Real Time Decision Support for Quality Assurance and Productivity Improvement in Drainage Tunnel Construction: Research, Development and Implementation

The City of Edmonton (Drainage Services Department) and MITACS will support a cluster of internships customized for U of A Civil Engineering graduate students for 16 months. The City will facilitate safety training and provide sites as “testbed” to validate and implement new technologies. The interns will be housed in the Construction Automation lab at U of A to conduct related research supervised by academic advisor Dr. Ming Lu. The graduate interns will spend one to two days a week working on the tunnel site or in the head office of the partner company. It is expected that graduate interns will be better prepared to align research with practice and assume leadership roles to champion innovation and improve productivity in the Canadian construction industry in the near future. The current practices of Partner Company in tunnel construction will be significantly enhanced, leading to productivity gain by 10-20%. In addition, as-built tunnel survey and modeling will be achieved through automation and computing as the construction process unfolds

Faculty Supervisor:

Ming Lu

Student:

Partner:

City of Edmonton

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Public administration

University:

University of Alberta

Program: