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MH BASELINERS for 1050mm SDR35 PVC SEWER PIPE Engineer: Thurber Engineering (Kamloops, BC) Project: North Primary Sanitary Upgrade (Kamloops, BC) Precaster: Leko Precast (Vernon, BC) Contractor: Extreme Excavating (Kamloops, BC)

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1050mm SDR35 PVC

                

                                                                                                                                          2400mm                                                                                                                                                                      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MAY/JUNE 2017 [volume 21 number 3) features 15 Effective Communication: A Critical Requirement in Every Successful Project Michael Yuan, P.Eng.

19 Professional Liability Risk and Contractual Compliance in a Global Market: Managing Global Engineering, Geotechnical, and Construction Risks Benjamin Kent, Rob Selnes, Angus Smith

20 Mining Genomics for Solutions: BC Projects Harness Gene-Mapping Technologies to Overcome Mining Challenges Kylie Williams

26 2016 | 2017 Project Highlights

ON THE COVER: The Coulson Group of news Companies’ IceStorm90 is one of the products 7 Newsmakers Members Excel in Building with Wood; Engineering Institute Recognizes and projects showcased APEGBC Members; ACEC-BC Awards for Engineering Excellence; Input Sought from in the 2016 | 2017 Project Mineral Exploration Workers Highlights.

10 Association Notes Strategic Plan Sets Direction and Priorities Until 2020; Budget Maintains Current Membership Fees; Updated Brand Reflects Member Input ; 2017/2018 Council Election; Annual Conference and AGM; APEGBC to Help Develop Tools to Increase Post-Disaster Community Resilience; APEGBC to Prepare Post-Earthquake Building Evaluation Training; Task Force Recommends Corporate Regulation; Council Report departments 4 President’s Viewpoint Benefits and Responsibilities of Self-Regulation 6 Letters 50 Professional Services 54 Membership 54 Classifieds 54 Display Advertisers Index 55 Community 60 Practice 61 Organizational Quality Management 62 Discipline Disciplinary Notice: Daniel Lu-Chin Wu, P. Eng., Burnaby, BC 20 62 By the Numbers 63 APEGBC Continuing Professional Development Project Yellowhammer involved rough grading a 200-acre site to design grades in Alabama. An effective communication practice saved costs and protected workers.

i n n o v a t i o n MAY/JUNE 2017 3 MAY/JUNE 2017 VOLUME 21 NUMBER 3 v iewpoint

During the past six months, APEGBC Council and executive Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC staff have traveled around BC to engage in discussions with Suite 200 - 4010 Regent Street, Burnaby, BC Canada V5C 6N2 branch executives. We have received tremendous feedback Tel: 604.430.8035 Fax: 604.430.8085 Email: [email protected] Internet: apeg.bc.ca and, I hope, helped to clarify collective understanding of the Toll free: 1.888.430.8035 association’s duty and responsibilities as the regulator of the APEGBC COUNCIL 2016/2017

engineering and geoscience professions in BC. President Bob Stewart, P.Eng. We used input we received from members to help shape Vice-President Dr. Ed Casas, P.Eng. Benefits and Immediate Past President Dr. Michael Wrinch, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) APEGBC priorities for the next few years. As reported in Responsibilities these pages (Page 10), the association’s strategic plan sets our COUNCILLORS C.J.A. Andrewes, P.Eng.; S. Cheema, CA, CPA of Self-Regulation association’s direction and priorities for the next three years. R. Farbridge, P.Eng.; C. Hall, P.Eng./P.Geo. The Strategic Plan 2017–2020 includes greater focus on our S. Hayes, P.Eng.; K. Laloge, CPA, CA, TEP; S. Martin, P.Eng. C. Moser, P.Eng.; R.B. Nanson, P.Eng. regulatory responsibilities. S.R. Rettie, P.Eng., FEC; L. Spence, P.Eng. We are fortunate in BC that the engineering and geoscience K. Tarnai-Lokhorst, P.Eng., FEC; J. Turner, P.Ag. (ret); D. Wells, JD professions have self-regulating privileges. Self-regulation is the process whereby a profession monitors its members’ ASSOCIATION STAFF adherence to legal, ethical, or safety standards, rather than A.J. English, P.Eng. Chief Executive Officer and Registrar T.M.Y. Chong, P.Eng. Chief Regulatory Officer and Deputy Registrar have an outside, independent agency monitor and enforce J.Y. Sinclair Chief Operating Officer those standards. Professional self-regulation allows government M.L. Archibald Director, Communications and Stakeholder Engagement J. Cho, CGA Director, Finance and Administration

