IBPSA-Canada Board
(May 2010 to May 2012)

Stephen L. Kemp is the Division Head of Enermodal Engineering's Building Performance and Research Group. 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 TRNSYS, DOE, ESP-r, ENERPASS, HOT2000 and Radiance. Mr. Kemp's other duties at Enermodal include green building design facilitation, working with building design teams and owners to improve the sustainable aspects of their buildings. Steve has a B.Sc. in Physics from Dalhousie University. 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 and the Chair of the Canada Green Building Council Energy and Engineering Technical Advisory Group.
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Dr, Lukas Swan is an engineer involved with both R&D and commercial aspects of a broad array of renewable and alternative energy technologies. His passion is sustainable and efficient energy generation, storage, and conversion mechanisms, with the intent of displacing conventional fossil fuel use. His efforts are three pronged: generation/storage, transportation, and buildings. Lukas is actively developing wind energy generation sites in Nova Scotia (800 kW) to provide clean electrical energy. The energy generated by these projects may be used to charge electric vehicles, such as the models he frequently drives, and to power innovative building energy systems, such as those presently being examined by Lukas using a model developed as part of his PhD. Lukas received his bachelors in mechanical engineering at California Polytechnic and both his masters and doctorate from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. He is presently an Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University where he lectures and conducts research.
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Alan Fung
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Jeff Blake is a registered professional engineer in the province of Ontario with over twenty-five years of experience in building energy simulation and analysis, building energy conservation and building simulation software development. His career in the building industry started with co-op work for a mid-sized building design/specification firm and quickly moved from doing "hand calculations" for HVAC equipment sizing and selection to automating the procedures on the first PCs in the marketplace. As an early developer of building energy analysis software (BESA - Building Energy Systems Analysis) that replaced the widely used Meriwether programs in the early eighties to the management and development of today's Canadian building energy performance tools (HOT2000, HOT3000, EE4, CanQUEST, etc.), Mr. Blake has remained a strong proponent of ever-improving software tools for Canadian building researchers, designers and practitioners. Mr. Blake has spent most of his career working for small firms in the private sector (Candaplan Resources Ltd., Vestronix, Scanada Consultants Ltd., Jeff Blake & Associates Ltd.) but currently works in the Canadian Federal government for Natural Resources Canada as a project leader for the Simulation Tools team within the Sustainable Building and Communities Group. Mr. Blake is a past-president of IBPSA-Canada and a staunch supporter of the association since its inception in 2001.
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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 private and public clients within Canada, the United States and internationally. Projects include building energy analysis and simulations, spreadsheet and web applications development, as well as load research, policy and codes assessment efforts. 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 and environment 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 Canadian Chapter of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA - Canada).
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Dr.Ian Beausoleil-Morrison is an Associate Professor at Carleton University where he holds the Canada Research Chair in the Modelling and Simulation of Innovative Energy Systems for Residential Buildings. His research is focused on the cogeneration of heat and electricity, alternative cooling approaches, and solar energy utilization.
Prior to moving to academia in 2007, Dr. Beausoleil-Morrison worked for 16 years at the Canadian Government's CanmetENERGY research centre, where he conducted research and developed building simulation tools to support industry and government programmes. Recently he led Annex 42 of the International Energy Agency's Energy Conservation in Buildings and Community Systems Programme (IEA/ECBCS) on micro-cogeneration systems and has served on numerous ASHRAE committees related to building performance simulation. Currently he is President of the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), co-editor of the Journal of Building Performance Simulation (JBPS), and a theme leader of the NSERC's Solar Buildings Research Network (SBRN). He has authored or co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed papers on the topic of innovative building energy systems and building performance simulation and was the recipient of IBPSA's Outstanding Young Contributor Award in 2001.
He has been actively developing models within ESP-r for more than a decade and since 2006 has acted as the source code archivist for that simulation tool.
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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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Ted Kesik Ted Kesik is a professor of building science in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. He completed his undergraduate studies in civil engineering at the University of Ottawa in 1983, followed by graduate studies at the University of Toronto from 1983 to 1992. In 1986 he was licensed as a professional engineer and has maintained practice in the areas of building science, building systems integration and landscape infrastructure. Dr. Kesik joined the Daniels Faculty in 1999 where he now teaches in the Architecture and Landscape programs, conducting research and supporting graduate students.

