NAOMI KEENA
BIOGRAPHY
Naomi Keena is Assistant Professor at McGill University’s School of Architecture. She is the founding director of McGill’s TRACE Lab, the Think-tank and Research in Architecture and Circular Economy lab, where she leads a team of researchers investigating data driven, life cycle approaches to grand challenges such as Canada’s housing supply crisis and environmental sustainability in the building sector.
Keena has experience in executing large scale research programs with TRACE Lab’s current research projects supported by SSHRC, FRQSC, CMHC and UNEP. Keena has taught at Sheffield University, UK and Yale University, USA. She was a co-founding scientific researcher of Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture where she conducted her Postdoctoral training. She holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Keena is a Fulbright Fellowship recipient and has published and presented her research widely. She was one of the lead authors of a recent UNEP and Yale CEA report ‘Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future’.
Her research has been published in many peer-review journals such as Technology I Architecture + Design (TAD); Energies; Journal of Industrial Ecology; Cleaner Engineering and Technology; the Journal of Ecological Modelling; the Journal of Electronic Imaging; book chapters in ‘Embodied Energy and Design’ (Lars Müller Publishers, 2017) and ‘Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future: Policies, Technologies and Education by 2050’ (Springer, 2022); as well as a book co-authored with Dr. Avi Friedman titled ‘Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy’ (Routledge, 2024).
NAOMI KEENA
BIOGRAPHY
Naomi Keena is Assistant Professor at McGill University’s School of Architecture. She is the founding director of McGill’s TRACE Lab, the Think-tank and Research in Architecture and Circular Economy lab, where she leads a team of researchers investigating data driven, life cycle approaches to grand challenges such as Canada’s housing supply crisis and environmental sustainability in the building sector.
Keena has experience in executing large scale research programs with TRACE Lab’s current research projects supported by SSHRC, FRQSC, CMHC and UNEP. Keena has taught at Sheffield University, UK and Yale University, USA. She was a co-founding scientific researcher of Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture where she conducted her Postdoctoral training. She holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Keena is a Fulbright Fellowship recipient and has published and presented her research widely. She was one of the lead authors of a recent UNEP and Yale CEA report ‘Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future’.
Her research has been published in many peer-review journals such as Technology I Architecture + Design (TAD); Energies; Journal of Industrial Ecology; Cleaner Engineering and Technology; the Journal of Ecological Modelling; the Journal of Electronic Imaging; book chapters in ‘Embodied Energy and Design’ (Lars Müller Publishers, 2017) and ‘Handbook of Sustainability Science in the Future: Policies, Technologies and Education by 2050’ (Springer, 2022); as well as a book co-authored with Dr. Avi Friedman titled ‘Sustainable Housing in a Circular Economy’ (Routledge, 2024).