Naomi Keena, McGill University

Research

circular economy built environment architecture, engineering, and construction industry built environment process building value chain sustainable design life cycle analysis design-of-dissassembly

Latest papers

Entropy and Cities: A Bibliographic Analysis towards More Circular and Sustainable Urban Environments.
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023 · senior author

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Circular economy in the Canadian built environment: An initial investigation
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$33,836
Circular economy in the Canadian built environment: An initial investigation
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
$40,798
ReCONstruct: Building Energy Retrofit Solutions for Canada / ReCONstruire: Solutions de rénovation énergétique des bâtiments pour le Canada
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
$2,136,225

All 3 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

Entropy and Cities: A Bibliographic Analysis towards More Circular and Sustainable Urban Environments.

Rondinel-Oviedo DR, Keena N

Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)2023Senior author

DOI: 10.3390/e25030532 PMID: 36981420

Circular economy in the Canadian built environment: An initial investigation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Keena, Naomi

Keywords: circular economy; built environment; architecture, engineering, and construction industry; built environment process; building value chain; sustainable design; life cycle analysis; design-of-dissassembly; digitalization; waste management

$33,836

Circular economy in the Canadian built environment: An initial investigation

Principal investigatorSSHRC2022Insight Development Grant

Principal investigators: Keena, Naomi

Keywords: circular economy; built environment; architecture, engineering, and construction industry; built environment process; building value chain; sustainable design; life cycle analysis; design-of-dissassembly; digitalization; waste management

$40,798

ReCONstruct: Building Energy Retrofit Solutions for Canada / ReCONstruire: Solutions de rénovation énergétique des bâtiments pour le Canada

Co-investigatorNSERC2021Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Jemtrud, Michael M

Keywords: building energy retrofit; climate change adaptation; community resilience; decarbonization; design for manufacturing assembly; housing; life cycle analysis; low energy buildings; off-site prefabrication; sustainable design

$2,136,225

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: circular economy Dear Professor Keena, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Entropy and Cities: A Bibliographic Analysis towards More Circular and Sustainable Urban Environments." (2023), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Circular economy in the Canadian built environment: An initial investigation" (2022), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]