhD student positions have been opened with the HBI Lab, in collaboration with Prof. Burak Gunay. Find them... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Sunday, May 14, 2017<\/p>

Jayson Bursill and Zixiao Shi both got ASHRAE Grant-in-aid awards<\/h3>

Congratulations Jayson and Zixiao. The ASHRAE GIA is aimed at supporting outstanding graduate students and is valued at... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Wednesday, April 12, 2017<\/p>

Justin Berquist won outstanding TA award<\/h3>

Congratulations, Justin! More details to... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Tuesday, April 4, 2017<\/p>

Aly Abdelalim successfully passed his PhD defence<\/h3>

Aly's thesis, which developed innovative ways to visualize building performance, will be available online soon. His online tool can be found... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Thursday, March 30, 2017<\/p>

HBI Lab research poster receives honourable mention at Data Day 4.0<\/h3>

Led by Shawn Shi, the HBI Lab poster entry for Carleton's Data Day 4.0 symposium received an honourable mention. The posted can be downloaded... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div>

Monday, March 27, 2017<\/p>

Aly Abdelalim completes online Sankey Diagram tool<\/h3>

In partnership\u00a0with NRCan and Autodesk, Aly Abdelalim has completed an online tool that allows users to visualize performance of buildings modelled in EnergyPlus. So far the tool works with the Canadian reference office buildings. A feature-limited demo can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.sankeydiagramsexperiments.com\/demo.html, while the source code... More<\/span><\/p><\/a><\/div><\/div>

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