Marianne Touchie

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

 

Research Interests

Building science

Building energy use

Indoor environmental quality

Thermal comfort

Energy modelling

Building environmental monitoring

Building retrofits

Occupant behavior

Heat pump technology

Low-energy buildings

Publications

Teaching

Course CodeTitle & DescriptionSessionDay(s)Start TimeEndSection
CIV375HFall Scheduled by the Office of the Faculty Registrar.
CIV575H
Studies In Building ScienceFall 2022Scheduled by the Office of the Faculty Registrar.
MIE507HScheduled by the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

News Mentions

Five U of T Engineering professors on how they’re preparing for an unprecedented Back to Skule™

During a typical academic year, Professor Chirag Variawa’s (ISTEP) pre-lecture ritual involved taking a walk and listening to music before making his way into the Lee & Margaret Lau Auditorium, a large collaborative space in the Myhal Centre that seats nearly 500 people. Inside, the room would be filled to near-capacity with first-year engineering students. “I’d […]

Latest COVID-19 research: Acoustic Comfort

  Prof. Marianne Touchie is working with PhD candidate Maddie Andargie to study the effects of COVID-19 lockdown on noise and acoustic comfort in condo and apartment dwellers. If you live in a condo/apartment in Canada, please consider participating in the 10-minute survey. Those who complete the survey will be entered in a draw for […]

CivMin profs online: A new digital world

Just as students have had to adapt to new ways of learning, professors in the Deparment of Civil & Mineral Engineering have been adept at delivering their online lectures and providing academic continuity. A few professors are sharing their new methods of delivering via the following images.             ~ ~ […]

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

marianne.touchie@utoronto.ca

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