Stream Lead: Professor Ronald Kellett, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Building Scale Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Christina Bollo
Community Scale Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Jonathan Salter
Building and Community Stream research has focuses on spatial simulations of policy alternatives for local governments and practitioners. The findings of the community stream subprojects reveal that solutions to address province-wide GHG emissions in the built environment will need to address conditions across many community types (urban to suburban at high, moderate and lower densities), not just in major transit-oriented urban centres more familiar in the best practices and research literature. To that end, we have analyzed the spatial characteristics of BC communities of different sizes, growth rates and geographic and climatic contexts, developing a set of nine urban form archetypes. Concurrently, we have developed a replicable and scalable community energy simulation methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of energy and emissions interventions in different BC community types. In parallel we have identified instructive international case studies demonstrative of best energy and emissions policies and practices that are relevant to BC.
Student Researchers: Brendan Buchanan Dee (Masters of Architecture/Masters of Landscape Architecture Dual Degree), Fausto Inomata (Masters of Planning), Ju Chan Kim (Masters of Advanced Studies in Architecture), Alix Krahn (Masters of Planning), Jess McDaniels (Masters of Landscape Architecture)
Visiting Scholars: Mila Iborra Lucas (PhD student, Universitat Polytechnica de Valencia)