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Prospective and Early-Stage LCA Lab

PESLL research group investigates the life cycle environmental impacts of early-stage technology prior to commercialization to identify environmental hotspots and provide feedback to design of new technology.

Biofuels and renewable polymers

Drawing from chemical engineering and design principles, we work on providing methodologies for generating robust and rapid life cycle inventory datasets and applying them to early-stage technology processes. This involves using early-stage technologies…(Read more)


Green Processes Evaluation

LCA informs the sustainable design and evaluation of industrial chemicals manufacture and enables computing the life cycle environmental burden of products that rely on specific chemicals. When combined with process engineering tools, it can…(Read more)


Data Prediction for Life cycle inventory

Life cycle environmental impacts can be challenging due to the absence of data needed to characterize reaction chemistry, which is the basis of material and energy balances that comprise the life cycle inventory (LCI). Therefore, we aims to develop…(Read more)


Urban Building Energy Modeling

UBEM is a key to reduce buildings’ energy consumption, which is critical as residential and commercial buildings account for 40% of the world’s energy consumption. By simulating the thermal behavior of buildings, Building Energy Modeling (BEM) can be used in…(Read more)


Buildings’ Interactions in Urban Context

The surrounding environment of buildings highly influences their thermal behavior. That is why dense urban areas need a special treatment when doing UBEM as they are highly subject to the Urban Heat Island Effect (UHIE), trapping heat inside cities, due to…(Read more)


Construction Management and Building Optimization

The research in construction management focuses on optimizing green buildings using Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Lean principles. The research aims to develop a new method for evaluating green buildings. This method is based on…(Read more)