Thomas Jusselme

I focus my work between research and practice on improving the energy/carbon performance of the AEC industry. My first line of work takes the building into account as a whole, with a more holistic view, either in terms of a life-cycle approach, or a multi-objective approach. This needs a change of perspective since buildings performance was long considered through its use phase only and not for all its lifecycle energy demand. Buildings become more and more efficient, it is therefore necessary to implement a global analysis to avoid pollution transfer, for instance, between energy demand and grey energy. My second line of work consists in making this holistic approach easily accessible from the very beginning of the design process since that is exactly where the need of research and development lies. Indeed, this stage of financially high-risk projects for real estate developers does not offer the resources needed to integrate extensive engineering studies, and it is a vital design phase that will determine the sustainability of the project. These two areas are really exciting since they bridge many different disciplines, especially architecture, building physics, statistics, mechanical engineering, data-visualization, machine learning, etc.