Engineering Students Supporting Heritage and Sustainability (Heritageengineering)

无论在加拿大还是全世界，现有建筑和指定的历史建筑的保护、修复和可持续性都是一个至关重要的问题。然而，遗产建筑并不是唯一的问题。即使是最节能的新建筑也无法抵消其多年的体现能源。修复这些现有结构将有助于减少碳足迹，并可能有助于减缓气候变化的加速。要实现这些变化，需要人力。 在加拿大的“2012年经济行动计划”中，另外指定了1.5亿美元的基础设施资金，以支持现有社区设施的恢复和改善。然而，为了开发和应用先进的技术、材料和方法，以评估、保护、修复现有结构和指定的历史建筑的可持续性，迫切需要对工程师和建筑师进行跨学科培训。这是这个CREATE计划的核心目标。我们的CREATEHERITAGEENGINEERINEERININININININEERINING是一款工业流创建应用程序，它直接回应了当前培训环境中存在的缺陷，这些缺陷必须得到纠正，以培养出能够解决上述问题的劳动力。具体地说，这项计划将弥合“技术开发人员”(工程师/建筑师/科学家)和“技术用户”(遗产保护专业人员)之间存在的差距，其中技术广泛地指广泛的成像、监测和翻新设备、建模软件和多媒体数据管理以及新材料。20多封支持信证明，将产生这种全新类型的学员的计划得到了明确的支持。这项建议及其要点是与这些国家和国际组织充分协商的结果。

The conservation, rehabilitation, and sustainability of existing structures and designated historic buildings is a crucially important issue, both in Canada and worldwide. However, heritage buildings are not the only issue. Even the most energy-efficient new building cannot offset its embodied energy for many years. Rehabilitating these existing structures will contribute to the reduction of the carbon footprint and may help mitigate the acceleration of climate change. Manpower is needed to effect these changes. In Canada's "Economic Action Plan 2012" an additional $150 million in infrastructure funding was earmarked to support the rehabilitation and improvement of existing community facilities. However, in order to develop and deploy advanced technologies, materials, and methods for the assessment, conservation, rehabilitation, sustainability of existing structures and designated historic buildings, there is a pressing and critical need for interdisciplinary training among engineers and architects. This is the core objective of this CREATE program. Our CREATEHERITAGEENGINEERING, an Industrial Stream CREATE application, directly responds to the deficiencies existing in the current training environment that must be corrected in order to produce the workforce capable of addressing the issues outlined above. Specifically, this program will bridge the gap existing between "technology developers" (engineers/architects/scientists) and "technology users" (heritage conservation professionals), where technology broadly refers to a wide range of imaging, monitoring and retrofitting devices, modelling software and multi-media data management, and new materials.As evidenced by over 20 letters of support, there is unequivocal support for a program that will produce this altogether new type of trainee. This proposal, and its elements, is a result of thorough consultation with these national and international organizations.