Features

October 1, 2001
Engineers respond to disaster

October 1, 2001
HONOURABLE MENTION: New Roof for the Shepherds of Good Hope, Ottawa

Smoke and flames billow from the towers after the planes hit. Within two hours both towers came crashing down to the ground, killing 6,000 people.

October 1, 2001
SPECIAL REPORT: Engineers reflect on the World Trade Center disaster

October 1, 2001
Not Just Carrots

Stories continue below

Aerial view of the lagoon with an 8-metre sea wall constructed along the Miramichi River

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF MERIT: Wastewater Treatment Plant Miramichi, New Brunswick

The deck of the departures level becomes the roof of arrivals level below; the wide space between columns required a unique integration of transverse and longitudinal post tensioning.

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF MERIT: Frontage Road Bridge System for Pearson Airport Terminal

Three-dimensional CAD drawing of the new high pressure recovery boiler. It directs steam to a new turbine generator.

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE: Weyerhaeuser Pulp & Paper Mill Wood Waste & Low Odour Project Prince Albert, Saskatchewan

Subway rail line and platform; the station is constructed as a reinforced concrete box with long clear spans.

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE: Leslie Station, Sheppard Subway, Toronto

October 1, 2001
Petit prix, petit travail

October 1, 2001
HONOURABLE MENTION: Knowledge Management System

October 1, 2001
Party Animals

Photographs are from UMA's recent work for CIDA to reverse problems in Rajasthan, India. Irrigation projects in the area in the 1960s resulted in salinity build-up and waterlogging on 20,000 hectares of farmers' land.

October 1, 2001
Work Abroad: Tread Softly

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF MERIT: GasAtacama Pipeline, Argentina

Modular fan coil units are surface mounted in corridors for easy access.

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF MERIT: Burnaby Mountain School, B.C. Mechanical and Electrical Systems

Inside the clean room laboratory.

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF MERIT: Nortel Networks Manufacturing Facility Kanata, Ontario

Concrete being poured into sliding form to construct the syphon barrel; the syphon is 5 metres outer diameter with 500-mm thick walls and completely buried.

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE: East Arrowwood Syphon Replacement, Alberta

Plan view (top) and elevation.

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE: Quadrant Shiploader for Koch Carbon Pittsburg, California

Airport landside control centre with surveillance system workstations and closed circuit television monitors. The incident detection and diversion component integrates with various operational systems of the airport.

October 1, 2001
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE: Hong Kong Airport Traffic Control

Tunnel interior safe areas (see access door at right) are located at 400 metre intervals; powerful fans purge the tunnel of smoke during a fire.

October 1, 2001
SCHREYER AWARD: Whittier Access Project Tunnel Segment, Alaska, U.S.

A joint program of Canadian Consulting Engineer magazine and the Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada/Ordre des Ingnieurs-Conseils du Canada (ACEC)

October 1, 2001
Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards 2001

Cripwell helps a group of Grade 12 students design a "cybernetic walker."

August 1, 2001
Time to Teach

August 1, 2001
Details

August 1, 2001
Le nouveau president lance un appel pour une augmentation de la remuneration

Meso Optics diffusers and reflectors

August 1, 2001
New Product Winners at Lightfair 2001

August 1, 2001
Building Systems: Fire protection of Internet Data Centres

Above: curtain wall system. Left: new face along Robson Street.

August 1, 2001
BUILDINGS: TELUS BUILDING REVITALIZATION, VANCOUVER

Bob Matheson, Art & Architecture PhotographyThe elliptical tower soars above its neighbours at the corner of Hornby and Nelson Streets in downtown Vancouver. Much citizen debate has revolved around its height and appearance. Clear glass walls mark the upper condominium portion and dark reflective glass is in the hotel floors below (it was originally designed to be all clear glass). The tower sits on a four-storey podium and is connected to the existing Wall Centre conference centre.

August 1, 2001
BUILDINGS: One Wall Centre mechanical and electrical systems

August 1, 2001
PUBLIC RELATIONS: What’s in a name?

August 1, 2001
Insurance Watch

August 1, 2001
2001-2002 ACEC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

August 1, 2001
EXHIBITION: Out of this World

August 1, 2001
Moving Time