Green Building Design

Areas of Research Focus

  • Smart building systems
  • Multi-scale concrete material design, modeling, and characterization
  • Energy workforce development
  • Alternative and supplementary cementitious materials with low carbon footprint
  • Multi-material joining
  • Multi-functional fiber-reinforced cementitious/ceramic composites for smart infrastructure systems
  • Computational design of materials and structures
  • Energy storage and large-scale carbon sequestration
  • Non-destructive tools for monitoring and repair of structural components
  • Machine learning and additive manufacturing
  • Novel nanocomposites to introduce multi-functionality in conventional engineering materials
  • Tailorable, multi-functional, eco-friendly, and hybrid materials for aerospace, marine, defense, automotive, and structural applications
  • Energy efficiency and building energy modeling and simulation
  • Occupant behavior in buildings
  • Industrial decarbonization
  • Building-grid interactions and demand response

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Brice Nelson

Brice Nelson

Director of Corporate Partnerships
517.884.2368
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