CAPSTONE DESIGN PARTICIPANTS
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING PROJECTS
Matthew Linehan, Rudy Krysakowski, Kyle Macdonald, Luke Vandenberg
Greene Planet International
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The design team, Greene Planet International, has worked with the International Support Network for African Development to support the organization’s plans to develop a new office space and community library in Ibadan, Nigeria. The client is seeking to reduce the building’s life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions and energy use. The design team has worked with the client on an integrated design process related to impacts of the building envelope, construction and material selection, mechanical and electrical systems, water supply, energy supply, and energy storage.
Anjali Kuruppu
Julia Suen
Emma Kichiy
Madeline Tucker
Red Maple Consulting
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Urban development and climate change have led to an increase in significant flood events along Mill Creek in the city of Kelowna, British Columbia. These events have emphasized the need for long-term flood mitigation measures to reduce the associated economic damages. To address this, Red Maple Consulting proposes diverting floodwater from the creek to a temporary storage reservoir during periods of high flows, while also incorporating climate change projections into the design.
Malaica Nasir
Molly Yuan Tian
Wesley Chiu
Daniel Kim
Boba Consulting Group Ltd.
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The transportation sector is the second largest contributor to GHG emissions in Canada and the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) is seeking to reach a net-zero emissions goal by 2050. Boba Consulting Group aims to reduce GHG emissions by reassessing and designing a new maintenance and rehabilitation plan for Highway 401, the busiest highway in North America. The new plan will utilize modern techniques with an optimized maintenance and rehabilitation schedule focused on asphalt sections of the highway.
Dian Santos, Mathew Yun, Ahmad Abdullah Khan, Faizan Choudhary
Millennium Falcons & Associates
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Constant phosphorus loading into Lake Simcoe has caused the lake to undergo eutrophication leading to a plethora of environmental and socio-economic problems. Our team plans to target point source phosphorus loading with the addition of an Ultrafiltration process within the Lakeshore WWTP, which is socially equitable, has low environmental impacts, and has been historically effective in Ontario. Our design objectives consist of maintaining phosphorus loading at 629kg/year, and 25MLD effluent which should result in a phosphorus concentration of 0.043 mg-P/L.
Vlad Fierastrau, Borislav Stojanovic, Declan Viegas, Liam Calder
BLVD Consulting
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Property owners in Saint-Lazare, Quebec are planning to build an off-grid tiny home. The home will require an economic and reliable power generating system to provide electricity year-round. A nearby stream offers the possibility of generating electricity through a micro-hydropower system without disrupting the surrounding environment. BLVD Consulting has designed a diversion hydropower system which exploits the difference in potential energy between two locations in the stream in order to power a turbine-generator.