Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Sarah Brown to host Ingenious Talks Online session

Sarah will present her ongoing research at the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy Research during this online talk.  An interview with Sarah and further details on her talk can be seen... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Rebecca Pinto receives Gabriel David Warshaw Memorial Scholarship

Congratulations to Rebecca Pinto on being awarded the Gabriel David Warshaw Memorial Scholarship.  The scholarship is awarded annually to an outstanding graduate student in either the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering or Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, aspiring to a career based on the peaceful and environmentally respectful... More

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Lumi Dumitrascu wins IBPSA-Canada travel award

Lumi Dumitrascu won an IBPSA-Canada student travel award. This award will support Lumi to present her work on ground reflectivity at the Building Simulation Conference 2020, in... More

Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Sarah Brown receives Alexander Graham Bell scholarship

Sarah Brown has been awarded the NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral (CGS D). The CGS D is awarded to top-ranked applicants for their "academic excellence, research ability or potential, and communication, interpersonal and leadership abilities." This award will support Sarah's research into a novel system that... More

Friday, August 2, 2019

Renewal of RDH Research Scholarship for Rebecca Pinto

Congratulations to Rebecca Pinto on being awarded a first renewal of the RDH Research Scholarship. The scholarship was awarded by RDH Building Science and was open to students completing their master’s or doctoral degrees in building science... More

Monday, May 6, 2019

Swiss ambassador to Canada visits CHEeR

Salome Meyer, Ambassador of Switzerland to Canada, met with Ian Beausoleil-Morrison and Sarah Brown to learn about the research we are conducting at the CHEeR facility:... More

Friday, November 16, 2018

Sarah Brown receives Tyler Lewis grant

PhD student Sarah Brown has been selected as one of three recipients of this year's Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Foundation's 10 000 $ grants.  The Tyler Lewis Clean Energy Research Grant is meant to provide financial support to graduate students at Canadian Universities conducting research in the field of clean energy.  Recipients are... More

Tuesday, September 11, 2018

CHEeR research presented at EuroSun 2018

Curtis Meister presented a paper on his seasonal storage research at the EuroSun 2018 conference in Rapperswil, Switzerland.  The paper summarizes preliminary results of operating CHEeR's buried seasonal storage tank over a full heating season.  The research was highlighted in the closing ceremony of the... More

Friday, August 31, 2018

Nina Dmytrenko defends her MASc thesis

Nina Dmytrenko successfully defenced her MASc thesis on the topic of rock-bed thermal storage for air-source heat pumps. Her thesis will soon be available on this... More

Monday, August 20, 2018

Lumi Dumitrascu defends her MASc thesis

Lumi Dumitrascu successfully defenced her MASc thesis on the topic of modelling the solar reflectivity of the ground.  Her thesis will soon be available on this... More

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change visits

Catherine McKenna, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, visited the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy Research to learn about our ongoing research focused on maximizing the use of solar energy in... More

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Rebecca Pinto wins RDH scholarship

SBES PhD student Rebecca Pinto was one of the three successful winners of a scholarship from RDH Building Science Inc. The scholarship competition was held across the USA and Canada and was open to students completing their master’s or doctoral degrees in building science... More

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison presents seasonal storage work at AQME

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison presented the CHEeR facility and our work on the seasonal storage of solar thermal energy at the annual meeting of l'Association québécoise pour la maitrise de l'énergie in Laval (Québec). The slides presented during his talk are attached here:... More

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Two SBES students win IBPSA-Canada travel awards

Lumi Dumitrascu and Jayson Bursill won IBPSA-Canada student travel awards! These awards were announced during the banquet for the eSim conference in Montréal, where both Lumi and Jayson presented their research... More

Friday, April 27, 2018

Adam Wills defends his PhD thesis

Adam Wills successfully defended his PhD thesis on the topic of net-zero-energy communities. His research explored methods for achieving a net-zero energy balance at the community level through measures involving building retrofits and with distributed and central energy conversion and storage systems. His thesis will be available at this website... More

Friday, April 20, 2018

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison delivers seminar on seasonal-storage of solar energy at KU Leuven

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison delivered a seminar on the seasonal storage of solar energy and reported preliminary results from ongoing experiments conducted at CHEeR. This seminar was given at KU Leuven (Belgium) while he was there to participate in the jury for the PhD defence of Filip... More

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison delivers seminar at Boydens Engineering

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison delivered a seminar at Boydens Engineering's Brussels office and discussed building performance simulation (BPS) with the company's BPS specialists and... More

