
Background
Marianne Touchie joined the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in July 2016 and received tenure in 2022. She is jointly appointed in the Departments of Civil & Mineral Engineering and Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto and Director of the Building Energy and Indoor Environment Lab. She completed her BASc (2009) and PhD (2014) in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto. Upon completion of her PhD, she became the Building Research Manager at the Toronto Atmospheric Fund and was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Touchie’s research focuses on reducing the environmental impact of buildings while improving the occupant experience. She has developed novel building performance assessment methods and integrated retrofit approaches that consider both energy efficiency and the quality of the indoor environment. Dr. Touchie is one of Canada’s leading authorities on multi-unit residential building performance, particularly in the social housing sector. Her interdisciplinary research program explores the interactions between occupant behaviour, the building enclosure and mechanical systems and how these three factors can be engineered to improve energy performance, indoor environmental quality and occupant comfort, health and wellbeing.
Dr. Touchie is one of Canada’s inaugural Clean 50 and has received numerous awards for teaching and research including the ASHRAE New Investigator Award, UofT’s Connaught New Researcher Award and the McCharles Prize for early career research distinction. She is also the co-founder and former President of the Building Science Specialist Board (BSSB) of Canada. She currently serves as a BSSB board member and as a voting member on ASHRAE Technical Committee 4.3 on Ventilation and Infiltration. She teaches courses in Building Science, HVAC Fundamentals and Building Performance Assessment.
My Research Website
https://hab.civmin.utoronto.ca/people/dr-marianne-touchie/
Education and Designations
PhD Civil Engineering (2014) University of Toronto
BASc Civil Engineering (2009) University of Toronto
Teaching
Course Code | Title & Description | Session | Day(s) | Start Time | End | Section |
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CIV375H | Fall | Scheduled by the Office of the Faculty Registrar. | ||||
MIE507H | Scheduled by the Office of the Faculty Registrar. |
News Mentions
Undergrad summer student research positions explored The following is part of a series introducing CivMin’s undergraduate summer students to the Department and our greater community. We explore the students’ projects, motivation and challenges, while providing insights into who they are, and what motivates them, beyond academia. It also highlights the multitude of ways summer research […]
CivMin’s Professor Marianne Touchie is among 14 U of T Engineering faculty members and staff honoured for their outstanding contributions to the Faculty with teaching, research and administrative staff awards. These awards recognize exceptional faculty and staff members for their leadership, citizenship, innovation and contributions to the Faculty’s teaching, service and research missions. “As […]
As the University of Toronto implements energy retrofits to buildings across its three campuses to meet its aggressive greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, one group of researchers will use the opportunity to improve the well-being of students, faculty, and staff. The research project entitled ‘Wellbeing and The Built Environment: A New Framework for U […]
Contact
Marianne Touchie
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
University of Toronto
35 St. George St.
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5S 1A4
Office: GB314B
Tel: 416-978-5919
Fax: 416-978-6813