Posts Tagged: sustainability
Raymond Bhushan (Year 3, MinE) has been awarded the Okane Consultants Sustainable Mining Scholarship. Currently he’s on his PEY Co-op with Vale at their South Mine location near Sudbury, Ont. The […]
Undergrad summer student research positions explored The following is part of a series introducing CivMin’s undergraduate summer students to the Department and our greater community. We explore the students’ projects, […]
New research explores the potential of artificial intelligence to optimize heating and cooling in buildings on the U of T campus We know we are supposed to switch the lights […]
Ike Arzoumanian, a second-year Civil Engineering student, was part of a multidisciplinary team of three people to win first place at the Sustainable Buildings Challenge. The winning trio includes Eliany […]
One of the most powerful tools for mitigating the impact of climate change could be a material that is so common we tend not to think about it very much […]
April 22, 2022 | CBC News
Microplastics exist all around us — in the water we drink, the food we eat and the air we breathe. But before researchers can understand the real impact of […]
In advance of the coming Graduate Research Days, February 24 & 25, CivMin contacted previous participants to get their point of view on the event and their research goals at […]
With thousands of wells and counting, the Northeast region of British Columbia is one of Canada’s most important hubs of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — the process of blasting pressurized […]
For Professor Doug Hooton (CivMin), the challenge isn’t really the chemistry or the engineering. It’s trust. “Construction is a very conservative industry, and it’s very decentralized,” he says. “You have building owners, […]
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