Canada Research Chair on Sustainable Multifunctional Construction Materials
About the Chair
Urbanization is intensifying across the planet, which is resulting in increased demand for new buildings and infrastructure assets. The Canada Research Chair on Sustainable Multifunctional Construction Materials intends to develop and manufacture sustainable and environmentally responsible materials that can be integrated into a circular economy within the context of the ecological transition.
The objective is to design and demonstrate the added value of materials with advanced functionalities that are designed to adapt to their environment and to climate change, to transform pollutants in accordance with global limitations and to respond to other emerging needs.
Facilitating the ecological transition in the construction industry
— Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon, Chairholder
Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon is a Professor in the Construction Engineering Department at ÉTS who specializes in formulating and characterizing materials with advanced functions, modelling the behaviour of these materials and assessing their environmental impact.
What’s new?
- Our recent article on embodied carbon of the construction sector received a gold/gold data openness badge.
- Our other recent articles are available in open access on an atomic model of silicium and silica in npj computational materials, a Nature portfolio journal, cement accelerated with carbon, the thermal properties of cob green building, the study of a wood preservative in clay, and a porous material based on bauxite residues.
- An NSERC Alliance Mitacs project begins with the Montreal Port Authority.
- Claudiane joins the Mitacs Research and Innovation Council in 2024.
- You can read the summary of recent media interviews on carbon storage in cement plants and 3D printing of concrete , on the duality between housing construction and the climatic crisis with a radio interview (October 15 2024, 7h52) (in French only).