IBPSA-Canada Board
(May 2008 to May 2010)

Curt Hepting is president of EnerSys Analytics Inc., an engineering consulting firm specializing in building energy/economic analysis and load research projects. He provides technical expertise on building energy performance projects for utilities, government agencies, and other clients. Projects include building energy analysis and simulations, spreadsheet and database applications development, computer programming, and the development of custom energy analysis software tools. Mr. Hepting has a BASc in Architectural Engineering from the University of Colorado, where he specialized in Building Energy Efficiency. He has authored several professional papers on the topic of building energy analysis and methods, and advises the Canadian Green Building Council on energy issues pertaining to LEED. Mr. Hepting is a registered professional engineer in British Columbia and in the State of Colorado, and past president of the B.C. Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers.
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Ian Beausoleil-Morrison Ian Beausoleil-Morrison is an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering where he holds the Canada Research Chair in the Modelling and Simulation of Innovative Energy Systems for Residential Buildings. He is also an adjunct Associate Professor at both Dalhousie University and the University of Victoria. His research is focused on the cogeneration of heat and electricity, alternative cooling approaches, and maximizing solar energy utilization. Prior to joining Carleton in 2007 he worked for 16 years at Canada's pre-eminent government energy research laboratory, the CANMET Energy Technology Centre, where he conducted research and developed building simulation tools to support industry and government programmes. He initiated and led a research project on micro-cogeneration for the International Energy Agency, is Vice-President of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), and has acted as scientific chair for numerous conferences on the topic of energy use in buildings. He has authored or co-authored more than 35 peer-reviewed papers and was the recipient of IBPSA's Outstanding Young Contributor Award in 2001.
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Michel Bernier is currently a professor at École Polytechnique de Montréal where he is responsible for the HVAC program in the department of mechanical engineering. Before joining École Polytechnique, M. Bernier worked as a consultant in HVAC design and as a researcher at the Institute for Research in Construction of the National Research Council of Canada. His current research interests are: simulating zero net energy homes, modeling and simulating ground-coupled heat pump systems; modeling and performing experiments on windows and on residential electric hot water tanks, prediction of pumping energy in HVAC systems. He is a past-president of the Montréal chapter of ASHRAE and a registered professional engineer in the province of Québec. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal in 1980, his M.Eng degree from Carleton University in 1985 and his Ph.D. from McGill University in 1991.
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Jeff Blake is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario with over twenty years of experience in building energy and loads analysis, building energy conservation and building simulation software development. Mr. Blake is the team leader for the Simulation Tools team within the Sustainable Building and Communities Group at Natural Resources Canada's CANMET Energy Technology Centre. Mr. Blake has been involved in the development of several building energy simulation programs including BESA (Building Energy Systems Analysis), Building PULSE, ALCAP (Air Leakage Control and Assessment Procedure), HOT2000 and HOT3000.
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Alan Fung is an expert in renewable/novel energy conversion systems, advanced integrated building HVAC systems, and building energy efficiency and end-use modeling. He cofounded Canadian Residential Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre (CREEDAC) at Dalhousie University where he has worked as the manager and principal researcher since 1995. He is also an experienced user of a number of building simulation tools such as HOT2000, ENERPASS, HAP, DOE-2, BLAST, EnergyPlus, and esp-r for conducting large-scale simulation of energy consumption and associated emissions in the building sector using large housing databases. In 2003, he was appointed as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University. The courses he teaches include Thermodynamics, Heating, Ventilating and Air-conditioning (HVAC), Heat Transfer and Mechanics of Materials.

