CIVE 561 Urban Activity Air pollution and Health
Offered Fall term (September-December)
This is an interdisciplinary course where the challenge of
air pollution is introduced with a focus on urban areas.
The interdependencies between transportation, air quality, and
policy are demonstrated.
The City and the behaviour of its inhabitants constitute the
context for the following course topics:
- Urban transportation impacts on air pollution
- Overview of air pollutants in urban areas
- Monitoring urban air quality
- Mobile source emissions
- Air Pollution and meteorology
- Atmospheric dispersion
- Chemical processes specific to cities
- Exposure to air pollution and health effects
CIVE 324 Sustainable Project Management
Offered Winter term (January-April)
This course focuses on the principles of project management with emphasis on the integration of construction within the project lifecycle. The lifecycle is a process through which a project is implemented from cradle to grave. Sustainable practices are introduced at all stages of the project lifecycle.
- Conceptual planning and feasibility
- Design and engineering
- Design and engineering
- Operation and maintenance
- Retirement or disposal
The course structure follows the different stages of the project lifecycle with a focus on the procurement and construction phase. The course introduces issues such as team formation and responsibilities, materials and equipment use, cost estimation and economic valuation, financing, scheduling, quality control and safety, risk management, monitoring and performance assessment, decision-making. All course topics are introduced under the umbrella of sustainable development.
CIVE Transportation Systems Evaluation
Offered Winter term (January-April)
This course introduces tools and techniques for the evaluation of transportation designs, plans, and programs while covering a wide range of impacts organized under the three objectives of Sustainable Transportation: economic growth, environmental preservation, and social equity. Course topics include:
- Introduction to transportation planning and decision-making
- Estimating transportation costs
- Design and engineering
- Land-use impacts
- Travel-time impacts
- Safety impacts
- Economic efficiency impacts
- Economic development impacts
- Energy, air quality and noise impacts
- Social impacts and equity
- Multi-criteria evaluation