Research

RESEARCH

It is with cautious optimism that I have resumed research post-pandemic and I am involved in several research projects that involve building science.

Co-Investigator – BC Housing Grant, project entitled “Evaluating Daylight, Views, and Balcony Design for Inhabitant Wellbeing in Urban Apartment Housing.” Principal Investigators: Terri Peters, Department of Architectural Science, Toronto Metropolitan University; Alstan Jakubiec and Ted Kesik, Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto.

Expert Consultant – Alliance Grants (ALLRP), project entitled “ReCONstruct: Building Energy Retrofit Solutions for Canada” with Hydro-Québec and CanmetENERGY, Housing and Buildings, Natural Resources Canada. Principal Investigator: Michael Jemtrud, School of Architecture, McGill University.

Collaborator – Alliance Grants (ALLRP), project entitled “Unlocking the potential: Driving holistic performance improvements in multi-unit residential buildings“, with Toronto Community Housing Corporation, National Research Council Canada, TAF, BC Housing. Principal Investigators: Marianne Touchie, Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto, I.D. Beausoleil-Morrison, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University; W.T. O’Brien, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University.

In terms of personal scholarship, I am currently investigating the life cycle design of buildings with a view to connecting conventional life cycle assessment (LCA), social life cycle assessment (sLCA) and circularity in a manner than can be operationalized by architecture practitioners both for new and existing building retrofit projects.

Collaboration is the key to successful research initiatives and anyone that finds these research initiatives interesting and relevant is welcome to contact Professor Kesik. Many minds are better than one and disciplinary diversity is far more sustainable than siloed specialization.