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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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Congratulations Ju An Park (2021, MASc, pictured left) and Max Midwinter (2025 PhD, pictured right), University of Waterloo Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate students (supervised by Chul Min Yeum), their paper entitled “Multioutput Image Classification to Support Postearthquake Reconnaissance” has been selected to be featured in the Editor’s Choice sect

Students set to break ground on affordable, net-zero house

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Dr. Scott Walbridge has been selected as the new chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo.  

Walbridge, who will take over from outgoing chair Dr. Carl Haas, begins a four-year term Nov. 1. 

Dr. Scott Walbridge is the new chair of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo.

On Sunday, October 9, the WEF Students and Young Professionals Committee welcomed 25 teams from 21 schools spanning 4 countries and representing 19 Member Associations to compete in the 2022 Student Design Competition.