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TORONTO: JULY 18, 2019 -- PEDRAM MORTAZAVI -- Civ PhD Candidate Pedram Mortazavi, MASc, P.Eng, poses with a cast steel EBF in the Structures Lab at the University of Toronto's Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering in Toronto on Thursday, July 18, 2019. His thesis is titled: Cast Steel Replaceable Link Elements in Steel Eccentric Braced Frame (EBF), and is designed to allow a specific piece of a building structure fail in an earthquake so as to allow the structure to remain intact. The sacrificial piece is designed to be standardized and replaceable afterwards.
PHOTO: Phill Snel, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering/ U of T

PhD candidate receives award at Canadian Steel Conference

By Phill Snel | September 30, 2019

VISITING ALUMNAE (ALUMNI) -- Joyee Pu (Min 1T4 + PEY), Senior Operations Anyalyst at Imperial Oil (blue shirt) and Karsmina Kam (Min 0T8), Miner Performance Team Lead at Imperial Oil (in pattern shirt) at the University of Toronto campus on Thursday, September 12, 2019. The duo visited the St George Campus to provide a meet and greet with students on behalf of Imperial Oil/Kearl Oilsands. The company is looking for co-op and full-time employees from within the undergraduate and graduate engineers.
PHOTO: Phill Snel, Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering/ U of T

Alumnae from the west

By Phill Snel | September 26, 2019

Professor Oya Mercan combines computer models and experiments to study how building components stand up to high winds, earthquakes and other stressors. (Photo: Tyler Irving)

Hart professorships boost research into medical diagnostics, smart cities and more

By Phill Snel | September 26, 2019

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Survey Camp Centennial: CAMP100

By Phill Snel | September 11, 2019

Rendering of the HCAT Bunkhouse and MacGillivray Common Room (Credit: V+A Architects)

Take a look inside the new bunkhouse and common room at Survey Camp

By Keenan Dixon | September 10, 2019

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Announcing foundations | The new magazine for the Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering

By Keenan Dixon | September 9, 2019

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From Malaysia to Toronto: Meet your incoming class of 2T3

By Phill Snel | August 29, 2019

During the energy audit at AHPC, Noah Cassidy (left) recorded window temperature with a thermal imaging camera while Niloufar Ghaffari (right) recorded lux readings for lighting retrofits.

U of T student team helps local church achieve sustainability and reduce its energy footprint

By Keenan Dixon | July 31, 2019

These tiny plastic particles were extracted from Toronto’s harbour by U of T researchers Chelsea Rochman and Bob Andrews (photo by Tyler Irving)

Is there plastic in our drinking water? Probably – and U of T researchers are studying how concerned we should be

By Keenan Dixon | July 22, 2019

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Prof. Jennifer Drake & team’s NSERC CREATE grant success

By Phill Snel | July 11, 2019

Professor David Taylor checking on his pressure, flow, and turbidity sensors in a valve chamber in Delhi, India. (Photo courtesy David Taylor)

Why some cities turn off the water pipes at night

By Phill Snel | July 2, 2019

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer delivers a speech on the environment in Chelsea, Que. on June 19, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Without changes, Scheer’s climate plan will be expensive or useless

By Keenan Dixon | June 27, 2019