Mehdi Zahed , OAA, RAIC

Professor Mehdi Zahed is a registered architect with the Ontario Association of Architects (OAA), a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC), a full-time professor in Architectural Technology programs at Algonquin College Ottawa campus with more than 25 years of architecture, academia and construction industry experience. Professor Zahed is also a researcher in the field of sustainable development and building information modelling (BIM) in Canada and the United States. In his recent experience, he has worked as a Visiting Scholar in collaboration with the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), RE2-LAB, to address climate change in the building sector. Professor Zahed won the award for excellence in teaching in the field of architectural technology from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton, Alberta, in 2020 and from Algonquin College in 2024. He has a passion for helping others and coaching the younger generation to excel in their goals. Professor Zahed had served as the Chair for Skills Alberta (2011 – 2020) and played a key role as a co-founder of the Carbon Leadership Forum (CLF) in Alberta (2019). He is a Building Envelope Council Ottawa Region (BECOR) board member and the Students Programs Advisor (2023). Professor Zahed believes that quality education and professional coaching have an everlasting impact on people’s careers and lives.