Hua Ge

Hua Ge is a Professor in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering at Concordia University's Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science. She holds a Tier II Concordia University Research Chair in High Performance Building Envelope for Climate Resilient Buildings and leads extensive research in building science and climate adaptation.

Her research focuses on wind-driven rain analysis, hygrothermal performance of building envelopes, advanced building facades, innovative wood-frame construction, and low-energy buildings. Current work examines climate change impacts on wind-driven rain loads, urban micro-climate effects, climate-resilient building envelopes, dynamic facades, and low-carbon healthy buildings. Her methodology combines large-scale laboratory testing, field monitoring, and computational modeling.

Her 15 most recent publications demonstrate strong trends in nature-based climate resilience solutions, overheating risk mitigation in educational buildings, advanced hygrothermal modeling of wood-frame systems, and carbon sequestration strategies for buildings. The work spans multiple sub-disciplines including computational fluid dynamics, life cycle assessment, stochastic modeling, and field validation studies across Canadian climates.

• Tier II Concordia University Research Chair (CURC) in High Performance Building Envelope for Climate Resilient Buildings
• Professional Engineers of Ontario
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers
• ASHRAE TC4.4 Building materials and building envelope performance (Subcommittee Chair)

Professor Ge has supervised 42 graduate students (26 PhD, 16 MASc), including current advisees working on nature-based solutions, climate-resilient envelopes, and building integrated photovoltaics. Her research is supported by Concordia University Research Chair funding and collaborative projects with institutions like BCIT. She directs activities at Concordia's Building Envelope Test Facility and contributes to national standards through ASHRAE.