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Chris Kirney

Building Project Officer
Natural Resource Canada
Participates in 1 Session

Mr. Kirney is a Building Project Officer at CanmetEnergy, Natural Resources Canada. He works on building simulation to optimize energy performance, energy upgrade costs, and the development and modification of energy simulation software and related tools. He is currently helping to develop the Building Technology Analysis Platform (BTAP) which automates building energy simulation and applying BTAP and cloud computing to estimate the energy and cost of applying the 2011, 2015, 2017, and 2020 versions of the Canadian National Energy Code for Buildings.

Sessions in which Chris Kirney participates

Wednesday 27 July, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
TS: Building Energy Codes – Opportunities, and Challenges
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:30 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB3.210

Talk

Meli Stylianou, NRCan/CanmetENERGY-Ottawa (Chair)

Sara Gilani, Natural Resources Canada (Speaker)

Chris Kirney, Natural Resource Canada (Speaker)

Xinyan Yang, China Academy of Building Research (Speaker)

Alison Delgado, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Speaker)

Initial Models of Existing Canadian Buildings for Building Energy Code Analysis...

Sessions in which Chris Kirney attends

Tuesday 26 July, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Opening Ceremony
30 minutes, 8:30 AM EDT - 9:00 AM EDT

Opening Ceremony: Concordia University, Henry F Hall Building - Sir George Williams University Alumni Auditorium (H-110)

Keynote

Leon Wang, Concordia University (Speaker)

Andreas Athienitis, Concordia University (Speaker)

Dr. Leon Wang (General President of COBEE 2022 / Président général COBEE 2022)
10:30 AM
10:30 AM

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB3.430

Talk

Dr. Tianzhen Hong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Chair)

Da Yan, Tsinghua University (Speaker)

Bing Dong, Syracuse University (Speaker)

Yueming (Lucy) Qiu, University of Maryland College Park (Speaker)

Extract Typical air-conditioning behavior pattern based on large-scale online VRF system ope...
Advanced Modeling and Building Simulations, CFD 1
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:30 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB3.270

Talk

Xiaoou Hu, North Dakota State University (Speaker)

Matheus de Duarte, Federal Center of Technological Education of Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG) (Speaker)

Abi Nareshkumar, Toronto Metropolitan University (Speaker)

Xueren Li, RMIT (Speaker)

Mohammad Rezvanpour, University of Alberta (Speaker)

Nan Zhang, City University of Hong Kong (Speaker)

Michele Zinzi, ENEA (Chair)

A High-efficiency and Low-cost Ground Source Heat Pump System Design for Cold-climate Applic...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Advanced Modeling and Building Simulations, CFD 2
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB3.270

Talk

Sébastien Poncet, Université de Sherbrooke (Chair)

Qingyan Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Speaker)

Lan Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Speaker)

Robert Bowden, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (Speaker)

Zohreh Shaghaghian, Texas A and M University (Speaker)

Menghao Qin, Technical University of Denmark (Speaker)

Feasibility study of using artificial intelligence methods to reduce building energy demand ...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
COVID-19, Pandemic and Epidemic 1
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:00 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB2.435

Talk

Na Luo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Speaker)

Keovathana Run, CNRS (Speaker)

Farzam Kharvari, Carleton University (Speaker)

Xiang Fang, RMIT University (Speaker)

Chen Ren, Southeast University (Speaker)

Saleh Nabi, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (Chair)

Federico Tartarini, Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (Speaker)

Energy and occupancy analytics to improve understanding and efficiency of building operation...

