Watching for subway cracks. Another Team MTL sponsor. IGOPP report on Laval.

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• Le Journal de Montréal (behind a paywall) and AMEQ en ligne (behind a paywall)  join media coverage of an infrastructure-monitoring study by Thikra Dawood, a PhD candidate in the Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, who has developed an automated method of detecting water damage to concrete in subway systems. The research was published in Automation in Construction. The Agence QMI story about the research was picked up earlier this week by TVAnouvelles.ca.
• A CNW release (picked up by Markets Insider) announces that wool insulation manufacturer ROXUL Inc. is joiningHydro Quebec and others in sponsoring the Team MTL entry in 'Solar Decathlon China 2018', in Dezhou, China. Team MTL is made up of Concordia and McGill students and faculty, who together designed and assembled the net-zero energy Deep-Performance Dwelling. 
• The Suburban, writing about the Laval municipal administration of Jacques Demers, notes that the Institute for governance of private and public organizations (IGOPP), bringing together academics from Concordia and HEC Montréal, conducted a study of Laval's public administration structures in 2014 and produced a report on governance in the municipality.

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