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Monday, October 16, 2017

NSERC CREATE students win APT Student Engineering Competition

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... More

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

NSERC CREATE student wins honourable mention in SSHRC Storytellers

Carly Farmer, a Masters level student in the NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering program and the Azrieli School of Architecture at Carleton University, received Honourable Mention in the recent Storytellers Contest sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Carly's entry told the story of a former mill site... More

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Forum on International Research at CIMS

Note: Registration for this event is now closed. NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering will host a Forum on International Research at CIMS on April 27, 2017 from 2:00pm to 5:00pm. Speakers will present on recent research projects by CIMS researchers in Myanmar, Nepal, St. Lucia, Egypt and Bahrain: Davide Mezzino and Lori Chan on "Digital... More

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Workshop on Ethics and Heritage Conservation & Forum on International Research at CIMS

Note: Registration for this event is now closed. NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering will host a Workshop on Ethics and Heritage Conservation on April 27, 2017 from 9:00am to 12:30pm at Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS). The morning workshop will be followed by an afternoon Forum on International Research at CIMS from 2:00 to... More

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Workshop on Ethics and Heritage Conservation – April 27

Note: Registration for this event is now closed. NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering will host a Workshop on Ethics and Heritage Conservation on April 27, 2017 from 9:00am to 12:30pm at Carleton Immersive Media Studio (CIMS). The morning workshop will be followed by an afternoon forum on International Research at CIMS, featuring recent research... More

Monday, September 19, 2016

NSERC CREATE student attends CIPA Summer School in Valencia, Spain

NSERC CREATE student Alex Federman spent an intensive five days in Valencia, Spain in August and September this year, studying techniques in heritage documentation. The 2016 Summer School was sponsored by CIPA, the Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation for ICOMOS. Students from around the globe learned the theoretical and methodological... More

Friday, September 16, 2016

Dr. Santana lectures at Columbia University

Dr. Mario Santana, Director of the NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering Program, will be giving two presentations in the Preservation Lecture Series at Columbia University, New York. Dr. Santana will speak on Harnessing Digital Workflows for Preserving Heritage on Thursday, September 22 at 6:30pm. He will lecture on Recording HIstoric Buildings... More

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Documentation of earthquake-damaged sites in Myanmar

Davide Mezzino is currently at the Bagan Archaeological Site in Myanmar, helping with the documentation of monuments damaged in the devastating earthquake of August 24, 2016.   Davide is a Ph.D. researcher with Professor Mario Santana, Director of the NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering Program. The earthquake impacted more than 400 temples... More

Friday, August 5, 2016

Dr. Scott Bucking joins NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Scott Bucking has joined NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering as one of 11 co-applicant professors. Prof. Bucking is an Assistant Professor in Building Information Modeling (BIM) in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University) with a cross-appointment to the Azrieli School of... More

Friday, June 10, 2016

Post-doctoral fellowship awarded to study heritage documentation in post-earthquake Nepal

Program Director Mario Santana is pleased to announce the award of a one-year post-doctoral fellowship to study traditional structures in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Sujan Shrestha, who holds a Ph.D. in structural engineering from Sapienza University, Rome (2015), will use digital workflows to document and consider rehabilitation approaches to... More

Thursday, June 9, 2016

Heritage Forum 2016

Note: Registration for this event is now closed. The annual NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering Forum on Heritage and Sustainability will be held Friday, September 30, 2016. It will be followed by a day-long workshop with noted international conservationist Stephen Kelley on Saturday, October 1. Both events will be held at Carleton Immersive Media... More

Friday, January 22, 2016

Application information for post-doctoral fellowship

NSERC CREATE Heritage Engineering is offering a one-year, renewable, post-doctoral fellowship starting in the summer of 2016. Program information is available here. Application information is available here. The Online Application Form will be posted soon. The deadline for applications is March 1,... More

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