Second annual workshop
September 4, 2019
Workshop outline
8:30 – 8:40: Breakfast and welcome speech
Jacob Lamb (Chair of IISC-HQP Chapter, UofC)
8:40 – 8:50: Overview of the CREATE-IISC program
Lina Kattan (IISC Program Director, UofC)
8:50 – 9:00: Progress and lessons learned in year 1
Poornima Jayasinghe (IISC Program Coordinator, UofC)
Disruptions in Transportation Sector and Implications in Other Infrastructures
Session Co-Chair – Ryan Martinson (Sustainable Transportation Specialist: Stantec)
Session Co-Chair – Madhuri Seera (Senior Transportation Engineer: Transportation Planning, City of Calgary)
9:00 – 9:15: Modelling the effects of electric vehicles on mass evacuations
Craig MacDonald (Trainee of IISC Program, UofC)
9:15 – 9:30: Fairness in congestion pricing
Soheila Aalami (Trainee of IISC Program, UofC)
9:30 – 9:45: Waste-to-energy based hydrogen fuel infrastructure management for road transportation in Canada: A life cycle thinking approach
Tharaka Wanniarachchi (Trainee of IISC Program, UBC)
9:45 – 10:00: Autonomous Goods Distribution Systems in Urban Areas
Jacob Lamb (Trainee of IISC Program, UofC)
10:00 – 10:15: Dynamic Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicle Fleet Operations
Nouran Habib (Trainee of IISC Program, UofC)
10:15 – 10:50: Session 1 discussion and suggestions
10:50 – 11:00: Morning break
Urban Design and Building Constructions
Session Co-Chair – Joachim Mueller (Manager: City Planning & Policy Services, City of Calgary)
Session Co-Chair – Ganesh Doluweera (Director of Research: CERI)
11:00 – 11:15: Design-Based Research as a Platform for IISC Projects
Josh Taron (CO-PI of IISC Program, SAPL, UofC)
11:15 – 11:30: Integrating Building Energy Performance and Aesthetics through Digital Design and Fabrication
Kristen Forward (Trainee of IISC Program, UofC)
11:30 – 11:45: Digital Design and Fabrication for the Built Event Scale
Hayden Pattullo (Trainee of IISC Program, UofC)
11:45 – 12:00: Sustainable Construction Materials
Rahil Khoshnazar (Academic Collaborator of IISC Program, UofC)
12:00 – 12:15: Machine learning framework for neighbourhood safety impact prediction
Christine Cao (Trainee of IISC Program, UofC)
12:15 – 12:50: Session 2 discussion and suggestions
12:50 – 1:50: Lunch
Disruptions in Other Infrastructures
Session Chair – Dean Shiskowski (Vice President, Water Resource Recovery: Associated Engineering)
1:50 – 2:05: Urban Stormwater Management under Destructive Forces
Jennifer He (Academic Collaborator of IISC Program, UofC)
2:05 – 2:20: The advancement of Landfill BioCell Technology by evaluating the overall efficacy of the Calgary BioCell
Samadhi Gunasekera (Trainee of IISC Program, UofC)
2:20 – 2:55: Session 3 discussion and suggestions
2:55 – 3:10: Afternoon break
3:10 – 4:05: Launch of LIFT (Leaders of Innovations in Future Technologies) program
Laleh Behjat (CO-PI of IISC Program, UofC)
4:05 – 4:15: Closing remarks
Lina Kattan (UofC)
