Professor
Canada Research Chair in Construction & Management of Sustainable Infrastructure
Director of the Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT)
University of Waterloo
Department of Civil Engineering
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Office: Engineering 2 (E2) 2346C
Office Phone No.: (519) 888-4567 ext. 35492
Fax No.: (519) 888-4300
e-mail: chaas@civmail.uwaterloo.ca
Website: www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/chaas
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1990
M.Sc. Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1986
B.Sc. Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, 1985
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. He teaches courses in Construction Automation, Sensing in Civil
Engineering, Heavy Construction, Optimization, Engineering Economics, Scheduling, and Project
Management. 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. He has received several research and teaching awards.
He consults in the area of construction and transportation technology issues. He has over 150
publications and serves on a number of professional committees such as the Construction Industry
Institute Breakthrough Committee. He directs the Center for Paving and Transportation Technology
(CPATT) at Waterloo.