Professor Kesik's research interests include building envelope performance and durability, life cycle assessment, solar buildings and sustainability. Currently, Dr. Kesik is concluding his final segment of research within the Solar Buildings Research Network, a 5-year program involving 11 Canadian universities funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Professor Kesik is the author of a comprehensive cost-benefit study of the Toronto Green Standard and also co-authored the Tower Renewal Guidelines as part of a collaborative research project examining building envelope retrofits of 1960s to 1980s concrete high-rise apartment buildings. He is also affiliated with urban sustainability research projects being conducted through the University of Toronto's Cities Centre. Most recently, Dr. Kesik helped form a team at the Centre for Landscape Research that is establishing a photovoltaic/green roof testing laboratory and protocol to optimize the performance of these symbiotic technologies.

Dr. Kesik continues to practice as a consulting engineer to leading architectural offices and progressive government agencies. He is also involved in the development and delivery of continuing education for architects and engineers. Professor Kesik is actively involved in technical organizations and is the author of numerous books, studies, reports and articles related to his areas of research and professional practice.
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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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Iain MacDonald is a researcher at the Institute for Research in Construction of the National Research Council, Canada (NRC-IRC). He has researched and published widely in the area of building simulation on such aspects as daylighting, renewables integration, IAQ, ventilation and building energy use. Iain's main research activities are on the assessment of uncertainty in building simulation with a current focus on infiltration and ventilation modeling. He has used many simulation tools (principally Radiance, Fluent and ESP-r) and has been a developer of ESP-r for over 15 years. Prior to joining NRC-IRC in 2006 Iain was a Senior Research Fellow at the Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU). While working for ESRU he also managed many consultancy projects principally in the area of daylighting and natural ventilation. Iain also worked on and then managed the IBPSA Scotland technology transfer project. This project enabled engineering and architectural practices to develop in-house simulation capabilities, thus increasing the impact on design of building simulation tools.

Iain was scientific chair for the IBPSA Canada eSim 2010 conference in Winnipeg and is also involved with ASHRAE's technical committees in the areas of ventilation and simulation (4.3, 4.7, 4.10 and 5.3). He is the current chair of the research sub-committee of TC 4.3 (Ventilation Requirements and Infiltration) and of the SCM (simulation component models) sub-committee of TC 4.7 (Energy Calculations).

Iain holds a BSc from The University of Edinburgh (UK), and an MSc and PhD from The University of Strathclyde (UK).
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Bojan Andjelkovic is a specialist engineer in BC Hydro Power Smart Engineering and main technical reviewer of building energy modeling studies for BC Hydro Power Smart New Construction Program. He has over 18 years of building design, engineering and building performance modeling experience, both locally and internationally. With effective working knowledge of several building performance modeling software packages, CFD and energy analysis programs, he has completed numerous modeling studies for broad variety of building projects. As a member of selected, most advanced modellers group, he was involved in development and testing of integrated building performance modeling program package IES VE. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD designation in energy modeling field at University of Nis, Serbia. Bojan is a registered Professional Engineer in British Columbia, LEED Accredited Professional, Certified Energy Manager and High-Performance Building Design Professional.
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Simon Sansregret is a researcher at the laboratoire des technologies de l'énergie (LTE) of Hydro-Québec Research Institute since 2001. He is currently responsible of a project for the development of simulation tools in order to improve the energy efficiency of commercial and institutional buildings. In recent years, he has been devoted to the development of a simulation software called SIMEB, an interface to the calculation engine DOE2 and EnergyPlus. Simon has published several scientific papers in connection with the building energy simulation and has expertise in building mechanics system. He also contributed to various projects related to energy consumption in the residential sector, particularly the development of energy model of the residential diagnostic used by more than 1 million Hydro-Québec customers. Simon completed his BASc and MASc at the University of Sherbrooke in mechanical engineering with specialization in energy and is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec.
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