Disney scientist to offer insights into massive city-building plan in China
The unprecedented urban building boom in China is the focus of the TD Walter Bean Lecture in Environment, a free public lecture at the University of Waterloo next week
Ben Schwegler, senior vice-president and chief scientist at Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development, will present insights into new conceptual models and technologies required for sustainability, as China seeks to build a city the size of Toronto, from the ground up, every year for the next 20 years. Sponsored by TD, the hour-long lecture takes a view from the front lines of this amazing real-world challenge.
Schwegler is also a consulting professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University.
DATE: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 TIME: 5:30 p.m. LOCATION:J.G. Hagey Hall of the Humanities, University of Waterloo PARKING: Free in Lot H, across from the theatre
While the event is free, registration is required.
