Civil Engineering, University of Toronto

Applicants are being solicted for an exciting industry-academia collaboration focused on reducing GHG emissions from construction of large scale infrastructure.

The InfraGHG research group has recently been established to develop a decision support toolset to drive GHG reductions in the emissions associated with design and construction of large-scale infrastructure.  The research program is led by Prof. Heather MacLean and includes four other professors of civil engineering, Prof. Brenda McCabe, Prof. Daman Panesar, Prof. Daniel Posen and Prof. Shoshanna Saxe. The objective of the research is to drive rapid, large-scale reductions in the GHG intensity of the design and construction of infrastructure.  A large team of academic researchers will be working in collaboration with industrial partners, led by a major construction services company, to address the complex challenge of changing how the built environment is designed and constructed.

Interested parties may contact any of the professors listed above (information on department website http://civil.engineering.utoronto.ca/staff/professors/) and are encouraged to submit applications at http://civil.engineering.utoronto.ca/graduate-programs/prospective-students/apply-to-graduate-programs/