Alan Fung holds a BSc in Computer Science/Mathematics and BEng, MASc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the Association of Profession Engineers of Nova Scotia (APENS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA-Canada), and serves as an external technical reviewer for the World Building Congress conference, eSim, and International Journal of Energy Research (IJER).
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Denis Bourgeois leads building energy modelling/simulation R&D activities at l'Agence de l'efficacité énergétique du Québec. He previously held research positions at l'Université Laval (assistant research professor) and the Institute for Research in Construction at the National Research Council Canada (NSERC postdoctoral fellow). Denis Bourgeois' previous research activities have focused on the adaptation of passive low energy solutions in extreme climates, such as natural/hybrid ventilation, daylighting and building-integrated renewable energy production. He has contributed to the development and integration of daylight coefficient methods (daylighting and solar energy) and occupancy behavioural modelling in whole-building energy simulation. He has actively participated in the development of publicly-available simulation tools such as ESP-r, Daylight1-2-3 and HOT3000. He has also provided professional services as both an architect and energy consultant. Denis Bourgeois obtained his PhD from l'Université Laval in 2005.
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Stephen L. Kemp is currently the Software Development manager at Enermodal Engineering where he has developed a number of energy models for: heat recovery; solar air heating; solar water heating; combined heat and power; gas-cooling; desiccant and evaporative cooling; and fenestration thermal and optical performance. He is also an expert in a number of computer modeling tools, including TRANSYS, DOE, ESP-r, ENERPASS, HOT2000 and Radiance. Mr. Kemp's other duties at Enermodal include green building design facilition, working with building design teams and ownwers to improve the sustainable aspects of their buildings. Steve has a B.Sc. in Physics from Dalhousie Univerity. He continued his education at the former Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Dalhousie) receiving a B.Eng. and M.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. He is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario.
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Ted Kesik is an associate professor of building science in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. A native of Sudbury, Ontario, he completed his undergraduate studies in civil engineering at the University of Ottawa in 1983, followed by graduate studies at the University of Toronto. In 1986 he was licensed as a professional engineer and formed Habitechnica, a partnership that specialized in building science engineering, in particular energy efficient buildings. Dr. Kesik joined the faculty in the Department of Architectural Science at Ryerson University in 1989, and later formed Knowledge Mapping Inc. in 1996 to offer specialized consulting in technology transfer to government and industry.

Dr. Kesik joined the University of Toronto in 1999 as an adjunct professor, and later accepted a tenure stream position as Associate Professor teaching in the Architecture and Landscape programs, conducting research and supporting graduate students. His research interests include energy modeling of buildings, life cycle assessment, building durability and sustainability. Dr. Kesik has been involved in the R-2000 Program since 1983 and in particular with the application and development of HOT2000 software. More recently, he has applied ESP-r software to the study of attached sunspace thermal performance, and also employs building envelope performance software such as WUFI-ORNL/IBP, RainScreen and EMPTIED for research, teaching and consulting purposes. Professor Kesik maintains active involvement in technical committees for the Canadian Standards Association and ASHRAE, and is the author of numerous books, technical studies and articles related to his areas of research and professional practice.
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Lukas Swan is a PhD student and lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Dalhousie University. He is developing an energy and greenhouse gas emissions model of the Canadian residential housing stock to evaluate the impact of new technologies and materials when applied the sector. The model utilizes both the ESP-r simulation engine and neural network techniques to account for the building and the occupants. Mr. Swan completed his BASc in Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University and his MASc at Dalhousie studying brushless DC motors for use with circulating pumps in solar collector systems.

Mr. Swan has worked in the areas of renewable energy and zero emission vehicles for over 7 years. He is involved in and provides engineering expertise to companies engaged in commercial wind and tidal energy projects, including analytical modeling of expected energy output for the operating regime. Mr. Swan conducts R&D and design for the automotive industry related to the energy storage and drivetrain of electric vehicles. He has significant analytical and experimental experience in major chemistries including large format lithium batteries for motive power.
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Iain McDonald
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Radu Zmeureanu is professor and director of the Centre for Building Studies in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. He obtained B.Eng. and M.Eng. from the Civil Engineering Institute, Bucharest (Romania), graduated from the Post Graduate Program in Informatics and Mathematics for Research (UNESCO), University of Bucharest (Romania), and obtained his Ph.D. degree at Concordia University. He joined Concordia University in 1983 as a Research Associate in the Centre for Building Studies, Faculty of Engineering. He became Assistant Professor in 1987, Associate Professor in 1990, and Professor in 1999. Before joining Concordia he taught at universities in Algeria and Romania. He worked as consultant for national and international organizations such as Natural Resources Canada, Natural Resources Quebec, Hydro Québec, Bell Canada, United Nations, U.S. Department of Energy, World Bank, Public Works Canada, National Research Council of Canada, City of Montréal. He is member of Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and Association québécoise pour la maîtrise de l'énergie (AQME).
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