Tucker-Hasegawa Award to Professor Carl Haas

This year’s Tucker-Hasegawa Award went to professor Carl Haas. The award ceremony was held in June during the 27th International Symposium on Automation and Robotics (ISARC) in Austin, Texas, USA.

Professor Carl T. Haas is the Tier I Canada Research Chair in Construction and Management of Sustainable Infrastructure at the University of Waterloo. His research, teaching and consulting are in the areas of advanced construction and transportation technology, sustainability, and construction workforce issues. His most recent research is in the areas of sustainability, rapid local area sensing and modeling for construction automation, 3D scanning and analysis of aggregates, teleoperated robots for hazardous environments, critical construction operations planning, automated infrastructure maintenance, trenchless technologies, remote highway condition and incident detection, and construction workforce issues.

Carl Haas is a Board of Director member of IAARC.

Website of Carl Haas: http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/chaas/Resume.htm

Ronie Navon (right), President IAARC, handed the Tucker-Hasegawa award to Carl Haas. Kamel Saidi (left) was Chairman of the Tucker-Hasegawa Committee who made the nomination.