This course is focused on theory, principle, practical application, standardization, benefits, and limitations of non-destructive testing (NDT) methods applied to steel reinforced concrete. Techniques to be covered include: condition assessment, surface hardness, penetration resistance, pullout, break-off test, maturity method, pull-off permeability, resonant frequency, UPV, magnetic/electrical, radioactive/nuclear, short pulse radar, acoustic emission, infrared thermography. A review of the role of statistics in experiments, testing and design of experiments in addition to application of significance testing, linear regression analysis, and assessment of adequacy of regression models in context with non-destructive techniques will be covered. This course will also include the study of practical case studies and hands on usage of selected NDT testing equipment.

We spend most of our time indoors exposed to a variety of organic and inorganic compounds. Accounting for and minimizing potentially harmful exposures is critical to indoor air quality. Through this course, students will gain new knowledge in the field of indoor air quality and develop skills to engineer solutions to create healthy, sustainable, and equitable indoor environments. Focus will be given to moisture transport through materials, water activity, impact of moisture on organic indoor contaminants such as bioaerosols, and methodologies to prevent, remediate, and monitor indoor mould growth. Further, this course will investigate tools, such as next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics, used to characterize indoor microbiomes and bioaerosols. Interest will also be given to issues in indoor environmental quality specifically in Indigenous housing as well as low-socioeconomic communities in Canada. Through a course project, students will engineer a solution using resources and skills developed throughout the course for a particular issue of interest in indoor air quality.

It is well known that significant performance gaps exist between the building design stage and building operation. To ensure buildings achieve predicted performance in terms of resource use and occupant comfort, health and wellbeing, post-occupancy performance assessment is required. This course begins by introducing students to common building performance issues, the existing frameworks and rating systems designed to characterize these issues as well as the three performance gap types: prediction, expectation, and outcomes. Next, the relationship between occupants, the building envelope and mechanical systems is explored, including the influence of each of these elements on indoor environmental quality and resource use. Through a field study in an occupied building, students will gain experience with the metrics, measurement methods and data analysis techniques used in the holistic assessment of building performance.

The study of Concrete Technology makes use of many test methods not normally associated with Civil Engineering. Methods include those for pore structure and surface area by BET; mercury porosimetry; permeability to vapour, gas, and liquids; mineralogy by optical microscopy x-ray diffraction and thermal analysis; microstructure by optical and electron microscope; and chemical analysis by XRF, AA, IR, IC, or neutron activation. Published literature will be discussed with respect to differences in such procedures, and interpretation of data.

This course deals with the assessment maintenance and repair of concrete structures. Topics covered include: inspection and monitoring of concrete structures (including instrumentation and non-destructive testing); identification of material failure mechanisms; residual service life prediction; life cycle cost analysis; and methods of repair and rehabilitation. Case studies of problems in structures due to reinforcement corrosion, alkali-aggregate reaction, and free-thaw cycling will be investigated in detail. Recent advances in inspection and repair techniques will be critically evaluated.

This unique and popular course has been run six times previously and consists of lectures covering chemistry, and physics of the following subjects: Cement; Manufacture; Phase Equilibrium and Reactions in Cement Kilns; Supplementary Cementing Materials; Crystal Chemistry of Silicates; Hydration of Cements; Chemical Admixture Effects on Hydration; Microstructure of Cement and Hydrates; Sulphate Reactions and Attack; Alkali-Aggregate Reactions; Chloride and Corrosion Reactions; Chemistry Related to Freezing, Scaling.

This laboratory course covers visible light, electron, and x-ray microscopic methods for the characterization of concrete and geo-materials, including methods of sample preparation. Topics include fluorescent dye impregnation to characterize cracks/grain boundaries/pores, chemical staining procedures, image and quantitative chemical analysis using free software packages (ImageJ, MultiSpec, and DTSA-II). After taking this course students will be able to take a geologic or concrete sample through the entire process of stabilization, preparation (cutting, grinding, polishing), and examination by microscopic methods.

