November 2023: McGill TSG is thrilled to share the news that, with researchers from the University of Laval, we acquired $685,000 in funding from the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts, Quebec. Professors Bezabeh and Rogers from McGill University, Professor Salenikovich from the University of Laval, Dr. Dagenais from FPInnovations, and around ten collaborators from the industry make up our team. From 2023 to 2029, we will develop next-generation hybrid timber-steel building systems that withstand strong winds and earthquakes.

November 2023: Huanru has been awarded McGill's Graduate Excellence Fellowship. Excellent, and congratulations, Huanu!

September 2023: Prof. Bezabeh received the prestigious NSERC Discovery Grant. Bezabeh also received the Discovery Launch Supplement.

August 2023: McGill TSG joined the NSERC Alliance Next-generation Wood Construction collaborative project. Under this project, McGill TSG secured funding to investigate the seismic performance of wood-frame buildings on concrete podiums.

August 2023: Prof. Bezabeh attended the International Conference on Wind Engineering (ICWE 2023) in Florence, Italy.

May 2023: Prof. Bezabeh attended the SEI-NIST Workshop on Computational Wind Engineering at ASCE HQ, Reston, VA.

May 2023: Prof. Bezabeh attended the shaking table test of a 10-story tall mass timber building at the NHERI Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table (LHPOST6) at the University of California, San Diego.

May 2023: Prof. Bezabeh attended the 2023 Structures Congress conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

March 2023: Prof. Bezabeh gave an invited talk at Concordia University on the wind performance of tall mass-timber buildings.

March 2023: McGill TSG, in partnership with Fast + Epp, has been awarded a new grant through Mitacs to investigate the 3D response of wind-excited tall mass-timber buildings and develop the next generation risk-based wind design frameworks for mass timber buildings.

April 2023: Aya Risha will join the McGill-TSG as an MSc student in September 2023. Welcome to the McGill-TSG Aya!

April 2023: Abebaw Mekonnen will join the McGill-TSG in September 2023 as a PhD student. Welcome to the McGill-TSG Abebaw!