to control a profession’s practice and service without having D. Gamble Director, Information Systems Bob Stewart, to develop its own capacity and in-depth expertise in the P.R. Mitchell, P.Eng. Director, Professional Practice, Standards and Development P.Eng. D. Olychick Director, Member Services professions. Professions benefit, in that self-regulation allows G.M. Pichler, P.Eng. Director, Registration President them to actively participate in their own evolution and enables E. Swartz, LLB Director, Legislation, Ethics and Compliance them to set standards and control quality of service. V. Lai, CGA Associate Director, Finance and Administration M.A. Rigolo P.Eng., Associate Director, Engineering Admissions At APEGBC, we do this in many ways. We develop L. Steele, P.Geo., Associate Director, Professional Practice guidelines that set standards and expectations for professional Monique Keiran, Managing Editor practice. Volunteers, committees, and members of APEGBC have been working hard to produce a suite of new and revised APEGBC EDITORIAL BOARD J. Bracho, P.Eng.; E.A. Brown, P.Eng.; K.C. Chan, P.Eng., CPA; guidelines dealing with a wide range of fields of practice. S. Chiu, P.Eng.; T. George, P.Eng.; H. Ghalibafian, P.Eng. See Page 61 to read about two newly published professional G. Grill, P.Eng.; R. Gupta, P.Eng.; M.A. Klippenstein, P.Eng.; R. Ord, P.Eng.; A.M. Westin, GIT; M.J. Zieleman, EIT practice guidelines. Our quality management guidelines set standards of practice Advertising material must reach the publication by the first day of the first that apply to all practicing members. Although the standards month (e.g., May 1 for the May/June issue), or by the first business day president@ are widely applicable, APEGBC’s voluntary Organizational immediately preceding the first day of the first month. Advertising Contact: Gillian Cobban Tel: 604.929.6733 apeg.bc.ca Quality Management (OQM) Program is extending their reach Email: [email protected]

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Stick to Letters for Members Ed. Note: Innovation invited and Whistler when the majority of to Express Their Opinions Dr. Sultan, P.Eng., to submit the article in engineers live in the Lower Mainland? question because of his experience both I recommend that you consider It is not clear to me what as a B.C. legislator and a professional holding it in a low-cost venue in the the difference between a engineer and the resulting unique insight Lower Mainland every year, near a “Perspective” and a “Letter to the he could provide into how government rapid transit station and outside of Editor” other than the length—either views the engineering and geoscience downtown Vancouver. This way you way, it is one person’s opinion and professions and self-regulation in BC. can enter into a 10-year contract for should be put forward as such. An This is a subject members had inquired the venue and perhaps obtain much example is the “Perspective” by Ralph about in the previous months. At the reduced rates for out-of-town visitors. Sultan (January/February 2017). time, Dr. Sultan was the only APEGBC I can guess that you want to These thoughts are his opinion and member serving in the BC Legislature. give engineers throughout BC the should be given the same priority for opportunity to attend at low cost. So inclusion in Innovation as any other Conference Locations encourage car pooling or arrange for letter to the editor, and if possible Increase Greenhouse Gas a bus for the out-of-town attendees to placed in juxtaposition with letters Output reduce greenhouse gas emissions. that offer differing opinion. His I am a believer in the old adage: Regarding the recent article, position as an MLA should not give “Actions speak louder than words.” “Positioning APEGBC and Its him priority over others for inclusion. Members to Respond to Climate —Herbert Vesely, P.Eng. Why don’t you stick with the letters Change” (January/February 2017), Squamish to the editor concept—particularly I want to zero in on “Positioning regarding matters of opinion on the APEGBC.” direction of the profession? Why does our association keep —Keith Richardson, P.Eng. holding annual conferences in such North Vancouver, BC diverse places as Victoria, Kelowna,

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Members Excel in Building with Wood Wood WORKS! BC recognized a nomination for its unique number of APEGBC members at undulating roof structure that the 2017 Wood Design Awards achieves the clear spans required for leadership and innovation for pools and ensures long-term in structural wood use. There operational cost savings. were 114 nominations in 13 The Wood Innovation Award categories for the 2017 awards, for creative and innovative with nominations from across approaches in the use of wood BC, as well as some national and in building design, product international project submissions. design and processes went to Iain The projects showcase distinctive Weir-Jones, P.Eng., Weir-Jones and unique qualities of wood Group, for his work on Shoreline such as strength, beauty, by MGA in Vancouver. The versatility, and cost-effectiveness jury felt that the wood created in a wide range of projects and a a contemporary design with variety of wood uses. unique warmth and character to The panel of four judges stimulate and promote a healthy included APEGBC member Ed office and shop environment. Lim, P.Eng., of United Building Chris Jacques, P.Eng., Struct. Systems. Eng., Read Jones Christoffersen Fast + Epp received the Ltd., was recognized in the Engineer Award for Grandview Commercial Wood Design Heights Aquatic Centre. category for Tsawwassen Mills, The project was cited in the Tsawwassen.

