Alberta Innovators 2014

The annual magazine of
Consulting Engineers
of Alberta Spring 2014
Industry experience, plus the
corporate perspective, help
build our society
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How the CEAs helped
rebuild after the
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Tomorrows
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When the Water Came
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Tomorrows Builders
Meet ve young engineers who will
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Infrastructure With Care
CEs dont travel the easy road. Many have
industry experience that allows them to see the
corporate perspective as well as the public one
New Horizons
When his British company ceased Canadian
operations, Paul Breeze decided to stay on
Keeps on Rolling
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MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER
Alison M. Redford, QC
2014
N BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ALBERTA,
I am pleased to ofer my best wishes to the Consulting Engineers
of Alberta for the 2014 issue of Alberta Innovators.
As Albertans, we take great pride in the role innovation plays in
our province. Along with our self-determination and resiliency, inno-
vation is what help to defne us. We are known for being leaders at
the forefront of research and development from nanotechnology to
computer sciences, energy to infrastructure and engineers help drive
these innovations. To move forward, we must continue to attract the
best and brightest minds into this wonderful profession.
It is ftting that your theme for the upcoming year is Building Our
Place in the Community. During the foods of 2013, engineers and
their respective frms were heavily involved in the disaster relief and
rebuilding eforts. I know in the upcoming months and years, Alber-
tans will be relying on the excellence of our engineers so our province
can continue to rebuild, grow and prosper.
Te Consulting Engineers of Alberta has been supporting profes-
sional engineers, technologists and support staf in this province for
more than 30 years. I wish you continued success and congratulations
on the publications of the latest issue of Alberta Innovators.
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KEN PILIP, P.Eng.
CEO & Registrar, CEA
MESSAGE FROM CEA
HE CONSULTING ENGINEERS OF
Alberta (CEA) have reached a milestone
of 100 membership f irms employing
10,000 people. Were proud to celebrate our 36th
anniversary.
From humble beginnings we have evolved into
a legislated body the Consulting Engineers of
Alberta. CEA fosters excellence among consult-
ing engineers, while guiding the profession with a
strong Code of Ethics and Member charter.
Our goal is to attract and celebrate the best.
This year we are honouring Mr. Cory Broks
P. Eng. and Mr. Leo Broks P.Eng., founders of
Al-Terra Engineering Ltd. Teir leadership and
commitment over 37 years of consulting engineer-
ing has established Al-Terra as a premier firm.
In Alberta, we benet from many of the Brokses
projects. They have demonstrated excellence
through innovation and integrity.
Tey are being honoured with the CEA Lieu-
tenant Governors Awards for Distinguished
Achievement. Teir leadership in contributing to
Albertas economy, their engineering endeavours
and their personal involvement in the community
sets them apart. Just as previous winners have, they
personify the principles upon which the consult-
ing engineering profession is founded: excellence,
innovation and integrity.
We must continue to attract the brightest and
best minds from our engineering and technical
schools and grow a strong local consulting industry
in Alberta. Our professional associations, APEGA
and ASET are key to ensuring that professional
standards are high and that young graduates have a
high level of academic and applied skills to ensure
engineering excellence.
The CEA has faced some challenges largely
because the selection of consulting services is often
based on price rather than qualications. Te low-
est price isnt as signicant as the best qualications
and experience. Contracting for the delivery of
knowledge-based consulting services is dierent
than buying a commodity.
CEA works to educate people to help them
understand that they can get more for less if they
use a more appropriate selection process. The
Qualifications Based Selection system provides
Momentum Moves Forward
the answer. QBS starts with selection of a qualied
consultant, who then works with the client to dene
the objectives and scope of work. Following that,
the parties negotiate a suitable price and undertake
the work. Organizations using this approach, such
as the City of Calgary, report fewer change orders;
very few cost-overruns, and greater innovation.
THE UNITED STATES MANDATED THE QBS
system under the Brooks Act of 1972. It has worked
so well for procurement of consulting engineering
services that most states have voluntarily adopted
the federal legislation. Its time to legislate that
model here. QBS will sustain our industry and
ensure the viability the eld, as well as providing the
Province of Alberta with the engineering expertise
to meet the future with condence. We thank our
industry partners, the Alberta Construction Asso-
ciation, the Consulting Architects of Alberta, and
the Alberta Road Builders and Heavy Construction
Association for their support of the QBS model.
Consulting engineering companies answered the
call with the ooding disaster in southern Alberta
by volunteering, and providing money and services.
President Craig Cliftons theme for the year build-
ing our place in the community was put to the test.
On behalf of our president, board and sta we oer
thanks to all. We also thank the province for mobi-
lizing and responding to the immediate needs of
families and businesses.
Unfortunately, recent events in the Province of
Quebec are very serious for the consulting engi-
neering profession in Canada. Te Charbonneau
Inquiry dealing with unethical behaviour will neg-
atively impact our reputation. Te unethical actions
of a few can undermine the foundation of trust that
underpins our client relationships. In Alberta, the
CEA wants the public to know that the unethical
activities exposed in Quebec will not be tolerated.
Tanks goes to our dedicated sta, helping our
association be as organized and successful as it is.
Te whole community benets.
By working together and helping others achieve
a better understanding of what we do and the role
we play in enhancing our communities, the future
of the consulting industry in Alberta will be strong
and vibrant.
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CRAIG CLIFTON, P.Eng.
President, CEA
BUILDING OUR PLACE
IN THE COMMUNITY
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With more than 4,000 employees in 50 offices across Canada and over 14,000 employees in 350 offices
worldwide, we have grown to become one of North Americas largest engineering and sciences firms. From water
and transportation projects, to renewable energy and mining services, Tetra Tech provides innovative solutions
in consulting, engineering, program management, construction management, and technical services worldwide.
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Tetra Tech EBA has aligned our reputation and
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JOHN GAMBLE, CET, P.Eng.
President, ACEC
MESSAGE FROM ACEC
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Industrys National Voice
HE ASSOCIATION OF CONSULTING
Engineering Companies - Canada
(ACEC) is proud to be the national voice
of consulting engineering. Representing nearly 500
rms, ACECs vision for the future is a successful,
trusted and sustainable consulting engineering
industry. ACEC would like to thank Consulting
Engineers of Alberta and its members for their
ongoing support at the national level. By work-
ing together, we have a stronger voice and greater
capacity to strengthen our communities, promote
economic growth and protect our environment.
Together, consulting engineers will contribute to a
bright future for Canada. With the support of our
provincial and territorial member organizations,
ACEC undertakes activities in four key areas:
1. Advocacy on national issues
ACEC inf luences the federal government and
other national stakeholders to create a regulatory
and business climate that is favourable to consult-
ing engineering companies.
ACECs annual Parliament Hill Day pro-
vides an opportunity for representatives of member
firms to meet with Members of Parliament and
raise awareness of issues aecting our industry. In
October, ACEC applauded the governments com-
mitment to a 10-year infrastructure program but
stressed the urgent need for planning and applica-
tion processes to begin. ACEC also highlighted
the need for investment in northern infrastructure
to access and transport Canadas natural resources.
ACEC is increasing outreach to organizations
that represent private sector clients. Were collabo-
rating with the Mining Association of Canada,
Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada
and NWT Chamber of Mines to study the chal-
lenges of doing business in the North and identify
strategies to encourage private investment.
ACEC recently adopted a position on oil and
gas transportation. Expanding and modernizing
oil and gas transportation infrastructure is vital to
prosperity. ACEC will also expand its advocacy
to include a new Parliamentary Partners program.
Under this new initiative, ACEC supports mem-
bers building relationships with local MPs.
2. Image and prole building
ACEC enhances the prof ile of consulting
engineers and showcases the contribution of
consulting engineering to Canadas social, eco-
nomic and environmental quality of life.
Each year, ACEC hosts the Canadian Con-
sulting Engineering Awards, a marquee industry
event that in 2013 saw 26 presentations, including
Awards of Excellence and Special Achievement
Awards. We encourage all members of Consulting
Engineers of Alberta to enter their projects in 2014
and participate in this national showcase of excel-
lence in our industry.
ACEC partners with organizations and sup-
ports programs that provide opportunities to raise
the prole of consulting engineers among clients,
politicians and other industries. We promote
consulting engineering through student outreach
activities, a proactive media strategy and by being
an inuential participant in the International Fed-
eration of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC).
3. Client liaison and business practices
We are recognized by public and private sector cli-
ents, and by the consulting engineering sector, as
the authority on business practice issues.
ACEC works with industry experts to offer
professional service agreements for use by consult-
ing engineering companies and their clients. We
continually monitor trends through benchmarking
and industry surveys. Our annual summit oers a
business program geared to industry leaders, and
we regularly provide training seminars that help
engineering companies succeed. ACEC encour-
ages the use of qualications-based selection (QBS)
to provide the best value to clients.
4. Member engagement and communications
We encourage member participation and dem-
onstrate value through eective communications
and engagement.
ACEC creates regular opportunities for dis-
cussion, collaboration, and networking. Each
year, ACEC conducts a national tour of member
organizations to solicit industry feedback on issues
and trends. In serving our members, we continue
to improve and modernize our communication
tools enabling more targeted and strategic com-
munications. We value the input of our members
and invite them to discover the benets of getting
involved in ACEC.
To nd out more about ACEC and what we do
for our members, please visit www.acec.ca.
JASON MEWIS, P.Eng.
Chair, ACEC
Tetra Techs scientists and engineers are developing sustainable solutions for the worlds most complex projects.
With more than 4,000 employees in 50 offices across Canada and over 14,000 employees in 350 offices
worldwide, we have grown to become one of North Americas largest engineering and sciences firms. From water
and transportation projects, to renewable energy and mining services, Tetra Tech provides innovative solutions
in consulting, engineering, program management, construction management, and technical services worldwide.
www.tetratech.com | www.eba.ca
Tetra Tech EBA has aligned our reputation and
services with our other Tetra Tech companies
in Canada to provide broader and integrated
services across Canada and around the world.
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BY COLLEEN BIONDI | ILLUSTRATION BY RAYMOND REID
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CEs dont travel the easy road.
Many have industry experience that
allows them to see the corporate
perspective as well as the public one
O BE A CONSULTING ENGINEER (CE) IN ALBERTA IS NOT TO TAKE
the easy road. In fact, working with industry types and government
personnel to assess the best way to proceed with a resource develop-
ment enterprise while mitigating negative impact on the environ-
ment results in the odd sleepless night and a few extra grey hairs. But Shawn
McKeown, principal at Golder Associates Ltd., would have it no other way.
Tere is a lot of contention about the oil sands, says the seasoned profes-
sional who has been in the business since 1977. But we like to think of our-
selves as the honest brokers of scientic information.
Tat means a good deal of work at the permitting and application level and
helping businesses with environmental impact assessments (EIAs). Tese
very detailed documents focus on how projects can get done without leaving
behind a large footprint that requires extensive ecological remediation. Con-
sulting companies have the dedicated and disciplined manpower to complete
these documents properly. Wildlife experts, vegetation specialists, biodiversity
people and sh biologists all may contribute to the typically massive
reports. We are the second most writing-intensive business in the world after
journalists, he adds.
HED]] Infrastructure With Care
CEs do not decide which oil and gas or
mining project goes ahead and which one
is nixed. Industry people might abandon
the project themselves in its early stage if
it is not deemed to be nancially viable or
if issues with stakeholders landowners,
investors or First Nations communities
are too unwieldy, or if uctuation in the
value of commodities is too uncertain. But if
a project proceeds, the nal decision is made
by multiple levels of government after the
project meets every regulatory standard.
What they do provide is the answer to
this critical question: what is the current
level of eco-functioning at the site and how
much will it be aected when roads, pipe-
lines, well pads and facilities are built?
CEs also assess social considerations.
How will this development impact the
people who live there, economically and
lifestyle-wise? Will it provide jobs? What
happens to the communitys welfare after
the project closes and the jobs are over?
CEs evaluate terrestrial disciplines (soil,
vegetation and wildlife). Does the project
take into consideration the caribou zone,
and does it protect natural ora? What are
the implications if the proposed project does
not consider these?
Creative reclamation plans are critical.
CEs look to the plan to nd how the proj-
ect stakeholders will later take down the
pipelines and pads. They ll examine how
the project proposes to replace topsoil and
trees. Golder has hired people in retirement
homes near Fort McMurray to collect native
seeds, which they send to Smoky Lake For-
est Nursery to be planted into seedlings and
then replanted in reclamation processes.
Archeological nds, of particular inter-
est to First Nations and heritage experts,
require special consideration (30 people at
Golder are archeologists). Te Quarry of the
Ancestors, an outcropping of sandstone rock
discovered near Fort MacKay in 2006, was
used to make tools for thousands of years.
A recent paleontology nd in Grande Prai-
ries oil sands region expresses information
about how the land was traditionally used
versus how it is used today. Archeologists
have deemed both sites as historically sig-
nicant, and requiring sensitive care during
development.
As well as these preliminary phases, CEs
are involved in the development process
itself, measuring and monitoring wild-
life and wetlands issues during operations,
and in the wrap-up or evaluation stage.
Big companies dont want to take short-
cuts, says McKeown. They know it will
get them in the long run. Te worst-case
scenario is for government to shut down a
project once operations are rolling. No com-
pany needs that kind of negative publicity.
But they want to execute ecient and cost-
saving measures that wont adversely aect
their bottom line. To do that, companies
need the expertise of trusted and experi-
enced consulting engineers to balance envi-
ronmental concerns with profit margins.
Trust allows for honest conversations about
checks and balances; experience means
theyre going to get the job done well. Plus,
CEs who are working on many projects can
share best practices and recommend steps to
clients based on previous successes.
Since McKeown began working, there
Some mines were abandoned and
not reclaimed well. The mining just
stopped and everybody left.
Paul Rufell, President, Tetra Tech EBA
have been advances in processes which
will protect the environment but are not
economic killers. One example is the
commercialization of solvent extraction in
underground production chambers; this
process requires less steam and improves
energy economics. And research is currently
underway all over Alberta (spearheaded by
groups like Canadas Oil Sands Innovation
Alliance, the Alberta Biodiversity Monitor-
ing Institute and the Ecological Monitor-
ing Committee for the Lower Athabasca) to
develop improvements in biodiversity issues,
reclamation techniques, technological
upgrades and air emission quality. Most are
incremental but some tailing management
developments, for example are transfor-
mative. Alberta is also making strides with
detailed land use plans, water allocation and
management and environmental monitor-
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ing of the oil sands. In fact, this province
was the rst jurisdiction in North America
to put a price on greenhouse gases.
