Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment

Education:

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Future Cities Lab Global, ETH Zurich, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore, 2023
• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2019
• M.S., Construction Project Management, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, 2012
• B.S., Civil Engineering, Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, 2010

Teaching Specialties: 

• Planning and Scheduling
• Sustainable Building Design
• Construction Engineering
• Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Professional Organizations and Affiliations: 

• Energy Council of Canada
• National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT) Mexico

Research Interests:

• Circular Economy in the construction industry
• Disassembly Planning and Design for Disassembly (DfD) for buildings
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for buildings
• Automation in Construction
• Building Information Modeling (BIM)

Publications:

• Sanchez, Benjamin; Rausch, Christopher & Haas, Carl. (2022). Feature modeling for configurable and adaptable modular buildings. Advanced Engineering Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aei.2021.101514, [Journal Impact Factor (2021): 5.603, JCR Quartile (2021): Q1]
• Sanchez, Benjamin; Rausch, Christopher; Haas, Carl; & Hartmann, Timo. (2021). A framework for BIM-based disassembly models to support reuse of building components. Resources, Conservation and Recycling Journal, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105825 [Journal Impact Factor (2020): 10.204, JCR Quartile (2020): Q1]
• Sanchez, Benjamin; Rausch, Christopher; Haas, Carl; & Saari, Rebecca. (2020). A selective disassembly multi-objective optimization approach for adaptive reuse of building components. Resources, Conservation and Recycling Journal, 154(104605). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104605 [Journal Impact Factor (2020): 10.204, JCR Quartile (2020): Q1]
• Sanchez, Benjamin; Rausch, Christopher & Haas, Carl. (2019). Deconstruction programming for adaptive reuse of buildings. Automation in Construction, 107(102921), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2019.102921 [Journal Impact Factor (2020): 7.700, JCR Quartile (2020): Q1]
• Sanchez, Benjamin, & Haas, Carl. (2018). A novel selective disassembly sequence planning method for adaptive reuse of buildings. Journal of Cleaner Production, 183, 998-1010. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.201 [Journal Impact Factor (2020): 9.297, JCR Quartile (2020): Q1]
• Sanchez, Benjamin, & Haas, Carl. (2018). Capital project planning for a circular economy. Construction Management and Economics, 1-10. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2018.1435895 [Journal Impact Factor (2019): 3.433, SJR Quartile (2019): Q1]

Courses Taught:

• BSC 1310: Materials and Structures I
• BSC 3630: Planning and Scheduling