Engineering Institute Recognizes APEGBC Members The Engineering Institute of Canada The institute also inducted Congratulations recently presented its 2017 K.Y. Lo APEGBC members Jens Medal for significant engineering Bornemann, P.Eng., Harvey Lawrence contributions at the international McLeod, P.Eng./P.Geo., Claire Weiler Smith Bowers Consulting level to APEGBC member Bryan Raska, P.Eng., John Wood, Structural Engineers are pleased Watts, P.Eng./P.Geo., of Klohn P.Eng., Rick Tiller, P.Eng., as to announce that Lawrence Chan, Crippen Berger Holdings, BC, Engineering Institute of Canada MIStructE, PE, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., is for the significant engineering Fellows in recognition of their now a Principal partner in the firm. contributions he has made at the exceptional contributions to international level. engineering in Canada. Lawrence has over 12 years of Structural Design and Project Management experience, and has been with WSB since 2011. He has extensive experience in Commercial, Healthcare, Institutional and Highrise Residential design. He is also involved with our company software J. Suzanne Powell, Ph.D., P.Eng. development. We are excited to announce the appointment of Suzanne Powell, Ph.D., .Eng. to the role of Victoria Office Branch Manager. Weiler Smith Bowers Consulting Suzanne received her undergraduate degree Structural Engineers in Geological Engineering in 2002 and her Ph.D. in Geotechnical 118-3855 Henning Drive,Burnaby,B.C. V5C 6N3 Engineering in 2010 from Queen’s University. Suzanne joined Thurber in 2009 as a Geotechnical Engineer and has focused T: 604-294-3753 | F: 604-294-3754 primarily on foundations and transportation infrastructure projects. E: [email protected] She is also passionate about advanced laboratory testing, soil wsb-eng.com properties and quality management.

i n n o v a t i o n M AY/JUNE 2017 7 news ACEC-BC Awards for Engineering Excellence

The Association of Consulting Engineering Companies – BC hosted its 28th Annual Awards for Engineering Excellence Gala, on April 8, 2017, to honour member firms’ innovation and technical excellence. Awards of Excellence and Merit were given in the following categories: Buildings; Municipal & Civil Infrastructure; Transportation & Bridges; Energy & Industry; Natural Resource & Habitat; and Soft Engineering. For a complete list of awards, visit acec-bc.ca/awards/2017-award-winners. Awards of Excellence BUILDINGS Lord Strathcona Elementary School Heritage Classroom Building Base Isolation Seismic Upgrade, Vancouver, BC Consultant: Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc.; Owner: The Board of Education of School District #39; Client: The Colborne Architectural Group Pacific Inc. This project also won the ACEC-BC Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Engineering Excellence.

MUNICIPAL & CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE Preserving Historic Cemetery through Trenchless Rehabilitation, Victoria, BC Consultant: AECOM Canada Ltd.; Owner/Client: City of Victoria

Port Mann Main Water Supply Tunnel, Coquitlam and Surrey, BC Consultant: Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc.; Owner/Client: Metro Vancouver

TRANSPORTATION Atal Setu – Basohli Bridge, Jammu and Kashmir, India Consultant: McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.; Owner: Border Roads Organization, Ministry of Defense, India; Client: IRCON/SP Singla Joint Venture

ENERGY & INDUSTRY Jimmie Creek Hydroelectric Project, Toba Valley, north of Powell River, BC Consultant: SNC-Lavalin; Owner: Alterra Power Corp and Axium Infrastructure; Client: Alterra Power Corp

NATURAL RESOURCE & HABITAT BC Hydro Rock Bay Remediation Project, Victoria, BC Consultant: SNC-Lavalin; Owner/Client: BC Hydro and Power Authority

SOFT ENGINEERING Millennium Line Evergreen Extension Operational Readiness Program, Burnaby, Coquitlam and Port Moody, BC Consultant: CH2M HILL Canada Limited; Owner/Client: TransLink/BC Rapid Transit Company

8 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n GROW YOUR CAREER WITH McELHANNEY

McElhanney’s Surrey and Vancouver ofﬁces are growing and we’re looking for skilled professionals to join our team in the following roles for long-term employment:

▪ Senior Water Resources and Hydrotechnical Engineers ▪ Senior Land Development Planner Input Sought from Mineral ▪ Senior Trafﬁc Engineer Exploration Workers The Mining Industry Human ▪ Municipal Project Managers and Engineers Resources Council invites members ▪ Senior Land Development Project Managers of Canada’s exploration sector to and Designers participate in a research survey to capture knowledge, experience and ▪ CAD Technicians insight regarding the sector. Civil Designers In consultation and collaboration ▪ with the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada and exploration As an employee-owned company with the resources to stakeholder groups, the council support our passion for our projects, new staff are always developed the Canadian Mineral Exploration Labour Market Survey encouraged to take the lead on their role and share their to help it identify human resources talents on a variety of projects. Our multidisciplinary staff and labour market issues facing the means we combine in-house disciplines to work as a team exploration sector and stimulate a on a variety of projects and deliver exceptional results. Our proactive approach to addressing employees value working here because of the opportunities related challenges. This research is for career development, excellent total compensation and intended to build on the findings beneﬁts package, and great team of professionals. from the 2011 report, Unearthing Possibilities: Human Resources Challenges and Opportunities in the Check out our careers page to learn more: Canadian Mineral Exploration Sector. www.mcelhanney.com/careers If you work in mineral exploration, or employ people who work in mineral exploration, please have your say at explorationsurvey2017.ca. In addition, the Association for Mineral Exploration and Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada request that geoscientists working in the mineral sector take part in the Canadian Mineral Exploration Health and Safety survey, which is currently underway. The survey can be found at explorationsurvey.ca/survey.aspx?RD=1. v

