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The University of Windsor’s new Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation (completed in September 2012) is meant to inspire engineering students. Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Mehrdad Saif says the building itself is a “marvel of engineering.”
“The building was designed to feature a wide variety of different structures and systems that demonstrate construction and engineering ideas for students to see firsthand,” says Mehrdad. “In the classroom they are learning the engineering and construction theory and just a quick walk through of the building itself puts those theories into real life examples that they can experience and put in to context.”
The building features a living green roof with measurement devices that allow students to compare the green roof’s data to that from the control sample on the regular roof. With engineering education in mind, the entire building was made with different concrete and steel building materials. Fernando Cruz, project manager at Halsall Associates, says the four bridges built over the atrium that students and researchers can use to test material strain and deformation are of particular note. The entire building is monitored by an automation system that displays all of the information on a touch screen in the atrium that researchers can access to collect data on how the facility is running.
“It was important that we looked at this building not only as a place to house the students, faculty and staff, but how we could best utilize it as a teaching tool as well,” said Saif.
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