Michael Lacasse has been involved with CIB since 1994 and is Coordinator of CIB Working Commission W080 on Prediction of Service Life of Building Materials and Components.
His day job is with the Construction Research Center of the National Research Council Canada (NRC), with over 30 years’ experience as a building engineer. As such, he has overseen work over a broad spectrum of building envelope research that includes the weathertightness of building enclosures, evaluating the thermal and moisture response of highly insulated wood-frame wall assemblies, development of methods to assess the long-term performance of building components and envelope assemblies, and the expected resilience of building enclosures to the effects of climate change.
In our conversation with Michael in May 2021 we discussed all of these issues. Unfortunately a technical glitch meant we were cut off before the end and we didn’t get Michael’s closing message, but afterwards he confirmed that the primary challenge facing politicians and policy makers is climate change and there is an urgent need to address this threat to our wellbeing without any waste in time.
