GreenCentre Canada brings together Canada’s leading Green Chemistry researchers, industry partners, and commercialization professionals in a common goal of developing cleaner, less energy-intensive solutions for traditional chemical products and manufacturing processes. A National Centre of Excellence, GreenCentre takes a truly hands-on approach, working with academic and industrial partners to identify and develop research breakthroughs that can benefit the environment and that are closely aligned with industrial needs.

A Community Committed to ‘Green’

(Chemistry and Chemical Engineering) – phytoremediation; paleolimnology; DDT in the food chain

(Civil Engineering) – Geotechnical / Geomechanical Engineering
Underground Excavation Stability and Support Design for Weak Rock Tunnelling
Numerical Analysis / Modelling of Environmental and Geotechnical Problems (improvements to modelling techniques)
Near-face response of tunnels in weak, tectonized rockmasses
Physical Testing of Tunnel Support
Integration of Geomechanics and Geomatics
Hazard Assessment and Risk Management in Geotechnical Works
Use of geosynthetics (polymers and composite materials) in geotechnical structures

Civil Engineering) – groundwater systems modeling, sampling and flow characterization; contaminant release, transport and fate

(Chemistry and Chemical Engineering) - remedial technologies; environmental assessment; arsenic speciation; human health and ecological risk assessment

(Civil Engineering) - ground water and soil pollution (mechanisms, prevention and treatment); physico-chemical treatment; dissolution and evaporation of petroleum products and solvents in soil; used snow composition and disposal

(Civil Engineering) - assessment of aquifer parameters affecting contaminant migration; investigation of mobility of fuels and lubricants in permafrost

(Chemistry) – environmental chemistry; drinking water chemistry; waste water treatment chemistry; groundwater remediation procedures, environmental behaviour of particular pesticides and other small organic molecules in soil and water

Civil Engineering) – contaminant migration through soil and rock, landfill design, containment of contaminated sites, geosynthetics (including geotextiles, geomembranes, geogrids, geonets etc.), reinforced embankments and walls, tunnels in soft ground, failure of slopes and excavations