But there is always some room for
improvement.
Paul Ruffell, president of Tetra Tech
EBA, has been committed to improving the
practice of responsible resource development
for 34 years. He worked in the Arctic for
15 of those years, moved into management
then did some work with a waste manage-
ment company. Although a high-ranking
executive, he still likes to be on the ground.
Youre relevant and credible when you
are where the action is, not behind a desk,
he says.
One of his areas of expertise is the mining
industry. His company has been involved in
northern development since the early 1970s,
starting with the Ekati Diamond Mine and
moving into the Diavik Diamond Mine,
both of which are located approximately 300
kilometres northeast of Yellowknife. Dia-
mond mines work because you dont need
to y thousands of tonnes of ore out of the
mines. You just need a box of diamonds,
Ruell says. EBA is also involved in gold
mining near Wawa, Ontario and iron
ore mining on the coast of Ban Island.
CEs provide a key role in resource devel-
opment by pulling comprehensive plans
together for client groups, recommending
mine design, blast plans, transportation
and slope stability options. They bring a
perspective like no other and are uniquely
positioned to bring all aspects of environ-
mental sensitivity to one development.
They also provide advice regarding
orphan mines. Built in the 1950s and
60s, these are mines whose operations have
been discontinued and which have been left
with no ownership structure. At the time
the mines were abandoned, they were not
reclaimed well or at all with old equip-
ment left on site or tailings left exposed.
The mining just stopped and everybody
left, Ruell says. Today governments and
other stakeholders are cleaning some of
them up. Others are becoming operative
again as new extraction techniques extend
the life of them. For example, the federal
and territorial governments and a mining
company are committed to cleaning up
and restarting the Bellekeno silver mine in
Yukon after it was abandoned in the 1980s.
Advances in extraction technology
(including bio mining and the Albion oxi-
dation process) are also able to draw more
Consultants need to remember that
they work as part of a chain. If they fail,
the chain fails. Paul Rufell, President, Tetra Tech EBA
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his perspective. One example was the criti-
cal importance of budget and time frames
to the client. Often I had to work hard
to justify my (waste management) project
and get it approved and the basis for that
approval was a schedule and budget derived
from the consultant. If the project went
late or over-budget, Ruell had to go to his
supervisors and beg for forgiveness, which
is not something you want to do with any
frequency. Consultants need to remember
that they work as part of a chain. If they fail,
the chain fails.
Owners of consulting companies under-
stand this. We are more useful to our clients
if we understand their business rst, their
problem second, Ruell says. Junior CEs
can learn from people inside the consulting
organization who have worked in industry.
But if you dont have industry knowledge,
resist trying to fake it for the industry pro-
fessionals, recommends Ruell. Tey can
see an imposter from 50 yards.
Consulting engineers provide a critical
role in safely and securely developing our
natural resources. Tey continue to execute
leadership in the eld and will be the key to
ensuring the sustainability of our provinces
most precious commodities.
ore from old tailings, to access product that
wasnt recoverable earlier.
Further, soil and vegetation consulting
specialists can respond to the issue of acid
rock drainage (ARD), which is a key prob-
lem with mining. When rock is exposed
over a long period of time, the water that
runs from it is acidic and hampers eorts to
revegetate. If the process can be mitigated by
covering the rock, ARD stops in its tracks.
For the consultation process to succeed,
there needs to be mutual respect and rapport
and experience on the part of the consul-
tant. Trust comes into play from having
gone to the wall for a client, Ruell says.
Te same industry people move frequently
into and out of myriad business ventures.
A consultants experience with them will
form the foundation of his or her reputation.
Many of the best consulting engineers
have come out of industry. Tey understand
the pressures about what to do and what
not to do at certain stages. When Ruffell
returned from his self-imposed sabbatical
in the waste management eld, he was inti-
mately familiar with considerations unique
to that industry. Te prime thing you learn
in working in industry is to think like the
client and understand his problems from
AGENTS OF CHANGE: The Canadian
International Institute For Extractive
Industries And Development (CIIEID)
What it is: A world-renowned centre of
expertise that will help developing coun-
tries reap the full beneft of their natural
resources. It will share best practices, con-
sult about capacity building, policy, leg-
islation and regulation development and
support education and research innova-
tion to create jobs and prosperity.
Where it is: At the University of British
Columbia, operating in conjunction with
Simon Fraser University and cole Poly-
technique de Montreal. International
partners will also provide consultation
and expertise.
When it began: Prime Minister Stephen
Harper made the announcement in Octo-
ber 2011. The UBC became the opera-
tional site in November 2012.
Who it will help: Initial analysis suggests
assistance to Latin America, Sub-Saharan
Africa and Asia.
Who funds it: The Canadian Interna-
tional Development Association (CIDA)
provided $25 million.
For more information: Contact Bern
Klein, acting executive director, at
[email protected].
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A recovery plan eight years in the making kicked in,
even as the foodwaters of June rose
In the recovery, everyone in the industry
has said, We can start right now or sooner.
Gordon Stewart, Recovery Director, Recovery Operations Centre Task Force
BY CARISSA HALTON
WO PEOPLE STOOD UNDER A GREY
sky in the backyards of the evacuated
community of Grayling Terrace.
On any other day, they might have
been hikers or dog walkers enjoying the banks
of Fort McMurrays Hangingstone River.
Except on this day the dependably placid
river was rushing faster than most people had
ever seen it. As the Hangingstone scrambled
higher, its banks balked and surrendered to the
careening trees and clawing water. The two
people, spotters actually, stood facing the erod-
ing banks. Two feet
right, said one into
a radio.Yeah, yeah,
swing it to the left, the
other answered.Right
there. Now!As they
spoke into their radios,
they watched the 40-metre arm of a 500-tonne
crane drop engineered concrete interlocking
blocks in place. The crane was parked on the
other side of the houses. In the centre of a quiet
cul de sac, it lifted the blocks between houses
and dropped them at the spotters directions.
Seated safely in his office, Jason Vanderz-
waag remembers that day. We had no road
access to the actual river, says Vanderzwaag,
Associated Engineering project manager in
Fort McMurray. So we worked closely with
the contractor and collectively came up with
the solution to park a crane in the cul de sac.
Slowly, a stable wall rose to protect the fragile
riverbank and reduce the impact of flooding in
the community.
Grayling Terrace wasnt the only commu-
nity threatened by flooding in Fort McMurray.
A day after the peak flooding occurred on June
10, 2013, Associated Engineering was called
by the municipalitys emergency response team
and asked to assess locations where flood dam-
age had been reported. Vanderzwaag went out
to review a section of river that had cutaway
banks close to the evacuated Ptarmigan trailer
court. The river had partially eroded a road-
way and was encroaching on what we knew to
be a water main and sanitary line in the area,
he says. The question put to us was, What
has to happen to lift the evacuation order?
What Vanderzwaag found was something
even more emergent: A retaining wall, sup-
porting the only access road to the Waterways
and Draper communities from Highway 63,
was at risk.
He advised the municipality that the
evacuation order in Ptarmigan was second-
ary and that other infrastructure needed to
be addressed immediately. The municipality
responded with a green light to mobilize crews,
and over the next four days, large angular rock
was brought in to stabilize the banks at risk.
Of course, it wasnt the only flood story of
the year. Less than two weeks later, Cougar
Creek and the Bow, Elbow and Highwood
rivers (among others) would become churning
torrents: ripping houses, animals and forests
from their banks and distributing the debris
across southern Alberta.
Calvin McClary, Calgary manager of ISL
Engineering and Land Services, has been in
the consulting engineering business for 35
years. It didnt
completely surprise
me, he says. Years
ago i n a f i rst-
year engineering
course at the Uni-
versity of Calgary,
I had a professor explain that there is always a
risk that a large storm that centres on the Bow
River basin will cause significant flooding.
That is where the flood in the early part of the
last century came from. When I heard that 150
millimetres of rain was due in the province,
I said to my wife, Theres going to be a flood
tomorrow.
Of course, McClary didnt expect the kind
of flooding unleashed on southern Alberta
on June 20, 2013. Twenty-nine states of local
emergency were declared, 100,000 people were
displaced and four people lost their lives. The
floods were the costliest in Albertas history
and, while the recovery continues, estimated
damages could exceed $5 billion.
As the rain came down and it became clear
that Canmore would be severely impacted,
McClary called the ISL Engineering office
there.
I have five guys, three trucks and three
portable generators. Do you need them?
McClary asked.
Yes, said his lead in Canmore.
Ill get them to you as soon as we can,
McClary confirmed.
(One of the five volunteers who left that
day would return to his
drowned car bobbing in
water in a parking lot that
no one had realized was
below flood level.)
When the five arrived
in Canmore, they were
positioned wherever the town emergency
personnel needed them. Our folks watched
slopes that were sliding, bridges that were fail-
ing and we reported back. As Cougar Creek
receded, their structural engineers entered the
homes damaged by the flood. One engineer
inspected 117 houses in two days.
He had to determine if the home would
fall down or not, McClary pauses, seemingly
in respect for those homes he had no choice
but to condemn. Its a tough thing to do.
Back in Calgary and four days after
the f lood, McClary started work on the
Scollen Bridge that crosses the Elbow River
on 25 Avenue SW and connects the commu-
When he heard 150 millimetres of rain
was due, Calvin McClary told his wife,
Theres going to be a food.
nity of Mission to Macleod Trail. The flood
had captured a construction trailer somewhere
upstream and carried it until the trailer lodged
on the bridge. It effectively rerouted water
into the neighbourhood of Mission. The east
approach to the bridge was completely washed
away.
The Stampede was set to begin in less
than 10 days and the City wanted McClary
to assess whether the bridge could be ready
by then. PCL was contracted for work on the
bridge and Standard General for the road-
work. Ive worked with them for many years,
says McClary. The second day we were there,
I said that I thought it would take seven days.
I told the City that if they could get us the
materials, we could do it.
Despite the feat of co-ordination, materi-
als and work required, they pulled it off. The
commitment of the folks that worked for the
contractors really allowed this to happen. The
crews would commit to getting something
done in a day and theyd stay until it got done,
says McClary. And hats off to the City. The
competence and ability of my contact with the
City to deliver what needed to happen, and to
effectively organize for the people at the site to
get the work done, was phenomenal.
That phenomenal capacity was not hap-
penstance. The City of Calgarys response
to the 2013 f lood was eight years in the
making. The Citys framework for response
and recovery was developed after the 2005
floods. Named the top weather story of that
year by Environment Canada, heavy rains
had caused f lood damage to about 40,000
Calgary homes (roughly one in 10 homes
in the city) and evacuated more than 1,500
people. Insured and uninsured losses topped
$400 million.
According to Gordon Stewart, recov-
ery director with the Recovery Operations
Centre Task Force, the City built an emer-
gency response and recovery framework now
considered best practice by the Conference
Board of Canada. Were working with a
number of large international firms that
have done recovery work in areas damaged by
Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, says Stew-
art. When they give us advice its already
been implemented.
This recovery plan kicked in even as the
floodwaters rose. The recovery started being
planned the first day.
But the floods of 2005 didnt just provide a
clear guide for future recovery efforts. It also
set in motion significant mitigation efforts
that led to city infrastructure weathering the
floods this time around.
For instance, the experts anticipated the
pressure of a flood on the citys water treat-
ment facilities and, over the past eight years,
the City has invested more than $400 mil-
lion to upgrade treatment plants. Stewart
explains, If you do
a review of most
f lood events, one
of the first things
that happens when
a f lood occurs is a
boil water order.
For the 2013 floods, while the City released
an advisory to reduce water use, Stewart says
there was never any concern for the quality or
safety of the drinking water.
City staff, with significant support from
consulting engineers, assessed and solved
numerous problems in advance. We put the
money into infrastructure, says Stewart.
And in the face of Albertas worst flooding
in recent memory, he confirms, It worked
really well.
Much of the work, both in the recovery
and mitigation efforts, carries the finger-
prints of consulting engineers. A lot of my
work is done by the consulting engineers
REBUILDING: Much of the industrys post-ood continues to be
focussed on recovery of the areas hardest hit, such as Kananaskis.
industry, says Stewart. While there are
many engineers working within the citys
organization, for the largest things that we
do, we go to the consulting industry to pro-
vide that expertise to us.
And in the recovery, almost everyone in
the industry weve called has said, We can
start right now or sooner what would you
like us to do? says Stewart.
Much of the industrys work continues to
be focused on the recovery. In High River,
ISL Engineering is helping to rebuild bridges
and patch roads so theyll last the winter. The
company is in the Hamlet of Exshaw and
in Big Horn. It is rebuilding forestry trunk
roads, and infrastructure along Highway 66.
Moving forward, however, the cities and
province will need the best minds in the
consulting engineering industry to focus on
matters of mitigation. Building further resil-
ience into new infrastructure projects will
be critical. The provinces Flood Recovery
Task Force, as it moves into the long-term
planning phases of recovery, will require the
industrys expertise. The City of Calgarys
Flood Recovery Operations has struck an
expert panel on which consulting engineers
will play a key role assessing what is needed
to make things better in the future.
When it comes to rebuilding, Stewart
ref lects, At the end of the day, we have to
talk about what the [mitigation] measure is,
what the cost of the measure is, and what is
the risk that these dollars will mitigate. It will
be about weighing this many dollars against
this much risk. Council needs to make these
kinds of decisions.
Whatever these projects of the future
look like, no doubt they will continue to
showcase not only the industrys exper-
tise, but also its relationships. The work
that occurred because of the 2013 f loods
could not have happened without the
co-operative relationships consulting
engineers, contractors and local govern-
ments have built in offices and ditches,
on drenched roadways and windy bridges.
In the infrastructure business, McClary
says, no one gets it done by themselves.
This co-operation isnt l imited to
industry partners, either. The work of
consulting engineers during and after the
f loods reinforced the industrys commu-
nity connections.
It was amazing to work in that envi-
ronment, recalls McClary. We were in
one of the worst hit f lood areas in Cal-
gary. Folks around us were struggling to
empty out their basements, yet were so
supportive of what we were doing. Ordi-
nary citizens came down to hand out
food to volunteers and included us in the
bunch.
