Calendar (June 01, 1999)

JUNE 30 — Abstracts due for Ninth National Conference on Drinking Water to be held next May in Regina. Canadian Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA), Suite 402, 45 Rideau Street, Ottawa, Ont. K1N 5W8, fax (613) 241-5193, e-mail admin@cwwa.ca

AUGUST 18-19 — A/E Principals Boot Camp. Training in architectural/engineering firm leadership at Santa Barbara, California. U.S. $895. PSMJ Resources, Newton, MA, tel. 1-800-537-PSMJ/fax (617) 965-5152.

SEPTEMBER 15 — Deadline for entering Masonry Construction Awards. Winners will be displayed at World of Concrete 2000 in Orlando, Florida. Tel. Bill Palmer (303) 823-8284, e-mail wpalmer@wocnet.com

SEPTEMBER 19-22 — FIDIC, International Federation of Consulting Engineers Annual Conference. In The Hague, Netherlands. Workshops and forums on the theme of Expanding the Boundaries, tours and social events. Includes sessions on global growth, the water crisis, living in an Ecocracy, underground space, the electronic highway, space technology, offshore engineering, privatization and innovative financing. FIDIC, P.O. Box 86, CH-1000 Lausanne 12, Switzerland, tel. 41 21 654 44 11, fax 41 21 653 54 32, e-mail fidic@pobox.com, visit www.fidic.com

SEPTEMBER 22 — First Annual National Precast Day. Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute members across Canada open their plants to the public between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Visit www.cpci.ca

SEPTEMBER 24-25 — CIPHEX ’99, Canadian Institute of Plumbing and Heating trade show and conference. Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Tel. (416) 695-0477.

OCTOBER 21 — ACEC-CCE Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards 1999. Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto. Don’t miss it! Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada, tel. (613) 236-0569/1-800-565-0569, e-mail memserv@acec.ca

OCTOBER 31 — Deadline for 1999 National Lighting Awards. For “high benefit” lighting projects completed after January 1, 1996. National Lighting Bureau, Silver Spring, MD, tel. (301) 587-9572, e-mail info@nlb.org, visit www.nlb.org

OCTOBER 27-29 — Canadian Water Resources Association, B.C. Branch Conference. Theme is Confronting Uncertainty. Waterfront Hotel, Vancouver. Contact Peter McCann (604) 293-1411, e-mail mccannp@burnaby.associated-eng.com, or visit www.cwra.org

NOVEMBER 8-12 — Sixth World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems. Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Sessions on infrastructure, operations and systems and technologies. Tel. ITS World Congress Registration Centre (416) 588-5051, e-mail info@itsworldcongress.org