John ARCHER

B.Art, B.Arch, M.Arts, MRAIC
Director, Sustainable Development
Cement Association of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

John Archer has a background in architecture, housing and Canadian history, with undergraduate degrees from McGill University and Carleton University and a graduate degree from the Institute of Canadian Studies at Carleton University.

John Archer joined the Cement Association of Canada in 2007. Previous positions include Secretary to the Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes and Secretary General of the Canadian Construction Research Board at the National Research Council Canada. John has also worked at the Canadian Home Builders' Association as Director of Technical Research, as a Senior Researcher at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation and in architectural practice in Ottawa and Toronto. He is currently an Adjunct Research Professor at Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University.

Umberto ARENA

Full professor of Chemical Engineering,
Second University of Naples

He is a member of a number of international and national committees (like the Int. Group on LCA for Integrated Waste Management, Int. Advisory Board of the Int. Conf. on Circulating Fluidized Beds and the Int. Scientific Comm. of the Engineering Foundation on Fluidization) and consultant of several companies and research centres.

He is author of more than 70 scientific papers published in international journals (like AIChE Journal, Chemical Eng. Sci., The Chemical Engineer, J. of Industrial Ecology, Waste Management, Canadian J. of Chem. Eng., Powder Technology, Combustion Sci. and Tech., Combustion and Flame, Polymer Degradation & Stability, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.). He wrote the chapters Gas Mixing in the book “Circulating Fluidized Beds” (Chapman & Hall, 1997) and "Fluidized Bed Pyrolysis of Plastic Wastes in the book “Feedstock Recycling and Pyrolysis of Waste Plastics” (J. Wiley&Sons, 2006).

His research activity is mainly oriented to environmental assessment of recycling chains and waste management treatments by means of Life Cycle Assessment and Material Flow Analysis. It is an expert of fluidized bed technology, in particular when applied to thermal treatments of biomass and wastes and to new processes for carbon nanotubes production by pyrolysis of plastics.

Domenico ASPRONE

B.Sc in Civil Engineering at University "Federico II" of Naples, 2005
Ph.D. Candidate in Materials and Structural Engineering at University "Federico II"
of Naples
AMRA researcher from 2005 on Homeland Security line, coordinated
by prof. Antonio Nanni

His research interest is focused on theoretical and experimental investigations on non-linear behavior of structures under high dynamic loads, impulsive dynamics, man-made and natural threats and blast protection techniques. Within AMRA homeland security line, he works on several research projects focused on human-made and natural risk on strategic infrastructures. He is also involved in new multi-performance material development, such as natural fiber composites and inorganic composites

Andre BOURASSA

Président de l'Ordre des Architectes du Québec

Andre Bourassa started his career in 1973 as a Trade Commissioner in the Canadian Foreign Service. From 1984 on, he has worked in international relations in the minerals metals sector for Natural Resources Canada. This period includes a three year term as Vice-President, Metal Stewardship, at the International Council on Metals and the Environment (ICME). Since 2002, he has acted as the Secretariat first for the Global Dialogue on Mining/Metals and then for the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development.
He is a professional Engineer and has a Master degree in Economics.

Cecile BULLE

Agente de recherche
(Génie chimique - école Polytechnique de Montréal)
cecile.bulle@polymtl.ca

• Modélisation des impacts du cycle de vie
• Modélisation du devenir environnemental des mélanges organiques complexes : interactions entre contaminants, influence des conditions locales (type de sol, etc...)
• Modélisation des impacts écotoxicologiques et toxicologiques des métaux
• Bâtiment durable

09/1991-06/1997 : Obtention d'un diplôme d'ingénieur chimiste de l'école supérieure de Chimie, Physique et électronique de Lyon CPE-Lyon) complété par une année en échange avec l'école Polytechnique de Montréal (année scolaire 1996-1997).

12/1997-07/1998 : Product Manager pour Kemira Process Chemicals à Wavre (Belgique), responsable du développement et de la mise sur le marché Européen d'une nouvelle gamme de produits à vocation environnementale (nutriments pour bactéries pour les stations d'épuration, pour le traitement biologique des sols contaminés…)

09/1998-06/2000 : Ingénieur commercial pour Olsten travail temporaire responsable du recrutement et du contact avec les clients industriels, plus particulièrement dans le domaine de la chimie et de l'Environnement.

09/2000-06/2001 : Obtention d'un Diplôme d'études Approfondies (DEA) en Géoscience de l'Environnement (mention bien), major de la promotion 2001 du Centre Européen de Recherche et d'études en Géosciences de l'Environnement (CEREGE), Université d'Aix-Marseille III. Projet de recherche : « étude de la spéciation du Chrome et de sa mobilité au sein d'un analogue naturel de ciment altéré vieux de 500 000 ans».

08/2001-11/2007 : Obtention d'un Ph.D. en Génie Chimique à l'école polytechnique de Montréal. Projet de recherche : « Modélisation du devenir environnemental d'un mélange organique complexe : influence de l'huile de traitement des poteaux au PCP sur la migration verticale des dioxines et furanes dans les sols ».

Depuis 09/2007 : Agent de recherche au CIRAIG et Chargée de cours (GCH6313 Modélisation environnementale des émissions toxiques)

Depuis 2006 : Auto-constructrice d'une maison durable