For the first time in McClarys 35-year
career, a team of nuns supported him on
the job. Their retirement building was not
far from the crippled Scollen Bridge and,
despite experiencing their own losses, the
women stopped by the construction site
with baked goods.
Muff ins, anyone? the nuns asked.
They handed out the treats, and it was one
of the few times the crews would take a
break that week.
REBUILDING HOPE
Andre Corbould, chief assistant deputy
minister of the Southern Alberta Flood
Recovery Task Force, recalls his role in early
recovery eforts, and predicts the future of
food mitigation.
I got called on June 21 and was asked to
go to the provincial operation centre and
start thinking about taking over the food
recovery efort. Essentially, my role has been
to put together a task force. But its not just
the Government of Alberta thats going to
recover; its all Albertans who need to recover
from the food.
We got about 85 stakeholders together in
the frst week, including the municipal asso-
ciations, road builders, and of course one
of our key stakeholders was the Consulting
Engineers of Alberta. We wanted to brief
consulting engineers on the plan for recov-
ery. Since then, weve put out several
requests for proposals, where weve had
consulting engineers come in to work on
specifc projects, be they long-term food
mitigation or other things.
The frst priority is peoples essentials of
life, such as heat, shelter, and food. The next
priority begins the recovery efort how
quickly we can get back to normal. It varies
between individual homes and individual
circumstances. After those priorities come
the greater pieces, such as provincial infra-
structure.
On a large scale, weve repaired most of
the highways and bridges. Weve repaired,
to at least an operational state, most of the
hospitals. Weve either repaired the schools
or built temporary ones. And those three
items in particular from an infrastructure
perspective are tied to peoples needs.
By the time were done full recovery
once people are fne and theyve got new
homes, bridges are back up, and weve actu-
ally mitigated and reduced the risk of future
events that long-term recovery could take
10 years.
Weve allocated funds to come up with
more resilient designs for bridges and roads
in food-afected areas. Transportation has
done excellent analysis based on what hap-
pened in 2013, and theyre in the process
of working through with consultants to
enhance our designs. Were open to anything
that will help us reduce the risk to Albertans.
-As told to Shelley Williamson
GRAYLING TERRACE: Fort McMurray was one of many municipalities affected
by the June oods, which involved the help of consulting engineers early on.
TOP FIVE: Consulting engineers have a
smaller cohort in the 20- to 40-year-old
age group. Meet tomorrows leaders.
BY LEWIS KELLY & SHELLEY WILLIAMSON | PHOTOS BY CONSTANTINE TANASIUK
Meet the engineers who
will lead the pack in the
next generation of Albertas
consulting engineers
ROM THE STRUCTURE OF THE OFFICE TOWERS WHERE WE
work and the houses in which we live to the wastewater sys-
tems that keep both safe and pleasant, engineers build the
world around us. Talking to the rising stars of consulting engineering,
then, can reveal the personalities that will shape our lives and those of
our children and grandchildren. Innovators caught up with ve of the
industrys Young Turks for some insight on where they come from and
how they plan to build our world.
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Tomorrows
BUILDERS
gible results, with her surveying work contrib-
uting to the realignment of Highway 13 just
west of Wetaskiwin.
She knows most people dont pause to give
thanks to the engineer who made sure the
road is straight and level. She likes it that way.
Teres something nice about knowing that
youve done your job so well that no one has to
think about it, says Leithead.
She says engineering will need to change
gears to keep pace with the modern world.
Engineering serves society, so when society
changes, so must those who build and main-
tain it. Leithead says were increasingly con-
cerned with resource conservation and modes
of transit other than the car. Tomorrows infra-
structure will need to integrate residential and
commercial buildings more frequently, and
cater to all kinds of transit.
Leithead would also like to see engineers
foster personal bonds with clients. Historically,
we havent been so good at celebrating the suc-
cesses of the profession, she says. People talk
about my doctor or my lawyer. I think it would
be nice if my engineer was used like that.
JACKIE MYKYTIUK,
Process engineer, Associated Engineering
As chair of the CEA Young Professionals
Groups Edmonton wing, part of Jackie Myky-
tiuks job is to promote the glamorous lifestyle
and satisfying work of a consulting engineer to
undergraduates. Given the attention span and
interests of most students, this is no small task.
Mykytiuks approach is as elegant as it is time-
less: lure them there with free pizza.
Once trapped, the students are in for some
persuasive testimony on the benets of consult-
ing engineering as a career choice. Mykytiuk
went into her engineering degree expecting to
spend her career designing bridges. By the time
she graduated, she was more fascinated with
wastewater treatment plants than bridges.
Theres more opportunity for company
PATRICK FLEMING,
Principal, KFR Engineering
Patrick Fleming comes from a family of build-
ers architects, engineers, lego enthusiasts,
you name it. A childhood dream of building jet
planes and a dalliance with uid mechanics in
university funnelled him into mechanical engi-
neering as a young man. But the mid-1990s,
when he finished his masters degree at the
University of Alberta, was not a great time to
enter the workforce as an engineer.
He took a job investigating motor vehicle
accidents, using physics to gure out who did
what to whom in collisions. Fleming found the
work interesting, notwithstanding the odd grisly
accident, and he appreciated the ability to put
groceries on the table. But his heart wasnt in it.
Theres some fascinating science in that
world, he says, but it really wasnt a passion for
me. I investigated a couple hundred accidents,
and Id pretty much had my ll at that point.
So, when demand for mechanical engineers
returned, Fleming moved to Stantec. He jokes
that Stantec gave him just enough rope to hang
himself. Instead, he grabbed that metaphorical
rope and made like a daring young man on the
ying trapeze. His rst leap was to capitalize
on the considerable opportunity for mentorship
that was in front of him.
After four years at Stantec, Hemisphere
Engineering lured him away with the chance
to work with Robert Campbell, whom Flem-
ing regards as the nest mechanical engineer in
Western Canada. Fleming worked on a variety
of high-prole projects while at Hemisphere,
including the design of the National Institute of
Nanotechnology on the campus at the U of A,
and an award-winning air quality control sys-
tem at the Kinsmen Fieldhouse in Edmonton.
He also met Dwayne Rose and Migo
Kelada there. Te trio realized they shared a
common ambition: to build a new company.
They formed KFR Engineering in 2009, an
engineering consultancy that designs labs,
hospitals, energy eciency upgrades for old
buildings, and more. Te company has grown
to around 20 employees since its founding.
Fleming has positioned himself and KFR
to act on his vision of building a better future
through engineering. Alberta has invested a lot
in infrastructure in the last decade and, he says,
it will need more in years to come. Alberta
wont meet its growth requirements without
strong, empowered engineers, Fleming says.
Its timely for engineers to step up and talk
about the importance of engineering.
He also wants to entrench KFR as a flat
consultancy, one in which even the most senior
sta still do substantial amounts of engineer-
ing themselves. Fleming says this makes an
engineering business stronger, but it also keeps
the principals connected with the youngest
engineers and able to provide what they need
most: mentorship.
The market is such in Alberta, because
of oil boom-and-bust and recessions, theres
a scarcity of engineering talent in their late
20s to early 40s, he says. Its critical to carry
knowledge to the younger generation.
DANA LEITHEAD,
Municipal infrastructure manager,
Al-Terra Engineering
None of Dana Leitheads friends like travelling
with her. Its not that shes rude or insists on lis-
tening to Nickelback on the car stereo. She just
gets sentimental.
Ill be driving along and Ill go, Oh, I did
this project! I remember this culvert!, or Tat
piece of subgrade was really problematic,
Leithead laughs. No one wants to drive with
civil engineers.
But everyone wants well-engineered roads
to drive on. After 15 years at Al-Terra, dating
back to her days in the University of Albertas
co-op program, Leithead finds projects on
which she has worked all over the place. Even
her rst co-op term with Al-Terra yielded tan-
The 20-year veteran learned his craft at
the University of Victoria, where he gradu-
ated with a bachelors degree in mechanical
engineering through a co-op program. He
highly recommends this hands-on learning
route to the next generation of engineers. I
had that opportunity and it was a good way
to nd out what those industries were really
like, says McGaw, who relocated to Edmon-
ton for professional opportunities two years
ago. You have this image of what its like to
work in a lab, but until you work in a lab, you
dont know. If you can nd out in a co-op envi-
ronment, youll set yourself up for success once
you graduate.
McGaw was the managing principal on
the newly-opened Edmonton Remand Cen-
tre, which is about to complete its year-end
warranty review. He is also the managing
principal at work on the Edmonton Federal
Building renovations.
Preserving the art deco landmark, that
project challenges McGaw to make the build-
ing sustainable with a LEED Gold rating. On
the horizon, McGaw has a supervisory role in
Edmontons planned downtown arena project.
Along with the impressive dollar value of the
high-prole projects at $1.6 billion all told
the buildings have brought and will bring
their share of challenges, which include the
opportunity to take on a supervisory role,
McGaw says.
Painting a picture thats far from the dry
reputation engineering normally gets, what
McGaw likes best about mechanical and con-
sulting engineering are the daily opportunities
to learn. From the technical side, its always
changing. I never get the feeling that Im stag-
nating, he says. Theres always something
new to learn or to understand, or troubleshoot.
Teres always something new happening.
DAVID OFIELD,
Environmental engineer in training, Stantec
Its tempting to think of immigrants as eco-
nomic refugees: the housing market in Ireland
or the cod stock in Newfoundland collapses
and Albertas labour pool becomes bigger.
David Oeld doesnt t this image. What
with the global nancial crisis and all, Ham-
ilton wasnt exactly a boomtown when he
nished his masters degree at McMaster Uni-
versity in 2008. Oeld could still nd work in
his native Ontario.
Infrastructure needs dont go away. You
still need your water, your roads, your build-
ings, Oeld says. Well always be in demand,
and thats why I think engineering is a great
career path, but I wanted something more
than the typical engineering life. Tat desire
for something more, plus a passion for hiking
around and over mountains, drew him west to
work for Stantec.
Consulting engineering was attractive
for me because I wanted diversity, the ability
to experiment with multiple disciplines. Tat
was one of my goals when I started at Stantec,
Oeld says.
At Stantec, he ultimately chose to specialize
in wastewater treatment and drainage, keep-
ing Edmontons basements dry and its citizens
hydrated. Oeld takes pride in every project he
works on, but he especially relishes the chance
to contribute to something in his community.
He loves to run past the Rossdale water treat-
ment plant south of downtown Edmonton,
where an award-winning dechlorination sys-
tem he had a hand in keeping the North Sas-
katchewan a healthy waterway.
Te number of people aware of his work on
it are a minuscule fraction of those who benet
from it. That doesnt bother Ofield. Theres
some satisfaction in being behind the scenes,
making a significant contribution to society
without being praised for it, he says. Te fact
that those parts of our society run smoothly is
all the credit we really need.
Tat willingness to stand in the background
presents a problem for the eld.
Oeld, along with the other up-and-com-
ers mentioned in here, would like to see young
consulting engineers become more comfort-
able in the spotlight, enticing more young
graduates to jump into the profession and reap
its rewards.
Its so neat to see your ideas come to life,
Ofield says. To be able to see a need for
something within society and a need within
your community and meet it is tremendously
satisfying.
ownership and making a difference in the
engineering world, says Mykytiuk, on the
consulting side of things. As much as being in
charge, she likes the variety of projects consult-
ing lets her work on, and getting to travel to
dierent areas of Alberta for work.
Mykytiuk does see some problems in the
industry, though. Engineers are not famed
for their eloquence and charisma, and some-
times they fail to pipe up for the worthiness
of their work.
And this has significance beyond under-
stroked egos. When government decides to
tighten its belt, as tends to happen periodically
in oil-powered Alberta, infrastructure is often
the target. If infrastructure spending falls into
that category, consulting engineers who deal
with the provinces highways, water treatment
plants, bridges, and landlls will be left high
and dry along with Albertas citizens.
Engineers havent done a good job adver-
tising or marketing as a profession, she says.
We dont provide just another commodity. Its
the taxpayers money. When youre putting in
a sewer or a road, you want it to last a long time,
so you go through those extra hours of engi-
neering time to make sure it does.
TODD MCGAW,
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Hemisphere Engineering
To hear Todd McGaw speak about the proc-
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about a painting or a piece of sculpture.
Its a creative process to bring together
mechanical and electrical systems; I liken
them to the lungs and veins of the body. Your
building takes life when you start it up and
it does have a life of its own. Teres creativ-
ity in bringing those systems to life, says
the consulting engineer and vice-president
of mechanical engineering at Hemisphere
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year, spare a thought for the creator of the award: Don Chambers
A WINNING AWARD
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Award for Distinguished Achieve-
ment recogni zes its recipients
accomplishments and contributions to the
consulting engineering industry and to their
communities across Alberta. Its the highest
individual honour the CEA bestows upon its
members. Its only tting, then, that since the
inception of this prestigious award in 2007,
a little extra ingenuity has gone into its design
and creation.
BY JORDAN WILKINS | PHOTOS BY BB COLLECTIVE
Don Chambers, a past president of the
CEA and founder of Walters Chambers &
Associates, spent the majority of his career
as a structural engineer, but since retiring
several years ago, hes had more time to
devote to hobbies. But, like most people,
Chambers f inds that even a pastime is
easier to engage in when theres a deadline.
Lucki ly, theres one every year. Since
2007, Chambers has handcrafted each
award that winners receive at the annual
Lieutenant Governors Award ceremony.
As anyone whos been lucky enough to
receive this honour knows, this isnt just a
simple wood carving; Chambers constructs
an intricate kaleidoscope from scratch.
The idea came from discussions with the
CEA executive committee, Chambers
recalls. Tey knew I had an artistic side
woodworking, pottery, stu like that and
they wanted to do something special for this
award. Te idea grew from there.
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Chambers had made some si mple
kaleidoscopes previously but he wanted to
make sure these CEA awards pieces were
worthy of the prestigious title. He also
thought it was important to incorporate
aspects of engineering, which is why each
kaleidoscope can also double as an engineer
level, something that CEA CEO Ken
Pilip says makes the award that much more
special.
Te award always looks amazing, Pilip
says. It adds to the prestige of winning, and
it epitomizes the engineer level something
weve all used. Our recipients are proud to
accept the Lieutenant Governors Award.
