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Dr. Jacqueline C. Vischer
Director, Gret
Dr.Vischer has a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in Psychology, as well as a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. She has extensive consulting experience in architecture and planning projects in the USA and Canada. She spent five years developing Building Performance studies of office buildings for Public Works Canada in Ottawa - projects from which the Building-In-Use Assessment system emerged, as described in her first two books. She ran a Post-Occupancy Evaluation program for public buildings owned and operated by the State of Massachusetts' Division of Capital Planning. She started Buildings-In-Use in 1990 and opened its Montreal office, Bâtiments-en-Usage, in 1991. BIU/BEU's client list includes The World Bank, Bell Canada, Via Rail, Coopers & Lybrand, Sears, Reuters, Harvard University and MIT, as well as several large and medium-sized companies who have linked a process of organizational restructuring and business transformation to space-related decisions and a new workspace environment. Since 1998, Dr. Vischer has been full-time Professor and Director of the new Interior Design program at the University of Montreal, where she founded the New Work Environments Research Group.
She also teaches Professional Development courses at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and has written and published numerous articles on building evaluation, users' needs in buildings, indoor air quality, user-manager communication, facilities management, and architectural programming (List of publications). She has given numerous papers at conferences, and has organised several conferences herself
• Recipient of the 2004 Edra Lifetime Career Award.
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Valter Tadeu Dubiela
Research assistant
PhD candidate at the Faculty of Environmental Design, Valter is investigating the links between human health and urban space with a view to defining sustainable cities. With a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, in Brazil, Valter was Assistant Professor at the Universidade Estadual de Londrina, where he obtained a degree in Education. He also received a Master degree in geography from Universidade Estadual de Maringá, where he studied environmental conservation policy in urban areas. Attracted by research relating human health to built space, Valder joined the Gret in 2008.
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Sylvain Bertin
Research assistant
PhD candidate in Environmental Design at the University of Montreal, he joined the GRET in 2008 where he participated to the evaluation of the functional comfort in workspaces. His research deals with the lightings needs and the quality of the lighting of the urbanscape. He’s interested on urban lighting planning and the capacity of this type of project to meet the user’s needs. He has a Professional Master in Applied Art from the University of Toulouse II in France (2007), a Research Master in Environmental Design from the University of Montreal (2008) and a Certificate from the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) of Montreal (2008). He works in the fields of the interior design, architecture, urbanism and lighting design.
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Sylvie Grégoire-Trudel
Research assistant
Now completing her third and final year of the Interior Design undergraduate (professional) program at the Faculté de l'aménagement, Sylvie received her Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the Université de Sherbrooke in 2001. She worked for five years as a methodologist, responsible for surveys at Statistics Canada. Sylvie has been at the Gret since February 2009, and is involved with our call centre study, as well as with major research on the Gret's unique building evaluation database.
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