The Alacrity Ottawa – Startup Builder is a program between L-SPARK and University of Ottawa to work with selected students from the MEED program to assist them in creating and launching a new company.

Climate change caused by accumulative CO2 emission (due to the rapid development of human industry) has become an imminent threat to human beings as witnessed by the more and more frequent reports on sea-level rising, storm, and wildfire. The close-loop CO2 recycling, including CO2 capture, storage, and utilization has thus attracted enormous attention from researchers […]

Building Integrated Photovoltaic/Thermal (BIPV/T) systems are arrays of photovoltaic panels integrated into the building envelope facades and roofs that produce electricity and incorporate the additional function of recovering useful thermal energy. The energy can be used for space, domestic water heating or air conditioning. Recuperating heat from the BIPVjT system improves electrical efficiency and reduces […]

St. Anthony is the largest town on Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula and is connected to Newfoundland’s island grid by a 248 km transmission line. This research will investigate the best locations for wind turbine installation.

L’exposition au froid extrême peut entraîner des conséquences importantes sur la santé et la sécurité surtout pour les personnes qui doivent dormir à l’extérieur. Les sacs de couchage constituent la dernière barrière de protection contre le froid. Durant leur utilisation, ils sont soumis à des compression et exposés aux risques de condensation à l’intérieur ce […]

Le projet Autonomie des Mobilités Aériennes du Futur a pour objectif de structurer l’autonomie des nouvelles mobilités aériennes (Regional Air Mobility / Urban Air Mobility) au Québec à travers deux approches complémentaires. D’abord, en capitalisant sur le riche écosystème technologique pour faire du Québec la place forte des systèmes d’aviation numériques. Pour ce faire, Thales […]

Manure application supplies valuable nutrients to crops and reduces soil erosion, however, it can also be a source of pollution. Emissions of dust, gases, odors, virus, and bacteria can be released in large quantities and have negative impacts on the environment and workers’ health. This project proposes to adapt a low-cost technique called Passive Flux […]

Successfully fabricating complex living tissue structures demands carefully designed tissue scaffolds that mimic complex native tissues, which 3D bioprinting aims to achieve by creating 3D mimics of natural tissues. The fabrication of functional 3D tissues is challenging due to the limitation of oxygen and nutrient transport to cells inside the printed scaffold. Among the numerous […]

Commercial and multi-unit residential buildings located in cities with high sun exposure often experience challenges regulating indoor temperature due to the uneven distribution of solar radiation and localized overheating. For buildings located in cold climate zones, localized overheating – and in turn, localized indoor cooling – during the winter heating season is often overshadowed by […]

Accelerometers are a type of sensor that have various applications from everyday handheld devices such as smart phones to complex systems such as airplanes. Sensors are devices that we use to “see”, “hear” or” sense” the environment around us. With accelerometers, we are measuring motions. When there is movement and as a result an acceleration […]

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies have the potential to contribute to Canada’s resilience against climate and health crises and change people’s daily lives. Specific examples of use could be firefighting, land erosion mapping, the fast delivery of vaccines in the north of Canada, flying ambulances, defibrillators for emergency calls. These applications are challenging in many […]

To date, integrating fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bars as a valuable option as internal reinforcement for concrete members has gained significant interest in the construction industry, due to their corrosion resistance and high tensile strength-to-weight ratio. The use of hollow reinforced concrete (RC) columns (HCCs) instead of solid columns has increased in the construction of bridges […]