Current Research

Topics include:

• Hygrothermal modeling of mass timber products
• Moisture content sensor development for mass timber products
• Air leakage through mass timber products
• Monitoring techniques for mass timber buildings
• Occupancy effects on mass timber elements in large buildings
• Dry-out potential of wetted mass timber elements
• Hygrothermal performance on in-situ mass timber elements

Topics include:

• Evolving the Toronto Archetype Project
• Creating rchetypes for other major Ontario cities
• Continued research on the bottom-up archetype development framework
• Researching the boundaries of archetypes across regions
• Developing a provincial (leading to a national) retrofit strategy using archetypical research approaches

Topics include:

• Applicability of current passive house standards to archetypical conditions in Canadian cities
• Monitoring performance of completed passive house projects in Canada
• Component specific research ( in collaboration with the PHIUS Technical Committee)

Topics include:

• Big building air-tightness testing research
• Component specific air leakage testing
• Continuing development of a predictive air leakage model for large track housing builders
• Material specific air leakage testing