Centre for Building Studies, Concordia University

"The Centre for Building Studies is a research centre constituted of members who share a common interest to carry out research to contribute in the building construction industry and whose concerted actions lead to the betterment of the building (products, processes and performance), culminating in definitions for buildings of the future. These buildings will be more energy efficient, comfortable, healthy, safe and responsive to inhabitants with innovative combination of traditional and advanced construction materials as well as intelligent controls. The design of these buildings will concentrate on total performance over their life cycle by using computer-aided techniques that take into consideration factors such as wind, noise, solar energy, pollutants, and occupancy; their construction will be safe, efficient and economical.

OTHER MOISTURE RESEARCH IN CANADA (http://www.durable-wood.com/papers/research.pdf Jan '02)

Located within the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, this research centre carries out a broad range of projects. Of particular interest is the Building Envelope Performance Laboratory and its current move towards issues of durability. How Forintek and CWC are involved ! We are on the steering committee and all task committees for MEWS ! Forintek is performing experimental work to determine the limiting conditions for decay, which will yield data for use in the MEWS computer model. ! We continue to explore technology transfer mechanisms such as this web site to assist the building industry in the proper use of wood in construction. ! We are actively seeking partnerships with collaborators to further explore solutions for moisture control in wood frame construction.

CBS is now the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering

BCE--Dept. of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering

"The programs offered include the following: B.Eng. (Bldg.) and B.Eng. (Civil). M.Eng., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D., and graduate certificates. "




Concordia University

"Real Education for the Real People" (How about that!)




Environmental chamber of BCEE Concordia

A multi-purpose building envelope test facility that can host full-scale wall specimens, at Centre for Building Studies, Concordia University.

• Derome, D., (2000), Moisture occurrence in roof assemblies containing moisture storing insulation and its impact on the durability of building envelope
• Desmarais, G., (2000), Impact of added insulation on the hygrothermal performance of leaky exterior wall assemblies
• Fazio, P., Athienitis, A., Marsh, C. and Rao, J., (1997), Environmental chamber for investigation of building envelope performance
• Ge, H., Fazio, P. and Rao, J., (2001), Experimental study of temperature distributions across two curtain wall systems
• Ge, H., P. Fazio, and J. Rao, (2001), Transfer of heat, moisture and air through metal curtain walls
• Mao, Q., Rao, J. and Fazio, P., (2004), Effect of capillarity on rainwater penetration in the building envelope
• Teasdale-st-hilaire, A., Derome, D. and Fazio, P., (0), Behavior of wall assemblies with different wood sheathings wetted by simulated rain penetration