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Strategic Plan Sets Direction Updated Brand Reflects Member Input and Priorities Until 2020 Over the last few years, APEGBC has been working to develop a brand strategy for the association and the professions with the goal of increasing public The APEGBC Strategic Plan recognition and awareness of the value of BC engineers, geoscientists, 2017–2020 takes effect July 1. and licensees (page 8, March/April 2017). Council determined a framework Our updated brand will launch in late-August. Here, we share how you—our for the new plan during the last members—helped shape the updated brand, and how it reflects your input. year, drawing on engagement The renewal of our brand comprises these crucial elements: with members, government and • stronger, clearer representation of the association’s role as a regulator working other stakeholders to inform the direction and priorities for the in the public interest and of members’ commitment to the public’s safety and association’s work for the next wellbeing three years. • more accurate, modern representation of BC professional engineers, geoscientists, The goals and objectives and licensees (diverse and inclusive representation across fields of practice, age, set by the plan will determine gender and ethnicity) the priorities for APEGBC’s • stronger public representation of engineers, geoscientists, and licensees with programs and activities, and the values they most identify with—ethics, excellence and progress provide guidance for Council, • distinct, memorable and consistent visual elements that will identify the brand committees, branches, divisions, • stronger alignment of the association’s programs and its volunteer groups with task forces and staff. The plan a single brand focuses on APEGBC’s regulatory How Was the Brand Identity Developed? role and responsibilities under the Member and stakeholder input was essential to the development of an updated Engineers and Geoscientists Act, brand identity that would 1) more accurately represent the association and all while continuing APEGBC’s work its members across the span of their professional lives, from student to senior as a relevant, proactive, forward- professional, and 2) be more relatable and attractive to potential members. thinking regulator that serves the Research involved extensive consultation, including member interviews, focus public interest. groups and surveys, as well as public polling. We heard and learned that members want to be represented as diverse and 2017/2018 Budget Maintains inclusive, and they want to see a more progressive and modern face to the Current Membership Fees association. Our updated brand reflects these concepts. In our public polling, we learned that the public expects the characteristics of an effective regulator Council approved APEGBC’s to be reflected in our brand: integrity, accuracy, accountability, and public safety. 2017/2018 operating and capital Research showed that our current logo consistently underperformed in budget. The budget was prepared categories that members identified as being important (modern, progressive, in accordance with the Council- innovative.) approved 2017/2018 budget guidelines and reviewed by How Will the Brand Identify Reflect Member Feedback? Executive Committee prior to Based on what we learned through our consultation and testing, expect to being presented to Council at its see and hear a far more consistent, modern look and feel across all external April 28 meeting. communication and representation, including new colours and new fonts. The Increases in revenue forecasted association’s streamlined name and logo will increase public awareness and in the budget will be achieved recall. The programs and volunteer groups comprising the association will also mainly through membership align more strongly and seamlessly. growth. Membership fees will not We anticipate it may take some time to fully transition to the new increase this year. brand. While materials produced after the brand launch date will reflect This is Year 1 of the tentative the revised branding, a period when both old and updated branding co- three-year budget, also approved exist will occur as we update or replace old materials in the most logical and April 28, that aligns with the economical manner. association’s new strategic plan. Whether you’re a professional geoscientist, engineer or licensee, the new brand is for everyone and is an important step in shaping our future. Check for View the 2017/2018 and 2017–2020 updates and details as they become available in Innovation, our newsletter, and budgets at apeg.bc.ca/Responsible- Financial-Management. Learn member and stakeholder emails. Read our March/April 2017 branding update at more about APEGBC’s Strategic digitalityworks.com/Viewers/ViewIssue.aspx?IssueID=167&PageNo=8. Plan 2017–2020 at apeg.bc.ca/ Questions? Contact APEGBC Marketing Specialist Maria-Carmen Kelly at strategic-plan. [email protected] or 604.639.8179.

