Posts Tagged: Kim Pressnail
State-of-the-art Twin Suites Rooftop Lab will be home to research conducted by Professors Marianne Touchie (MIE, CivMin), Kim Pressnail and Jeffrey Siegel (both CivMin)
Civil engineering students Amanda Cirinna (1T3) and Steven Goldstine (1T3) recently took top honours at the Home Sweet Home Student Challenge, an annual competition developed by OntarioGreenSpec.ca and vied for by schools across the province. The competition, which is adjudicated by an advisory board of 12…
Researchers at U of T Engineering and Ryerson University are working to change the way we keep ourselves warm in the winter. Currently, space heating is the largest contributor to residential energy consumption in Canada at 60 per cent of…
Professors Brenda McCabe (CivE), Kim Pressnail (CivE) and Ted Sargent (ECE), as well as CivE PhD candidates Marianne Touchie and Ekaterina Tzekova, have been named to the Clean50, an initiative by the Corporate Knights honouring outstanding contributors to sustainable development and clean capitalism in Canada. Professors McCabe and Pressnail, along…
In a recent article in The Globe and Mail, Professor Kim Pressnail (CivE) discusses his team’s latest study that shows affordable ways Canadians can reduce energy consumption and save money on their energy bills. Some of his tips, which include insulating…
A team of civil engineering researchers is working on a plan to increase the efficiency of aging apartment buildings in Toronto by creating an outer perimeter whose temperature varies between the inside and outside temperature. Nested Thermal Envelope Design, or…
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