Sustainable Building Energy Systems (SBES) is a research group within Carleton University's Faculty of Engineering and Design. It is led by Dr Ian Beausoleil-Morrison and is composed of doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students as well as a number of full-time research and technical staff. The goal of SBES is to further our understanding of the energy performance of residential buildings and to develop and evaluate innovative energy conversion, storage, and supply concepts to help industry to deliver more sustainable housing in the future. It accomplishes these goals through extensive collaborations with academic, government, and industrial partners throughout Canada and internationally.
Research focus
SBES researchers are actively developing and contributing to the knowledge base in a number of areas that are key to future sustainable housing. Although these myriad activities are highly interrelated, they can be broadly group into the following categories: micro-cogeneration, building performance simulation, solar housing, and mitigating house-grid interaction. The full scope of SBES's activities can best be appreciated through a review of our work that has been published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at a number of pertinent conferences.
Seminar schedule
SBES members will be presenting bi-weekly seminars over the summer on varying topics of research. The schedule and topic of discussion will be posted here.
