Around the globe, urbanization is leading to the construction of ever-higher commercial and residential buildings. This is a feasible strategy for housing large populations in small geographic areas but, in an emergency, tall buildings can severely compromise rescue efforts. The consequences can be fatal....
FMD003: Flow management devices unidirectional captive displacement prover This meter prover introduces SAIT students and apprentices to equipment they’ll be using in the field. Inside SAIT’s Endress+Hauser Instrumentation Engineering Technology Process Lab are rows of metal stands fitted with meters...
As Alberta’s economy diversifies and Calgary places new energy into becoming a hub for innovation, SAIT continues to respond to growing industry demand. New seats for students In August, the provincial government announced 146 new spots for students in the School of Information and Communications Technologies...
A unique tilting solar carport has been installed on the south side of SAIT’s Green Building Technologies (GBT) Lab and Demonstration Centre. Covering six stalls, the carport combines solar panels on its roof with solar tracking technology. By tilting to follow the sun — the panels are designed to tilt...
SAIT’s new Vice President, External Relations Heather Magotiaux is a strong supporter of higher education — she was Vice-President of Advancement at the University of Saskatchewan for 12 years and at St. Francis Xavier University for two years. Most recently, she served as CEO of the Saskatchewan...
SAIT’s expertise in UAVS helps NASA explore new ways of detecting methane gas emissions. SAIT has joined forces with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in a novel research project that combines the unique capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs — commonly known as drones) with the methane...
There’s a fundamental shift happening all around us. Human progress (assuming we can still call it that) is branching out from the familiar, linear path of natural evolution. Technological breakthroughs are spawning spin-off breakthroughs at a dizzying rate, re-configuring our basic assumptions...
POWERFUL AND INCREASINGLY PREVALENT, CNC MACHINES CONTINUE THE EVOLUTION OF MACHINING A century ago, metal working was advanced technology. This fall, two labs will open in the Thomas Riley Building to house SAIT’s CNC (Computer Numerical Control) machines, thanks to a US$1-million donation from the Gene...
What does it take to preserve an entire year of man-made memories underground for the next 100 years? When SAIT instructor Greg Ball was first asked to design SAIT’s 2016 time capsule, he didn’t know the answer. After 10 years in the industry, the environmental designer had conceived lamp posts,...
f you can imagine a living, breathing, learning space where top culinary graduates flex their enterprising muscles in Calgary’s downtown core, you are seeing SAIT’s newest campus, The Tastemarket. When completed, the Tastemarket by SAIT will be the centre for the new Culinary Entrepreneurship post...
