Carl Haas, University of Waterloo

Research

deconstruction safety adaptive reuse of buildings and materials automation and robotics in construction building information modeling built environment circular economy construction

Latest papers

Attitudes, needs, and opportunities for training on musculoskeletal disorder risk reduction in masonry.
BMC public health · 2025
A definition framework for building adaptation projects.
Sustainable cities and society · 2020 · senior author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Masonry, Masons and Machines: Leveraging Augmented Reality to Improve Productivity, Health and Safety Outcomes
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$128,000
Digitization and asset information modeling to support planning for nuclear power plant decommissioning
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$141,530
Improved scanning technologies for the application of high-power ultrasonic guided waves for CANDU® piping inspection
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$138,462

All 33 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Attitudes, needs, and opportunities for training on musculoskeletal disorder risk reduction in masonry.

McFarland TC, Ryu J, Haas C, Abdel-Rahman E

BMC public health2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12889-025-25011-1 PMID: 41188837

02

A definition framework for building adaptation projects.

Shahi S, Esnaashary Esfahani M, Bachmann C, Haas C

Sustainable cities and society2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2020.102345 PMID: 32837869

Masonry, Masons and Machines: Leveraging Augmented Reality to Improve Productivity, Health and Safety Outcomes

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Haas, Carl CTM

Keywords: augmented reality; masonry; masons; productivity; safety; trades

$128,000

Digitization and asset information modeling to support planning for nuclear power plant decommissioning

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Haas, Carl CTM

Keywords: decommissioning; deconstruction; deep learning; mixed reality; nde; nuclear power plants; planning; safe storage; safety; waste handling

$141,530

Improved scanning technologies for the application of high-power ultrasonic guided waves for CANDU® piping inspection

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Cascante, Giovanni G

Keywords: augmented reality; guided wave technology; high power ultrasonics; mechanical vibrations; non-destructive evaluation; numerical simulations; piping inspection candu reactor; signal processing; ultrasonic testing

$138,462

Computer vision developments to support circular economic activity in the built environment

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Haas, Carl

Keywords: construction; deconstruction; built environment; circular economy; infrastructure computer vision; tolerance control; modularization and offsite construction; automation and robotics in construction; building information modeling; adaptive reuse of buildings and materials

$427,500

Digitization and asset information modelling to support nuclear power plant decommissioning

Principal investigatorNSERC2020Alliance Grants

Principal investigators: Haas, Carl CTM

$212,295

A Sensor Platform for Subsurface and Aboveground Inspection of Bridges

Co-investigatorNSERC2019Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Narasimhan, Sriram

$95,573

Multi-dimensional Digital Twins for Nuclear Power Plants

Principal investigatorNSERC2018Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Haas, Carl

$230,757

Measuring project health and engineering progress in complex capital projects at early phases

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Haas, Carl

$32,000

Living architecture systems

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: architecture; responsive structures; living architecture; synthetic biology; human-machine interaction; curriculum development; interdisciplinary working methods; cognitive psychology; new technologies; aesthetics

$2,476,738

Robotics and automation for optimal characterization for nuclear power plant decommissioning

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Collaborative Research and Development Grants

Principal investigators: Haas, Carl

$212,295

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Eihab Abdel-Rahman

Systems Design Engineering

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: deconstruction Dear Professor Haas, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Attitudes, needs, and opportunities for training on musculoskeletal disorder risk reduction in masonry." (2025), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your NSERC-funded project "Masonry, Masons and Machines: Leveraging Augmented Reality to Improve Productivity, Health and Safety Outcomes" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]