Monday, December 18, 2017

Travis Moore defends his MASc thesis

Travis Moore successfully defended his MASc thesis today on the topic of highly insulated wall assemblies incorporating vacuum insulation panels.  The examination committee was so impressed with the quantity and quality of his research that they will be nominating him for a Senate Medal.  Travis' thesis will be available for download from this... More

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Presentation of CHEeR seasonal storage work at Solar World Congress

Curtis Meister Ian Beausoleil-Morrison are attending the ISES Solar World Congress / IEA Solar Heating and Cooling conference in Abu Dhabi.  Curtis is seen here presenting a poster describing the ongoing solar-thermal seasonal-storage experiments at the CHEeR facility. Their paper can be downloaded... More

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison appears before Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment, and Natural Resources

The Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment, and Natural Resources invited Ian Beausoleil-Morrison to appear as a witness on the subject of their study on the effects of transitioning to a low carbon economy.  His opening statement and questioning by the committee can be seen here (starting at... More

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Presentation of CHEeR research at IEA Heat Pump Conference

Sarah Brown and Ian Beausoleil-Morrison presented a paper at the International Energy Agency Heat Pump Conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands that describes the first phase of an experimental investigation of a heat-pump-based system for maximizing passive solar gains in housing.  This paper is based on measurements taken at the CHEeR facility... More

Friday, May 5, 2017

Keelia LaFreniere wins faculty USRA

Keelia LaFreniere has won a Faculty of Engineering and Design Undergraduate Student Research Assistantship to work full-time on research this summer in advance of commencing her MASc studies in... More

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Curtis Meister converts to PhD studies

Curtis Meister's application to "fast-track" from MASc to PhD studies was accepted. He will continue studying the seasonal storage of solar thermal... More

Monday, May 1, 2017

Briana Kemery successfully defends her MASc thesis

Today Briana Kemery successfully defended her MASc thesis entitled “Analysis and design of a solar-combisystem for high solar fraction Canadian housing with diurnal and seasonal water-based thermal stores”.  Briana’s thesis will be available on our website in the near... More

Monday, April 10, 2017

Research collaboration with NeoThermal Energy Storage

SBES has signed an agreement with NeoThermal Energy Storage Inc to develop a model of their phase-change electric thermal storage room heater and to conduct simulations to predict the performance of their... More

Monday, April 10, 2017

Sarah Brown receives Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship

Sarah Brown has been awarded an Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship by NSERC for the 2017-2018 academic year.  She will be starting her MASc with our group in September 2017, working on a research project at the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy... More

Monday, April 3, 2017

Sarah Brown wins NSERC USRA scholarship

Sarah Brown, who has been working part-time at the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy Research during her undergraduate studies, has won an NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Assistantship to work full-time on research this summer from May through... More

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Israa Issa has joined our group!

We would like to welcome our newest graduate student, Israa Issa.  Israa is pursuing her MASc degree in Sustainable Energy Engineering and will be investigating phase change thermal... More

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison delivers invited talk at Kyushu Energy Week 2017

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison delivered a Future Society Think Tank special lecture at Kyushu University's Energy Week 2017 in Fukuoka, Japan.  The tank was entitled The role of housing in addressing climate change: more of the same will not be... More

Monday, January 16, 2017

Ukrainian news network covers SBES

The Ukrainian news network ICTV aired the following story describing research underway at the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy Research that featured a number of SBES members... More

Friday, November 11, 2016

Burak Gunay wins Governor General’s Medal and University Medal

Burak Gunay was chosen as the recipient of Governor General's Medal and the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work.  He gave an address on his PhD work at the Carleton University Medal Lectures in recognition of his... More

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Sébastien Brideau successfully defends his PhD thesis

Today Sébastien Brideau successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Collection and storage of solar gains incident on a radiant floor in highly glazed houses”.  The thesis examination committee not only accepted his thesis subject to only minor editorial changes, they also nominated him for a Senate Medal to recognize his achievements.... More

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Geoffrey Johnson successfully defends his PhD thesis

Today Geoffrey Johnson successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled “Developing a methodology for assessing the energy potential of residential micro-cogeneration systems”.  His thesis will be available on our website in the near... More

Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Visit by Swiss delegation

A Swiss clean-tech business delegation led by the Swiss Vice-President Doris Leuthard visited the Urbandale Centre for Home Energy Research on October 5 to discuss building energy R&D and to learn about the research we are conducting on exploiting solar energy. Some information on Vice-President Doris Leuthard's visit to Canada can be found... More

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison delivers keynote talk at IBPSA-England conference

Ian Beausoleil-Morrison delivered an invited keynote talk at Building Simulation and Optimization 2016, the biennial conference of the English chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association that was held at the University of Newcastle.  The slides from the talk can be viewed here.... More

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