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Alexis Caron-Rousseau, Pierre Blanchet and Louis Gosselin
While externally insulated wall assemblies are widely recognized for their hygrothermal performance, few research projects have focused on the impact of shifting the entire wall insulation to the exterior side of a structural cavity in cold or subarctic ...
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Laurence Picard, Pierre Blanchet and André Bégin-Drolet
The prefabricated construction industry, also known as off-site construction, has been operating in North America for several years now and differs from traditional construction in its much shorter project timelines, lower costs, and increased build qual...
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Annie Gosselin, Yan Cimon, Nadia Lehoux and Pierre Blanchet
The use of timber as structural building material is growing and a greater number of firms are looking to enter this raising market. Erecting a complex timber building usually involves combining the work of architects, structural engineers, builders, sup...
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Cassandra Lafond and Pierre Blanchet
The energy efficiency of buildings is well documented. However, to improve standards of energy efficiency, the embodied energy of materials included in the envelope is also increasing. Natural fibers like wood and hemp are used to make low environmental ...
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Jeremy Piggot,María Beatriz Piderit,Pierre Blanchet
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The objective of this research is to analyze the thermal performance of wood-frame vertical envelope solutions used in Canadian establishments and to evaluate how these technologies contribute towards reducing the energy demand of educational establishme...
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Annie Gosselin, Pierre Blanchet, Nadia Lehoux and Yan Cimon
Timber structures in construction have become more popular in recent years. Nevertheless, besides the complexity of designing, contracting and building these structures, a barrier to their market growth is the complexity of their supply chain relationshi...
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Caroline Queant, Pierre Blanchet, Véronic Landry and Diane Schorr
The limited durability of clear coatings is a major issue for the coating and wood industry. The addition of organic UV absorbers improves coating resistance by the absorption and the conversion of the UV radiation into harmless heat. Organic UVAs are pr...
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Damien Mathis, Pierre Blanchet, Véronic Landry and Philippe Lagière
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Alejandro Padilla-Rivera, Julie Barrette, Pierre Blanchet and Evelyne Thiffault
Global demand for renewable energy has increased drastically over the last decade due to new climate change policies implemented in many jurisdictions. Wood pellets made from primary wood processing mill residues represent an attractive source of renewab...
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Véronic Landry, Pierre Blanchet, Gabrielle Boivin, Jean-François Bouffard and Mirela Vlad
Ultraviolet light emitting diodes (UV-LEDs) have attracted great interest in recent years. They can be used to polymerize coatings, such as those used for prefinished wood flooring. In this project, two lamps were compared for their suitability to be use...
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