Archives - Human-Building Interaction Lab

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

liamobrien — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:30:02 +0000

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: https://www.carleton.ca/hbilab/wp-content/uploads/Final-report-Quantifying-the-net-impact-of-hybrid-work-on-greenhouse-gas-emissions.pdf.

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

liamobrien — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:27:34 +0000

More details can be found here: https://annex95.iea-ebc.org/

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

liamobrien — Fri, 08 May 2020 13:25:09 +0000

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 best.

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

liamobrien — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 18:24:55 +0000

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 much worse sentiment overall. 5% of reviews complain about comfort, with 60% of these being about acoustics.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S036013231930767X

Shengbo Zhang wins RDH Scholarship

liamobrien — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:29:49 +0000

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 O’Brien.

Our NSERC Strategic Project Grant has been funded

liamobrien — Fri, 10 May 2019 15:17:44 +0000

See press release for more details: https://newsroom.carleton.ca/2019/carleton-researchers-receive-nserc-strategic-partnerships-grant-to-improve-building-performance-and-sustainability/

Brent Huchuk’s work was featured in Corporate Knights magazine

liamobrien — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:48:38 +0000

https://www.corporateknights.com/channels/built-environment/smart-buildings-ai-heating-cooling-15561849/

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

liamobrien — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 11:47:36 +0000

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

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

liamobrien — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 18:57:57 +0000

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 Scholarship.

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

liamobrien — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 22:54:14 +0000

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 .