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Engineering
What B.C. is learning about earthquakes from the 2023 disaster in Turkey
The Weather Network | | Media coverage
A team of civil engineering researchers are investigating why some buildings collapsed and not others during the February 2023 earthquake in Turkey.
The feds bought a pipeline for $5B. How did the cost balloon to over $30B?
Global News | | Media coverage
Civil engineering professor Dr. Nemkumar Banthia commented on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
A navigation app that suggests the safest route
CKNW Mornings with Simi | | Media coverage
Civil engineering professor Dr. Tarek Sayed has developed a navigation app with an algorithm that suggests the safest route.
UBC engineering researcher lifting virus detection to next level
| Announcement
UBC engineering researcher Dr. Sepideh Pakpour is developing new technology using magnetic levitation to collect, purify and detect viruses in the air.
UBC explores hydrothermal liquefaction to extract phosphorous from municipal wastewater
Environmental Science & Engineering Magazine | | Media coverage
UBCO civil engineering professor Dr. Cigdem Eskicioglu led a study that investigated how to extract phosphorus from wastewater sludge.
UBC Okanagan researcher is lifting virus detection to the next level
Castanet Kamloops | | Media coverage
UBC engineering researcher Dr. Sepideh Pakpour is developing new technology using magnetic levitation to collect, purify and detect viruses in the air.
Pushing to protect the marbled murrelet
Canadian Geographic | | Media coverage
Chemical and biological engineering professor emerita Dr. Royann Petrell and others are calling on the government to increase wildlife habitat areas in Vancouver Island old-growth forests to save the threatened marbled murrelet.
Ottawa's big LRT fix is redesigning train parts. What about the track?
CBC | | Media coverage
UBCO engineering professor Dr. Gordon Lovegrove commented on the shutdown of Ottawa’s LRT system.
Vancouver man wins award for work aimed at improving air quality
Surrey Now-Leader | | Media coverage
Chemical and biological engineering postdoctoral researcher Dr. Kevin Kung received the Mitacs Environmental Entrepreneur Award.
Here’s how Vancouver rain gardens are giving salmon a boost
The Weather Network | | Media coverage
A study co-authored civil engineering researchers found that specially designed gardens could reduce the amount of a toxic car tire chemical entering our waterways by more than 90 per cent.