10 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n 2017/2018 Council Election Role of the Nominating Committee 2017/2018 Nominating Committee Candidates for Election to Council The Nominating Committee is charged with In accordance with APEGBC’s Bylaw 3, there are two ways by which a member or seeking and selecting a list of candidates for limited licensee may be nominated to stand for Council election: 1) by the Nominating election to Council that they believe best Committee, or 2) in writing by any 25 or more members and/or limited licensees in demonstrate the qualities needed for strong good standing. leadership of the association. Specifically, CANDIDATE DISCIPLINE BRANCH the committee sought candidates that have demonstrated skills in strategic thinking, Presidential Candidate organizational management, financial fluency, C.J. (Caroline) Andrewes, P.Eng. Metallurgical Vancouver governance and strategic planning, in addition to a minimum of five years of experience as Vice Presidential Candidates (one to be elected) a professional member or limited licensee. D.I. (David) Harvey, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., FEC Structural Richmond/Delta To fulfil its mandate, the committee sought K.V. (Katherina) Tarnai-Lokhorst, P.Eng., FEC Mechanical Victoria candidates through a series of Call for Nominations notices sent to the membership, Councillors (five to be elected) and committee members reached out to D.W. (Doug) Barry, P.Eng. Mechanical Peace River potential candidates in regions throughout the province of BC. P.J. (Paul) Hatton, P.Eng. Mechanical Tri-City Under Bylaw 3(b), candidates for the office C.J. (Catherine) Hickson, P.Geo., FGC Geology Burnaby/New Westminster of President must have served on Council for at L. (Lianna) Mah, P.Eng., FEC Civil Burnaby/New Westminster least two full years prior to taking office, and for the office of Vice President, must have served at R.K.N. (Nimal) Rajapakse, P.Eng. Civil Vancouver least one year on Council prior to taking office C.C. (Conor) Reynolds, P.Eng. Mechanical Vancouver in order to qualify as a Nominating Committee candidate. Previous experience on Council is A.E. (Albert) Sommerfeld, P.Eng. Civil Central Interior not required for write-in candidates. T.C. (Tim) Watson, P.Eng. Chemical Vancouver Nomination by 25 Members Members are reminded that nominations for President, Vice the nominee must be received by the Registrar at the association President and Councillors may also be made in writing by any office no later than 5:00 pm, Wednesday, June 28, 2017. A form 25 or more members or limited licensees in good standing. Such for nomination by 25 members is available online at apeg.bc.ca/ nominations, signed by the members and/or limited licensees About-Us/Our-Team/Council/Council-Election-2017-2018 or by making the nomination accompanied by the written consent of contacting Tracy Richards at [email protected] or 604.412.6055.

2017 Nominating Committee Michael Wrinch, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.), Past President, Chair Branch Appointees Council Appointees Iqbal Bhuiyan, P.Eng. – Vancouver Branch Stella Chiu, P.Eng. – Tri-City Branch Emily Cheung, P.Eng., FEC Heqing (Albert) Jian, P.Eng. – Fraser Valley Branch John Clague, P.Geo., FGC, FEC (Hon.) Piotr Mazur, P.Eng. – Sea to Sky Branch Frank Denton, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) Malcolm Metcalfe, P.Eng. – Okanagan Branch Nathan Ozog, P.Eng. Larry Neufeld, P.Eng. – Peace River Branch Timothy Smith, P.Geo., Eng.L., FGC, FEC (Hon.) Lee Rowley, P.Eng. – Vancouver Island Branch John Stephens, P.Eng. – West Kootenay Branch

Important Dates Wednesday, June 28, 2017 Friday, July 14, 2017 Friday, September 8, 2017 Friday, October 6, 2017 Nominations by 25 members must Nominees’ Statements of Candidacy Election package and ballots will All ballots must be be received at the association office must be received at the association be available online to all members submitted and by 5:00 pm. office by 5:00 pm. by this date. Paper ballots available received by noon. upon request. Voting closes at noon, Friday, October 6, 2017

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Annual Conference and AGM to Take Place in Whistler, BC, October 19–21 Join us and some 900 of your colleagues at We encourage all members to APEGBC’s Annual Conference and Annual attend APEGBC’s 98th AGM, from General Meeting, October 19–21, 2017, in 8:30 am–12:30 pm on October 21, 2017. Whistler, BC. This year’s event will be held There is no charge to attend the AGM at the Whistler Conference Centre and will business portions of the conference. For include two days of professional development, conference information and to register networking and an industry tradeshow. online, visit apeg.bc.ca/ac17. Professional development streams Sponsorship opportunities are include engineering and geoscience in the available, with benefits to meet businesses’ resource sector, municipal engineering, needs, including recognition onsite or environmental engineering and geoscience, online, at events, and on promotional emerging professional, management, materials. For information on available structural, better business, energy sponsorship opportunities, contact APEGBC efficiency and renewable energy, diversity, Marketing Specialist Maria-Carmen Kelly, and climate change. [email protected].

