Team
Alexandre Vigneault
Alexandre is a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the field of clean energy and distributed hydrogen production. He holds a masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sherbrooke, Québec, where he conducted research on biochemicals and biofuels from biomass waste. Since 2008, he has worked with BioSpectra performing a series of life cycle assessments on a range of household eco-products focusing on measuring and reducing the carbon footprint. He is currently working at UBC in partnership with local companies on projects to produce biogas and fertilizers from agricultural and food waste. He was a founding member of Common Energy UBC in 2007, which was key in initiating the UBC Climate Action Plan, a multi-stakeholder process to move UBC beyond carbon neutrality. Alexandre has been an initial board member of the goBEYOND project, supporting thousands of students across B.C. to take meaningful action on climate change and sustainability. Alexandre currently sits on the board of Connecting Environmental Professional and Leadnow, an independent advocacy organization to achieve progress through democracy. Alexandre works as a consultant for Raincity Strategies and Beyond Climate Solutions.
Matt Dolf
Matt has a Master of Advanced Studies in Sports Administration & Technology from the International Academy of Sports Science and Technology (AISTS). Currently he is pursuing a PhD jointly at the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Kinesiology and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Matt’s research applies LCA to the sport event industry to develop new approaches to measure and model their environmental performance. He also has expertise in the development of environmental sustainability management standards and guidelines. Specifically in the event sector he is a co-author of the AISTS/VANOC Sustainable Sport and Event Toolkit (SSET) supported by the IOC, and was on the authoring committee that created the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Z2010 Standard for Sustainable Event Management. As the former Assistant Director – Research & Projects Manager at AISTS, Matt led research work in the fields of Event Management and Environmental Sustainability with numerous major sport organizations. He is also currently Manager at the UBC Center for Sport and Sustainability.
Paul Teehan
Paul holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Engineering and is currently a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia. His current program of study is dedicated to understanding and quantifying the environmental impacts of the electronics and high tech sector using LCA. He also has expertise in energy and transportation systems, clean technology, and climate-relevant policy. He has two long-term projects currently underway with the BBC and with UBC’s IT department developing tools for environmentally-informed decision making regarding technology systems using information from LCA studies.
Rob Sianchuk
Rob Sianchuk is a life cycle assessment (LCA) practitioner with four years experience teaching, advising and practicing LCA in industry and academia. Mr. Sianchuk currently consults as a Research Associate with the Athena Sustainable Materials Institute (since 2010) and as a Principal of Coldstream Consulting (since 2011) with professional affiliations to the University of British Columbia, as a Sessional Lecturer in the Civil Engineering Department (since 2009) and as a Instructor in Continuing Studies (since 2010), and is a founding member of the Life Cycle Assessment Alliance, an interdisciplinary LCA think-tank (since 2010). Mr. Sianchuk’s current roles as a consulting LCA practitioner have developed in the area of whole building LCA. Notable project work in academia include coordinating the completion of 38 LCA studies of UBC buildings and Olympic venues (for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games Impact study), leading the development of the UBC LCA Database and the integration of LCA into construction planning practices at UBC, as well as and advising UBCs Waste Action Plan. In industry, Mr. Sianchuk’s notable experience include developing brick and fiber cement product manufacturing life cycle inventory information, performing whole building LCA studies on new construction and renovation projects and advising InterfaceFLOR and the Swiss Consulate’s LCA market development strategies.
Stefan Storey
After graduating from Engineering Physics, and later completing a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Stefan focused his studies on life cycle assessment. He is a fellow of the interdisciplinary Bridge Program and has studied at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis. Stefan is currently studying at the Institute of Resources, the Environment and Sustainability, UBC, where he is collaborating with the UBC Sustainability Office along with industrial partners at BC Hydro and architects at Perkins+Will. He is analysing GHG abatement opportunities at the building scale and using life cycle costing to quantify the efficacy of low carbon financial models for commercial buildings. He is co-founder of UBC Emerging Green Builders, a green building advocacy group at UBC Vancouver campus. Recently, Stefan joined the new UBC Sustainable Building Science Program, an interdisciplinary education program where he continues his work on life cycle assessment methods to quantify the financial and environmental impacts of commercial buildings.
Siduo Zhang
After receiving a Bachelor’s degree on Environmental Science from Nankai University in China, Siduo is currently pursuing a Master of Science degree at the University of British Columbia. Her thesis research is on environmental assessment of farm-greenhouse energy integration based on anaerobic digestion biogas. LCA is the main tool she uses to systematically assess the environmental and health impact of the proposed farm-greenhouse integration. She works on Simapro software and databases like EcoInvent and US LCI. She has also actively got involved into the Industrial Ecology (IE) field where LCA is a crucial pillar. She is a member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE) and presented her work in the Symposium on Industrial Ecology for Young Professionals in 2011. She is motivated to carry on the work on LCA and promote sustainability.
