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Earlier this week, Saint John, N.B., city council was told the parking commission dropped plans to put an epoxy coating on the floors of the new Peel Plaza Parking garage, shaving $350,000 off the structure’s $16.5-million price tag. The chair…
Toronto-based company, Solar Ship, has built and flown the first solar-powered aircraft that has the potential to hold heavy cargo for a distance of 1,000 km per day. “Caracal,” named after the African cat, runs on solar power generated from…
It was an earth-moving idea that won recent Civil Engineering graduate Michael Montgomery (CivE, PhD 1T1) the NSERC Innovation Challenge Award. Or rather, it was the novel approach to keeping buildings structurally sound after the earth moves that was key. Montgomery, who…
The University of Toronto and the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) hosted international research leaders at the Nanomaterials for Energy International Symposium. Held September 29 and 30 at the Royal Ontario Museum, the symposium was an opportunity to…
The late Irving O. Shoichet was a remarkable man who loved science. A successful entrepreneur, first in the oil and gas industry and then as an executive for his founding company Skycharter, Mr. Shoichet believed in building a community of…
University of Toronto Engineering Professor Constantin Christopoulos (CivE) traveled to Haiti to join international instructors in delivering a two-day short course as part of a three-week earthquake engineering seminar in August. There is perhaps no place where the lessons were more needed…
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