The Canadian Safety and Security Program – Post-Disaster Damage and Safety Assessment of the Built Environment is the first such project in Canada. Although developed in BC, the assessment system will be scalable and apply to rural and urban communities of all sizes throughout Canada. Damage assessment gauges the type, quantity, cause and sometimes cost of damage to a building and can include an evaluation of the repairs needed. Safety assessment determines whether the building can be occupied and used immediately and, in some cases, identifies short-term countermeasures to reduce risk in order for the building to be occupied. APEGBC to Help Develop Tools to Increase The goal of the two-year, multi-agency research project is to develop tools, models, processes and approaches to empower Post-Disaster Community Resilience community-level professional and public engagement in A major earthquake, flood, wildfire or tsunami could cripple BC emergency planning and safety assessment. Specifically, the communities and leave thousands of residents homeless, with many research team will develop a model that allows, enables and buildings and residences no longer safe to occupy or even enter. supports credentialed and non-credentialed members of the APEGBC is partnering with BC Housing, the Architectural public to assess safety in an emergency situation. Such a model Institute of British Columbia and the Justice Institute of British would reduce the social impact of disruptive events, allowing Columbia to design a framework that will enable communities communities to recover more quickly and reducing impact on emergency and social services. to manage and recover more quickly from major disasters. The Defence Research and Development Canada is funding the framework will allow communities experiencing a disruptive post-disaster damage and safety assessment project. emergency to quickly assess the safety of structures and allow people to remain in or return to their homes and businesses as For information, contact Peter Mitchell, APEGBC Director, soon as possible, thereby increasing the communities’ resilience. Professional Practice, at [email protected] or 604.412.4853.

APEGBC to Prepare Post-Earthquake Building Evaluation Training APEGBC will be developing a training “By equipping a pool of qualified and those identified as post-earthquake program for post-earthquake building professionals with the necessary tools and administrators. The goal of the project is evaluation with a portion of the funding techniques to perform these assessments, we to create a professional community with for emergency preparedness announced will be better able to respond to the needs of the specialized skills to provide post- by the BC government in March. the community in an emergency situation.” earthquake structural assessments and aid “This training program will combine The training program will be based on in the immediate response and recovery the latest research with engineering the methodology employed in APEGBC’s efforts of all levels of government. expertise to provide a way to rapidly and award-winning Seismic Retrofit Guidelines, effectively evaluate the safety of buildings 2nd edition (SRG2), and will be delivered For information, contact Peter Mitchell, following a seismic event,” says APEGBC for qualified professionals, such as APEGBC Director, Professional Practice, CEO and Registrar Ann English, P.Eng. engineers, architects, building inspectors, at [email protected] or 604.412.4853.

12 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n Task Force Recommends Corporate Regulation In Canada, jurisdictions regulating engineering • public sector organizations that carry out the and geoscience have regulatory oversight over “practice of professional engineering or geoscience” the practice of both individual practitioners as for internal or external purposes. well as companies engaged in this work—with The task force recommended that unincorporated the exception of British Columbia and Quebec. sole practitioners not be subject to corporate regulation. In 2014, APEGBC Council initiated a review of The task force’s report provides its full the organizational practice of engineering and recommendation, along with its supporting rationale. geoscience and the concept of corporate regulation. It also recommends additional review in order to The review was led by an advisory task force of determine whether other types of organizations are members. At Council’s April 28, 2017, meeting, the already sufficiently covered under other regulatory task force submitted its recommendations on the mechanisms or standards to ensure public interest matter of corporate regulation. is protected—including those that design and In this first phase of a potential three-phase of manufacture custom-design engineered products, review of corporate practice, the Advisory Task structures, software, processes or facilities; those Force on Corporate Practice was asked to guide that design, build and manufacture (off-the-shelf) consultation and consider member and stakeholder engineered products whose quality and safety are feedback in order to advise Council on 1) whether regulated through other existing standards and APEGBC should pursue regulatory authority over requirements, and; those carrying out research corporate practice as a means to improve public and development. The task force also recommends protection, and 2) and which entities, if any, should further review related to federal government agencies be subject to APEGBC’s regulatory oversight. The operating in BC. The full recommendations report is task force’s work was carried over a period of 14 available at apeg.bc.ca/corporatepractice. months, and updates and engagement opportunities Council received the task force report and voiced have been provided throughout. broad support for its recommendations. At its April 28 Over the course of consultation, the task force meeting, Council approved the motions: released a discussion paper for member and • that APEGBC seek regulatory authority over corporate stakeholder feedback in order to inform its review practice process. A summary report of that feedback has been • that a corporate regulatory model be developed which published, and both the consultation summary report demonstrates positive impacts to protect the public and discussion paper are available on the APEGBC interest and the environment, and provides benefit website at apeg.bc.ca/corporatepractice. to the regulated organizations and professionals they On the basis of consultation and deliberations, employ the task force reached consensus to support a • that the corporate regulatory model be scaled according recommendation that APEGBC pursue regulatory to the size and nature of the organization and be authority over corporate practice. The task force administratively efficient identified three main reasons for this conclusion: Council directed that staff work with the advisory task that corporate regulation could force to review the task force terms of reference as the first 1) enhance protection of the public interest and step in proceeding with the review’s second phase, which the environment by improving the practice of would include recommending a regulatory model for engineering and geoscience, 2) increase government corporate oversight. and public confidence in the self-regulatory Council expressed support for a deeper explora- system administered by APEGBC on behalf of the tion of regulatory coverage for corporate practice professions, and 3) provide value to organizations as identified by the task force, which would include and the professionals they employ. more detailed review of organization types proposed Regarding regulatory coverage, the task force for regulatory oversight and those requiring fur- recommended the following types of organizations be ther investigation. This review would precede the included in corporate regulation: task force recommendation of a regulatory model • consulting firms providing professional engineering for corporate practice. Pending Council approval, or geoscience services (including incorporated sole a third phase would involve developing a plan for practitioners) implementation. An amendment to the Engineers • engineering and geoscience testing and assessment and Geoscientists Act by government would also be companies needed to enable corporate regulation. • private sector organizations that carry out the For more information on this three-stage review of “practice of professional engineering or geoscience” potential regulation of engineering and geoscience for internal or external purposes firms in BC, visit apeg.bc.ca/corporatepractice.

