NEWS, FEATURES, OWAP
February 27, 2026
In the industrial innovation lifecycle, there is a notorious gap between a successful lab experiment and a market-ready product. This “Valley of Death” is the stage where many promising clean-tech innovations fail due to the logistical, technical, and financial hurdles of scaling up. For IntensiCarb™, a revolutionary vacuum-enhanced anaerobic digestion technology, navigating this gap required a high-performance triad between USP Technologies, Trojan Technologies, and Lambton College.[...]
NEWS, FEATURES, PARTNERSHIP
February 17, 2026
Across Canada, municipalities face the same hidden vulnerability: ageing wastewater infrastructure that has never been comprehensively inspected. Few assets illustrate this more clearly than large-diameter trunk sanitary sewers – the buried arteries of wastewater systems that often haven’t been assessed since installation. Without condition data, utilities are forced into reactive maintenance cycles. Failures lead to emergency repairs, traffic disruption, and costly service interruptions. [...]
FEATURES, NEWS, PARTNERSHIPS
January 30, 2026
When Dr. Sonia Hassini first entered civil engineering, she imagined a future in construction. But as she moved deeper into her studies in Tunisia, her attention shifted toward the systems that make cities livable, especially the fragile and often overlooked networks that manage water. Exposure to hydraulics, water distribution challenges, watershed analysis, and water scarcity revealed a field full of urgent problems and unexplored research opportunities. [...]
