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Department of Building, Civil & Environmental Engineering (BCEE)

BCEE is an academic unit in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science of Concordia University, a large urban university in the heart of the cosmopolitan city of Montréal, Québec, Canada.

BCEE offers programs of study in Building Engineering, which is known in the US as Architectural Engineering, and Civil Engineering which includes Environmental Engineering as an option and a major research area. The CEAB-accredited undergraduate programs lead to the B.Eng. degree while the graduate programs include the Graduate Certificates, the M.Eng., M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees.

• Drs. Mulligan and Moselhi won the prestigious NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplements Grant. More...
• Dr. Catherine Mulligan won Stermac Award. More...
• Dr. Adel Hanna won the 2010 "G. Geoffrey Meyerhof" award. More...
• Dr. Ted Stathopoulos won the 2010 Best Paper Award from the Journal Building and Environment. More...
• BCEE-based Solar Building Research Network will receive $4.6 million to construct a new environmental chamber

Spotlights

• Dr. Gina Cody, BCEE Ph.D. 89 graduate, named among 100 top female entrepreneurs published by Profit W100 magazine in its annual ranking. More...
• Dr. Hashem Akbari's Cool roofs, cool research
• Dr. Athienitis’ research makes MB Building shine
• Dr. Lucia Tirca's theoretical and concrete ways to make buildings safer
• Ph. D. student Liam O'Brien Shedding light on solar energy

Picture Galleries

Site Credits

Workers installing solar panels on the façade of the JMSB-Building. The design of the architecturally integrated photovoltaic/thermal installation combining electric generation and high efficiency solar air heating was led by Dr. Andreas Athienitis of BCEE. More …

BCEE Students' News & Activities

Message boards: Undergraduate and Graduate.

• Great grad Solar soldier: James Bambara
• Dr. Fitsum Tariku won a 2009 CMHC Housing Studies Achievement Award for his Ph.D. work on Whole Building Heat and Moisture Analysis, which he completed under the supervision of Dr. P. Fazio and Dr. Kumaran of NRC.
• Wissam Hijazi won the First Prize for the paper "Constructabilty Assessment Platform using Integrated BIM and 4D Models" presented at the 1st Canadian Graduate Student Colloquium organized by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
• "Building a future from the ground up": Julie Vaillancourt, 2009-Great Grad (B. Eng. Civil Engineering).
• The construction feat of the K-Nex Eiffel Tower by BCEE students James Goggans and Kurt Cabbal is featured in the Discovery Channel. More pictures...
• Husam Fares' research paper won 3rd place in the first annual Sustainable Asset Management student competition organized by UMA and CSCE. More...
• Saleh Abu Dabous won the CTRF's Student Paper Competition (Ph.D. Category)
• Dean's List of Academic Achievers

Concordia & ENCS News

• ENCS's Achievements and potentials
• Energy savings key to design of Concordia
• Concordia's Hall Building won ASHRAE Technology Awards. More ...
• Survey: Concordia both ‘dynamic’ and ‘approachable’
• EV-building houses the new fitness centre
• Concordia plans facilities for the 21st century
• BCEE faculty contributed to the design of the Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex

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