Innovative Projects Realized

Socio-Economic Mine Closure (SEMC) guideline: An evaluation of the Local Economic Development (LED) initiatives implemented by mining companies to address the adverse results of mine closure

Growing healthy bodies: The development of a healthy body score-card for Canadian children and youth

This project represents the initial step in a larger project, the development of a “Healthy Body Scorecard” which will allow for more comprehensive and holistic approach to measurement and classification of health in children. This particular project will involve an in depth review of current literature in order to identify the various forms of health measurement and the factors and behaviors associated with each. This project as a whole will be of significant benefit to the Sandbox Project and McDonalds Restaurants of Canada, the industry partner for this research. The Sandbox Project is a not for profit organization that is designed to improve the health of Canadian children. The Sandbox Project brings together industry partners, government, academics, policy makers and community members. The industrial partners involved include leading companies such as McDonalds Canada, Telus, Microsoft, General Mills among others. This project directly addresses the stated goals of the Growing Healthy Bodies group within the Sandbox project as well as the individual industry partners. 

Development of novel therapeutics for multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens

Suspended sediment contributions from forest roads in the Honna River watershed

The Honna River is a source of drinking water for the Village of Queen Charlotte on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. There is concern that sediment from a highly traveled logging road is contributing to poor water quality in the Honna River. This project is following up on the work of Elizabeth Baird (2010 Mitacs Intern), where she determined what factors controlled sediment leaving logging roads. However, the dataset she used was limited to a 10 month period. This project has two main objectives using a longer dataset collected over the past 3 years: 1. Determining what impact logging truck traffic has on sediment transported to streams during typical rainfall events and; 2. Assessing how improvements to logging roads could reduce sediment transported to nearby streams. This proposal is intended to focus on the first objective, with a separate proposal to focus on the second in 2013. This study will aim to provide practical management solutions for Island Timberlands, the Village of Queen Charlotte and the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations to reduce forest road generated sediment, and to improve water quality. 

Making the business case for using development cost charges for climate mitigation

Monitor and improve transit service reliability using automatic data collection system

Investigation of the foam airbag performance for wheelchair application

Instructional reading and media: a strategy to enhance early reading development (phase two)

Sobeys supply chain sustainability

Development of cost-effective self-consolidating concrete containing silica breccia

The proposed project will focus on the development of low-cost, self-consolidating concrete (SCC) mixtures containing a high volume of silica breccia. The workability, fresh properties and local unit cost of SCC containing 0-70% silica breccia (as a partial replacement for cement) will be investigated and compared with the control mixture and with other SCC mixtures containing fly ash, slag and metakaolin. 

Automatic spinal segmentation for MAR analysis

Building Information Modelling (BIM) for First Nations land planning and infrastructure management — Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg