Minimizing the environmental impact of urban settings in an integrated manner is the key goal of our Design Chair.  Guelph’s entire community is acting as our living, dynamic design lab to provide the setting for advancing environmental design engineering education and capabilities.  Advancing design education will be achieved through bringing the real, practical environmental challenges of the community into our classrooms and into the minds of our students.  Advancing design capabilities will be achieved through developing and demonstrating tools to reduce the environmental impact of urban communities in an integrated manner. An Urban Systems Environmental Design (USED) Centre has been created to facilitate bringing people together to achieve our design goals.

► John Phillips joins the USED Centre supporting Computer-Aided Engineering education and design competency efforts. (July 2004)

► Ben Millen joins supporting the development of the USED software including Environmental Benchmarking. (January 2004)

► Dorothy Remmer joins School and USED Centre. Dorothy brings Renewable Energy expertise from Australia. (January 2004)

► Khosrow Farahbakhsh joins School and USED Centre. Khosrow brings drinking water and wastewater expertise. (July 2003)

► Andrea Bradford joins School and USED Centre. Andrea brings watershed protection and water source protection expertise. (May 2002)