CAPSTONE DESIGN PARTICIPANTS
Eklil Alimi, Rebecca Rust, Kelly Ngo, Abbly Liu
uREKA
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The Walmart parking lot in Sarnia suffers from significant congestion and lack of innovation. uREKA seeks to address these issues by implementing a roundabout, redesigning the foundations, and incorporating innovative technologies. These technologies include modular plastic roads, photovoltaic vehicle canopies, and kinetic energy capturing speed bumps. The captured renewable energy will serve to make the parking lot multi-functional, while promoting innovation in the transportation industry.
Dominique Morrison, Madeleine Maclsaac-Sun, Emeline Wang, Tiana Anandappa
C7 Rubber Duckies
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The majority of remote and indigenous communities located in British Columbia rely on expensive imported fossil fuels for energy. In partnership with BC Hydro, Rubber Duckies Ltd. will be designing a Run-of-the-River hydropower plant system to provide renewable energy to a number of communities along the upper Skeena River. Compared to conventional hydroelectric dam systems, run-of-river systems are relatively small-scale and mimic a river’s natural profile resulting in a minimized environmental footprint.
Yifei Peng, Jiayu Qin, Xiaoge Hu, Chenghao Zhou
BrainPower Consulting Ltd.
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The City of Waterloo is undergoing rapid development in both technological and economical fields. To accommodate the growing population of talents as well as respond to the City’s sustainable development plan, BrainPower Consulting Ltd. has proposed the sample design of a highly energy-efficient office building that is able to host a small-to-medium sized company in the Tech Hub. The design aims to harvest the maximum amount of solar energy while minimizing the carbon footprint of the construction material.
Matthew McParland, Joao Martins, Shawn Skantharajah, Azaan Ali
caps lock Consulting
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caps lock Consulting has developed a deep foundation design for an assumed ten-story residential building located on Villiers Island in the Port Lands of Toronto. The project’s site consists of poor-strength fill material with high levels of soil contamination. The innovative foundation design consists of hollow steel helical (screw) piles that contain a geothermal piping system involving s-shaped tubes to provide energy to the building. The project focuses on sustainability as it seeks to reduce the foundation's economic, social, and environmental impacts.
David Guirguis, Jonathan Jeyakumar, Keristen Guirguis, Sarojan Sakthivel
GWC Consultants
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The volume of stormwater runoff and the risk of flooding is increasing due to climate change and urbanization, in accommodation to the rise in urban population.
GWC is designing a stormwater management system for an ongoing townhouse development in Mississauga, ON.
The design integrates a green roof and a water tank to reduce the runoff volume leaving the developed green area and reducing the load on the city stormwater management infrastructure. GWC aims to mimic 50% of the land's ability to retain precipitation predevelopment.
Brandon Wong, SeJoon Park, Harry Chen, Jacob Ly
RADE Solutions
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Traffic control strategies in Toronto are not efficient enough especially in urban centers where road users experience heavy congestion and fuel consumption. RADE Solutions is proposing to improve traffic conditions using a design solution that manages vehicles on a microscopic and macroscopic scale. The project will focus on using Dynamic Mapping Technology to capture real-time traffic while using Resilience-Based Adaptive Traffic Signal Strategy as an algorithm to better optimize and coordinate said traffic.
Joshua Ghobrial
Jaden Postma
John Podgorniak
Jesus Corado Lopez
JJJJ & Associates
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Our project is centred around the design of a zero carbon modular home. We aim to shorten the construction process and eliminate the dependance of homes on non renewable energy. Furthermore, we want to offer some variability in the layout of the home for consumer satisfaction.
Finally, we want to make use of innovative building science and technology to increase the overall energy efficiency of the home.
Ben Busca, Noah Ermers, Stefanie Kurtz, Levi Prinsen
Katak Construction
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The habitants of New Brunswick have been dealing with flood associated risks for many years, after a record level flood in 2018 many homes were destroyed beyond repair. Katak Construction is proposing an amphibious house design that will look unsuspecting but can rise and fall with the flood water levels. This house design uses an amphibious foundation that is able to float on the water with a vertical guidance system. There is no better flood protection than a house that rises above it.