In the Media
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The Globe and Mail
UBC students construct one of Canada’s first ‘carbon-minimal’ hempcrete buildings
UBC student engineering and architectural team Third Quadrant Design’s new carbon-minimal hempcrete building was featured by the media. The team was advised by SALA associate professor Dr. Adam Rysanek.
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CBC News
Calgary's long quest to infuse downtown with life enters new phase as election looms
Professor Patrick Condon from the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture discussed converting commercial buildings in downtown Calgary for residential use.
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Castanet
Hydrogen-electric trams pitched to link Kamloops to US border
UBC Okanagan engineering Dr. Gord Lovegrove pitched a hydrogen-electric tram service that would connect Kamloops to the U.S. border.
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SiteNews
UBC investigates next generation of construction tech
Civil engineering Dr. Tony Yang is leading a multi-university research project to reset national building standards for mass timber construction.
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Washington Post
New tech could one day scrub ‘forever chemicals’ from your tap water
Research led by chemical and biological engineering professor Dr. Madjid Mohseni discovered a way to eliminate harmful chemicals that usually take hundreds of years to break down.
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Castanet Kelowna
UBCO engineering students cap off year with showcase
UBC Okanagan engineering students set to graduate this year gathered Friday at Kelowna’s KF Centre for Excellence to showcase their year-long capstone projects, where they learn how to collaborate with industry partners to solve real world problems.
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CityNews Everywhere
Concerns raised about safety on Metro Vancouver transit after multiple stabbings
UBCO engineering professor Dr. Gordon Lovegrove commented on the recent violence on Metro Vancouver transit.
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Global News
Magnitude 6 quake off BC coast causes no alarm
Civil engineering professor Dr. Perry Adebar commented on the recent earthquake that occurred a few hundred kilometres off Vancouver Island.
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Globe and Mail
UBC students construct one of Canada’s first ‘carbon-minimal’ hempcrete buildings
James Olsen, Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science, commented on Third Space Commons, the new institutional space that is made out of hempcrete.
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Conversation
Gender-blind policies ignore the disproportionate effects of water crisis on women
Graduate student Bolormaa Purevjavm from the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering argued that women should be included in discussions about water governance solutions.