And theres no shortage of worthy CEA
members. Narrowing it down to just one
recipient was a challenge for the rst several
years, but this problem was alleviated in
2012 when the award was rst presented to
multiple deserving members who embody
the spirit of the Lieutenant Governors
Award. Te same thing happened in 2013,
and again this year. While having multiple
winners is a testament to the community
involvement of CEA members, it has made
award season a little busier for Chambers,
not that he minds. Actually, the engineer
in him relishes the opportunity to build
multiple kaleidoscopes each year; its made
him more ecient.
Chambers has the art down to a science
and can construct an entire award complete
with a matchi ng wood stand for the
kaleidoscope in two or three weeks. Quite
impressive, considering the number of the
tools he has to call on. A lot of it is done
on lathe, Chambers explains. I also use a
band saw, table saw, sand belt, glass cutter
and a few more. Fortunately, Chambers has
always had a workshop at home, and when he
moved into his current condo, he made sure
there was space. Teres a lot of dust control,
he laughs.
Because there are so many different
approaches to kaleidoscope bui lding,
Chambers has allowed his design to evolve
over the years. Tis years award is about 10
inches long with a cylinder nearly two inches
in diameter. There are two main parts; an
eight-inch portion that includes mirrors and
a two-and-a-half inch rotating section with
crystals. Chambers says the design is based
on the classic kaleidoscope blueprint, but to
make sure the moving parts function, he puts
special work into customizing its bearings,
an area that a lot of kaleidoscope makers
overlook. I guess thats the engineer in me,
Chambers says. He says that, deep down, all
engineers are artists.
Te engineering community has shown its
appreciation for the Lieutenant Governors
Awards over the years, but that admiration
goes beyond the community, too. Before
the award could bear the title of Lieutenant
Governor, the Lieutenant Governor himself,
then the Hon. Norman Kwong, had to give
his approval. He really liked it, Chambers
recalls. It is pretty unique as far as awards go
and Ive heard a lot of nice feedback. It really
gives me a warm feeling when I think about
it; its a nice pat on the back.
Pilip, too, has heard positive reaction and
hopes this CEA tradition will continue for
as long as possible. In addition to it being a
great way for Chambers to remain involved
with CEA during his retirement, he says
its also a special way to honour the award
recipients.
Tese awards have a very lasting appeal
and I know people really cherish them, Pilip
says. Tis isnt something youre going to tuck
away in the corner; youre going to display it
proudly. Its a one-of-a-kind representation of
a truly great achievement.
Chambers customizes the bearings, an area that
kaleidoscope makers overlook. I guess thats the
engineer in me, he says.
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Force Structures from CBR Cement Corpo-
ration. At that time, Con-Force was one of the
worlds largest producers of precast concrete.
Tat year he was also appointed vice-chair-
man of the Canadian Technical Committee
on Reinforced Concrete Design. And in case
he wasnt busy enough, Breeze co-authored
handbooks on best practices for reinforced
concrete design.
He punctuated his time in Calgary with
three years in Detroit as the managing direc-
tor of engineering at the American Concrete
Institute, serving the membership base of
20,000 professionals and supporting more
than 100 technical committees. While in
Detroit, Breeze formed the Strategic Devel-
opment Council, a concrete technology mar-
keting group. He returned to Calgary in 1997
to join Reid Crowther & Partners as manager
of the companys structural division.
Breeze says the secret to his success has
been his focus on team-building. Some peo-
ple are project-oriented, he says. Im more
about teams. Ive been fortunate in that Ive
reported to and worked with people who have
been some of the strongest in the business.
His no-regrets HR philosophy is simple:
surround yourself with the right people and
youre halfway to success. For Breeze, the
When his British company ceased
Canadian operations, Paul Breeze
decided to stay on
NE OF THE FIRST THINGS PAUL BREEZE
noticed about Alberta when he
stepped off the plane in February
1976 was how much bigger everything seemed
compared to the United Kingdom. Wide
streets, big cars, big skies, he says.
Breeze was in Edmonton on business,
scouting Canadian opportunities on behalf
of the engineering rm he worked for in the
U.K. He liked what he saw, and returned to
Edmonton to represent his company four
months later, this time
with his wife Pam and
their two children.
Te lady at the airport
said, Were going to rush
you through immigration
because I know youll want
to go to the Rainmaker
Rodeo in St. Albert, he
recalls, laughing. We didnt even know what
that was.
When the U.K. company that sent him
here ceased its Canadian operations the fol-
lowing year, Breeze joined MB Engineering
as a senior structural and project engineer. He
soon traded one prairie province for another
and moved to Regina to become the man-
ager of engineering for Con-Force Products
Ltd. (the name soon changed to Con-Force
Structures), a rm that specialized in precast
concrete.
Breezes balance of technical and manage-
ment skills led him to a variety of work and
increasing responsibility. After Saskatchewan,
he moved to Calgary in 1980 to become part of
Con-Forces senior management team, and in
1988, he and a few colleagues acquired Con-
BY JEN JANZEN | PHOTO BY JOEY PODLUBNY
NEW HORIZONS
Breezes balance of technical
and management skills led
him to a variety of work and
increasing responsibility.
We are pleased to partner with
our colleagues at CEA to foster
a positive business environment
for design in Alberta.
Advocating for enhancements
to the way projects are:
Procured;
Contracted;
Delivered; and how
Services are valued
www.consultingarchitects.ab.ca
The Alberta Roadbuilders &
Heavy Construction Association
would like to acknowledge our
2013-2014 Chairman, who
is returning for a second term!
Dwayne Berlando
Lahrmann Construction Inc.
right people arent necessarily the ones with
the most experience; theyre the ones with the
can-do attitude. Qualications are important,
but skills can be upgraded, he says. Attitude
is there to stay.
In 2012, with a desire to focus on helping
engineering rms operate better, Breeze hung
out a shingle for PBreeze Consulting. He
created promotional material, then spent the
better part of a week crafting individual emails
to the 836 people on his contact list.
I personalized it depending on how well I
knew the person, he says. I still believe that
was the right thing to do.
Ken Pilip, CEO of CEA, worked with
Breeze at MB Engineering in 1978 and 1979.
After 30 years of lost contact, the two were
reunited in 2011 when Breeze volunteered with
CEA. Pilip now routinely seeks Breezes coun-
sel. His personality is always positive, Pilip
says. He has always been a team player and a
competent professional engineer.
More than anything, Breeze enjoys imple-
menting corporate sustainability, something he
denes as building an organization that, for-
tied with good planning and best practices,
practically runs itself. In engineering, if youre
not careful, youre constantly putting out res,
he said. You need to be reactive, but you should
have some contingencies in the background.
Business has been steady, allowing Breeze
to vacation with his wife in their holiday
trailer, with work to come home to. Its a good
balance for the engineer who says hell never
totally retire. As much as Pam and I lead a very
happy existence, I think Pam would prefer that
Im busy and out of the house, he says with a
chuckle. As long as I nd the work enjoyable,
Ill continue to keep my hand in it for as long
as I can.
Describing himself as not very bright in his high school years blaming poor grades on
his weekend job at a gas station and an addiction to playing chess with his friends Breeze
was inspired to become an engineer while he was stationed with the British Army in 1964. He
helped build bridges, demolish old buildings, and generally got his feet wet in the world of
military engineering. When he left the army in 1966, he went back to high school to get enough
credits to apply to Kingston University.
Breeze married Pam in April 1969, but before they could truly settle down, he found out that
he had been accepted to university.
Thats when the negotiating began.
Pam said shed support him through university if he would support her wish to raise children
once he fnished his training. They didnt exactly shake on it, but four years later, Breeze gradu-
ated. Their frst daughter, Katie, was born in 1974. Simon came in 1975, just before their move to
Canada, and Lucy the real Canadian, jokes Breeze was born in 1977. Pam has remained the
matriarch of the Breeze family, which now includes two teenage grandsons.
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A Good Start
Young professionals can look forward to a bright
future in Albertas consulting industry
O
UR INDUSTRY IS CHANGING AND
expanding with new project chal-
lenges, technology and innovation
its an exciting time to be a young professional
in consulting engineering in Alberta! Over the
past ve years, Ive considered myself lucky to
have had the opportunity to work on a variety
of projects ranging from small railyard expan-
sions to large municipal projects to multi-dis-
ciplinary projects for the private sector. One of
the reasons I love consulting engineering is the
variety of clients and projects that provide me
with new challenges daily. I am very excited to
see what the future has in hold for the next ve,
10, and 20 years of my career. Im glad that the
CEAs CEO and Registrar Ken Pilip, agrees.
Te young professionals are an important
component of the Consulting Engineers of
Alberta, Pilip told me. Tey provide us with
new perspectives, innovative approaches to
engineering and the enthusiasm of youth. Te
companies they work for and the clients they
serve are all better o because of the talents of
the Young Professionals.
At the CEA young professionals events, we
emphasize the importance of networking with
other young professionals to share experience
and hear about the variety of projects that are
happening within our industry. It is also a great
chance to meet with our peers and discuss the
dierent aspects of consulting and daily chal-
lenges. We often discuss design approaches
and project management challenges that we
face daily. We hold technical tours, workshops,
mixers, and speaker series throughout the year
to promote the participation and development
of young professionals in our industry.
We are currently planning our rst young
professional CEA conference, which will hap-
pen in Edmonton on May 2, 2014. Were hold-
ing a mixer the night before the conference that
will allow the attendees to network. Our guest
presenter that evening is discussing the theory
and techniques of networking. Te next day, its
a full-day conference with a variety of speakers
focusing on career planning and progression.
Te conference nishes with a reception, din-
ner and keynote speaker. Te goal is to provide
a conference specifically designed to benefit
young professionals in the consulting engineer-
ing industry, and to answer some of our com-
mon questions.
COURTNEY BOURGEOIS, P.Eng.
Hatch Mott MacDonald
YP Director
We have established young professional
(YP) groups in Calgary, Edmonton and Red
Deer. Our mission is to enhance the growth
of the CEA and the consulting engineering
industry by promoting the participation and
development of young professionals. In order
to achieve success, we have four fundamental
goals:
1) To improve communication
2) To improve participation
3) To provide professional and personal devel-
opment for young professionals
4) To increase recognition and celebrate the
successes of young professionals
Te YP groups in Calgary, Edmonton, and
Red Deer plan events throughout the year,
focused on achieving these goals. We define
young professionals as those engineers who
have worked for less than 10 years in our indus-
try. For more information, or to learn about
YP events in Alberta, please visit YP webpage
under committees at www.cea.ca.
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BY JEN JANZEN | PHOTO BY BUFFY GOODMAN
Art Washuta has spent 40 years on complicated
infrastructure such as dams and LRT projects.
And hes not slowing down
OR ART WASHUTA, WORKI NG ON
Edmontons recent LRT expansion
project is a trip down memory lane.
One of his rst-ever postings was that of resi-
dent engineer for the construction of the CN
Rail/Edmonton transit underpass near the
Coliseum (now Rexall Place). It was 1974,
and Washuta was fresh out of the Univer-
sity of Albertas civil engineering program.
Edmonton was the rst city with a population
of less than a million to
implement a light rail
transit system, and
Washuta was thrilled
to work on it. Tat was
leading-edge work for a
small city, he says.
I n 2 0 0 0 , whe n
the City of Edmon-
ton started to expand
the LRT track south
towards the university, Washuta was back
where it all began. He has continued to work
on the dierent phases of the LRT, helping to
design and build tunnels, grade separations and
stations to accompany the extended tracks.
His work with the City of Edmonton
counts as a career highlight, and its working
with long-term clients that gives him a strong
sense of pride.
From the days of helping his dad around
the house with various projects they once
jacked up the house to retrot it with a con-
crete basement Washuta has always been
building things; the larger and more com-
plex, the better. When the province built
and maintained its own infrastructure, he
worked with Alberta Transportation as one
of several engineers responsible for design
and construction of the provinces bridges.
After a year with the government, he was
ready to move his career into high gear.
I wanted to diversify my experience and
get involved with other major projects, he
explains.
Washuta took a position with UMA Engi-
neering Ltd. in 1977 and has remained with
that legacy company (now AECOM) ever
since. Hes hard-pressed to name a favourite
project but he likes complicated endeavours.
One of his pet projects was the Old Man
River Dam spillway, north of Pincher Creek.
Te largest spillway in Alberta, it required
150,000 cubic metres of concrete and was
designed to carry 7,200 cubic metres of
water per second as the probable maximum
f lood. Washuta was the projects design
manager, and he worked to incorporate the
best practices of the time. Our designs were
reviewed by independent
experts who had experi-
ence in similar projects
around the world. It was
a great opportunity to be
exposed to these experts.
Liaising with experts
has been a consi stent
theme in Washutas four
decades of engineering.
His approach is simple:
bring global best practices to local projects.
I believe in diverse teams, he says. Instead
of trying to do everything within our com-
pany, bring the best available experts to the
project.
One of his most challenging projects was
building short-range radar stations for the
Department of National Defence in the mid-
1980s. Intended to detect aircraft intrusions
into Canadian airspace, these were dicult
due to their remoteness along the Arctic
Coast from Yukon to N.W.T. and due to
the permafrost in many of them. We had to
develop innovative designs for the founda-
tions, Washuta says.
Washuta has worked with the Depart-
ment of National Defence and Defence
Construction Canada since 1992, clean-
ing up Distant Early Warning line sites.
Tis is another of his long-term client rela-
tionships. Along with the DND and the
City of Edmonton, Washuta entered into
a three-year agreement with the Regional
Municipality of Wood Buffalo to deliver
engineering for 80 per cent of its capital pro-
gram from 2010 to 2012.
With large teams supporting complex
projects, communication needs to be a main
focus, and Washuta has enjoyed guring out
how to keep dozens of people on the same
page. You need a proven strategy to bring
teams together to adopt eective communi-
cation, to clarify roles and responsibilities,
he says. Basically, youre trying to trans-
I believe in diverse teams. Instead
of trying to do everything within
our company, bring the best
available experts to the project.
OLD MAN RIVER: Among Art Washutas projects is the
Old Man River Dam spillway, the largest of its kind in Alberta.
form a group of strangers into an effective
team. He hires a facilitator often several
times throughout a project to lead a team-
building session so the group can go over
essentials like scope of work and roles
and responsibilities.
