Monday, July 15, 2019

Building a sustainable community

Buildings of the future will need to be designed and operated to have a much smaller environmental footprint. That’s why the professors of Carleton’s Building Performance Research Centre are eking out every efficiency they can from building designs. Their goal is to develop tools, technologies, and methods to reduce energy use and greenhouse... More

Friday, July 5, 2019

Graduate student, Aba Owusu and Profs. Salem and Hadjisophocleous received the Outstanding Paper Award

Master of Applied Science student, Aba Owusu and Professors Sam Salem and George Hadjisophocleous received the Outstanding Paper Award at the 6th International Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE'19), 13 - 14 June 2019, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for a paper entitled " Fire Performance of Concealed... More

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Carleton Fire Safety Engineering Group hosted IFireSS 2019

The Fire Safety Engineering Group of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering organised the 3rd International Fire Safety Symposium IFireSS 2019, at Carleton University on June 5-7, 2019.  The goal of the IFireSS Symposia is to contribute to the exchange of ideas and knowledge among experts in the field of fire safety and... More

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Woods receives University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work

  Former Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering student Josh Woods has been awarded the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work – Doctoral Level for his thesis entitled "Advances in Retrofit and Testing of Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls: Part 1 - Seismic Retrofit of Deficient Walls with Fiber-reinforced Polymer Sheets,... More

Thursday, May 23, 2019

Carleton students win 2019 Mike Sheflin student paper competition

A Carleton University Civil Engineering design project group supervised by Ata Khan won first prize in Ontario Public Works Association (OPWA) Mike Sheflin Student Paper Competition held on Friday, April 10, 2019. At this annual event, Carleton University and University of Ottawa Civil Engineering students showcase their best efforts in the area... More

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

The conservation project on the Tomb of King Tutankhamen completed. This was led by Professor Mario Santana Quintero and its team.

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Monday, April 15, 2019

Annual competition for the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR)

The competition this year was held on January 30 - February 3, 2019 in Edmonton, Alberta, and the students had an opportunity to design, build, test, and race a toboggan that is made out of metal and concrete.   Highlights of the event can be viewed at: Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race Highlight Reel... More

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Congratulations to Professors Onita Basu and Burak Gunay for winning a 2019 Research Achievement Award

The Carleton University Research Achievement Awards are administered by the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International). The purpose of these awards is to recognize outstanding research achievements. The awards were established in 1989 to enhance the quality of research and to recognize research excellence. Read more... More

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Congratulations to Professors Banu Örmeci and Liam O’Brien for winning the Faculty of Engineering and Design Teaching Excellence Award

The Faculty of Engineering and Design (FED) is pleased to announce the winners of its annual achievement awards for teaching and... More

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Prof. Banu Örmeci receives the 2019 PEO Ottawa Chapter Citizenship Award

The award program is for Professional Engineers from the Ottawa Chapter who have improved the quality of life through the ingenious application of their engineering skills, going above and beyond the normally high standards of the profession. The presentation of this award is also aimed at furthering public understanding of the professional... More

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Congratulations to Profs. Onita Basu and Burak Gunay for winning the Research Achievement Awards (RAA) for this year.

The University will honour all Achievement Award recipients at a celebration on Tuesday, April 16 at 3 p.m. 2019 Research Achievement... More

Monday, February 11, 2019

AMIR roller developed by Prof. Abd El Halim can eliminate the pavement initial cracks that develop during construction.

The article identifies the root cause of the potholes problem, which is cracking of the pavement layer, and references the AMIR roller developed by Prof. Abd El Halim. Research funded by several agencies including the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario has shown that the AMIR roller can eliminate the pavement initial cracks that develop... More

Monday, February 11, 2019

Profs. Liam O’Brien and Burak Gunay hosted a symposium on building occupant behaviour

Profs. Liam O'Brien and Burak Gunay hosted a symposium on building occupant behaviour, OB-18, and the First Experts' meeting of International Energy Agency - Energy in Buildings and Communities Annex 79: Occupant Behaviour-Centric Building Design and Operation. The events took place on Oct 10-12 at Orange Art Gallery and were attended by about 50... More

Friday, October 5, 2018

Grad Research: From “H” 2 “O”

Ashley Piche, a Master of Applied Science student in Environmental Engineering at Carleton University has compared the performance difference between biological filtration and conventional filtration of our drinking water. To view complete article click... More

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Robbie Venis (PhD student supervised by Professor Onita Basu) is helping to develop a cost effective water filter system in Tanzania

Robbie Venis is a PhD student studying environmental engineering at Carleton University. This summer, he travelled all the way from Ottawa to Longido in an effort to bring clean drinking water to this remote African community. The project is conducted under Dr. Onita Basu's supervision. He has been featured in CBC’s Quirks and Quarks for the... More

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

TRAK Technology – increasing asphalt impermeability. The asphalt compaction technology has been developed by Professor Abd El Halim.

