Paul Crovella

The focus of my teaching, research, and service is in Sustainable Construction and Construction Management. In particular, I am interested in working to develop students as leaders to advance the construction industry to meet our environmental challenges.

Current Areas of Focus:

• Low Carbon/Mass Timber Construction
• Existing Buildings and Adaptive Reuse

The primary focus of my research is on sustainable and healthy buildings.

• Sustainable Construction research includes:
• Mass Timber construction - Focuses on the use of wood construction as a solution to the challenges of climate change. This includes studies on material properties of mass timber products, efficiency in the construction processes, and efficient structural systems.
• Building Information Modelling - Focuses on the use of semantic-rich databases to improve the efficiency of new construction and retrofitting of existing buildings to reduce the impact on the environment.
• Adaptive Reuse - Historical preservation - Focuses on the development of tools for non-destructive testing of existing timber structures to ensure their efficient reuse.
• Healthy Building research includes:
• Evidence-based design - Focuses on the impact of sustainable building features on the attitude and performance of the occupants
• Deconstruction - Focuses on the impacts of building materials on the environment and surroundings.