Features
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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BOOKS
Urban Geology of Canadian CitiesEdited by P. F. Karrow and O. L. White. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 42, 1998.Review by Stephen C. Hollingshead, P.Eng. and John F. Gartner, P.Eng., G…
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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…
