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The Civil and Environmental Engineering Department extends their congratulations to the winning team for the highly competitive 2023 Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) Expand Your Empire (EYE) Development Conference (9^th annual edition).

Created and operated by our department! UW weather station has provided our community with local weather data since Feb 28th, 1998. Local media often highlights the station and the data the it collects. Private citizens, schools, industry and others have used and appreciate the data. UW courses also rely on the station for teaching and research.

Wayne Parker's ENVE 577 (Engineering for Solid Waste Management) class recently toured the Region of Waterloo's landfill and Materials Recovery Facility. Tracy Annett (UoW Civil alumnus) provided an excellent tour and discussed ongoing initiatives at the site.

Have a listen to this amazing interview with the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology, Nandita Basu.

Flood risk assessment is currently reliant on models and databases that were assembled with relatively coarse data about buildings and the landscape. New data-acquisition technologies offer the potential for a huge leap forward in resolution, but also introduce a new set of problems related to data management and the extraction of information. The focus of this project is the "micro" or property-scale characterization of building attributes and drainage details to support a novel flood modeling and risk assessment strategy. Data gathering technologies will include street level photography and lidar scans to obtain complete surveys of urban environments.

Tyler is a 3rd year PhD candidate in Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His research focuses on the development of mass timber composites panels for use in the long span applications necessary in large wood structures. The aim of his research is to develop fundamental knowledge of mass timber composites through experimental tests, and to develop analytical and numerical tools capable of predicting their strength and stiffness.

A national publication has recognized Waterloo Engineering alumnus Briar Beers (BASc ’07, civil engineering) for her achievements in the construction industry.

Carl Haas has contributed seminal new knowledge in the principles behind, the inter-dependencies among and the circular economic applications of computer vision, mixed reality, building information modelling and human-robotic-systems. Key barriers in the way of moving toward a circular economy in the built environment include the scale, complexity, and uncertainty associated with constructing, maintaining and deconstructing our built environment. His contributions improve complex, built environment systems’ performance.

Urban Engineering Week 2022 has been a highlight for the department and the Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering, Nadine Ibrahim, this term, which took place Oct 31 - Nov 4 2022, aligning to start with UN Habitat’s World Cities Day.  

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