Research in policy and practice · Story 104 · December 2023
Professor Amir’s research informs Canadian construction-workforce climate analysis
Canada’s Building Trades Unions · Climate and Industry Research Team
- Role
- Workforce-training evidence
- Host
- Canada’s Building Trades Unions · Climate and Industry Research Team
- Publication
- Advancing Climate Literacy in Union Vocational Education and Training Programs in English Canada: Analysis, Findings and Lessons Learned
- Contribution
- Workforce-training evidence
- Evidence
- December 2023 · pages 41 and 63 · footnotes 92 and 148
Research reaching practice
A Canadian construction-workforce report draws on Professor Amir’s healthy-building research and building-rating research in its analysis of climate literacy and net-zero construction.
How the research was used
The indoor-air discussion uses the sick-building review when explaining ventilation and occupant health. A later section draws on the Doan-led rating-systems review involving Professor Amir to frame voluntary building standards and the skills needed for net-zero construction.
The documented contribution
This is research informing workforce-training analysis. The report was compiled by John Calvert and Lee Loftus for Building It Green; the source does not establish Professor Amir’s report authorship or adoption of a training curriculum.
Research and coauthor credit
Sick building syndrome: are we doing enough? — Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini; Husam AlWaer; Hossein Omrany; Ali Ghaffarianhoseini; Chaham Alalouch; Derek Clements-Croome; John Tookey. DOI: 10.1080/00038628.2018.1461060 A critical comparison of green building rating systems — Dat Tien Doan; Ali Ghaffarianhoseini; Nicola Naismith; Tongrui Zhang; Amirhosein Ghaffarianhoseini; John Tookey. DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2017.07.007
