Brann Munro

We would like to thank everyone from Enbridge who recently visited the CIC and toured some of the University’s labs and research facilities. Enbridge visitors from Texas, Wisconsin, and across Canada were introduced to the CIC’s projects on applications for biosensors, robotics, simulation, and virtual reality in construction, showcasing the work of Dr. Samer Adeeb, Dr. Farook Hamzeh, Dr. Vicente Gonzalez-Moret, and Dr. Qipei Mei. The group also joined Dr. Ahmed Qureshi at the Additive Design and Manufacturing Systems (ADaMS) lab to learn more about robotic industrial polymer and polymer composite additive manufacturing, robotic wire arc digital twin processes, and [...]

Architects, engineers, and other professionals have been using computers to visualize construction projects for decades. From the first digital drafting programs of the 1960s to modern Building Information Modeling (BIM) technologies, digitization is rapidly becoming indispensable to the construction industry. Researchers at the CIC are now using this technology to create digital twins for construction projects—an application that is relatively new to construction, and one that presents opportunities to improve efficiency and decision making at all stages of a building’s lifecycle. The CIC sat down with two industry professionals with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of [...]

The CIC would like to extend its thanks to the visitors and researchers who participated in the tour of the CIC labs on October 16, 2023. The University of Alberta’s President and Vice-Chancellor, Bill Flanagan, was joined by the Vice-President of Research and Innovation, Dr. Aminah Robinson Fayek, and the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Dr. Simaan AbouRizk, for an in-depth look at some of the CIC’s ongoing projects. During the tours of the CIC lab, the Nasseri School of Building Science Lab, and the I. F. Morrison Structures Lab, researchers presented their work on exoskeletons for construction workers, [...]