Research Projects
Start Date: January, 2024 Duration: 3 years Status: In Progress
This research applies the latest AI and robotics technology to the design and manufacturing of prefabricated buildings, focusing on light wood-frame and mass timber construction. Objectives include developing AI algorithms for automated design and optimization, integrating these design tools with BIM to facilitated intelligent manufacturing, and designing and optimizing generative robotic manufacturing systems for sustainable production.
Farook Hamzeh | Mohamed Al-Hussein | Rafiq Ahmad
Landmark Homes | Postmark Group | Promise Robotics | Western Archrib
Start Date: May, 2023 Duration: 5 years Status: In Progress
This research applies the latest AI and robotics technology to the design and manufacturing of prefabricated buildings, focusing on light wood-frame and mass timber construction. Objectives include developing AI algorithms for automated design and optimization, integrating these design tools with BIM to facilitated intelligent manufacturing, and designing and optimizing generative robotic manufacturing systems for sustainable production.
Farook Hamzeh | Mohamed Al-Hussein | Mustafa Gül | Qipei Mei | Rafiq Ahmad | Ying Hei Chui | Yuxiang Chen
DIALOG | Landmark Homes | RJC | Western Archrib
Start Date: November, 2023 Duration: 5 years Status: In Progress
This research aims to enable the seamless integration of original project plans with as-built project information, focusing on productivity monitoring and control, risk assessment and forecasting, and sustainability and waste reduction. Deliverables include six combinable decision-support frameworks and tools for an integrated multi-dimensional approach for enhanced construction planning and control.
Aminah Robinson Fayek | Farook Hamzeh | Ming Lu | Yasser Mohamed
Capital Power | Carry Steel | Graham Industrial Services LP | Landmark Homes | Ledcor Constructors Inc. | PCL Constructors Inc.
Start Date: September, 2022 Duration: 5 years Status: In Progress
This project aims to develop data-driven methods for decision-making support in the steel construction industry. Researchers create simulation models and develop decision-making methods for the design, fabrication, erection, repair, demolition, and deconstruction of structural steel. This research is expected to enhance safety, quality, cost-efficiency, sustainability, and productivity in steel construction.
Ali Imanpour | Ming Lu | Robert Driver | Yong Li
Building Point | CISC | Collins Steel | CW Carry | CWBWF | DIALOG | IDEA StatiCa | Niik Group | Supreme Steel | STEADFAST Engineering | S-Frame, TSE Steel | WF Steel & Crane
Start Date: January, 2023 Duration: 5 years Status: In Progress
This project has several objectives aimed at improving construction manufacturing and sustainable building. This research is expected to improve productivity in both off-site construction and on-site installation, develop new tools for digitalization, modeling, and planning and management of construction manufacturing, and automate assessments of GHG and building system energy demand.
Ali IAhmed Bouferguene | Farook Hamzeh | Mohamed Al-Hussein | Mustafa Gül | Rafiq Ahmad | Xinming Li
Alberta Innovates | All Weather Windows, | Kent Homes | Landmark Homes | NCSG Engineering Ltd. | NRB | Qualico | Uniao Commercial Barao Ltda.
Start Date: August, 2022 Duration: 5 years Status: In Progress
This research aims to develop a smart object model that will act as a “data switchboard,” retrieving data from an organization’s multiple storage sites and distributing this information to various decision-support tools, as required. Expected outcomes include a decision-support tool-kit that will provide meaningful project information while maintaining the integrity and utility of underlying systems (existing ERP systems, BIM-driven tools, in-house database solutions, etc.).
Eleni Stroulia | Simaan AbouRizk | Vicente Gonzalez-Moret | Yasser Mohamed
Capital Power | Carry Steel | Construction Owners Association of Alberta | Graham Industrial Services LP | Ledcor | PCL Constructors Inc.
Start Date: March, 2022 Duration: 3 years Status: Complete
This project evaluates the impact of exoskeletons on performance and safety during construction tasks. The work is expected determine the suitability of specific exoskeleton models from a kinematic, biomechanical, and usability perspective, and to guide future research on design and development of exoskeletons specifically designed for construction tasks.
Ali Golabchi | Hossein Rouhani | Mahdi Tavakoli
Carry Steel | EPCOR | EWI Works | LEDCOR
Start Date: March, 2022 Duration: 3 years Status: Complete
This project aims to develop a technology to minimize the spread of biological hazards and eliminate the risk of infection to pathogenic micro-organisms in ventilated buildings. The goal of this project is to develop an effective and inexpensive air purification technology for broad applications in different settings.
Alireza Nouri | Mahdi Shahbakhti
Engineered Air
Start Date: February, 2022 Duration: 5 years Status: In Progress
This project aims to create innovative building blocks that are combined with multiple building functions (structural and thermal) and are suitable for modular and autonomous construction. These innovative blocks can form walls in any shape (curved, inclined, and tall) with desired openings to accommodate other building components (wood and steel structures, ventilation and electrical systems) and can be assembled quickly by autonomous machines on or off sites.
Carlos Cruz-Noguez | Douglas Tomlinson | Farook Hamzeh | Rafiq Ahmad | Yong Li | Yuxiang Chen
Canada Masonry Design Centre | Canadian Concrete Masonry Producers Association | Masonry Contractors Association of Alberta | Omron Industrial Innovation
Start Date: December, 2021 Duration: 4 years Status: In Progress
This project aims to develop physics-based and artificial-intelligence-based models to estimate the overall thermal resistance of different masonry wall systems. Expected deliverables include innovative tools and intuitive guidelines that are universal, easy to use, and cost-free for the building industry.
Carlos Cruz-Noguez | Yuxiang Chen
Alberta Masonry Council | Masonry Contractors Association of Alberta
Start Date: January, 2021 Duration: 3 years Status: Complete
This project aims to develop an integrated, data-driven framework for safety planning and management. The project is expected to improve the decision-making associated with safety management systems and to proactively mitigate safety incidents in different phases of a project’s life cycle.
Aminah Robinson Fayek | Lianne Lefsrud | Lisa White | Yasser Mohamed
Carry Steel | CIMS Limited Partnership | Construction Owners Association of Alberta (COAA) | Enablon Ledcor Constructors Inc. | Middlemiss Safety Management | PCL Industrial Management Inc. | Scorpio Masonry Inc. | Workers Compensation Board – Alberta
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