Now the senior vice-president of trans-
portation at AECOM, Washuta has been
in the eld for 40 years, but doesnt envision
stepping out any time soon. Engineers dont
retire. Tey just keep going, he says. Even
his hobbies are related to building: Washuta
has been a member of the Edmonton Potters
Guild for 15 years, and relishes the chance to
spend time at the pottery wheel, wrestling
with the mud. Its a total diversion from work
life. You get to use a different part of your
brain on something thats more creative.
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Washuta says right of the bat that he may be a rare species. Im one of the few engineers who
really enjoys writing proposals, he says. Over the years, hes had a chance to hone his skills, and
has boiled it down to three main objectives:
1. Have a champion. Washuta says a champion is somebody who lives and breathes the
pursuit of the opportunity, somebody who is driven and enthusiastic and wants to win the
job. Ideally, this champion would also be the future project manager if work goes ahead.
2. Understand the clients needs. Whats their project history? If you know where your poten-
tial clients are coming from, youll be able to forecast the kind of work theyre looking
to have done.
3. Plan, plan, plan. How are you going to approach the project? What are you going to do
diferently from your competition? Look for innovative solutions. Emphasize the strengths
of your team and think carefully about what youre going to do to neutralize your own weak-
nesses, Washuta says. And use graphics it has to look as good as it reads.
THREE TIPS TO CRAFT A WINNING PROPOSAL
EDMONTON LRT: Since its creation in 1974, Art Washuta
has long been called to work on the citys LRT.
DEW LINE: Among his DND projects were building
short-range radar stations along the Arctic coast.
Patrick Fleming, P. Eng.
Director
KFR Engineering Services
Matt Brassard
Vice President
Urban Systems Ltd.
Todd McGaw, P. Eng.
Director
Hemisphere Engineering Inc.
Eva Schulz, P. Ag.
Director
AECOM Canada Ltd.
Craig Clifton, P. Eng.
President
Clifton Associates Ltd.
John Slater, P. Eng.
Director
AMEC Earth & Environmental
Courtney Bourgeois, P. Eng.
YP Director
Hatch Mott MacDonald
Kelly Yuzdepski, P. Eng.
Director
CIMA+
Heinrich Heinz, P. Eng.
Director
Thurber Engineering Ltd.
Gord Johnston, P. Eng.
ACEC Liaison
Stantec Consulting
Dick Walters, P. Eng.
APEGA Liaison
Walters Chambers
Ed Stelmach
Honorary Director
Consulting Engineers of Alberta
Paul Rufell, P. Eng.
ACEC Liaison
Tetra Tech EBA
Art Washuta
Past President Board Member
AECOM
Manoj Mistry, P. Eng.
Director
Stantec Consulting
Deon Wilner, P. Eng.
Director
ISL Engineering & Land Services Ltd.
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In Wineld, Alberta in the 1960s, there wasnt a huge emphasis on educa-
tion. Most of Leo Broks buddies quit school after Grade 10. My parents
insisted that we graduate from high school, Leo says, so thats what
he and his younger brother Corry did. Both Broks boys had an academic
bent and the principal of his school took Leo to a varsity weekend at the
University of Alberta. That was my rst taste of higher education, Leo
says. Still, he joined the ranks of general labourers alongside his buddies
after high school graduation. There was a foreman on site whose main
form of instruction was yelling at us, Leo recalls. It was enough to drive
him away, so Leo applied for, and got accepted to, engineering. He has
since had time to think about his regrets: I regret not sending that
foreman a thank-you note.
He graduated as a P. Eng. in civil from the U of A in 1970 and worked
for a few years managing an Edmonton satellite ofce of a Calgary-
headquartered company. The experience was valuable he says, and
he learned enough about himself and the industry that he knew he
wanted more autonomy. He incorporated Al-Terra Engineering Ltd.
on December 2, 1976. Leos brother Corry had followed his brothers
example and entered engineering, and Leo convinced him to join the
company 18 months later.
The Brokses started work developing the rms expertise in land
development engineering, urban transportation, urban renewal,
highway engineering, and transportation planning.
In the late 1970s, there was a lot of work in land development, but
when the recession of the 1980s hit, that kind of work dried up and
Al-Terra was forced to reconsolidate and diversify. Times were lean
and most of the employees went their own way. For a while it was just
Corry and I and a secretary, Karen Rowland, says Leo. They nurtured
their few infrastructure clients from those lean times 30 years ago,
and have gained repeat business in the intervening years, right up to
the present.
We rst joined the CEA in the mid-1980s. It brought us into close,
trusting contact with numerous rms in the and weve benetted from
the collective knowledge, both technical and business wise, says Leo.
The brothers are low-key about their business, their success, and
their points of pride; the humility may be partly a Broks thing and
partly an engineer thing. Leo says that his career highlights include
going beyond clients expectations. I get satisfaction from adding value
to a project, he says. I like to save money for the client, and I like to use
land in a more productive way.
I like being able to offer low-cost solutions with high returns, Corry says.
He offers some examples from Al-Terras recent portfolio. We designed a
jug-handle on 17th Street and Baseline Road, he says. It was an area of high
collisions and putting in an interchange was cost-prohibitive. The jug-handle
removed left turns and made the area safer. Likewise, there are the rural
roundabouts. Thinking outside the box, Al-Terra came up with roundabouts
as a studied, low-cost solution to four- and ve-kilometre queues forming in
peak times at intersections on Highways 11A and 20.
Dedicated mentors, the Brokses believe that taking care of the next
generation of engineers is the best way to ameliorate the dearth of
professionals in the 20- to-40-year age group. And mentorship is how you
achieve controlled growth, Corry says. They are the progenitors of two
namesake $5,000 engineering scholarships.
One of the gratifying aspects of developing Al-Terra, says Leo, has
been mentoring young people, whove developed into exceptional engi-
neers and leaders, many from the U of A and U of S co-op programs.
Their company is built on the premise that they give back to their com-
munity in tangible ways, too. We give to a number of charities, Leo says.
We donate about one per cent of our gross, Corry adds. Every year we
identify a charity, and usually charge a junior person with overseeing the
process.
Both Brokses married school teachers, who helped them get through the
rough times in the 1980s to later prosperity. Both raised three sons, and
both have a clutch of grandkids to dote on. Its tting that, in recognition
of their many years of excellence in civil engineering and community
service, they both receive the CEAs Lieutenant Governors Award for
distinguished service. Congratulations, Messrs. Corry and Leo Broks.
Corry G. Broks, P.Eng. President,
Al-Terra Engineering Inc.
Leo Broks, P.Eng. Board Chairman,
Al-Terra Engineering Inc.
Community
Builders
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TO HONOUR AN INDIVIDUAL OUTSIDE THE PROFESSION
The newly created Consulting Engineers of Alberta (CEA) Presidents
Award will be presented to former MLA, Deputy Premier, Cabinet
member, and Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly, Ken
Kowalski. The award was created to recognize and honour an
individual outside of the consulting engineering profession who has
made an outstanding contribution to the consulting engineering
profession.
Ken Kowalski was born in Bonnyville and pursued a career as an
educator. He moved to Barrhead to teach social studies politics
was not on his mind. He liked Reach for the Top, the CBC television
program that pitted students from one school against another in
an academic competition. Alarmed that Lorne Jenkins High School
could not participate because of prior poor performance he went
all the way to Ottawa to get special dispensation and received
provisional permission to enable his school to participate.
Then he got to work. His magnetic enthusiasm and organizational
skills led to creation of intramural Reach for the Top competitions.
One former student says there were more students involved in
Reach for the Top than there were playing sports. The Barrhead team
succeeded undefeated all the way to national champions in 1973
making six other national appearances in the 1970s and considered
the programs most successful competitors.
This story is typical of the way Ken Kowalski lives his life. His
successes show that, for him, nothing is impossible. In 1974 Deputy
Premier and Minister of Agriculture Hugh Horner recognized the
talents of the young teacher and convinced Ken to change jobs and
become his assistant. Thus began a new career. When Horner became
Minster of Transportation, Ken became assistant deputy minister
shortly thereafter the youngest deputy minister in the provinces
history. His relationship with the engineering profession had begun.
In 1979, Hugh Horner retired from politics and Ken ran in the
by-election. Again his infectious enthusiasm and ability to meet
people on their terms made him successful through nine elections
and four premiers. He served as Minister of Environment; Minister of
Career Development & Employment; Minister of Public Works, Supply,
and Services; Minister of Economic Development & Tourism; Deputy
Premier; Government House Leader; and then as Speaker of the
Legislative Assembly until his retirement in 2012.
CEA was originally
established in 1978
as an association of
consulting engineer-
ing rms. Although
successful, CEA
always wanted to
have their organiza-
tion formalized and
after discussion
with Ken Kowalski a
decision was made to
develop a Consulting
Engineers Act.
As Minister of
Public Works, Supply
and Services, Ken
Kowalski introduced
and carried the
Act through the
legislature. He said,
Mr. Chairman, could
I repeat again during committee that this Act was built, manufactured,
written in consultation with the Association of Professional Engineers,
Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta as well as the organization
known as the Consulting Engineers of Alberta.
He also commented, What this Bill will do, Mr. Speaker, is allow
members of the Consulting Engineers of Alberta the right to title and the
utilization of the phraseology Member of the Consulting Engineers of
Alberta and to use the abbreviation MCEA after their names.
In 1992, the Consulting Engineers Act formalized the profession and
with the by-laws and code-of ethics leads the consulting engineering
profession today. In his typical consultative fashion Ken Kowalski met
with us over and over to ensure he fully understood our objectives and
then he represented our interests in the legislature. He answered the
questions and defended our profession during debate. We owe him a great
deal of thanks, says CEA President Craig Clifton. We have right to a title
and it is thanks to Ken Kowalski.
Ken Kowalski
Former Speaker
Honoured by CEA
THE
PRESIDENTS
AWARD
AWARDS 2014
HAROLD L. MORRISON
RISING YOUNG
PROFESSIONAL AWARD
Mr. Sheldon Hudson, P. Eng, Al -Terra Engineering,
CEA Past President
Mr. Paul Breeze, P.Eng.,PBreeze Consulting Ltd.
Mr. Paul Ruffell, P. Eng., Tetra Tech EBA, ACEC
Liaison
CEA 2014 SHOWCASE
YOUNG PROFESSIONAL NOMINEE JUDGES
In addition to the Lieutenant Governors Award,CEA recognizes another individual
with the Harold L. Morrison Rising Young Professional Award. Alberta Innovators
typically only prints the award winner, but this year the CEA acknowledges all the
nominees. The winner will be announced at the CEA gala event.
In no particular order, we are pleased to present the nominees for the 2014 Young
Professional Award.
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David Nagy, P.Eng., MBA,
Design Manager,
International Facilities
Project , AECOM
David was a site engineer for
a Northern Alberta Oil Sands
Project (CNRL Horizon) for
two years where he led a
pond optimization redesign
that reduced capital costs
by $15 million and led a
$5-million wastewater
rehabilitation, including an
innovative rehabilitation of
a failed intake pipe. David
later joined the Program
Management Team for
the Runway Development
Program at the Calgary
International Airport. He
also wore his liaison hat
for the RDP with the City
of Calgary. The Director of
the Runway Development
Project wrote, AECOMs
David Nagy has been
instrumental in monitoring,
reporting and coordinat-
ing ATT efforts to ensure no
impact to our schedules.
Cory Wilson, P.Eng.
Transportation Planning
Manager, McElhanney
Consulting Services Ltd.
Corys area of practice
includes transportation
planning, design, trafc
analysis and sustainable
transportation. One of Corys
achievements was project
managing the Mill Road
Corridor, a contentious,
$100-million project to
upgrade an arterial corridor
in Auckland, New Zealand,
for which he received
signicant praise from client
and employer. Cory was also
the project manager for the
NE Calgary Transportation
Network Study, responsible
for managing all components
of the study. Cory has a tal-
ent for developing practical,
innovative solutions that aim
to save the client time and
money, wrote his company
vice-president. He under-
stands clients objectives
and constraints.
Jackie Mykytiuk, P.Eng.
LEED AP, Associated
Engineering
Jackie joined Associated
Engineering in 2008 as an
Engineer-in-Training in
the Urban Infrastructure
Group, where she started as
a construction inspector.
Jackie transitioned to water
process engineering, where
she gained experience in
civil infrastructure and water
and wastewater treatment
design and construction.
For the last two years
Jackie has been work-
ing with a team on the
Regional Municipality of
Wood Buffalo, developing
a Wastewater Master Plan.
Her manager says, Jackies
organizational skills are
invaluable. She coordinates
the multiple engineer-
ing disciplines as well as
the clients departments,
keeping everyone abreast
of progress, milestones and
deliverables.
Mike Hopkins, E. I .T., Design
and Field Engineer, Urban
Systems
Mike has been engaged in
the land development and
community practice teams
at Urban Systems, focusing
on detailed engineering
design for subdivisions,
contract preparation and
administration, and construc-
tion inspection. He played
a signicant role on the
Misericordia Community
Hospital project, developing
a design promoting drainage
with minimal earthworks.
He was eld inspector in for
Buckingham Business Park, a
160-acre commercial/indus-
trial development in Sherwood
Park, before he progressed to
project management in 2013.
His supervisor wrote:
What has impressed me is his
diligence and commitment to
exceeding expectations of the
team and client at each stage,
positive energy,and his self-
awareness.
Elliot Digby, P.Eng.,
Mechanical Engineer, FVB
Energy Inc.
Elliot has worked on various
projects across Canada and
the U.S. including those
in the energy business,
carrying out business case
analysis, energy efciency
improvements, feasibil-
ity studies and project
management. Recently, he
acted as design engineer for
the Copps Coliseum arena
cooling system. And he has
been conducting a residual
heat feasibility study in Hall
Beach, Nunavut, acting as
both project manager and
design engineer.
Elliot is an excellent
example of the kind of engi-
neer that most professional
engineers should aspire to
become, wrote one of his cli-
ents. He is able to prepare a
design/engineering solution
targeted at the key factors
that drive his customers
success.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
INTERNATIONAL
Sacramento Municipal Utility District
FIRM: Stantec Consulting Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Sacramento Municipal Utility District
LOCATION: Sacramento, California, USA
SUB CONSULTANTS: Buehler & Buehler Structural
Engineers; RSC Engineering Inc; Turley & Associates
CONTRACTORS: Turner Construction Company;
ACCO Engineered Systems Inc.; Redwood City Electric;
Intech Mechanical
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Stantec Architecture Inc.; RNL
Design; Stantec Consulting Ltd.
