Corey Gracie-Griffin | Institute of Energy and the Environment

W110 Smith Building
Altoona, PA 16601

Elsevier Pure Profile

IEE Research Themes

Equitable Communities and the Built Environment

Affiliate Researcher

Professor, Division of Arts & Humanities (Altoona)

Research Summary

Intersections of green buildings and structural systems including low-carbon structural materials, life-cycle analysis, non-technical barriers to adoption, integrated design, adaptive reuse, and multi-performance retrofits to existing buildings.

In the News

Fuller family offers $23.3 million gift, stewardship of historic property | Penn State University

November 18, 2024

Fuller family offers $23.3 million gift, stewardship of historic property

Penn State announces tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2024 | Penn State University

May 29, 2024

Penn State announces tenure-line faculty promotions, effective July 1, 2024

Penn State-led Global Building Network at forefront of building performance | Penn State University

July 30, 2019

Penn State-led Global Building Network at forefront of building performance

Institutes of Energy and the Environment announces seed grant recipients | Penn State University

May 7, 2019

Institutes of Energy and the Environment announces seed grant recipients

Research Keywords

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Office Buildings

Developing Countries

Concrete Construction

Environmental Impact

Sustainable Development

Zero Energy Buildings

Structural Properties

Energy Utilization

Environmental Quality

Electric Lighting

Concrete Buildings

Projects

Worker installing insulation on a passive house facade

Quantifying Enhanced Performance of Passive House (PH) over Conventional Buildings

Taped plywood panels on a building that is under construction

Resilient and Energy Efficient Envelopes for Passive House Standard Buildings

Recent Publications

Small-scale testing of air barrier systems adhered to sheathing boards under in-plane cyclic loading simulating a seismic event

Abdelwahab, K., Memari, A., Gracie-Griffin, C. & Iulo, L., Jul 2024, In: Case Studies in Construction Materials. 20, e02686.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Detailed energy efficiency strategies for converting an existing office building to NZEB: a case study in the Pacific Northwest

Alajmi, A., Short, A., Ferguson, J., Poel, K. V. & Griffin, C., 2020, In: Energy Efficiency.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Comparing the embodied carbon and energy of a mass timber structure system to typical steel and concrete alternatives for parking garages

Zeitz, A., Griffin, C. T. & Dusicka, P., Sep 15 2019, In: Energy and Buildings. 199, p. 126-133 8 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

An Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) assessment of a partially-retrofitted university building

Zuhaib, S., Manton, R., Griffin, C., Hajdukiewicz, M., Keane, M. M. & Goggins, J., Jul 1 2018, In: Building and Environment. 139, p. 69-85 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Oregon design professionals views on structural building products in green buildings: Implications for wood

Knowles, C., Theodoropoulos, C., Griffin, C. & Allen, J., Jan 2011, In: Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 41, 2, p. 390-400 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review