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Buildings account for 40% of global carbon emissions, and in Canada, an estimated 80% of buildings that will exist in 2050 have already been built. Due to the high embodied carbon inherent to building, and the poor performance of most of these buildings, improving the performance of this existing stock is critical. Deep energy retrofits (DERs) are renovations that reduce a building's energy consumption by 50-80% and have many other benefits including extending building lifespan, increasing resiliency, improving resident health, and easing strain on the electricity grid by decreasing peak loads. DERs represent a viable and essential strategy to help Canada meet its greenhouse gas emission targets, and substantial funding is being allocated to accelerate their mass deployment.

Reconstruct is a cross-disciplinary collaboration of academic researchers working with government, industry, and community partners to develop and implement solutions for mass deployment of DERs for Quebec and Canada. We're developing prefabricated over-cladding panel solutions to facilitate the mass deployment of low-carbon DERs through project pipelines - solutions and processes developed in pilot projects which can be applied to a vast stock of similar buildings. Our current pilot projects focus on a community centre in Ile-Bizard and multi-unit residential buildings (MURB) that are operated as social housing. Our intention is to drive and support development of the industry capacity needed to realize mass DERs on these and other similar buildings quickly and affordably, including developing manufacturing infrastructure, driving product supply, and cultivating professional expertise and adapted procurement processes.

• Grouped by sub-project below, SURE tasks will be adjusted according to the student's鈥痵killset and specific interests. The work will be guided by senior team members with input from industry and community collaborators and partners.
• Architectural/engineering design work: Develop schematic and technical retrofit solutions and concepts for a selected pilot project or case study using existing technology available in Quebec. Developed solutions could include work at the conceptual scale, building scale, in panel design, or on mechanical systems, on-site renewables, etc.
• Digital tool development: Contribute to developing digital tools to help assess candidate buildings for DERs and inform retrofit designs. Tools currently under development include: a simplified DER cost calculator; a simplified Life cycle assessment (LCA) tool to assess environmental impacts of DER solutions in Quebec; and a multi-criteria decision-analysis (MCDA) tool to account for multiple factors in ranking candidate buildings for DERs. Work is also underway to develop a framework to integrate resiliency, social, and large-scale economic impacts into the assessment of potential DER projects.
• Pilot projects: Assist in engaging with organizations from the community and social housing sector to assess candidate buildings and partnership potential to realize DER pilot projects. This may include communicating with building owners and producing supporting documents to explain DERs; participating in building assessment and health checks; surveying organizational processes linked to retrofits; assessing organizational needs, priorities and bottlenecks; supporting funding applications.

Life cycle analysis is becoming more common place in architectural discussion to understand embodied carbon in buildings. However, life cycle cost analysis and social life cycle analysis are often not considered. By combining these methods of analyses a clear understanding of the environmental, economic, and social aspects of the entire life cycle of a building and its design emerges. Not only the finished building, but also the terrestrial scale in which the process of building operates and its impacts on environmental and ethical building, construction, and design practices. Students, working closely with Prof. Keena, will investigate life cycle design principles and their applications in architectural construction and design, namely: 1) drawing from seminal texts as well as contemporary thinking on complex theory, urban systems, and ecological analyses this research will frame architectural design processes within the socio-ecological context of twenty-first century challenges; 2) the role data visualization and data storytelling play in capturing the memory or embodied aspects of a building life cycle will be investigated. This is critical for evidence-based decision-making during the design process as well as documenting the temporal scale of a building to allow for future-use architecture. Students best fit for this position are those interested in (1) the role of architects in combating climate change, (2) have strong reading, writing, and communication skills, (3) enjoy researching precedent studies and multiple forms of literature.

• Literature review 鈥� investigating scholarly articles, grey literature, reports from building sector professional bodies, as well as key government reports and datasets.
• Documenting findings through scholarly writing to synthesize the literature.
• Developing graphics and data stories to communicate the research findings
• Facilitate TRACE lab researchers in life cycle data analyses (environmental, economic, social) and assisting with dissemination activities.

Night Studies has emerged as an interdisciplinary area of its own in the past decade. Night can be conceived as not only a time, but also a space that has its own set of residents, visitors, and workers. Night studies can also expand the scope of social justice in the city from spatial concerns to temporal ones.

Traditionally, the night was a space of police, surveillance, and exclusion. It has also been a space of refuge, especially for marginalized communities who find safety in being less visible. For people experiencing homelessness, the night poses questions of sleep equity. For the LGBTQ2+ community, nightclubs and bars are vital spaces for community-building and social sustainability. As political protests and cultural activities expand into the night, this has offered a festive and creative space to build solidarity and demonstrate the social value of protest assemblies.