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is
showing its clients whats possible. When Americas
sixth largest utility district outgrew a 19-acre
maintenance yard, it wanted a new facility to
accommodate future growth and unite employees on
one campus. As a major utility, SMUD takes energy
efciency seriously, so it incorporated stringent
requirements into the design-build specications,
creating a genuine challenge for competing teams.
The results are impressive. The team delivered a net-
zero campus with an advanced, hybrid energy system,
balancing energy efciency with capital costs.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
Real world proof that a zero-net energy design
doesnt have to come at a premium. Well done.
SHOWCASE
AWARDS 2014
The North LRT Drainage Projects rerouted and augmented drainage for Edmontons new
North LRT with a new 500-metre storm tunnel and the relocation of a large double-barrel
tunnel. The downtown location of the tunnels meant encountering abandoned I-beams and
concrete pilings. There were other major challenges: wet, sticky ground conditions, LRT
coordination, trafc management, and tight laydown areas. SMA implemented rigorous
planning and cost and schedule controls for the tunnels, including value engineering,
constructability review, risk analysis, earned value analysis (EVA), Last Planner lean project
management, and construction simulation. Ultimately, both tunnels were completed on
schedule and well under budget.
North LRT Drainage Projects
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
FIRM: SMA Consulting Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: City of Edmonton
LOCATION: Edmonton, Alberta
JUDGES COMMENTS:
This is an excellent example of the integrated
application of project management tools
and systems to overcome multiple complex
challenges.
An excellent project that showcased the value
engineering, risk analysis and simulation
expertise of this small rm. Well done.
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JUDGES COMMENTS:
This project demonstrates the great impacts a small rm
can have in protecting our environment.
What set this project apart are the signicant
environmental benets and risk management. The
continual environmental value is signicant and ongoing,
whether optimizing the plants operation or training the
operators.
FIRM : SMA Consulting Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: EPCOR
EPCORs Gold Bar Wastewater Treatment Plant treats
more than 100 billion litres of wastewater a year.
Thats 280 million litres enough to ll 110 Olympic
swimming pools every day. Edmontons Combined
Sewer Overow Control Strategy means Gold Bar will
receive even more wastewater, up to 1.2 billion litres
per day. Innovation is necessary but difcult, because
of environmental and regulatory constraints and Gold
Bars complex processes. SMA Consulting developed
an operations simulation model for the thickener/
fermenter tanks, generating 24 million pieces of
data and 16,000 lines of code to allow EPCOR to test
strategies for handling these loads safely and with
full control.
Gold Bar Thickener/Fermenter
Operational Simulation
SMALL FIRM- BIG IMPACT
AWARDS 2014
STUDIES, SOFTWARE AND
SPECIAL SERVICES
BUILDING ENGINEERING
JUDGES COMMENTS:
Pure excitement to attend this engineering marvel in
Alberta.
A beautiful example of engineering harmonizing with
nature.
Glacier Skywalk is a thrilling and dramatic structure. It
features a geometrically complex kiosk, two pathways built
into the side of the cliff with three distinct nodes
one cantilever, one cave, and one tunnel. The path ends at
the Discovery Vista, a 30-metre curved glass walkway
extending up to 50 metres from the cliff face and
280 metres above Sunwapta Valley. Read Jones
Christoffersen (Prime Consultant and Structural
Engineer), PCL Construction Management (Project Lead,
Construction and Quality Management), and Sturgess
Architecture (Architect) led the delivery for owner
Brewster Travel Canada. You dont have to be a design or
construction professional to appreciate the complexities
of this project!
Glacier Skywalk
FIRM: Read Jones Christoffersen
CLIENT/OWNER: Brewster Travel Canada
LOCATION: Jasper National Park, Alberta
SUB CONSULTANTS: Sturgess Architecture; SMP Consulting Electrical
Engineers; Thurber Engineering Ltd.; Urban Systems Ltd.; Golder Associates
Ltd.; RWDI Group of Companies Consulting Engineers & Scientists
CONTRACTOR: PCL Constructors Inc.
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Shawnee Park Subdivision Land Use
Re-designation and Outline Plan
FIRM: AECOM Canada Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Geo-Energy
LOCATION: Calgary, Alberta
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Dillon Consulting
AECOM worked with Geo-Energy Enterprises on
the Land Use and Outline Planning and successful
approval of the Shawnee Park development. This
project will transform the former Shawnee Slopes
golf course into a sustainable and bio-diverse
residential development. The development will
be characterized by retaining the majority of
the beautiful mature trees, and will provide a
variety of different housing types, shopping and
employment opportunities. AECOM was instrumental
in supporting Geo-Energy in securing the necessary
approvals from the City of Calgary. Professional
services provided included environmental,
geotechnical, storm water, landscape architecture,
infrastructure and transportation engineering.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
JUDGES COMMENTS:
Excellent design and consultation to do an inll
housing project right.
A complex project in an existing neighbourhood. The
team did an excellent job of dealing with the issues and
being sensitive to the communitys needs. Well done.
AWARDS 2014
Linking Science and Community
in a Changing North
FIRM: Golder Associates Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Kuglutuk Angoniatit Association &
Angoniatit Niovikvia Ltd.
LOCATION: Kugluktuk, Nunavut
The environment is changing in the Canadian Arctic,
where traditional users rely upon sh and wildlife for both
subsistence and commercial livelihoods. In response
to community concerns over declines in Arctic char sh
harvests, Golder Associates worked with the Kugluktuk
Hunters and Trappers Organization to study and address
sh passage at a historically signicant stream. Channel
surveys and subsequent engineering to restore low-ows
were guided by traditional knowledge. Community
involvement and capacity building for Kugluktuk youth and
residents was an integral part of the project, providing the
community with the tools and knowledge to continue the
project in perpetuity.
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JUDGES COMMENTS:
This project stood out because of its overall long-term impacts. These include the
continuation of a local, and essential, food source along with the domestic Arctic char
shery. This returns and strengthens the viability of local traditions and an important
food source that has been in place perhaps for thousands of years.
COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND
IN-HOUSE INITIATIVES
JUDGES COMMENTS:
This project had many obvious challenges that were
handled in a very methodical manner to reduce the risk to
the public. It created a large benet to the community.
A very successful design to use technology that is used in
oil pipeline industry for an urban drainage line, very little
environment impact.
Gregoire East Sanitary Sewer Outfall
FIRM: Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Regional Municipality of
Wood Buffalo
LOCATION: City of Fort McMurray, Alberta
SUB-CONSULTANTS: Thurber Engineering Ltd.; CCI Inc.
CONTRACTOR: DIRECT Horizontal Drilling
The Gregoire East Sanitary Sewer Outfall Project expands the capacity of the City of Fort
McMurrays sanitary sewer system and enables future growth and economic development.
The project involved open-cut construction in a busy commercial area and horizontal
directional drilling (HDD) for large diameter steel pipelines passing under an actively slid-
ing slope and protected waterway, through a geologic formation consisting of oil sands,
and underneath the environmentally sensitive Saline Creek valley. Associated Engineering
implemented a project management plan addressing technical and environmental
challenges, including a steep terrain, restricted construction space and a multitude of
public stakeholders and permit providers.
ENVIRONMENTAL
AWARDS 2014
NATURAL RESOURCES,
MINING AND INDUSTRY
JUDGES COMMENTS:
This admirable
roadmap project
involves the
collaboration of industry,
government, academia
and engineering
consulting rms. Its an
important contribution
to identifying
technological solutions
for the responsible
management of problems
associated with oil sands
tailings ponds, and
to alleviating adverse
environmental impacts
of oil sands processing
operations.
Oil Sands Technology
Deployment Roadmaps
FIRM: Golder Associates Ltd. (as part of The Consortium
of Tailings Management Consultants)
CLIENT/OWNER: Alberta Innovates - Energy and
Enviromental Solutions
SUB-CONSULTANTS: AMEC; BGC Engineering Inc.;
Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd.; NorWest Corporation;
Thurber Engineering Ltd.; and The University of Alberta
Geotechnical Group
The Consortium of Tailings Management Consultants (AMEC,
BGC Engineering Inc., Golder Associates Ltd., Klohn Crippen
Berger Ltd., NorWest Corporation, Thurber Engineering
Ltd., and The University of Alberta Geotechnical Group), was
contracted by Alberta Innovates Energy and Environment
Solutions and the Oil Sands Tailings Consortium to create
an oil sands technologies deployment roadmap and action
plan. The purpose of the plan was to assist government and
industry to understand the available technologies, achieve
more timely deployment of end-to-end tailings solutions,
and develop a sustainable management plan for the oil
sands industry.
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North Highway Connector
CLIENT/OWNER: City of Red Deer
LOCATION: Red Deer, Alberta
SUB-CONSULTANTS: ISL Engineering and Land Services
Ltd.; Parkland Geotechnical Consulting Ltd; Thurber
Engineering Ltd.
CONTRACTOR: Pidherneys Trucking Ltd.
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Border Paving Ltd. (Sub-
contractor); Proform (Sub-contractor); Timcon
Construction Ltd. (Sub-contractor); and Appollo
Landscaping Services (Sub-contractor)
Stantec provided detailed design and construction
services for the rst phase of the City of Red Deers 30-year
plan to build a ring road expressway around the east
side of Red Deer. Stantec provided project management,
preliminary and detailed design, tender preparation, and
services during construction and post construction. This
project will improve the existing road network providing
a more efcient means of access for the community to
residential and commercial areas as well as connections to
provincial highways. The cross section was designed with a
vision for expansion, while minimizing any environmental
impacts for future roadway improvements.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
This project successfully resolved numerous challenges that
included multi-modal interchanges, wildlife corridors and
pedestrian/bicycle passages.
TRANSPORTATION
INFRASTRUCTURE
AWARDS 2014
EVIMS (Earned Value Integrated
Monitoring System)
FIRM: SMA Consulting Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: SMA Consulting Ltd.
SUB-CONSULTANT: DRAXware Solutions
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: City of Edmonton; AECOM
EVIMS, the Earned Value Integrated Monitoring System, is
SMA Consultings answer to uncertainty management and
forecasting on infrastructure projects. This server-based
solution integrates proven earned value techniques with
Monte Carlo risk analysis, change management, and 4-D
CAD visualization to allow performance monitoring and
robust cost/schedule forecasting from anywhere, during
any phase. The advanced rules of credit and state-of-the-art
forecasting of EVIMS offer value to owners, consultants,
and contractors by improving decision-making in uncertain
conditions. Built on years of academic research and with the
technical support of DRAXware solutions, EVIMS has seen
success on close to $1 billion worth of projects.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
An excellent tool that is exible, transparent and mitigates risk.
STUDIES, SOFTWARE AND
SPECIAL SERVICES
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Wandering River Pipeline and
Reservoir Design Build
CLIENT/OWNER: Athabasca County
LOCATION: Wandering River, Alberta
CONTRACTORS: Graham Construction and Engineering, a JV;
M. Pidherneys Trucking Ltd.; Schendel Mechanical
Contracting Ltd.; and Vector Electric and Controls Inc.
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd.
The Wandering River regional waterline project was the rst
regional water project in Alberta completed under a design-
build delivery model. Its the worlds longest fusible polyvinyl
chloride pipe (FPVC) system. The method of installation was
directional drilling for over 95 per cent of the 88-kilometre
system. Through close cooperation and teamwork by Stantec,
Pidherneys, and Graham Construction along with Owners and
Regulators, the project was designed, constructed, and put
into operation in just 13 months. It services the communities
of Grassland and Wandering River, and provides safe, secure
water to 70 rural residences along the alignment.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
I liked the fact that Stantec used a design-build delivery
model. This shows innovative out-of-the-box thinking
instead of falling back on the same old ways of doing things.
I liked the stakeholder consultation and risk allocation.
WATER RESOURCES AND
ENERGY PRODUCTION
AWARDS 2014
Bridge Drive Utility Corridor
FIRM: MPE Engineering Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: City of Lethbridge
LOCATION: Lethbridge, Alberta
SUB-CONSULTANT: EBA, A Tetra Tech Company
CONTRACTOR: Whissell Contracting Calgary Ltd.
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Hogeweide Management Inc.
The City of Lethbridge completed a signicant
infrastructure project with the construction of sanitary
sewer and treated water pipelines to service the West
Lethbridge Employment Centre. MPE Engineering Ltd.
provided engineering services and EBA Engineering
Consultants Ltd. provided quality assurance services for
sewer and water lines that cross the Oldman River, ascend
the river valley along Bridge Drive, and cross the CPR
Railway and University Drive to service West Lethbridge.
A partnering process was employed to establish positive
working relationships between the owner, the consultant,
and the contractor. Whissell Contracting Calgary Ltd.
started construction August 22, 2011 and completed the
project March 26, 2012, two months ahead of schedule.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Southern Alberta Disaster Relief Efforts
FIRM: OPUS Stewart Weir Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: OPUS Stewart Weir Ltd.
LOCATION: Calgary and High River, Alberta
After the oods in southern Alberta this summer,
Opus Stewart Weir went into action. In addition to an
immediate monetary donation to the Red Cross, it was
obvious that we needed to do more. Opus Stewart Weir
made the decision to donate over 700 volunteer hours
totaling $25,000 in support of relief efforts.
As we look back, we are proud that our true values
and commitment to the community rose to the challenge. We were compassionate, strong
and made a conscious decision to help those in-need with planned and decisive actions;
by showing leadership by giving back to the community when it was desperately needed.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
I support giving both the Excellence and Merit Award a rst
place nish. They both brought tears to my eyes as I read
them. Both score high on contributions and services for the
community. Both have left lasting legacies. Both show true
concern for sustainability and depth of purpose. Both have
demonstrated the strength of human spirit in the face of
changing environment.
WATER RESOURCES AND
ENERGY PRODUCTION
JUDGES COMMENTS:
MPE Engineering Ltd. provided exemplary
design and project management service for
the timely completion of a technically and
time constraint challenging utility corridor
project that provides new service lines across
the Oldman river to West Lethbridge. The new
infrastructure that was put in place will allow
continued growth and development of a key
part of the City of Lethbridge.
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JUDGES COMMENTS:
Congratulations to Golder for their innovative mountain goat and bighorn sheep monitoring
program and technically excellent assessment of the potential impacts on goat and sheep of
Brewsters Glacier Skywalk project. Their exceptional contributions were instrumental in
Brewsters Glacier Skywalk project and in Brewster receiving approval to proceed with construc-
tion of this attraction in the Canadian Rockies.
