“We Need to Change the Way We Build in B.C.” Dr Lisa Tobber Said in an Interview with Western Magazine
February 23, 2023 Dr. Lisa Tobber will lead this research at UBC Okanagan Campus, pictured. Credit: UBC Okanagan – University Relations. This research will result in multiple reports, best practices, and webinars to support the residential construction industry in our province and beyond. Speaking of the research, Dr. Tobber said, “We need to change the way […]
Dr. Geoff Rodgers of The University of Canterbury Shares the Latest in Energy Dissipation and Damper Technology at UBC
Date: January 16, 2023. Dr. Geoff Rodgers, a Professor at The University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, presented at the School of Engineering at The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus on January 16, 2023. The presentation was titled “Seismic Energy Dissipation, Dampers, and Low-Damage Seismic Structural Design” and moderated by Dr. Lisa Tobber, a […]
Presenting ASSET Research Projects at The University of Auckland, NZ
December 11, 2022. Travelling to Auckland, New Zealand, Dr. Lisa Tobber Presented the ongoing research projects at ASSET group to the students and faculty members at the University of Auckland. In this session, the projects on resilient and sustainable high rise buildings, precast structures and innovative structural systems were presented. Additionally, joint collaboration opportunities between […]
Being Interviewed by Journal of Commerce, Dr Lisa Tobber said ‘I basically live in a construction site’: UBC scientist leads research on disaster-resilient building
December 01, 2022. Dr. Lisa Tobber standing in front of a specimen at the earthquake engineering facility at Tongji University in Shanghai. The specimen is a scaled down version of a high-rise building. Tobber works in a similar facility in British Columbia to perform her research. Dr. Lisa Tobber stands in front of the broken […]
Lecture on Precast Concrete by Canadian Precast Prestressed Concrete Pipe Institute
Date: November 21, 2022. Trevis and Lakhjot Khash from Langley concrete,Canadian Precast Prestressed Concrete Pipe Institute, delivered a lecture on precast and pipe design. Their talk highlighted detailed explanations of precast trenchless installations, micro-tunnelling pipes, stormwater management and installation of pipes. One interesting topic of the lecture that lit up the students’ curiosity was Dry […]
Presentation on Precast Hollow Core Slabs by Dr. Frank Buker
Date: November 01, 2022. Frank Buker, a Ph.D. candidate at Oakland University, gave a presentation on precast hollow core slabs at UBCO on October 31, 2022. Hollow slabs are typically used in Canada as diaphragms to transfer the load to frames in total precast buildings. In his presentation, he explained how hollow core slabs are […]
Lecture in Precast at UBC
Date: October 09, 2022. A fantastic lecture by Mr. James Lockwood at UBCO was presented on the “Discussion on precast concrete in Canada: Advantages, Application, Future“. During the precast week, we hosted a member of the Rapid Span group who gave an excellent lecture about the types of precast structures and the advantages and strengths […]
ASSET group collaborates with EGBC for events
Date: June 23, 2022. The Women in Engineering team of the ASSET group is focussed on conducting events to expand the vision for 30by30 in collaboration with EGBC. These events aim to develop and provide a platform for the students, colleagues, peers, professors and like-minded people to advocate for the cause. This cause is aimed […]
Encouragement to the incoming WiE undergraduate students
Date: September 18, 2022. Dr. Lisa Tobber took the remarkable initiative to deliver a talk to the incoming 1st and 2nd-year women in engineering students. She comments, “It is such a wonderful time to create community and avenues of support for these brilliant and ambitious students. Thanks to Sabine Weyand , P.Eng., PhD for her […]
Fostering a WiEGSS forum for women
Date: October 18, 2022. The ASSET group is determined to create a Women in Engineering Graduate Student Society (WiEGSS). The mission behind this initiative is to encourage and foster women to enhance their techincal skills, engage in healthy communication and create a support group. We encourage more women to join our team for the planning […]
Deepak Saud presenting at the CSCE Conference
Date: May 28, 2022 Deepak Saud presented a paper on the “Parametric study of slender shear walls reinforced with shape memory alloy (SMA) bars” at the CSCE 2022 Annual Conference in Whistler, British Columbia. The main objective of the research was to investigate the seismic performance of the slender reinforced shear walls connected with SMA […]
Dr. Lisa Tobber presenting at the CSCE Conference
Date: May 25, 2022 The 12th annual CSCE conference allowed us to share our findings with other researchers. As the leader of the ASSET Group, Dr. Tobber presented her paper with the title “Canadian seismic design considerations for outriggers used in high-rise buildings.” Basically, a damped outrigger system is an effective structural scheme that has […]
Saeed Dehghani presenting at the CSCE Conference
Date: May 25, 2022 During the 12th annual CSCE conference, Saeed Dehghani presented a paper titled “MITIGATION OF HIGHER MODE EFFECTS IN CONTROLLED ROCKING WALLS”. In his paper, Saeed and the co-authors (Dr. Lisa Tobber and Amir Hossain Amiri) investigated the seismic behavior of the high rise buildings. In this regard, the effect of the […]
Amir Hossain Amiri presenting at the CSCE Conference
Date: May 25, 2022 At the 12th annual CSCE conference, Amir presented his paper titled “Canadian design recommendations for diagonally reinforced coupling beams based on using a new comprehensive database.” In his paper, Amir and the co-authors (Dr. Lisa Tobber and Jeremy Atkinson) gathered a new comprehensive database of the hysteretic response of 51 diagonally […]
ASSET Meeting With the Management of Langley Concrete Group (LCG)
Date: May 27, 2022. In ASSET Group, we all believe that having a strong bond with well-known companies in the engineering and construction industry would result in more understanding of the current problems these companies are facing. As an advanced and active company in the Precast concrete industry, we are pleased to collaborate closely with […]
Unwinding at Nerve
Date: October 03, 2022. The women engineers of ASSET group enjoyed an amazing event by learning about the book ‘Nerve’ by Martha Piper and Indira Samarasekera, the two first women presidents of Canadian Universities. They share their inspiration and experiences gained from these remarkable women with many others, encouraging them. Sharing ideas, opinions and heart-to-heart […]
The ASSET Group Logo was designed
October 13, 2022 The ASSET Group logo has been chosen through voting in the bi-weekly meeting of the group which was held on October 13, 2022. In this online meeting, four final candidate logos have been presented by one of the ASSET members, Saeed Dehghani. He has elaborated on the concept of each logo as […]
The precast concrete structures course is offered for the first time at UBC Okanagan by Dr. Lisa Tobber.
Date: August 20, 2022 The precast concrete structures course code ENGR 414 is offered for the first time at UBC Okanagan by Dr Lisa Tobber.This course consists of two parts, theory and laboratory, which will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:00 to 12/5 at the ART faculty. It should be noted that the […]
The computational center of the ASEET group is being completed.
Date: October 01, 2022 The computational center of the ASSET group is under process and is equipped with wide facilities for researchers of the team. One of the most important parts of the group’s work is conducting numerical and computational analysis. Investments are made to improve the quality, growth, and efficiency of the group on […]
Collaboration with high-tech industry partners: “Visiting Rapid-Span Group Of Companies workplace”
Date: October 03, 2022 ASSET Group members have collaborated with industry partners to provide feasible and economical solutions for the current construction and infrastructure problems. It becomes important to educate the team and interested civil engineering students on emerging design practices and construction techniques. To achieve this paramount goal, visiting tours of local successful and […]
