Hannah received her BEng of Environmental Engineering from Carleton University. Her research focuses on how people aging in place can modify their homes’ indoor environmental quality to support health and comfort.
Projects
Improving Residential Indoor Environmental Quality to Promote Aging in Place
This project uses surveys, interviews, and field measurements to characterize the indoor environmental conditions (including light, thermal, acoustic and air-quality) in seniors’ homes, to provide targets for improvement.
Publications
Journal Publications
Arceo, A., Touchie, M.F., O’Brien, W. Hong, T., Malik, J. Mayer, M., Peters, T., Saxe, S., Tamas, R., Villeneuve, H., Schmaltz, B., “Ten Questions Concerning Housing Sufficiency,” Building and Environment, 277, (2025), 112941, doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2025.112941
Conference Publications
Veitch, J.A., Nixon, A., Cunha, I.B., Eakin, K, Villeneuve, H, O’Brien, W., Touchie, M. (2025). “Lighting conditions in the homes of older adults: Are they suitable for healthy aging in place?” in the Proceedings of the CIE 2025 Midterm Meeting (pp. 1166-1173). Vienna, Austria, July 4-11, 2025, doi: 10.25039/x051.2025/v6umqq
Cunha, I.B., Skoda, S., Veitch, J.A., Nixon, A., Mahn, J., Villeneuve, H., O’Brien, W., Eakin, K., Touchie, M. F. “Outdoor-to-indoor noise perception survey of Canadians aging in place — Preliminary results” in the Proceedings of the 54th International Congress & Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (pp. 1356-1364). Sao Paolo, Brazil, August 24-27, 2025, doi: 10.29327/9786527215738
Villeneuve, H., Sewraj, K., O’Brien, W., Touchie, M.F., “Understanding Adaptive Opportunities and Indoor Environmental Quality for Aging in Place: A Pilot Study” in the Comfort at the Extremes (CATE) 2024 Conference, Seville, Spain, November 20-22, 2024