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?
- A NSERC Alliance Mitacs project is starting with the Montreal Port Authority.
- Claudiane is joining the Mitacs Research Council in 2024.
- Our recent article is on a new renewable material made of mycelium binder and ash chips. The article will be presented at the ASHRAE winter convention in Chicago.
- The article on automating mix design for concrete 3D printing was selected by a jury as an Outstanding Paper Award in the journal Digital Discovery in 2022.
- Claudiane is a visiting professor at the Center for the Built Environment at the University of California Berkeley