Wednesday 27 July, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Plenary Session 2
1 hour 30 minutes, 8:30 AM EDT - 10:00 AM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - BMO Amphitheater - MB1.210

Keynote

Colleen Mercer Clarke, International Federation of Landscape Architects (Keynote speaker)

Dr. Andrew Persily, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (Keynote speaker)

Colleen S.L. Mercer Clarke,&nb...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Urban Microclimate and Energy 4
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB2.435

Talk

Michele Fedel, University of Trento (Chair)

Elena Badino, Politecnico di Torino (Speaker)

Yuanyuan Lin, University of Gävle (Speaker)

Goncalo Pedro, RWDI (Speaker)

Lindita Bande, United Arab Emirates (Speaker)

Cristiana Croitoru, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest (Speaker)

Experimental characterization and outdoor testing of thermochromic coatings for building env...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
TS: Urban climate at neighborhood scale: Part B
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:00 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB3.210

Talk

Dominique Derome, Université de Sherbrooke (Chair)

Léopold Giroux-Gauthier, Université de Sherbrooke (Speaker)

Scott Krayenhoff, University of Guelph (Speaker)

Parham Mirzaei, The University of Nottingham (Speaker)

Aytac Kubilay, ETH Zurich (Chair)

James Voogt, Western University (Speaker)

Timothy Jiang, University of Guelph (Speaker)

Maxime Frere, Université Paris Cité / LIED (Speaker)

Vegetation and urban night ventilation as mitigation measures for heat waves in densified ci...

Thursday 28 July, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Plenary Session 3
1 hour 30 minutes, 8:30 AM EDT - 10:00 AM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - BMO Amphitheater - MB1.210

Keynote

Dr. Tianzhen Hong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Keynote speaker)

Yuguo Li, Hong Kong University (Keynote speaker)

Tianzhen Hong, Ph....
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Resilience and Climate Change 2
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:30 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB3.430

Talk

Hossein Bakhtiari, University of Gävle & Gavlefastigheter Company, Sweden (Speaker)

Scott Bucking, Carleton University (Speaker)

Milad Rostami, Carleton University (Speaker)

Kathryn Hinkelman, Pennsylvania State University (Speaker)

Sylvie Leroyer, Environment and Climate Change Canada (Chair)

How will mechanical night ventilation affect the electricity use and the electrical peak pow...
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
Smart Buildings and Smart Cities (ML, AI, IoT) 2
1 hour 30 minutes, 3:00 PM EDT - 4:30 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB3.210

Talk

Syed Asad Hussain, The University of British Columbia (Speaker)

Rajeev Kotha, University of Victoria (Speaker)

Wenhang Du, Concordia University (Speaker)

Ying Sun, Concordia University (Speaker)

Connor Brackley, Concordia University (Speaker)

Umberto Berardi, Ryerson University (Chair)

Agent-based Decentralized Energy Management with Distributed Intelligence for HVAC Control

Friday 29 July, 2022

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
8:30 AM
8:30 AM
Plenary Session 4
1 hour 30 minutes, 8:30 AM EDT - 10:00 AM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - BMO Amphitheater - MB1.210

Keynote

Dr. Michael Lacasse, National Research Council Canada (Keynote speaker)

Dr. Ian Beausoleil-Morrison, Carleton University (Keynote speaker)

Michael A. Lacasse,
10:30 AM
10:30 AM
Building Mechanical System and Controls
1 hour 30 minutes, 10:30 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB2.435

Talk

Honghao Ren, Gävle University (Speaker)

Amir Abbas Aliabadi, University of Guelph (Chair)

Alireza Zendehboudi, Norwegian University of science and technology (Speaker)

Lincheng Wang, Beijing university of technology (Speaker)

Masoud Behzad, Universidad de Valparaiso (Speaker)

Sasan Sadrizadeh, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Speaker)

Economic and Environmental Evaluation of a Ground-Source Transcritical CO2 Heat pump for Spa...
1:00 PM
1:00 PM
Building Codes and Standards
1 hour 30 minutes, 1:00 PM EDT - 2:30 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - MB2.270

Talk

Sylvie Leroyer, Environment and Climate Change Canada (Chair)

Abolfazl Hayati, University of Gävle (Speaker)

Edward Louie, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Speaker)

Liam O'Brien, Carleton University (Speaker)

Influence of energy units in building certification system, Miljöbyggnad – A case study of a...
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
Closing Ceremony
30 minutes, 2:30 PM EDT - 3:00 PM EDT

Conference: Concordia University, John Molson School of Business (MB) Building - BMO Amphitheater - MB1.210

Talk