GCRTC panel explores Indigenous knowledge and engineering perspectives on wildfire resilience
As communities across British Columbia confront the growing impacts of wildfire, building resilience requires knowledge and collaboration across disciplines, professions and lived experiences. The Green Construction Research & Training Centre (GCRTC) at UBC Okanagan invites the campus and broader community to an upcoming panel discussion: Indigenous Knowledge, Land-Use, Planning, and Engineering Perspectives on Wildfire Resilience: […]
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 […]
SoE Speaker Series: Dr. Ken Elwood
The UBC Build Better Cluster and UBC Okanagan School of Engineering welcomes visiting scholar Dr. Ken Elwood on October 21. Dr. Elwood will deliver a talk “From Ductility to Repairability: Evolution of Building Design in the Wake of the Christchurch Earthquake” on Monday, Oct. 21, from noon – 1:30pm. Dr. Elwood is a professor at […]