Concerns over climate change have led public and private institutions to change the way they conduct business. Initiatives include ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and working toward a net zero carbon society. Recycling and composting programs have been around for decades, with the goal to reduce the amount of solid waste entering the landfills. […]

Acoustic comfort in all types of buildings is essential to our daily life and work. Mass timber buildings provide us the solution to construct green buildings with much less carbon footprints compared with concrete and steel buildings. This project will investigate the sound insulation performance of an innovative mass timber floor system through experimental testing. […]

In BC open pit porphyry mines, pit wall deformation rate has been closely monitored to evaluate the stability of open pits and determine proper operational response. This research aims to improve our understanding towards the deformation behaviours of pit walls considering both the slope characteristics and external influence factors. The project will collect a large […]

Bridges Environmental Solutions Inc. and Deadwood Innovation Inc. have developed a novel and low-cost process for dewatering wood and waste wood materials and extracting a lignin-based solution useful in subsequent wood reforming and laminating processes, which we have helped develop. They use this lignin product to both chemically modify cellulose structures and permanently reform wood […]

Mental illnesses, particularly depression, are one of the leading causes of global disease burden. In addition to reducing the quality of life of patients and their relatives, they costs billions of dollars annually to the Canadian economy. Unfortunately, current antidepressant drugs are barely satisfactory and have numerous side-effects. The goal of this project is to […]

Natural health products have become integral to many personal routines and the Canadian economy as a $9 billion industry. But recent problems within China and India, which currently have a stranglehold on raw materials, are endangering the health of this growing sector. Replacing foreign sources with traditional batch production means is foolish since domestic labor […]

The Peace River Break is in the north east section of the province situated at the narrowest point of the Rocky Mountain range allowing for critical movement and ecological connections east-west over the Rockies and north-south between the mountain national parks and the Muskwa-Kechika Management area to the north. The purpose of this research project […]

Carbon is a component of CO2, an important greenhouse gas (GHG) responsible for climate change. Forests store more carbon than is found in the atmosphere, with most of this stored in the soil. This ability to store carbon has led to many tree-planting projects across Canada including a large-scale tree restoration program led by Reckitt […]

Rapid growth in the renewable energy sector has presented both unprecedented opportunity and increasing pressure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand. This project with Gott Energy will involve three stages. First, a comprehensive analysis of the company today will be completed using the Lean business philosophy. This will establish a baseline, which will support […]

1) Carry out research on existing and potential visitation to Tumbler Ridge with respect to current offerings and to potential Virtual Tourism Experience (VTE)s. Zhang and Meletis will work to conduct a visitor survey-based project during the summer of 2022. They will generate new demographic profiles and qualitative and quantitative data on tourist motivations, experiences, […]

The main goal of the project is to design and implement a new and improved financial and technical analysis strategy that would use historical trading protocols of the past 20 years. This would be done by researching how the knowledge of the operators can be codefide, automated, and integrated into the current technology platforms being […]

Birds and small mammals are essential members in maintaining a healthy ecosystem and rely on complex habitat structure, such as a diverse mixture of trees, understory growth, or open patches. I will be identifying bird and small mammal composition in relation to forest stand complexity across various forest harvesting treatments, such as clear-cut and new […]