Alex is a Research Officer in Building Durability and Resiliency Team at Construction Research Center at National Research Council Canada. His research is focused on identifying adaptation and mitigation strategies to decrease the vulnerability of both buildings and occupants to the risks of climate related events, where he is currently working to determine what is needed to select climate resilient retrofit measures under a multi-hazard scenario. His research expertise also include investigating the steady state effects of thermal bridges, conducting thermal performance simulations and analyzing the results of experimental measurements of high-performance glazing systems. Alex has a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Carleton University where he conducted an investigation into the service life for vacuum insulation panels using accelerated ageing as well as designing, building and calibrating a guarded hot plate apparatus for analyzing the thermal conductance of building materials.
Expertise – Climate change adaptation and mitigation, heat transfer, linear thermal transmittance, vacuum insulation glazing, vacuum insulated panels, urban heat island, nature based solutions.