Features
Many Voices: Moving the Needle on Renewable Energy
The technology exists today to move the world onto cleaner energy solutions, but what’s holding us up is political will.
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Round and About
An overview of the Canadian Roundabout Design Guide, defining the intent and suitable applications for the traffic calming solution.
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Mentoring, Women & Engineering
“The most useful thing that can be done to progress women in the engineering industry is to welcome women and their different perspectives.” – Karen Sobel
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Energy neutral wastewater services
Tapping efficiencies and turning wastewater treatment into energy production.
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Bridges in Nature
Creative, cost-effective engineering used for two pedestrian suspension bridges along the Sea to Sky Trail in Whistler, B.C.
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evolv1
A net-positive office building in Waterloo, Ont. optimizes both passive and active energy sustainability features.
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Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation
The first net zero institutional education facility of its kind in Canada opens this fall for students at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ont.
Toronto-area man convicted for illegal use of “professional engineer” title
Individual was fined $15,625 (including a 25% victim fine surcharge of $3,125) after his guilty plea to four counts of breaching the Professional Engineers Act.
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Rogers Place: LEED Silver
Canada’s first LEED Silver arena: low-energy demand for a high-energy facility.
Sheridan College’s District Energy Plant
Professional piping services assist in completing fast-tracked project schedule.
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The Atal Setu (Basohli Bridge)– 2017 Ambassador Award
“The project was a great example of the transfer of knowledge to the local community, and the positive socio-economic impact on the region, thanks to the reduction of travel time from Jammu & Kashmir to Punjab by over four hours was impressive.” –Jury
Norquest College’s welcoming new addition
Designed to target LEED Silver certification, the materials and lighting selection support the building’s energy-saving measures.
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub (Oculus) – 2017 Ambassador Award
From the October/November 2017 print issue of Canadian Consulting Engineer, p. 29 The World Trade Center Transportation Hub (Oculus) in New York City is striking in its architecture, and it was extremely complicated to build. The project pushed the boundaries…
Studio Bell – 2017 Engineering A Better Canada Award
“The project represents a holistic design and a sophisticated integration of mechanical, acoustic and structural engineering. The building is also significant for its transformation of a condemned historical building and creating an iconic site that has become a catalyst for the re-development of one of the oldest areas in Calgary.” –Jury
Box Canyon Hydroelectric Project – 2017 Tree For Life Award
“We appreciate how the unique engineering utilized three main and six tributary intakes to address the unique geography along the creeks and tributaries with minimal environmental impact.” –Jury
Port Mann Water Supply Tunnel—2017 Schreyer Award Winner
“We were impressed with the project’s innovative and complex engineering. In particular, the technical elements such as the production, testing and selection of the steel for the pipe and the tunnel’s depth of 55 meters below grade.” –Jury
Protecting the Exterior
Following the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire in London, where flames consumed the building’s exterior, could the same happen here?
Talking about Tall Timber Possibilities
When you design with timber you have to think of a different kind of architecture, because the material itself doesn’t take loading in the same way (as steel or concrete).
Raising a Children’s Hospital
Saskatchewan’s new Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in Saskatoon is slated to open its doors in 2019.
The Third Dimension: Today
The evolution of vertical mobility includes horizontal travel.
Hospital receives thorough checkup
Saskatoon’s Royal University Hospital funds facility upgrades from savings in utility costs.
The New Iqaluit International Airport
The Airport Terminal Building was designed to meet stringent energy performance criteria set by the Government of Nunavut and the LEED Green Building Rating System.
Standing Out
How to make your small to mid-size firm the “safe choice.”
Embracing BIM
If we can have self-driving cars, we can certainly move a lot closer to automating some common engineering tasks.
Twin Tunnels
Tracking the Metrolinx Eglinton Crosstown tunnel project in Toronto.
Reclamation & Re-engineering
Landfill mining in Barrie, Ont. achieves an 18-year capacity increase and allows for installation of improved environmental controls.
Stylish Steel
The CF Toronto Eaton Centre pedestrian bridge gets a makeover.
Advanced Drinking Water Treatment
The re-making of the J.-M. Jeanson Drinking Water Treatment Plant in Sherbrooke achieves economic and environmental goals.
Acoustical Effects of Windscreens on Infrasound Measurement
The scientific research on the interactions of infrasound with wind screens does not necessarily explore what is occurring at the lower end of the infrasound spectrum.
Biomass – Renewable Energy in the Northwest Territories
Unlike fossil fuels, wood chips, when or if ever spilled, will not cost anyone an enormous amount of money to clean up.
