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
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment
Email address: Email me
Phone: (828) 262-7481