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Engineering
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Prix canadiens du gnie-conseil 1999
C’est le temps de nous faire savoir si vous avez l’intention de vous inscrire au concours des Prix canadiens du gnie-conseil 1999. Ce concours est co-parrain par la revue Canadian Consulting Enginee…
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Cheers
If you ever try to convince anyone other than yourself that going out for a few beers is an integral part of your job–detailed research in fact–you are not likely to get very far. But for Newfoundla…
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Green Building Challenge case study
Horton High School, Greenwich, Nova ScotiaOne of three Canadian buildings that were used to test the GBTool environmental assessment system at the Green Buildings challenge was the Horton High School …
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Millennium building flourishes in Europe
Britain’s centrepiece for the Millennium celebrations, the largest dome in the world, was completed last fall. Now workers are scurrying to build the extraordinary interiors of the large exhibition an…
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Award honours
Terra Engineering Ltd. of Vancouver won the 1998 B.C. Export Award for the Service Sector in November. The firm, which specializes in geotechnical, materials and environmental services, won the award …
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La coopration entre le public et le priv : question de bon sens
Il y a des annes que l’industrie canadienne de l’ingnierie essaie d’liminer la concurrence du secteur public, c’est–dire des ministres qui croient, tort, pouvoir mieux faire l’interne, et …
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Energy saving improvements at the University of Calgary
The University of Calgary has taken a major stride in instituting a long-range energy conservation and performance improvement program. The program is expected to save the university over $3.4 million…
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Public-private cooperation is good business sense
A perennial battle for the consulting engineering industry has been to eliminate competition from the public sector, that is, from government departments that mistakenly believe they can do what we do…
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Ballasts — from bricks to beauty
There are few things in the world around us that have not been affected by electronics. Artificial lighting is no exception. When High Intensity Discharge (HID) and fluorescent lamps were introduced i…
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Health Watch
Correct me if I’m wrong, but when most engineers were in university I doubt that they saw their future profession as a ticket to see the world. Over the past decade, however, much has changed. Not onl…
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A Tale of Two Banks
When the headquarters of the Hong Kong Bank opened in 1986 the press hailed it as the “building of the century.” Its architect, Norman Foster, became Sir Norman.Yet the building did not show much conc…
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NOTEWORTHY (January 01, 1999)
U.S. plugs master’s degreeThe American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has adopted a policy to support the master’s degree as the “first professional degree” in civil engineering. ASCE 1999 Presiden…
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Soft Benefits
The following is an adapted version of a paper presented at the Green Buildings Challenge conference in Vancouver in October.The very nature of engineering, architecture and construction is such that …
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Green Building: Challenge poster project
Alice Turner Branch Library, SaskatoonThe Alice Turner Branch Library on Nelson Road in Saskatoon is one of the buildings constructed under Natural Resources Canada’s C2000 environmental building prog…
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News – 01-JAN-99 (January 01, 1999)
The drawback in inventing a system to fully describe complexity is that the system ends up being extremely complicated itself.
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New Brunswick toll road under way
A new highway in New Brunswick costing $584.4 million is to be completed in four years. The 195-kilometre road between Fredericton and Moncton is a four-lane divided road, replacing the two-lane Trans…
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Counting on Green
On most summer days in Austria, it was enough simply to open a window in a home and let in the breeze in order to stay cool. Enough, that is, until the European Commission issued an energy directive t…
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Project Management Guide promotes best practices
In their Engineering Services Management: Guide and Glossary, the Association of Consulting Engineers of Quebec and the Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada have produced a document which is …
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How you can reach us in Cyberspace
ACEC web site: www.acec.caTim Page, President: tpage@acec.caBob Lorimer, Chair: lorimer@istar.caAnne-Marie Schneider, Government Relations: amschneider@acec.caHlne Schneider, International Programs:…
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Manitoba kids find wonder in infrastructure
Thanks to donations of time and money from engineering firms and construction and manufacturing companies, children in Manitoba have their own museum to learn about engineering infrastructure. The Won…
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IN PERSON (January 01, 1999)
Marshall Macklin Monaghan of Toronto started off the new year with two new partners. One is Phil Bastow, P. Eng., manager of mechanical engineering. He is a graduate of Memorial University, Newfoundla…
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Selling Out
About 20 years ago, Harold Bloom and two younger men founded a firm of consulting engineers. The firm has grown substantially. It now employs 15 people but the original partners have retained control….
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ACEC argues for increased access to Overseas Export Tax Credits
ACEC sent a letter to Minister of Finance Paul Martin early in December urging him to make Overseas Export Tax Credits (OETC) available to individuals on short-term overseas assignments. The federal g…
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Northern Exposure
Since the great Ice Storm devastated eastern Canada, Ontario Hydro and Hydro-Qubec have been hard at work looking for ways to avoid a similar disaster.For two of North America’s largest utilities, th…
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National survey paints clearest picture yet of CE industry
In October and November, 1998, member firms of ACEC participated in the first-ever national business survey of the Canadian consulting engineering industry. To ensure confidentiality, COMPAS Inc. was …
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Bubble Bubble
Watching a bubble drifting through a glass of champagne, it surprises me that something that small could cause so much trouble. It is not immediately obvious to most of us that a bubble could cause a …
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Government Relations Days
The Hon. Alfonso Gagliano, Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada signs an updated Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between ACEC and PWGSC at the ACEC’s 1998 Government Relations Day…
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Lighting
MagneTek has added to its line of Triad energy-efficient electronic ballasts for T8 lamps. The line has options for varying light levels, from two to eight-foot lamps. The economical instant start mo…
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Mechanical and Electrical
A new hybrid automatic transfer switch for critical loads has been developed in Canada by Ascolectric Limited of Brantford, Ontario. The Solid State Transition Transfer Switch (SSTTS) has the ability …
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Conductive concrete heating up
Visitors to the Construct Canada show in Toronto in December warmed their hands on a slab of conductive concrete at the National Research Council (NRC) booth and felt the future in their hands at the …
