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December 1, 2000
Calendar (December 01, 2000)

Above: Btiment Ouest de la Centrale de Beauharnois d'Hydro-Qubec, near Montreal. The building was one of two awards of excellence in the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction 2000 Awards for Quebec. Consultants included SNC Lavalin, Rousseau Sauv Warren, Lemoyne Lapointe Magne architects, Massicotte et Dignard, and les Dessins JMD. The other award of excellence went to the Atrium Edifice Bell Canada, Montreal. Consultants included Boulva Verganelakis, J.E. Verreault et Fils, and AEdifica Architecture.

December 1, 2000
$1.5 Billion to Toronto’s Waterfront

December 1, 2000
Prone to Fail

Above: the building takes on a vibrant new look at night.

December 1, 2000
Remaking Simpson’s

Stories continue below

December 1, 2000
ACEC federal election issues: a focus on quality of life and competitiveness

Haas (in white cap) runs in the Comrades Ultramarathon in South Africa.

December 1, 2000
Marathon Pursuits

December 1, 2000
Low remuneration in the industry is self-inflicted

December 1, 2000
Reader disputes need for expanded highway

Ben Novak, P. Eng.

December 1, 2000
The Task Ahead

December 1, 2000
Steel Plate Shear Walls

Above: the software program designers had to create a virtual model of the robotic arm and the space station, in which accuracy was essential. However, the robotic arm was still being developed as they worked, so specifications were constantly changing.

December 1, 2000
Training Astronauts

Above: plan of the site. The linear accelerator in the basement of the existing building to the west of the new facilities (in blue) is the "gun" that starts off the process. It sends a stream of electrons through a linear accelerator and then 8 metres up a new transfer tunnel into the main experimental hall.

December 1, 2000
Brighter than the Sun

As the Gemini telescopes begin to search the night sky for the origins of our universe, their delicate equipment is protected by domes designed and built in B.C.. 1999, Neelon Crawford, Gemini/National Science Foundation

December 1, 2000
The Gemini Project

December 1, 2000
INTO THE MYSTIC ENGINEERING FOR SCIENCE

October 1, 2000
Un appel l’action par une industrie frustre

October 1, 2000
A call to action by a frustrated industry

AWARD OF MERITADI Limited, of Fredericton, N.B. for Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water at Rose Hill Center, Michigan. Above, l. to r.: Michael McMullin, P.Eng., Eric Winchester, P.Eng., Ron Berry, P.Eng.

October 1, 2000
Awards2000 Winners

October 1, 2000
Beaubien Award given to Bernard Lamarre

Figure showing the "Extensive Treatment" option for the Capilano watershed. The study produced maps of existing conditions of the forest, terrain, stream and wildlife in the three watersheds, as well as studies of hazards such as fire, and a series of models predicting the effects of different levels of intervention.

October 1, 2000
Study of Watersheds in B.C.; Award of Merit; Management Option A — Extensive Treatment Scenario

Time waiting (minutes/seconds)RoadsAutorouteRoute nationaleRoute rgionaleMap of traffic queueing times for a morning rush hour in April.

October 1, 2000
Computerized Study of Traffic Congestion in Montreal

October 1, 2000
Pot of Gold?

Bench scale testing of Media G2.

October 1, 2000
Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water at Rose Hill Center, Michigan

Constructing the 17 metre x 17 metre post-tensioned slab structural system.

October 1, 2000
Parking Structure at Fairview Mall- Don Mills Subway Station, Toronto

Entry hall with pyramid roof, and (at right) bow-mullion glazed wall over the whale pool.

October 1, 2000
Vancouver Aquarium Roof; Award of Merit

Platform being towed out to sea.

October 1, 2000
Semi-Submersible Transshipper, Indonesia

Wharf with the 40-metre new section at right.

October 1, 2000
Hall’s Harbour Wharf, Nova Scotia

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What makes a winner?

Vancouver's Wall Centre, original design before controversial changes to the exterior facade.

October 1, 2000
STRUCTURES

The multi-purpose room roof has cantilevered timbers and a three-dimensional log and steel rod strut system.

October 1, 2000
Roofs at Anspayaxw School in Kispiox, B.C.

October 1, 2000
News – 01-OCT-00

Testing wind effects on urban environments at the University of Western Ontario's Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel laboratory.

October 1, 2000
building a future

Inserting the HDPE liner pipe on a downtown street.

October 1, 2000
Gloucester Street Water Main Sliplining, Ottawa