Dr. Michael A. Lacasse is a senior research officer in the Construction Research Center of the National Research Council Canada (NRC) having over 29 years’ experience as a building engineer. For the last decade he has acted as team leader to the Facades Systems and Products group at NRC-Construction. 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 more recently, on the expected resilience of building enclosures to the effects of climate change.
As an active member of the CIB technical committee W080 “Prediction of Service Life of Building Materials and Components” since 1994, he currently, is one of the three joint research co-coordinators for this committee’s activities. He also chairs the ISO TC59 SC14 on “Design Life of Buildings”, for which he is also chair of the Canadian Advisory Committee. Additionally, he chairs the ISO TC59 AG 2 “Climate change adaptation”.
More recently, he supported the work of the National Building Code of Canada’s standing committee on “Environmental separation” and also worked on the Canadian Standards Association committee to revise the standard CSA S478 “Guideline on Durability in Buildings”. He also participates in ASTM activities of committee E06 on “Performance of Buildings”.
Dr. Lacasse prior to working at the NRC worked both in private industry and government construction agencies
Additional information can be obtained from NRC’s Directory of science professionals:
https://nrc.canada.ca/en/corporate/contact-us/nrc-directory-science-professionals/michael-lacasse
Additional links
See ResearchGate profile at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael_Lacasse
See author detailsat https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7004549995
See ORCID information at http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7640-3701
See Google Scholar profile at https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=8t80jEQAAAAJ&hl=en
See LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-lacasse-08a18a14/
Contact: Michael is a co-coordinator for W080 commission on the Prediction of Service Life of Building Materials and Components and can be reached at: [email protected] or at [email protected]
