Colonel By Hall (CBY)

Building Information

Colonel By Hall, named after Lieutenant-Colonel John By, founder of Bytown (Ottawa) and supervisor the construction of the Rideau Canal, is a multi-storey, multi-wing building that opened in 1970. Colonel By Hall is home to the Faculty of Engineering and houses the Departments of Chemical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, and the School of Information Technology and Engineering. Classrooms, computer labs, science labs, offices, and study spaces are located throughout.

Building code and Facilities Management zone

018, FM zone 7

Accessibility

Floor plans

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What you can find on this floor

Classrooms, study rooms, offices, storage space, a lounge, lockers, a chemical waste room, Shipping and Receiving, the Atomic Force Microscopy Laboratory, the Structures Research Laboratory, the Geotechnical, Hydraulic, and Material Laboratory, the Grid Vue Laboratory, the Undergraduate Students’ Teaching Lab, the Pierre Bouchard Design Laboratory, the Pomerleau Structural Engineering Laboratory, the Machine Control Laboratory, the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory, the Materials Characterisation Laboratory, the offices of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE), the Engineering Students’ Society (ESS), Engineers Without Borders (EWB), and 91��Ʒ��ϳԹ� Women in Science and Engineering