In this course, students will learn about three ways in which data can be modeled in the application of construction management: statistical, probabilistic, and process. Statistical analysis — statistical analysis will be reviewed as a means to determine and communicate the characteristics of data. Probabilistic models (Bayesian Networks) — students will learn about BNs, understand the way in which they model data, their strengths and shortcomings, and their application in a construction context. Simulation modeling — students will learn how discrete event simulation engines work. They will learn to build a model for a construction operation, understand their strengths and shortcomings, and process input and output data.

This course examines various construction contract documents used by government and private bodies. Legal principles and relevant cases are discussed with a view to providing students with an understanding of the legal framework surrounding the documents. Contractual problems including the nature, causes, and quantification of construction claims are also examined. Emphasis is placed on how to avoid construction contract problems, as well as how disputes may be efficiently resolved once they arise. Issues of payment security, bankruptcy, liens, and professional liability are also studied.

This course presents a number of quantitative tools and analytical methods for the asset manager. Topics covered include data modelling and management, stochastic and deterministic models for asset deterioration, models for optimal asset repair/replacement decisions, tools for asset risk assessment, multi-criteria decision-making models in the context of asset management problems, and infrastructure resiliency and adaptation for climate change. Two guest lecturers will be invited to present current practices and emerging trends. A course project will involve the application of tools and methods presented in class on actual infrastructure data sets.

The course is designed to provide students with both hands-on experiences on BIM applications and research exposure to advanced BIM topics. It introduces the basic principles of BIM in most application areas including design, construction, facility management, and sustainability. Hands-on skills required for generating building information models are covered through the use of popular BIM tools. Current research topics and trends of BIM are explored to understand better their impacts to the future of the AEC industry.

The course aims at exposing graduate students to the principles of knowledge management systems within a globalized/networked organization. The concept of knowledge as commodity will be investigated along with means to harness, collect, package, and market knowledge. This will be coupled with introduction of the concepts of knowledge supply chains, business models, and strategic planning. The objective is to allow students to learn the principles of managing innovation and collective learning within their organization to boost knowledge production, understand how to formulate a modern knowledge organization, and be familiar with business aspects of knowledge supply chains. In all of these topics, case studies will be presented. These include traditional and knowledge-savvy cases within and outside the civil engineering domain. This course introduces students to the following fundamental concepts: Business models: how companies are organized, how do they model customer needs, generate value, deliver services, and manage their supply chains; Strategic thinking: how companies analyze their competitiveness, evaluate their competitors, position themselves, develop strategies/alliances for change. The role of process management and reengineering along with advanced information systems in achieving organizational strategies. The Knowledge economy: main characteristics/challenges of the emerging knowledge economy. Modes/means for finding, collating and packaging knowledge. Weaving and managing knowledge supply chains. Re-engineering organizations to boost innovation and collective intelligence.

The Civil industry, like many other engineering industries, has been plagued with corrosion degradation problems. In 2016, the National Association of Corrosion Engineers estimated US$2.5 trillion, which is about 3.4% of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as the annual global cost of corrosion. In Canada, the annual estimated direct corrosion cost of corrosion across all sectors is US$46.4 billion, about 2.5% of Canada's GDP. Therefore, we need to establish cost-effective control strategies underpinned by a sound fundamental understanding of corrosion mechanisms on different metal alloys to reduce the enormous cost of corrosion and aid the sustainable development of new structures. Students will be exposed to corrosion problems in different engineering sectors. We will look at electrochemical reactions; mechanisms and kinetics/rates of corrosion; modes of corrosive attack including stress corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement; corrosion mitigation and prevention through proper materials selection, design, cathodic and anodic protection, and coatings to increase the structure's service life; and overall discussion on technologically important material-environment combinations.