Glacier Skywalk Environmental Assessment and Monitoring
FIRM: Golder Associates Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Brewster Travel Canada
LOCATION: Sunwapta Canyon Viewpoint, Jasper
National Park, Alberta
SUB-CONSULTANTS: Talus Environmental
Consulting Inc.
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Parks Canada Agency
Brewster Travel Canada retained Golder Associates Ltd. to conduct an environmental assessment of the
redevelopment of Sunwapta Canyon Viewpoint into a new interpretive attraction: the Glacier Skywalk.
The high-prole nature of the Skywalk provided unique challenges. Golder used an innovative approach
to study design and data collection, in order to understand and mitigate the projects potential effects
on mountain goats, and reduce the associated risks for Brewster. This approach ultimately allowed
Parks Canada to approve the project, which will provide benets to visitors of Canadas Four Mountain
Parks. The Glacier Skywalk is set to open to the public May 2014.
ENVIRONMENTAL
CLIENT/OWNER: The City of Calgary and the Calgary Emergency Management
SUB CONSULTANTS: Mulvey + Banani International (Alberta) Ltd.; Manasc
Isaac Architects Ltd.; Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd.; and Enersys Analytics Inc.;
CONTRACTORS: Hoover Mechanical Plumbing and Heating Ltd.
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Bird Construction
BUILDING ENGINEERING
Emergency Operations Centre
During an emergency event or disaster, the Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
coordinates the activities necessary to ensure citizen safety and essential services
are maintained. This vital facility is the eyes, ears, and hands protecting citizens,
property, and equipment.
The EOC includes both emergency measures and the new City Data Centre
over three stories, with two levels underground where majority of people and
equipment are located. The team designed, assisted through construction, and
tested the mechanical heating and cooling, re protection, sanitary, and backup
power solutions for this mission critical facility.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
This project demonstrates ingenuity in the
province for a critical function in balance
with the interests of the neighbouring
community.
AWARDS 2014
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Edmonton International Airport
Expansion 2012
FIRM: MMM Group Limited
CLIENT/OWNER: Edmonton Regional Airports Authority
SUB CONSULTANTS: Hanscomb
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: PCL Constructors Inc.; EllisDon;
and Stuart Olson Dominion Construction Ltd.
MMM Group Limited managed, on behalf of the Edmonton
Regional Airports Authority, a ve-year $650-million
redevelopment program. Our teams role involved the
technical and nancial management of a multidisciplinary
implementation team of over 100 companies consisting
of engineers, architects, vendors, and contractors in
the implementation of state-of-the-art improvements
undertaken within a live operating airport environment.
The new facilities opened to the travelling public and staff
in 2012, within the original time schedule and under the
capital cost budget established at the onset in 2008.
Geomorphic Design of West
Overburden Disposal Area
FIRM: CH2M HILL Canada Limited
CLIENT/OWNER: Shell Canada Energy
LOCATION: Shell Jackpine Mine (near Fort McMurray)
SUB CONSULTANTS: KC Harvey LLC
The West Overburden Disposal Area is the rst retrotted,
geomorphically-designed landform constructed at Shell
Canada Energys Jackpine Mine. Designed by CH2M HILL and
subconsultant KC Harvey Environmental, this new approach
uses quantitative geomorphology to design hillslope and
valley morphometry similar to natural landforms. Designed
transitions from hillslopes to valleys provide direct control
of where channels begin on the landform. Retrotting an
in-construction landform to a geomorphic design decreases
cut/ll, material stockpile, and haul truck time, as well
as long-term maintenance costs and limits erosion and
sedimentation. The geomorphic design enhances long-term
stability, decreasing risk of catastrophic landform changes
beyond closure.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
The project description clearly addresses and meets the
judging criteria used for a project for an Award of Merit.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
This project required a high level of innovation to
make a man-made landform operate like a natural land
form. Great use of modern technology to create a self-
sustaining landscape. Its great to see that reclamation
of mine lands can be done so well that in a generation
or two no one will be able to distinguish the man-
made landform from the natural one.
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NATURAL RESOURCES,
MINING AND INDUSTRY
Highway 63 Widening in Fort
McMurray: Pinch Point Secant Pile Wall
FIRM: AECOM Canada Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Alberta Transportation
LOCATION: Fort McMurray, Alberta
SUB-CONSULTANT: Thurber Engineering Ltd.
CONTRACTOR: Graham
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Tervita; Red Deer Piling; and
Stantec Consulting Ltd.
The secant pile wall with strand anchors fullls an
important role in the Highway 63 widening project in
Fort McMurray. This 420-metre-long, nine-metre-high
wall retains a steep, unstable hillside where the roadway
alignment is tightly constrained at the base of the hill by
the Athabasca River. This slender wall design maintains
roadway geometry and safety standards along this
portion of the highway.
AECOM was responsible for the wall design and Thurber
provided geotechnical input. This project demonstrated
excellent collaboration with the contractor, and the
design had to consider complex loading variables and
multiple stages of wall construction.
Jasper Place Library
FIRM: Williams Engineering Canada Inc.
CLIENT/OWNER: City of Edmonton/Edmonton Public Library
(owners) and Dub Architects, HCMA Architects (clients)
CLIENT/OWNER: Edmonton, Alberta
SUB CONSULTANT: Fast & Epp
CONTRACTOR: Stuart Olson Dominion
After 25 years since its last major renovation, the City of
Edmonton and Edmonton Public Libraries deemed that
Jasper Place Library was in need of a fresh new look.
Williams Engineering Canada partnered with HCMA and
Dub Architects, Fast & Epp (structural), and Stuart Olson
Dominion (contractor) to create a sustainable, open,
and adaptable environment. The library is a LEED Sil-
ver potential building that achieved 51 per cent energy
savings and 52 per cent water savings. Jasper Place
Library represents a signicant community achievement
that WEC is proud to have provided mechanical and
electrical engineering services for.
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
TRANSPORTATION
INFRASTRUCTURE
JUDGES COMMENTS:
Aside from all the complexities of this project, it is simply
a cool building that will stand the test of time. This is no
ordinary library!
JUDGES COMMENTS:
Excellent design and
quality control in a
difcult area.
AWARDS 2014
2013-2014 Showcase Awards Judges
Al Maurer, P.Eng.
City Manager, Retired, City of Edmonton
Brian Soutar, P.Eng.
P.Q.S. Executive Director, Project Services, Alberta
Infrastructure
Brian Williams, C.E.T.
Business Development Manager, Nilex Inc.
Bruno Zutautas, P.Eng.
Assistant Deputy Minister, Alberta Transportation
David Burstein , P.E.
Principal, PSMJ Resources Inc.
Don Mah, P.Eng.
Associate Chair Bachelor of Technology in
Construction Management, NAIT
Doug Wright, P.Eng.
CD Retired, Leduc County Manager
Fred Otto P.Eng.
Dean Emeritus, Faculty of Engineering, University
of Alberta
Jennifer Enns, P.Eng. Manager
Engineering & Energy Services, City of Calgary
Patricia Armitage, M.Eng., P.Eng.
Director, Engineering and Construction, Industrial
Development Branch, Alberta Enterprise &
Advanced Education
Peter Wallis, BA, LLB, LLM
President & CEO, The Van Horne Institute
Shane Freeson, P.Eng.
Site Director, Cenovus Primrose Assets, Cenovus
Energy
Tim Robbie, P.Eng.
Manager, Health Safety & Environment,
Vermilion Resources Ltd.
Tom ONeill, P.Eng.
Executive Director, Technical Services, Alberta
Infrastructure
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www.kta-eng.com
702, 7015 Macleod Trail SW
Calgary AB T2H 2K6
Tel: (403) 265-4405 Fax: (403) 245-6545
Laviolette Engineering Ltd.
www.laveng.com
7609 - 115 Street, Unit B
Edmonton AB T6G 1N4
Tel: (780) 454-0884 Fax: (800) 308-3102
Levelton Consultants Ltd.
www.levelton.com
203-6919 32 Avenue NW
Calgary AB T3B 0K6
Tel: (403) 247-1813 Fax: (403) 247-1814
8884 - 48 Avenue
Edmonton AB T6E 5L1
Tel: (780) 438-0844 Fax: (780) 435-1812
LVM Engineering Ltd.
www.lvm.ca
4530 - 50 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2B 3R4
Tel: (403) 255-3273 Fax: (403) 266-8825
16114 - 114 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5M 2Z5
Tel: (780) 481-1416 Fax: (780) 481-9008
Magna IV Engineering
www.magnaiv.com
200, 688 Heritage Drive SE
Calgary AB T2H 1M6
Tel: (403) 723-0575 Fax: (403) 723-0580
1103 Parsons Road SW
Edmonton AB T6X 0X2
Tel: (780) 462-3111 Fax: (780) 462-9799
8219D Fraser Avenue
Fort McMurray AB T9H 0A2
Tel: (780) 791-3122 Fax: (780) 791-3159
Maskell Plenzik & Partners Engineering Inc.
www.mppeng.ca
Suite 206, 610 - 70 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2H 2J6
Tel: (403) 509-2005 Fax: (403) 509-2006
McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.
www.mcelhanney.com
Suite 500, 999 8 Street SW
Calgary AB T2R 1J5
Tel: (403) 262-5042 Fax: (403) 262-3337
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Canmore AB T1W 1N9
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Suite 201 - 8915 51 Avenue
Edmonton AB T6E 5J3
Tel: (780) 436-9400 Fax: (780) 438-0549
MechWave Engineering Ltd.
www.mechwave.com
300, 1111 Olympic Way SE
Calgary AB T2G 0E6
Tel: (403) 802-1090 Fax: (403) 244-4440
Metallurgical Consulting Services Ltd.
www.metallurgicalconsulting.net
#209, 5403 Crowchild Trail NW
Calgary AB T3B 4Z1
Tel: (403) 235-5456 Fax: (403) 212-0315
Millennium EMS Solutions Ltd.
www.mems.ca
217, 811 - 14 Street NW
Calgary AB T2N 2A4
Tel: (403) 592-6180
6111 - 91 Street
Edmonton AB T6E 6V6
Tel: (780) 496-9048 Fax: (780) 496-9049
MMM Group Limited
www.mmm.com
5151 - 3 Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 2X6
Tel: (403) 269-7440 Fax: (403) 269-7422
203, 729 - 10 Street
Canmore AB T1W 2A3
Tel: (403) 678-3500 Fax: (403) 678-3501
#200, 10576 - 113 Street
Edmonton AB T5H 3H5
Tel: (780) 423-4123 Fax: (780) 426-0659
8026A Franklin Avenue
Tel: (780) 743-3977 Fax: (780) 743-3981
Morrison Hersheld Limited
www.morrisonhersheld.com
300, 6807 Railway Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 2V6
Tel: (403) 246-4500 Fax: (403) 246-4220
Suite 300, 1603 - 91 Street SW
Edmonton AB T6X 0W8
Tel: (780) 483-5200 Fax: (780) 484-3883
MPA Engineering Ltd.
www.mpaeng.ca
#312, 9804 - 100 Avenue
Grande Prairie AB T8V 0T8
Tel: (780) 814-2392 Fax: (780) 814-5872
9930 - 102 Street
Peace River AB T8S 1T1
Tel: (780) 624-8151 Fax: (780) 624-5676
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Sherwood Park AB T8H 0H9
Tel: (780) 416-3034 Fax: (780) 416-3037
Tel: (403) 609-3992 Fax: (403) 609-3989
14904 121A Avenue
Edmonton AB T5V 1A3
Tel: (780) 809-3200 Fax: (780) 809-3212
McIntosh Lalani Engineering Ltd.
www.mcintoshlalani.com
Bay 10, 4604 - 13 Street N
Calgary AB T2E 6P1
Tel: (403) 291-2345 Fax: (403) 291-2356
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www.mpe.ca
1F, 333 2 Street W
Brooks AB T1R 1G4
Tel: (403) 362-8545
260 East Atrium, 2635 - 37 Avenue NE
Calgary AB T1Y 5Z6
Tel: (403) 250-1362 Fax: (403) 250-1518
300, 714 - 5 Avenue S
Lethbridge AB T1J 0V1
Tel: (403) 329-3442 Fax: (403) 329-9354
40, 1825 Bomford Crescent SW
Medicine Hat AB T1A 5E8
Tel: (403) 348-2626 Fax: (403) 348-7773
302, 4702 - 49 Avenue
Red Deer AB T4N 6L5
Tel: (403) 348-8340 Fax: (403) 348-8331
120, 20 Circle Drive
St. Albert AB T8N 3S6
Tel: (780) 460-7777 Fax: (780) 460-7766
NORR Architects Engineers Planners
www.norr.com
100, 221-10 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2G 0V9
Tel: (403) 264-4000 Fax: (403) 269-7215
Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd.
www.nhcweb.com
9819 - 12 Avenue SW
Edmonton AB T6X 0E3
Tel: (780) 436-5668 Fax: (780) 436-1645
Omicron Canada Inc.
www.omicronaec.com
500, 833 - 4 Ave SW
Calgary AB T2P 3T5
Tel: (403) 262-9733 Fax: (403) 262-9750
OPUS Stewart Weir Ltd.
www.swg.ca
4808A - 50 Avenue
Bonnyville AB T9N 2H3
Tel: (866) 812-3183 Fax: (780) 826-7545
300, 926 - 5th Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 0N7
Tel: (403) 264-2585 Fax: (403) 264-2501
99, 11030 - 78 Avenue
Grande Prairie AB T8W 2J7
Tel: (877) 814-5880 Fax: (877) 814-5973
30, 491 W.T. Hill Boulevard S
Lethbridge AB T1J 1Y6
Tel: (403) 320-1135 Fax: (403) 320-1185
140, 2121 Premier Way
Sherwood Park AB T8H 0B8
Tel: (780) 410-2580 Fax: (780) 410-2589
Parsons Brinckerhoff Halsall Inc.
www.halsall.com
5940 Macleod Trail SW, Suite 900
Calgary AB T2H 2G4
Tel: (403) 255-7946 Fax: (403) 255-7996
Pasquini & Associates Consulting Ltd.
www.pasquini.ca
300, 929 11 Street SE
Calgary AB T2G 0R4
Tel: (403) 452-7677 Fax: (403) 452-7660
Patching Associates Acoustical
Engineering Ltd.
www.patchingassociates.com
9, 4825 Westwinds Drive NE
Calgary AB T3J 4L4
Tel: (403) 274-5882 Fax: (403) 546-0544
Protostatix Engineering Consultants Inc.
www.protostatix.com
Edmonton AB T5J 1W8
Tel: (780) 423-5855 Fax: (780) 425-7227
Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd.
www.rjc.ca
Suite 500, 1816 Crowchild Trail NW
Calgary AB T2M 3Y7
Tel: (403) 283-5073 Fax: (403) 270-8402
Suite 100, 17415 - 102 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5S 1J8
Tel: (780) 452-2325 Fax: (780) 455-7516
Ready Engineering Corporation
www.readyengineering.com
Calgary AB T2R 0E4
Tel: (403) 301-5250 Fax: (403) 960-6664
540 - 36 Street North
Lethbridge AB T1H 5H6
Tel: (403) 327-2919 Fax: (403) 327-2915

209, 215 McLeod Avenue
Spruce Grove AB T7X 3A4
Tel: (780) 960-6663 Fax: (780) 960-6664
Sameng Inc.
www.sameng.com
1500 Baker Centre, 10025 - 106 Street
Edmonton AB T6E 0G2
Tel: (780) 482-2557 Fax: (780) 482-2538
SarPoint Engineering
www.sarpointeng.com
#6, 3530 - 11A Street NE
Calgary AB T2E 6M7
Tel: (403) 210-0661 Fax: (403) 210-0665
9763 - 62 Avenue
Edmonton AB T6E 5Y4
Tel: (780) 453-6228 Fax: (780) 437-0201
SCL Engineering Ltd.
