Carl Haas' national and international prominence in construction, infrastructure and transportation technologies and management have been gained through the development of a widely used modularization decision support tool, wireless sensor network applications in civil engineering, field deployed robotics technologies, automated 3D data fusion models, revolutionary materials tracking technologies, and critical lift planning for industrial and heavy construction projects. His professional and societal contributions and honours include key roles in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the American Society for Civil Engineering (ASCE), the US National Academies, and the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC).