Grants and Contributions

This project aims to raise awareness and guide SMEs toward best practices in cyber security and security hygiene of their infrastructure and projects. This is to be achieved through the delivery of 90 min cybersecurity best practice guidance sessions to SMEs.

Preparatory stage of developing technology for converting recycled concrete remains obtained from construction and demolition waste and returned concrete leavings from ready mix concrete trucks into reactive Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCM).
The technology is based on the principle of mechanochemical activation of the recycled concrete remains/leavings in energy intensive grinding mills where the produced inside the mill impacts cause generation of crystal lattice defects or other metastable forms in the concrete particle, thereby converting inert mineral into a reactive material. The obtained reactive mineral material can be further used as a reactive (pozzolanic or hydraulic) SCM.

With the rapid growth of population in cities, the associated complexities and
challenges due to the accelerated demand for basic services such as
housing, transportation, healthcare and employment are also rising. This
increased urban expansion exerts pressure on the natural resources and
contributes to the greenhouse gas emission. Digital technologies, particularly,
smart cities can help in addressing many of these challenges related to urban
growth. Geospatial analytics and 3D spatial query processing techniques will
be key enabler for the smart cities technologies. However, the existing spatial
data systems, specifically, relational database systems (RDBMS), cannot
meet the requirements for complex 3D spatial data analytics. Therefore,
through this project the collaborative research team will aim to develop novel
techniques for a new generation of spatial data systems that can address the
challenges of smart cities. The team will investigate how to develop
techniques for efficient storage and retrieval of 3D spatial data, explore novel
spatio-visual queries and investigate privacy preserving query processing approaches.

The brakes project involves the development and integration of braking technology into mobile robots.

This L2 IP-Assist Project will help develop our firm's intellectual property management capacity further.

This L3 IP-Assist Project will help develop our firm's intellectual property management capacity further.

The goal of this project is to design and develop practical methods related to the application of Open-BIM to facilitate the creation of a BIM-based model that can be used to validate and verify the life cycle cost and environmental impacts modeling and to automatically map the bill-of-work data with relevant inventory datasets at the different stages of building projects over their life cycle and to generate robust LCA results to be used for sustainability purposes. This project’s output will be principal for establishing the NRC OpenBIM-LCA web application and the performance of level benchmarks guideline, methodology and proof of concept for the bill of works for Canadian building archetypes. The successful development of this model will particularly provide a method for statistical- derived benchmarks as an approach that maximizes flexibility, applicability, transparency, and robustness to ensure claims’ validation to superior LCA performance over business-as-usual design/ construction/ use/ end-of-life practice. This BIM integrated approach, explicitly the concept of OpenBIM, is considered as a key contribution to aid standardization of the whole?building’s LCA practice and to add records to the bill-of-work database that will store records for potentially thousands of buildings. Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) will be used in this approach to transmit the data extracted from BIM models and exported into LCA tool, since it is well known that the IFC scheme for storing LCA-related information within BIM environment is a workable method that handles big volume of data.

The youth hire will enhance the firm's "FloatVR" content design system and integrating it with cloud-based storage solutions.

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)