The COVID-19 pandemic has (1) heavily impacted some our liquid investments, (2) put some of our advisory mandates on hold as capital markets dried up, (3) stalled the deployment of our senior housing strategy as those were consequently under severe pressure and (4) made it very difficult to find and recruit summer interns. An intern […]

The current pandemic is changing how people work, and creating a new way to think about home. From setting up a kitchen office, to being able to drop a lengthy commute, people across Canada are interacting with their living space in new ways. First time homebuyers (FTHB) have a unique opportunity to re-evaluate what is […]

Ce projet tentera d’observer la mise en application des normes de gestion des données du bâtiment (ISO19650) lors du transfert des livrables numériques d’un actif. Le contexte de cette étude de cas suivra le transfert des données provenant d’une équipe de conception/construction et allant vers une équipe d’opération et de maintien des actifs. L’efficacité de […]

Replay generates business from each of the project companies, and advisory projects from third parties. COVID-19 has impacted our business in a number of ways as follows: third party advisory business has slowed due to businesses being cautious of the economic environment, our existing development projects and partnerships are on reduced due to cautious spending […]

We are a pre-revenue startup and looking to hire an intern to join our team. We were in the process of raising money for our company, but due to the COVID situation, we could not successfully raise the sufficient funding we needed to develop our technology. Thus, we could not hire more employees and we […]

Helical piles are extensively used across Canada in various engineering applications. Current design methods estimate the axial capacity of helical piles using soil strength parameters when site investigation is available. Alternatively, helical piles can be designed from an empirical torque correlation when installation torques are available. However, it will be more valuable to the industry […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected WOW Real Estate Group’s tenants’ ability to pay rent, conduct sale showings, and other industry-stopping challenges in the real estate market. I will be assisting WOW Real Estate Group to target new customers to help keep the company’s rentals filled and completed homes getting sold. I will be conducting an […]

House price valuation and forecasting are considered as critical urban problems that aid individuals and organizations to execute a variety of property-related practices such as property purchase and selling, taxation, and mortgage property. This project aims to collect appropriate features for house price modeling and to develop a combined machine learning-graph modeling approach to have […]

By participating in this business strategy internship, one key skill that I will gain is being more proficient with valuation techniques and using Excel. This will help further my academic studies by being able to use Excel in a more efficient manner and being able to better understand valuation techniques during projects in class. The […]

Charla Huber wants to identify how employers can better support Indigenous employees. Many companies have identified they want to increase the number of Indigenous employees, but little success has been found. Charla will receive guidance from Indigenous Elders and leaders across British Columbia to understand the differences in how Indigenous people communicate and how their […]

Union: Sustainable Development Co-operative (Union Co-operative) seeks to democratize city-building by empowering its members to collectively buy, upgrade, and manage commercial and residential properties to improve the environmental, social, and economic health of Waterloo Region. This project will support the evolution of the Co-operative’s model, the development of affordable housing for refugees, and create templates […]

Working closely with me, the two interns will have an opportunity to engage with a timely question engendered by the global pandemic: What is changing in our approach to the public realm, and how can we embrace these changes as positive forces in urban design. We will be working quickly on a time-sensitive challenge, in […]