This research focuses on three urban contexts:

• Sleep Equity and Tent cities (Homeless and Indigenous homeless communities)
• Entertainment Spaces and Experiences (LGBTQ community, nightclubs)
• Outdoor Public Projections and Assemblies (BLM and other protest events)

Montreal has long been recognized as a nightlife capital. The city鈥檚 investments in a certain 鈥渟pectacular鈥� remaking of its night are internationally known and tied to the city鈥檚 claimed pre-eminence in the fields of lighting and digital design. Awards for architectural excellence in nighttime design are often awarded to projects that target international tourists and promote the global marketing of the city rather than meeting the needs of marginalized groups.

This research brings together architectural and design professionals, civil society groups, and academics from 9I制作厂免费 to interrogate spaces celebrated for exemplary night design and question whether they meet the needs and desires of people who inhabit the night.

SURE Fellows will explore how, in Montreal, nightspaces are imagined, produced, experienced and narrated in their material, symbolic and virtual dimensions by different groups (definition of 鈥済roups鈥� to be determined in conversation with the PI, e.g. the group can be defined by line of work, ethnicity, gender, age, ability, etc). Drawing from 1) observation and observation-based documentation (drawing, photography), 2) interviews with professionals (e.g., social and community workers, NGO reps) and service workers, and 3) examining cultural forms (e.g., music, film, performance), they will investigate the afterhours transformation of traditional public spaces (streets, squares), also in relation to private spaces, alongside semi-public service spaces (e.g. night socialization in community centers), commercial and cultural venues (cultural centres; bars and nightclubs, hotels) and new virtual spaces (digital apps).

This SURE project involves the design of an interactive installation and exhibition displaying historical material and speculative reconstructions of historic computer-aided design programs. 鈥淪peculative reenactments鈥� is an approach that builds on experimental archaeology and critical media methods such as 鈥渟oftware reconstructions鈥� (Cardoso Llach and Donaldson 2019) and 鈥渁lgorithmic reenactments鈥� (Galloway 2021), to reimagine material and interfacial attributes of historic computer programs for design as they enter in dialogue with state-of-the-art computational techniques (such as generative artificial intelligence). Students selected for this SURE project will work on the scenography and choreography of an exhibition centred on two reenactments currently implemented in the CoDEx lab (/codex/): a system for design decision making called Hierarchical Decomposition System II (HIDECS 2) developed by Christopher Alexander and Marvin L. Manheim in 1962, and an influential Algol-based computer program for automated single-storey layout by two building scientists from the University of Liverpool in 1964. Part of the SURE project will be dedicated to literature reviews aimed at enhancing the conceptual framing of the speculative reenactments project and considering its future possibilities. Students will spend the majority of their time designing an exhibition (venue to be decided), which will include interactive artifacts, projections, printed material documenting the reenactments and their historical context, and a multimedia performance. The students will have full access to the space and equipment of the CoDEx lab facility located in the MacDonald Harrington building.

• Student 1: literature review on reenactments as critical media practice; design and curation of exhibition material for the HIDECS 2 reenactment;
• Student 2: literature review on reenactments as critical media practice; design and curation of exhibition material for the space allocation reenactment and performance; production of labels and text for the exhibition.

Advanced reading and writing proficiency in the Turkish language required.

T眉rkiye is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. It lies at the intersection of the Anatolian, Eurasian, and African tectonic plates. Over 80 percent of its population lives in areas at risk of earthquakes, which occur every five to ten years. The February 2023 Southeastern Anatolia Earthquake was the most devastating in the country鈥檚 history. It affected 14.5 million people across 11 provinces and claimed 57,000 lives, according to official figures. The country is still struggling to recover from the massive destruction.

The T眉rkiye Earthquake Memory Project (TEMP) was created (2024) with the help of two SURE fellows in response to the questions raised by this tragedy. Why does T眉rkiye face such immense devastation each time? Why are the impacts so severe? How do we, as a society, talk about these disasters? These questions guide our exploration of how earthquakes have been represented and remembered over the past 100 years.

TEMP is an online repository documenting T眉rkiye鈥檚 earthquake history. It surveys so far coverage and portrayal in newspapers for most of the major quakes in the past century. The SURE positions in 2025 will complete the few missing quakes in the online repository, and they will mainly work on new sections on earthquake memorials, museums, monuments, and audiovisual portrayals in documentaries and fiction films and literature (e.g. poetry). By curating these materials in one platform, TEMP explores how T眉rkiye has communicated earthquakes. It aims to inspire further research and foster new perspectives on disaster memory and recovery.

• Survey, study, analyze earthquake memorials, museums, monuments, and audiovisual portrayals in documentaries and fiction films and literature (e.g. poetry).
• Help with other TEMPS tasks as needed (e.g. copyright permissions, dissemination).