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APEGBC’s Council of elected members Three-Year Budget Approved AGM Motions Addressed and government representatives meets Council approved the operating and Council addressed motions brought throughout the year to conduct the capital budget for the 2017/2018 fiscal forward at the 2016 AGM: business of association governance. year, and the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 Motion 1: That Council consider developing More information about Council pro forma budget. This year’s budget sees no a proactive guideline that will require all meetings can be viewed at apeg.b.c.ca/ increase to members’ annual licensing fee. members to take into consideration options Council-Schedule-Minutes. Under the Council-approved budget to achieve net zero emissions in their guidelines, the proposed three-year budget professional practice. APRIL 28, 2017 was to include no more than a two percent Based on input from the Climate Expedited Review of Engineers-in-Training, ($7.60) membership-fee increase. However, Change Advisory Group, Council Accredited MIT Pilot Program Extended with membership increases holding confirmed that the current work being Council approved extending the steady, this would affect the association’s carried out under the direction of this Accredited Employer Member-in- ability to fund for inflationary increases group should continue as it meets the Training Pilot Program by a year in order to operational expenses and initiatives intent of the above AGM motion. to better assess its effectiveness, as well key to the strategic plan. In light of this, Motion 2: That Council consider as updated a policy to enable expedited efficiencies and savings were found within reporting the results of membership review of graduates of the association’s the base budget, totalling $449K in Year 1, voting by branch, which then would be Accredited Employer MIT Program $397K in Year 2, and $321K in Year 3. aggregated to the total returns. and Enhanced Member-in-Training Recommendations on Regulation of On the recommendation of the Program—considered to be applicants Companies Approved Governance Committee, Council approved with low-risk profile due to advanced A review of the issue of corporate practice publishing voter turnout by branch preparation and guidance in completion and regulation in BC has been underway periodically during the election period as a of their competency-based assessments. since early 2016. Council received the pilot for the 2017/2018 election. Motion 3: That, in the interest of P.Tech. to Eng.L. Bridging Strategy report of the Advisory Task Force on improved openness and transparency Approved Corporate Practice and approved the with the membership and the public, Council approved a strategy for following motions: • that APEGBC seek regulatory authority Council consider implementing a policy bridging from the Applied Science of publishing, both in Innovation and over corporate practice, Technologists and Technicians British by broadcasting to the membership by • Columbia’s Professional Technologist that a corporate regulatory model be email, any received written request (P.Tech.) to the APEGBC Engineering developed which demonstrates positive signed by 25 members at the earliest Licensee (Eng.L.) designations. The impacts to protect the public interest and possible opportunity. P.Tech. competency assessment will the environment, and provides benefit not be taken into account for Eng.L. to the regulated organizations and Council’s Executive committee determined that significant legal risk as applicants, and specifies that Eng.L. professionals they employ, well as operational cost to APEGBC exist applicants should complete an APEGBC • that the corporate regulatory model be should Council implement a policy that competency-based assessment that scaled according to the size and nature of requires publication of all 25-member addresses their competence to practise the organization and be administratively petitions received regardless as to their in the proposed limited scope. efficientsee ( Page 13). appropriateness or validity. Council approved a motion to endeavour to DRAFTING | DESIGNING | DETAILING | ESTIMATION publish as many petitions as possible, but retain the ability to exercise discretion Services Offered Worked with in determination of whether to publicize n Vessel & heat exchanger designing / detailing n Piping fabricators 25-member petitions. n Pipe spooling and cut sheets n Module yards Council Meeting Guest Policy Approved n Conversion of sketch to CAD and 2D to 3D n Platework, vessel and With information from Canadian n Estimation - material take off, dia-inch count exchanger fabricators engineering and geoscience regulatory n BOM creation n Custom fabricators and counterparts on how they deal with n Manpower supply at client site manufacturers requests by guests to address a Council meeting, Council approved a policy that allows reasonable requests to address Tele: 780.468.0950 Email: [email protected] Council, specifies a time limit, and denies Fax: 780.468.6481 www.aptechts.com requests that are in contravention of existing Council policy on investigation and discipline matters. v

14 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n features Effective Communication A Critical Requirement in Every Successful Project

Project Yellowhammer involved about 2.4 million cubic metres of excavation and 1.4 million cubic metres of fill placement, with up to 50,000 cubic metres of material moved each day. Michael Yuan, P.Eng.

