NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering students Michael Gutland and Abhu Dhanda were members of the winning team from Carleton University at the second annual Student Engineering Competition hosted by the Association for Preservation Technology (APT). The competition was held in Ottawa on Saturday, October 14, 2017 as part of the joint conference organized by APT and the National Trust for Canada, the largest heritage conference ever held in Canada.
The student design-build competition focused on the construction and conservation of a masonry arch, asking the students to look at real world issues affecting historic arches, while exposing them to a glimpse of the multi-billion-dollar masonry conservation field. The winning team from Carleton University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering was one of 22 teams entered in the competition. Collaborators from the NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering program provided support to the students.