Posts Tagged: sustainable infrastructure
Enabling the next generation of sustainable and resilient infrastructure Building better and safer structures, such as high-rise buildings, bridges, dams, highways and even nuclear power plants, to withstand extreme conditions takes innovation and testing. An upgraded facility to simulate the…
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 Rodriguez, a fourth-year architecture student and Javeriya Hasan, a PhD…
University of Toronto Engineering graduate Ivan Damnjanovic (CivE 1T4+PEY) has developed software that harnesses the power of data science and traditional engineering to make sustainable building management less expensive and more productive than ever before. The engineer and computer scientist…
May 20, 2021 | Globe and Mail Event – Webcast
Work is underway in Professor Shoshanna Saxe’s (CivMin) lab to create the world’s largest detailed database of construction materials used in buildings and transport infrastructure. “Materials are the biggest driver of cost and environmental impact on a construction project,” explains…
A team of researchers from U of T Engineering is partnering with the construction industry to help reduce the carbon footprint of buildings, bridges, public transit and other major infrastructure projects. “What we’re building is a decision-support tool that can…
This story originally appeared on U of T Engineering News. Professors Penney Gilbert (IBBME) and Marianne Hatzopoulou (CivE) have been named Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) in an announcement made today by federal science minister Kirsty Duncan at the…
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