Civil and Environmental Engineering Archives

January 29, 2024

Maintaining the Rideau Canal Skateway… with Robots?

In 2023, for the first time in its history, the Rideau Canal Skateway never opened, as warmer temperatures and higher-than-normal snowfall prevented a thick-enough layer of ice from forming. This resulted in huge loss of... More

April 8, 2021

Carleton Researchers Working with City of Ottawa to Provide Early Warnings of COVID-19 Community Spread

COVID-19 is a medical chameleon—and the delayed onset of its symptoms has been one of the most challenging aspects of managing this pandemic. Often, the first outward signs of the disease are a fever or... More

March 22, 2021

World Water Day 2021: Carleton Celebrates Water Research on COVID-19 and Plastics

Water may be clear, but there is much that it can conceal. In early 2020, wastewater leapt into the public consciousness when researchers realized it was possible to detect COVID-19 in sewage before people start... More

January 28, 2021

Innovative Course Uses Collaborative Methods to Support Rural Village in Tanzania

For the past six years, Carleton’s Sprott School of Business and Faculty of Engineering and Design participated in a multidisciplinary initiative—Buckets to Rainbarrels—where students from different departments travel to Longido, a rural village in Tanzania,... More

December 9, 2020

Carleton’s CIMS Lab Providing Conservation Expertise to Better Protect UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Carleton is lending its expertise to an international group of concerned heritage conservation scholars who hope for better protection of UNESCO World Heritage sites. Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Prof. Mario Santana Quintero from the Department... More