UBC researchers collaborating with City of Richmond and industry to reduce construction and demolition waste
Researchers at UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering and UBC’s Materials and Manufacturing Research Institute (MMRI) have embarked on a groundbreaking interdisciplinary project to advance sustainable practices in the construction industry. Their focus? Tackling the significant environmental challenges posed by construction and demolition (C&D) waste. The project, “Application of the Circular Economy to Demolished or Deconstructed […]
Campus as a Living Lab Project Spotlight
Improving the Efficiency of the Energy System for the Campus’s Legacy Academic Buildings How can we optimize energy efficiency in UBC Okanagan’s legacy buildings through innovative modeling? How can the campus cut greenhouse gas emissions and set a scalable example for sustainable building practices? UBC Okanagan set an ambitious target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, […]
UBC Okanagan researcher using quantum innovation to enhance data security in laser-based communications
Dr. Jonathan Holzman is laser-focused on advancing the science of ground-to-satellite communication. A professor of electrical engineering at UBC Okanagan, Dr. Holzman is leading an international research project that aims to make laser-based communication more secure. It does so by blending optical innovation with quantum computing. Today, Dr. Holzman’s project – ReQON: Reconfigurable Quantum Optical […]
Order of the White Rose scholarship program expands for 2025
Polytechnique Montréal announced today that Makenna Kuzyk, a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Alberta is the 2024 recipient of the $50,000 Order of the White Rose Scholarship, and that the scholarship will expand in 2025. Note to the UBC Okanagan Engineering community: this story is being re-shared here for awareness. Please share this […]
UBCO WiE paint the E to honour the 14 Not Forgotten
Members of Women in Engineering (WiE) were joined by faculty, staff and students from across the School of Engineering (SoE) at UBC Okanagan to paint the E (cairn) white today. The group gathered to paint the E for National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women and the annual 14 Not Forgotten memorial […]
GCRTC Seminar Series: Dis-Ownership in Climate Change and Making “Sense” of Resilience in Construction
The Green Construction Research & Training Center (GCRTC) Seminar Series presents: Dis-Ownership in Climate Change and Making “Sense” of Resilience in Construction by Kh Md Nahduzzaman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Citinnov SA for Integrated Territorial Planning & Smart Cities, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), Morocco. Date: Wed. November 27, 2024 Time: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Location: EME […]
Guest Lecture: Performance-Based Fire Design of Tall Timber Buildings
Rapid growth of urban populations and associated environmental concerns are challenging city planners and developers locally and around the world to consider sustainable building systems. In response, with new CLT and glulam timber technology, mid- and high-rise timber buildings are becoming attractive solution. Current objective-based design approaches in the NBCC 2020, however need additional provisions […]
UBCO, TOTA, OTA host Inter Community Transportation Forum
Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association (TOTA), the Okanagan Transit Alliance (OTA), and researchers from UBC Okanagan (UBCO) are inviting the community to join a free public forum next week on the topic of inter-city transportation. The partners will be discussing results of their recently conducted Okanagan valley-wide, inter-city transportation survey at the event, which will take […]
Alumni Profile – Kasper Juel Petersen, PhD (Mechanical), ’24
Meet Kasper Juel Petersen who completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in August 2024, under the supervision of Dr. Joshua Brinkeroff at UBC Okanagan’s School of Engineering. Kasper was awarded the prestigious Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellowship to fund a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to University of Oxford. Valued at $200,000 CAD over two years, this major […]
Turning Waste into Possibilities: The UBCO Cleantech Hub
Note: This story was originally published on the Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan) website and is being shared for awareness within UBC Okanagan (UBCO) School of Engineering and UBCO Campus community. The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus (UBCO) is paving the way to a greener future with an innovation hub dedicated to repurposing waste […]