Featured research projects
Buildings
Project in partnership with Provencher-Roy and CIRCERB
Investigate the environmental profiles variability of an existing office building in Quebec (Canada), that is LEED certified and where more than 95% of the electricity consumption mix is renewable.
Project in partnership with CIRCERB
Develop tools accessible to material designers to maintain and evaluate the evolution of the environmental benefit of bio-based materials.
Project in partnership with CIRCERB
Evaluating the environmental consequences of changes caused by an increase in the application of wood in the construction sector to develop a model that combines existing methods for modeling flows at the market scale with those for assessing environmental impacts.
Project in partnership with CIRCERB
Develop a Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis (LCSA) methodology and apply the resulting tool to the multi-story hybrid (wood & concrete) building.
Project in partnership with CIRCERB
Propose a novel procedure for modeling materials with multiple life cycles through allocation methods from an attributional and consequential LCA perspective.
Energy
Evaluation of the potential of residential heating to reduce global warming using a dynamic approach
Project in partnership with Esmia
Develop a transparent method to combine a TIMES family Model and life cycle assessment methods and apply it to the Quebec case.
Projet en partenariat avec Esmia
Model and evaluate the contributions - in terms of environmental impact, electrical capacity and cost-effectiveness - of behavioural disruptions and compare them to "technological" scenarios that constraint the GHG emissions.
Project in partnership with IREQ-HQ and PSI Switzerland
Develop a prospective assessment framework to evaluate the long-term environmental impacts of changes in energy systems, and apply this new approach to the case of energy storage in order to quantify the environmental performance of different technologies within several scenarios of long-term evolution of energy systems.
Materials
Project in partnership with the Ministère du transport du Québec
The goal is to develop a dynamic consequential LCA model allowing to take into account, in the environmental impacts, the changes induced on the market by new decisions related to the selection between a pavement in concrete or asphalt.
Project in partnership with SAQ and the CVVM Research Chair
Evaluate the direct and indirect environmental consequences of a transition to a circular economy with a high spatiotemporal resolution.
Residual materials
Project in partnership with Englobe and the City of Sherbrooke
Identify an optimal scenario for the management of organic matter. The aim being that current and planned developments in organic waste management can be achieved without jeopardizing the sustainability of the territorial system already in place.
Project in partnership with SAQ and the CVVM Research Chair
Evaluation of the environmental impact of the open-loop circular economy principle, using the Life Cycle Assessment methodology, in the case of the use of recycled glass powder in concrete as a supplementary cementing material.
Project in partnership with CIRCERB
Propose a novel procedure for modeling materials with multiple life cycles through allocation methods from an attributional and consequential LCA perspective.