We spend most of our time indoors exposed to a variety of organic and inorganic compounds. Accounting for and minimizing potentially harmful exposures is critical to indoor air quality. Through this course, students will gain new knowledge in the field of indoor air quality and develop skills to engineer solutions to create healthy, sustainable and equitable indoor environments. Focus will be given to moisture transport through materials, water activity, the impact of moisture on organic indoor contaminants such as bioaerosols, and methodologies to prevent, remediate and monitor indoor mould growth. Further, this course will investigate tools, such as next-generation sequencing and bioinformatics, used to characterize indoor microbiomes and bioaerosols. Interest will also be given to issues in indoor environmental quality specifically in Indigenous housing as well as low-socioeconomic communities in Canada. Through a course project, students will engineer a solution using resources and skills developed throughout the course for a particular issue of interest in indoor air quality.

This course is to develop students' in-depth understanding on the management of construction workforce. Specifically, this course will tackle worker safety and ergonomics, a chronic problem of the construction industry, teaching a range of theories, practices, and potential smart technologies for the management of worker safety and ergonomics (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), proximity sensor, inertial measurement unit (IMU), computer vision, and deep neural network (DNN)). Topics discussed include: 1) introduction to construction workers, trades, and unions; 2) fundamentals on construction labour laws, regulations, and insurances; 3) accident and ergonomics theories; 4) onsite measures for safety and ergonomics management; and 5) advanced sensing technologies for automated safety monitoring.

Civil Engineering is the oldest branch of engineering. In ancient times, architects, engineers, and planners were one and the same. In landscape design, these three disciplines are still closely linked particularly in the design and construction of green infrastructure, low impact develop and stormwater infrastructure. In this course the design of stormwater management systems will be taught with a multi-disciplinary approach. Impacts to the flow regime, water balances, flow paths, water quality, and aquatic habitats will be discussed. The low impact development (LID) design approach will be examined as a tool for sustainable urban planning. Some topics covered in this course include: Conventional systems (stormwater management ponds); Vegetated stormwater systems (green roofs, bioretention); Infiltration systems (permeable pavements, exfiltration cells; Treatment systems (oil-grit separators, filter strips); Modelling approaches; Sediment and erosion control and operational considerations.

Water resources systems are physically complex and the solution of appropriate mathematical models is computationally demanding. This course considers physical processes in water resource systems, their mathematical representation and numerical solutions. Newton's 2nd law and the equations of mass and energy conservation are developed and applied to closed-conduit, open-channel, and groundwater flow problems. Procedures for efficient numerical solution of the governing equations are presented. Problems of non-linearity, sensitivity to data and computational complexity are introduced.

Engineers face growing pressure to incorporate sustainability objectives into their practice. In comparing two products/designs it is often not apparent which one is more sustainable. The course introduces concepts and methods for sustainability assessment. The course primarily focuses on Life Cycle Assessment as it is viewed as being a necessary component of any assessment. This is a research based course and is suitable for students interested in researching in depth a particular topic. By the end of the course, students will have an awareness of analytical tools/resources for evaluating sustainability implications employing a systems perspective, and have applied these tools in a research project. This course assumes students have a background in engineering and have taken a course in engineering economics. 2 lecture hours per week.

Theory and application of physical and chemical operations and processes for the treatment of water and wastewater. Specific processes covered include sedimentation, coagulation, filtration, and disinfection, with an overview of reactor theory. Laboratory experiments are designed to support and demonstrate the lecture material. It is expected that students have taken a previous undergraduate level course in basic water/wastewater treatment.

Theory and application of physical and chemical operations and processes for the treatment of water and wastewater. Specific processes covered include sedimentation, coagulation, filtration, and disinfection, with an overview of reactor theory. Laboratory experiments are designed to support and demonstrate the lecture material.

This course covers sustainability issues as they apply to the provision of safe drinking water. Water reclamation and reuse topics focus on strategies that allow wastewater to be treated for indirect potable reuse as well as many other purposes. Other major topics include: risk assessment associated with emerging pathogens and chemical constituents present in source waters, advanced drinking water treatment processes including membranes (UF, NF, and RO), advanced oxidation and activated carbon. Throughout the course, case studies, application examples and numerical problems will be presented.

