UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO PROFILE
In just half a century, the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada’s technology hub, has become a leading comprehensive university with more than 36,000 full- and part-time students in undergraduate and graduate programs.
Consistently ranked Canada’s most innovative university, Waterloo is home to advanced research and teaching in science and engineering, mathematics and computer science, health, environment, arts and social sciences. From quantum computing and nanotechnology to clinical psychology and health sciences research, Waterloo brings ideas and brilliant minds together, inspiring innovations with real impact today and in the future.
As home to the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program, Waterloo embraces its connections to the world and encourages enterprising partnerships in learning, research, and commercialization. With campuses and education centres on four continents, and academic partnerships spanning the globe, Waterloo is shaping the future of the planet.
Find out more about the University of Waterloo athttps://uwaterloo.ca/about/who-we-are/waterloo-facts.
Introduction and Background - Southern Ontario Water Consortium
The Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) believes innovation is necessary to solve our local and global water challenges. These innovations become marketable solutions when private sector and academic knowledge are applied in real-world environments to overcome real-world technology commercialization challenges.
SOWC is a network of 10 post-secondary institutions dedicated to accelerating the commercialization of innovative water technologies and supporting the development of a robust water cluster in Ontario. SOWC achieves this goal through creating academic-industry partnerships, and facilitating access to real-world testing facilities and funding programs. SOWC brings together companies and academic researchers to accelerate and commercialize innovative water technologies. We help clients develop funding proposals and projects, and provide exclusive access to real-world facilities to test and evaluate new products and services.
With support from the Province of Ontario’s Business Growth Initiative (BGI), SOWC is enhancing its role as a Cleantech Sector Support Organization, further leveraging Ontario’s strength in the water sector to drive technology solutions, decrease greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and create other environmental co-benefits.
As part of these activities, SOWC requires the design and development of an online (web-based) greenhouse gas emission calculator for existing and new municipal wastewater treatment plant processes and technologies.
The purpose of the desired GHG calculator is to provide a valuable tool for wastewater treatment technology vendors in Ontario who have and/or are developing new wastewater treatment technologies a reliable way to estimate and justify the potential relative reduction in GHG emissions that could result with the adoption of that technology in a municipal wastewater treatment plant. Ownership of the calculator is to reside 100% with SOWC (no subscription, licensing or other models with ongoing user fees shall be considered). The tool must be ready to go live on or before March 29, 2019. The budget ceiling for implementation of this project is $90,000 plus HST.
