Aeryon Labs and a University of Waterloo team led by Waterloo mechanical and mechatronics professor Steve Waslander have won this year’s Ontario Centres of Excellence Mind to Market Award. Aeryon Labs was co-founded by Waterloo Engineering alumni Dave Kroetsch (BASc ’02, Comp, MASc ’07, Mech), Mike Peasgood (BASc ’98, MASc ’02, PhD ’08, SD) and Steffen Lindner (BASc ’92, MASc ’95, SD). The company developed the Aeryon Scout, an innovative, easy-to-use, battery powered, unmanned aerial intelligence gathering system with integrated camera solutions.
Straube provides expert opinion on throw-away buildings
“Now is about when we should start seeing trouble with 1990s buildings, with the glass starting to get fogged up, the rubber gaskets and sealants starting to fail,” John Straube, a Waterloo architecture and civil and environmental engineering professor, told a CBC reporter for a special radio and television series investigating the short-term durability and long-term costs of Toronto’s glass-walled condos.