This course deals with the major chemical processes occurring in aqueous environments, in both natural systems and treatment systems. The topics covered include: chemical thermodynamics and kinetics; acid/base chemistry; quantitative equilibrium calculations; acid-base titrations; dissolved CO2 chemistry; mineral solution chemistry; complexation; redox reactions; and the solid-solution interface. The lectures are complemented by laboratory experiments in which students learn some of the standard analysis techniques of aquatic chemistry.

Contaminants in indoor air have enormous impact on human health, productivity, building energy use, and sustainability. This course focuses on important contaminants, fundamental tools, and methodologies to measure and model the indoor environment, and on engineering solutions to improve indoor air quality. The course covers a rationale and motivation for the investigation of indoor contaminants, important contaminants and sources, the use of mass balances to assess indoor concentrations, fundamental transport and transformation processes that occur indoors, indoor exposure assessment, and methodologies to assess costs and benefits for technologies and techniques to improve indoor air. The course explicitly links the air inside of buildings to building materials, energy use, outdoor air quality, and human health.

The next 15 years will see major changes in the global infrastructure system. To meet local, national, and international sustainability goals, this next generation of infrastructure must be planned, designed, and built in new ways. Large scale infrastructure projects have impacts well beyond their stated primary purpose: they consume significant amounts of natural resources and, once built, change how we live, work and move. As key players in planning, designing, constructing, and commissioning large infrastructure projects, engineers have a special responsibility to understand the myriad ways infrastructure interacts with our natural and social systems. This course will explore what sustainability means in the context of infrastructure development, examine infrastructure needs and sustainability at the global and project scale, and provide students with skills and techniques to have an impact on infrastructure sustainability in their future work. At the end of this course, students will be able to think critically about the wider impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects and use this knowledge alongside their technical engineering skills to develop better outcomes. Students will learn approaches and skills for analysing (and influencing) the sustainability of infrastructure systems at the project and system scale.

This course introduces students to core principles and quantitative methods to provide support for making 'hard' decisions, and communicating results. Topics include structured decision-making techniques (e.g., decision trees), public sector decision making (e.g., benefit-cost analysis, welfare economics), multi-criteria decision-making, and decision making under uncertainty (e.g., sensitivity analysis, Monte Carlo simulation, utility theory, and risk attitudes).

This course will provide an overview of climate science before examining the technical, economic and political realities of potential climate change interventions across six major climate sectors. These range from energy to industry to farming and forestry. Students will apply this knowledge both via individual study efforts and by a group project tasked with setting a pathway to net zero for a chosen country.

This course is a core course to support the Centre for Climate Science and Engineering. It is intended to provide a technical overview of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, especially as related to large civil systems (energy, transportation, buildings) as well strategies as industry and fuel extraction. A second course, focused on climate adaptation has also been developed, and is currently being revamped prior to applying for a permanent code. The two courses together are intended to work in conjunction to fill important gaps in engineering education related to managing climate change.

This course is unique in its focus on system-wide GHG emission pathways and scientifically informed GHG reduction targets, along with its analysis of a wide range of technological solutions and their interactions. While the course contains a significant technical component, climate change mitigation requires a more complete understanding of the policy and political context, which is often lacking from other engineering courses. This course will thus adopt an interdisciplinary approach — focused on engineering, but integrating broader insights necessary to educate engineers with a systems-level understanding of climate change strategies.

This course focuses on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in low-income settings from an engineering and environmental health perspective. With respect to water, the course will cover drinking water quality and quantity, water access, and appropriate water treatment and storage options. The course will cover aspects of sanitation promotion, sanitation in challenging environments, and fecal sludge management. Hygiene topics will include disease transmission, handwashing station design, and theory and practice of hygiene behaviour, education and behaviour change. Local and national governance in WASH will also be explored