Stories: Architectural Conservation and Sustainability

Conserving Italy’s Tarot Garden for Generations to Come

Conserving Italy’s Tarot Garden for Generations to Come

For centuries, fortune tellers have used Tarot cards to probe questions of love, loss, family and finances. The 78-card decks originated in 15th century Italy, and were originally used to play card games. But over... More

Leading the Charge in Engineering a Greener Tomorrow

Leading the Charge in Engineering a Greener Tomorrow

What if you could be part of the solution to real-world challenges we're facing today? That's exactly what our dedicated Engineering and Design alumni, students and faculty researchers are up to. Whether it's tackling pollution,... More

Building a Sustainable Career in Engineering

Building a Sustainable Career in Engineering

Abi Kang had always liked math and science—but she was interested in architecture too. Through Carleton’s Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering program, she found a way to combine these passions into one degree. The Architectural... More

Stunning, Award-winning Design Meets Soul and Sustainability

Stunning, Award-winning Design Meets Soul and Sustainability

Jutting horizontally from a cliff, with floor-to-ceiling windows that bathe its interior in light, the m.o.r.e Cabin seems to defy gravity. The off-grid cabin floats in the treetops on the shore of a lake at... More

Carleton’s Mario Santana Quintero Elected a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology International

Carleton’s Mario Santana Quintero Elected a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology International

Carleton University’s Mario Santana Quintero, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and cross-appointed with the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, has been named a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology... More

Heritage Environment and Restoration (HER) Design Group Rehabilitates the Past

Heritage Environment and Restoration (HER) Design Group Rehabilitates the Past

In August 2020, five Carleton students began an ambitious Capstone design project to rehabilitate a heritage building in Ottawa. Kristen Dam, Alexandra LeBarron, Megan Lawlor, Julia Starkiewicz and Sydney Wilkins were all Civil Engineering or... More

Carleton Students Set to Compete at 2021 Canadian Engineering Competition

Carleton Students Set to Compete at 2021 Canadian Engineering Competition

On top of their technical knowledge, hard work and creativity, Ragini Bakshi and Hodhan Osman feel like friendship will give them an edge at this year’s Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC). “It really helps if you... More

Sparking New Life

Sparking New Life

Standing seven storeys tall at 75 Sparks Street, downtown Ottawa’s Saxe Building has been unoccupied for roughly the past decade of its more than a century-long lifespan. Originally completed in 1909, the early reinforced concrete... More

Meet the Boreal Builders

Meet the Boreal Builders

In the summer of 2019, the Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek – Gull Bay First Nation (KZA-GBFN) began harnessing and utilizing renewable energy with its Giizis Energy solar storage micro grid facility – a first of its... More

Documenting the Tomb of King Tutankhamen

Documenting the Tomb of King Tutankhamen

Since it was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922, the tomb of King Tutankhamen has been one of the most significant — and most visited — cultural heritage sites in the world. But thousands... More

Tiny House Opens Doors

Tiny House Opens Doors