Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Subject "waste"

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Geographies of Urban Filth

Zhang, Liyang (University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)

This thesis studies how our cultural understanding of dirt and cleanliness are bound to issues of class and race and how they are manifested within urban and spatial design. Boundaries are formed between clean and dirty, ...
Reconstruction Site: Re-designing the disposable Expo

Proudfoot, Alan Scott (University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)

Building, supported by the practice of architecture, is churning resources into waste at an alarming rate. Our method of construction has its inevitable conclusion in a pile of rubble. Lamentably, the natural resources we ...
Valuation of in-situ Building Materials for Resource Recovery

Mollaei, Aida (University of Waterloo, 2024-02-08)

The construction industry is among the largest contributors to global raw material consumption and is responsible for 40% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Recovery of building materials at the end of a building's life, ...