IET-TISED Symposium: Engineering our prosperity: sustainable cities and industries in the 21st century

Polytechnique Montréal’s Institut de l’énergie Trottier (IET) and McGill University’s Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED) invite you to attend their annual symposium. The event will place Monday and Tuesday, March 17–18, 2014, at the Centre Mont-Royal and is open to the public.

Symposium topic and scope

Our future prosperity is linked to the sustainable production of manufactured goods and resource consumption. Natural resources are being depleted, greenhouse gas emissions are rising, energy and materials are being over-consumed and these resources must be used more carefully in future. The consumption of materials to construct buildings, create infrastructures and manufacture equipment and products is expected to double in the next 40 years. It is crucial that the effects of material and energy flow in the environment be clearly understood, and that the ways materials and energy are consumed change so that our efforts support sustainable development.

The symposium aims to convey information about the roadmaps that can provide a greater sustainable flow of energy and materials in cities (urban metabolism) and industrial systems (industrial ecology). The topic will be approached within a global context and within Canada’s political, economic, environmental and social framework.

March 17, 2014 | 5:30–7:30 p.m.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES
Speakers:
John Crittenden
Chris Turner


March 18, 2014 | 5:30–7:30 p.m.
SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIES
Speakers:
Timothy Gutowski
Julian Allwood
Greg Keoleian

Free admission. Arrive early to get your seat!
 
Simultaneous translation (English to French and French to English) will be provided at all sessions.

Details and speaker information:
https://www.mcgill.ca/tised/annual-symposium