200, 7205 Roper Road
Edmonton AB T6B 3J4
Tel: (780) 440-6262 Fax: (780) 440-4311
Sereca Fire Consulting Ltd.
www.serecare.com
106, 5855 9 Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 1Z9
Tel: (403) 984-5800 Fax: (403) 984-5809
SMA Consulting Ltd.
www.smaconsulting.ca
230 Sunlife Place 10123 - 99 Street
Edmonton AB T5J 3H1
Tel: (780) 484-3313 Fax: (780) 497-2354
SMP Consulting Electrical Engineers
www.smpeng.com
403, 1240 Kensington Road NW
Calgary AB T2N 3P7
Tel: (403) 270-8833 Fax: (403) 270-9358
Suite 101, 10835 - 120 Street
Edmonton AB T5H 3P9
Tel: (780) 482-5931 Fax: (780) 488-9784
412, 515 - 7 Street S
Lethbridge AB T1J 2G8
Tel: (403) 327-9433 Fax: (403) 327-9455
303, 4719 - 48th Ave
Red Deer AB T4N 3T1
Tel: (403) 340-2676
SNC-Lavalin Inc.
www.snclavalin.com
8 oor, 909 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 3G5
Tel: (403) 536-6129 Fax: (403) 253-1975
608, 10235 - 101 Street
Edmonton AB T5J 3G1
Tel: (780) 426-1000 Fax: (780) 412-6288
Stantec Consulting Ltd.
www.stantec.com
Calgary AB T3C 0K1
Tel: (403) 245-5661 Fax: (403) 244-4701
Calgary AB T2P 1H7
Tel: (403) 269-5150 Fax: (403) 269-5245
200, 325 - 25 Street SE
Calgary AB T2A 7H8
Tel: (403) 716-8000 Fax: (780) 716-8109
Suite 222, 4000 - 4 Street SE
Calgary AB T2G 2W3
Tel: (403) 214-3520 Fax: (403) 214-3599
Suite 340, 1200 - 59 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2H 2M4
Tel: (403) 216-2410 Fax: (403) 216-2144
200 - 37 Quarry Park Boulevard SE
Calgary AB T2C 5H9
Tel: (403) 252-3436 Fax: (403) 252-3464
10160 - 112 Street
Edmonton AB T5K 2L6
Tel: (780) 917-7000 Fax: (780) 917-7330
212-300 MacKenzie Boulevard
Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4
Tel: (780) 791-7117 Fax: (780) 791-0144
290, 220 - 4 Street S
Lethbridge AB T1J 3L8
Tel: (403) 329-3344 Fax: (403) 328-0664
1100, 4900 - 50 Street
Red Deer AB T4N 1X7
Tel: (403) 341-3320 Fax: (403) 342-0969
Stephenson Engineering Ltd.
www.stephenson-eng.com
608 7 Street SW, Suite 200
Calgary AB T2P 1Z2
Tel: (403) 648-0033 Fax: (403) 648-0035
Tetra Tech EBA Inc.
www.eba.ca
115, 200 Rivercrest Drive SE
Calgary AB T2C 2X5
Tel: (403) 203-3355 Fax: (403) 203-3301
14940 - 123 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5V 1B4
Tel: (780) 451-2121 Fax: (780) 454-5688
442 - 10 Street N
Lethbridge AB T1H 2C7
Tel: (403) 329-9009 Fax: (403) 328-8817
Thurber Engineering Ltd.
www.thurber.ca
180, 7330 Fisher Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 2H8
Tel: (403) 253-9217 Fax: (403) 252-8159
200, 9636 - 51 Avenue
Edmonton AB T6E 6A5
Tel: (780) 438-1460 Fax: (780) 437-7125
TWD Technologies Ltd.
www.twdepcm.com
Calgary Place 1, 330 5th Avenue SW
Suite 750, Calgary AB T2P 0H9
Tel: (403) 262-3083 Fax: (403) 263-8450
Unit 287, 2055 Premier Way
Sherwood Park AB T8H 0G2
Tel: (780) 410-0542 Fax: (780) 410-0549
Urban Systems Ltd.
www.urbansystems.ca
101, 2716 Sunridge Way NE
Calgary AB T1Y 0A5
Tel: (403) 291-1193 Fax: (403) 291-1374
200-10345 105 St NW
Edmonton AB T5J 1E8
Tel: (780) 430-4041 Fax: (780) 435-3538
V3 Companies of Canada Ltd.
www.v3co.ca
300, 6940 Fisher Road SE
Calgary AB T2H 0W3
Tel: (403) 860-1262 Fax: (403) 253-1985
Suite 200, 9945 - 50 Street NW
Edmonton AB T6A 0L4
Tel: (780) 945-2576 Fax: (780) 424-3837
Walters Chambers & Associates Ltd.
www.walterschambers.com
Edmonton AB T5J 3N3
Tel: (780) 428-1740 Fax: (780) 423-3735
Watt Consulting Group Ltd.
www.dawatt.com
310, 3016 - 5 Avenue NE
Calgary AB T2A 6K4
Tel: (403) 273-9001 Fax: (403) 273-3440
Williams Engineering Canada Inc.
www.williamsengineering.com
N195 - 3015 5 Avenue NE
Calgary AB T2A 6T8
Tel: (403) 263-2393 Fax: (403) 262-9075
Suite 200, 10065 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 3B1
Tel: (780) 424-2393 Fax: (780) 425-1520
Bay 26, 7875 - 48 Avenue
Red Deer AB T4P 2K1
Tel: (403) 755-2395 Fax: (403) 755-4049
WSP
www.wspgroup.com
305, 1331 Macleod Trail SE
Calgary AB T2G 0K3
Tel: (403) 248-9463 Fax: (403) 250-7811
7710 Edgar Industrial Court
Red Deer AB T4P 4E2
Tel: (403) 342-7650 Fax: (403) 342-7691
132, 2693 Broadmoor Blvd
Sherwood Park AB T8H 0G1
Tel: (780) 410-6740 Fax: (780) 449-4050
Yellowhead Engineering Services Inc.
www.yes-group.ca
17312 - 106 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5S 1H9
Tel: (780) 444-2406 Fax: (780) 444-2506
Associate Members
Arup Canada Inc.
Darryl Doucet
2 Bloor Street East, Toronto ON
M4W 1A8
Tel: 416-515-0915 Fax: 416-515-1635
[email protected] www.arup.com
C-FER Technologies (1999) Inc.
Dawna Bergum
200 Karl Clark Road Edmonton AB T6N 1H2
Tel: 780-450-3300 Fax: 780-450-3700
[email protected]
www.cfertech.com
City of Calgary
Jennifer Enns
Manager, Engineering & Energy Services
PO Box 2100, Stn M Calgary AB T2P 2M5
Tel: 403-268-1765 Fax: 403-268-8291
[email protected]
www.calgary.ca

City of Edmonton
Lorna Rosen
General Manager Financial Services
3rd Floor 9803 102A Avenue Edmonton AB
T5J 3A3 Tel: 780-496-5656
[email protected]
www.edmonton.ca
EPCOR Water Services
Susan Ancel, P.Eng.
Manager - Network Services
10065 Jasper Avenue Edmonton AB T5J 3B1
Tel: 780-412-7633 Fax: 780-412-7679
[email protected]
www.epcor.ca
Geotech Drilling Services Ltd.
Jason Oliver
5052 Hartway Drive Prince George BC V2K 5B7
Tel: 250-962-9041 Fax: 250-962-9046
[email protected]
National Bank Financial
Bruno Mercier
3500 Manulife Place, 10180-101 Street
Edmonton AB T5J 3S4
Tel: 780-412-6614 Fax: 780-424-5756
[email protected]
Spatial Technologies
Richard Andrews
#2, 21 Higheld Circle SE Calgary AB T2G 5N6
Tel: 877-252-0070 Fax: 403-259-3992
[email protected]
TD Meloche Monnex Inc.
Mandeep Chauhan
Relationship Manager
10025 - 102A Avenue NW
23rd Floor Edmonton AB T5J 2Z2
Tel: 780 -409-3233 Fax: 780-420-2323
[email protected]
Student Member
Diana Nada
University of Calgary
AECOM 60
Alberta Roadbuilders & Heavy Construction Assoc 34
Al-Terra Engineering 35
AMEC 8
Associated Engineering 72
The Association of Professional Engineers and
Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) 35
Brandt Industries Ltd. 10
Clifton Associates Ltd. 19
Consulting Architects of Alberta 34
DCL Siemens Engineering 8
Electrical Contractors Association of Alberta 35
Golder Associates pullout guide
Hatch Mott MacDonald 7
Hemisphere Engineering Inc. 65
ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd. 64
Kerr Wood Leidal 29
KFR Engineering 9
Klohn Crippen Berger 63
McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. 39
NAIT - Corporate and International Training (CIT) 4
National Bank Financial 67
NWS Inspection Inc. 29
Opus Stewart Weir 18
PCL Constructors Inc. 2-3
RBC Equipment Purchase Line 17
RWDI Group of Companies 60
Sameng Inc. 65
SMA Consulting Ltd. 63
Spatial Technologies Partnership Group 8
Stantec Inc. 71
TD Meloche Monnex Financial Services Incorporated 42
Tetra Tech EBA 12
Thurber Engineering 59
Urban Systems Ltd. 66
Williams Engineering Inc. 29
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CONSULTING ENGINEERS OF ALBERTA
CEA member firms impose upon themselves
a very strict Code of Ethics requiring disciplined
fullment of their duties with honesty, justice and
courtesy toward society, clients, other members of
CEA and employees. Ongoing regulation by peers
ensures quality management practices and the
integrity of all CEA members.
Society
1. Members shall practise their profession with concern for the social
and economic well-being of society.
2. Members shall conform with all laws, bylaws and regulations and
with the APEGA Code of Ethics.
3. Members shall satisfy themselves that their designs and recom-
mendations are safe and sound and, if their engineering judgment is
overruled, shall report the possible consequences to clients, owners
and, if necessary, the appropriate public authorities.
4. Members expressing engineering opinions to the public shall do
so in a complete, objective, truthful and accurate manner.
5. Members are encouraged to participate in civic affairs and work
for the benet of their community and should encourage their
employees to do likewise.
Clients
6. Members shall discharge their professional and business responsi-
bilities with integrity.
7. Members shall accept only those assignments for which they are
competent or for which they associate with other competent experts.
8. Members shall immediately disclose any conicts of interest to their
clients.
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obtained for and from their clients but shall deal appropriately with
any matters which may place the public in jeopardy.
10. Members shall obtain remuneration for their professional services
solely through fees commensurate with the services rendered.
11. Members shall promote consulting engineering services in accord-
ance with a qualications-based selection system endorsed by CEA.
Other Members
12. Members shall relate to other members of CEA with integrity and
in a manner that will enhance the professional stature of consulting
engineering.
13. Members engaged by a client to review the work of another member of
CEA shall avoid statements which may maliciously impugn the reputa-
tion or business of that member.
14. Members shall respect the clientele of other members of CEA and shall
not attempt to supplant them when denite steps, including negotiations
for an engagement, have been taken towards their engagement.
15. Members, when requesting professional engineering services from
other consulting engineering businesses, including members of CEA, shall
promote the use of a qualications-based selection system endorsed by CEA.
Employees
16. Members shall treat their employees with integrity, provide for their
proper compensation, require that they conform to high ethical
standards in their work and fully understand this Code of Consulting
Engineering Ethics.
17. Members shall not require or permit their employees to take responsibil-
ity for work for which they are not qualied.
18. Members shall encourage their employees to enhance their professional
qualications and development through appropriate continuing education.
CEA membership accreditation criteria are stringent. In addition to conforming with the
standards of practice set by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of
Alberta (APEGA) and the requirement to hold an APEGA Permit to Practice, member rms
must maintain permanent facilities with employees in Alberta; be managed by one or more
professional engineers; have at least two years operating experience as a consulting engi-
neering business; and employ an individual in Alberta who has at least ve years experience
in consulting engineering as a professional engineer.
Clients benet directly by dealing with CEA member rms, professionals who are keenly
interested in maintaining and promoting their own business association which, in turn, advo-
cates the veracity and trust which can be expected from each of its members.
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that connect, the infra-
structure that supports,
and the facilities that sus-
tain communities around
the world
Our local strength, knowledge,
and relationships, coupled with
world-class expertise, enable
us to meet our clients needs in
creative, personalized ways.
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consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering,
environmental science, and landscape architecture. We provide
consulting services in the transportation, infrastructure, water,
environmental, energy, building, and asset management sectors.
is part of our business and part of every project we
undertake. This is our commitment to giving back to our
community, improving the environment, and reducing our carbon
footprint.
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