The City is testing a new asphalt-compaction technology on the Front Road Bridge called... More

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Chatwin-Davies wins Senate Medal

Master's student Robyn Chatwin-Davies received a Carleton University Master's level Senate Medal at the convocation held on Thursday, June 14. Her research was focused in air quality modelling and environmental justice (sometimes also termed “environmental inequality”). Chatwin-Davies was supervised by Professor Amir Hakami.... More

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Capstone project group takes second place in HODI awards

  Jamie Marrs and Erin Hemm, 4th year Architectural Conservation and Sustainability students won second place in the Historical Ottawa Development Inc. (HODI) awards. Their project was titled "East Block Rehabilitation"  and was suppervised by Professor Jeff... More

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

O’Brien delivers keynote at eSim2018

Professor Liam O'Brien was the keynote speaker at eSim 2018 Conference in Montreal in May. His topic was Simulating Occupants in Buildings. To represent the effect of occupants on building performance, occupant models can be implemented in BPS tools.O'Brien's workshop covered the fundamentals of occupant behavior modeling and implementation in BPS... More

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Robinson wins NSERC Science Action award

Brandon Robinson,  a Master Applied Science student supervised by Dr. Abhijit Sarkar has won one of NSERC’s prestigious Science Action video awards. He placed second in the English category. Robinson has always been awestruck by large man-made structures like high-rise buildings and long-span bridges. The remarkable skylines of cities like... More

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Professor Pavement discusses pothole free roads

Dr. Abd El Halim, professor of transportation engineering, has gotten a lot of attention recently for his Asphalt Multi-Integrated Roller – AMIR for short, named after Halim's son. After decades of roadblocks,he is finally making inroads with his innovative road-paving method, a process he says will drastically reduce potholes and extend the... More

Monday, May 14, 2018

Santana awarded Doctorate Honoris Causa

Professor Marion Santana was granted a Doctorate Honoris Causa degree by the University of Liege, Belgium on March 24, 2018. He states that it was a "memorable occasion". For more information click... More

Thursday, May 10, 2018

Abd El Halim says pothole problem can be solved

Abd El Halim says he invented a machine three decades ago which would prevent the potholes that plague Toronto roads. To read the full story in thestar, click here. Professor Halim was also featured on Yahoo news. To read that article, click here... More

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Carleton takes Tom Folkes Award

    At the PEO Student Presentation Night held April 11, Carleton brought home the Tom Folkes Award. The two groups won respectively the Best Technical Award (supervised by Professor Jeff Erochko) and Best Environmental/Social Award (supervised by Professor Onita... More

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Cormier wins Mold Busters Scholarship

Renay Cormier won The Mold Busters scholarship with her topic of "Radon as an indoor air pollutant: Should you be concerned?" She is MASc student supervised by Professor Banu Ormeci. Read... More

Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Congratulations to Dr. Mario Santana

  Congratulations to Dr. Mario Santana, elected Vice President of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) at the General Assembly in Delhi (India) for a 3-year term. ICOMOS works for the conservation and protection of cultural heritage places. It is the only global non-government organization of this kind, which is dedicated... More

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Carleton at BEIC National Workshop

Professor Burak Gunay (Civil and Environmental Engineering) and Nina Dmytrenko (graduate student in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) hosted a booth at the the Building Energy Innovators Council (BEIC) Real Property National Workshop.... More

Friday, November 17, 2017

Students tour Tomlinson Waste Recovery Centre

Environmental, Civil and Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering students, as part of Student Experience and Engagement (SEE), toured the Tomlinson Waste Recovery Centre in Carp early November. The students visited the impressive facility to see the latest technologies and practices at work in a “real world" situation. The... More

Friday, November 17, 2017

Prof. Liam O’Brien’s book on building occupant behaviour research methods now in print

Prof. O'Brien and two international colleagues have co-edited a textbook titled Exploring Occupant Behavior in Buildings, with topics ranging from sensing devices to research ethics. Several of the book chapters were co-authored by Prof. O'Brien's former PhD students, Burak Gunay (now assistant professor at Carleton) and Sara Gilani (now a... More

Monday, November 13, 2017

Masonry Design students learn hands-on

Graduate and 4th year masonry students went to La Cite Collegialel in Orleans again this year to learn hands-on from the apprentice masons there and the head instructor how to build a wall.                                          ... More

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Carleton team wins APT TCPE Student Masonry Arch competition

This year’s APT (Association of Preservation Technology) conference was held 10-14 October here in Ottawa. Student teams were invited to take part in the conference via the APT Preservation Engineering Student Design-Build Competition. The competition took place over 3 phases; (1) structural analysis and building condition assessment of a local... More

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Northern Nomad tiny house

A team of about a dozen student builders led by Prof. Scott Bucking from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism build a tiny house. To read article, click... More

Monday, October 16, 2017

Prof. Liam O’Brien wins the Ontario Building Envelope Council Rising Star Award

Professor Liam O'Brien was awarded the Ontario Building Envelope Council (OBEC) Rising Star Award. The award was created to honour individuals who have committed their career to the advancement of the design, construction and performance of the building envelope. The Ontario Building Envelope Council (OBEC) is a non-profit organization bridging... More

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Global Water Institute launched

After months of preparation, Carleton University officially launched its Global Water Institute (GWI) following a water research symposium on Wednesday, Aug. 16. Professor Banu Örmeci became the Jarislowsky Chair in Water and Global Health in 2017 with a generous $2-million donation from the Jarislowsky Foundation and matching funds from... More

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Carleton University to Host International Symposium on Digital Heritage Conservation

Carleton University will host the 26th International Committee of Architectural Photogrammetry (CIPA) Symposium, marking the first time the symposium is taking place in North America. Carleton’s campus will welcome 300 delegates from around the world to collaborate on the theme of Digital Workflows for Heritage Conservation. Read story... More

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