On a blazing August day in 2015, near a small town in In a construction project, effective northern Alabama, a massive site-grading construction communication is a two-way process of conveying project kicked off and would continue for the 200 days. information so that all parties understand the big Welcome to Project Yellowhammer (PYH). picture, know the daily objectives and details, and The project involved rough grading of a 200-acre are aware of expectations and requirements—it site—roughly 150 American football fields—to design puts all parties on the same page. If a project grades to provide a relatively flat plateau for future were a puzzle with many complicated pieces, development. The project consisted of clearing and effective communication would be the board on grubbing vegetation, stripping topsoil, construction which the puzzle is built. It underlies every aspect of access roads and both permanent and temporary of a project, and makes the project’s successful sediment-detention basins, excavation and fill completion possible. placement, and creating positive drainage. Effective communication doesn’t just happen. The earthworks required about 2.4 million cubic Studies show that about half of all project failures metres of excavation and 1.4 million cubic metres are due to poor communication, and it can occur of fill placement, with up to 50,000 cubic metres of at any level along the chain of command. The material moved each day. consequences of poor communication can result Effective communication was integral to every in delays, lead to non-compliance in finished component of every task, every day. construction, and cause significant financial losses.

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Not only is effective communication integral Establishing a Daily Communication Practice and necessary for a project’s success, it can also Every morning, the engineering field crew lead help protect employees and field crews. and the earthworks contractor field superintendent For Project Yellowhammer, effective discussed the day’s activities, objectives and targets, communication required asking the right as well as directions from project upper management. questions, talking to the right people, raising They also met throughout the day to talk over valid concerns, and offering acceptable solutions. modifications to haul roads, changes in traffic It was an indispensable requirement in the field patterns, areas to be excavated, areas to be filled and in the office, and was integrated into every and compacted, and sediment- and erosion-control component of the project, and led to the project’s structures to be built. They reviewed directions successful completion. from upper management and broke the directives down into well-defined tasks that could be easily When working on a project, everyone working understood by field staff. on the project is responsible for communicating Thoughts and opinions were exchanged frequently effectively—regardless of position, title or pay so that the two supervisors remained on the same page grade. It is a key interpersonal skill that permits and shared a common understanding of plans, targets, smooth progression of a project. With the amount design, modifications, sequence, and schedule. of terrain Project Yellowhammer covered, the These discussions and what they meant for level and number of people influencing and the engineering crew were shared with the crew. making decisions, and the project’s financial and Depending on the day’s construction footprint, the schedule constraints, every stakeholder had to be crew would work individually or in small groups able to receive and understand messages, as well across the site. A health and safety mindset and as be able to communicate clearly and specifically protocol remained the priority on this enormous, to others. equipment-filled site.

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16 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n With the extent of the terrain, the number of people influencing and making decisions, and the project’s financial and schedule constraints, effective communication was critical to Project Yellowhammer’s success and safe execution.

The engineering field crew performed working together closely—differences in opinion and construction field reviews for subgrade excavation, expectations arose at times. A good team lead knows fill placement, cut and fill slopes, and sediment- when to defer comment or negate messages for the and erosion-control structures. Deficiencies, non- benefit of the team and the project, and boosts team compliances and any other issues were reported moral through example, attitude and encouragement. to and discussed with the engineering field crew And a good team lead carefully assesses and selects lead right away. He, in turn, immediately discussed what information to pass on. Sometimes what needed the issues with the construction earthworks to be heard is all one needs to hear. superintendent to find solutions. Occasional negative exchanges occurred between Communicating in a Quickly Changing workers of different parties and even sometimes within Environment a party. Personnel at different life stages and from Taking a load of dirt from one place and dumping diverse backgrounds, experiences and beliefs were it at another is a fairly straightforward task, but

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taking the instructions and decisions from upper management and translating them into specific directions for field crew requires a different strategy. A short tailgate meeting with the construction crew each morning informed the 100-person crew of the day’s program and everyone’s tasks. Instructions were broken down into basic terms to avoid ambiguity. The field superintendent had to make quick decisions when someone called in sick or didn’t show up. He had to decide quickly who would take over a piece of equipment, or revise the day’s operations to accommodate less equipment. The field superintendent shared his directions with his operators and drivers with concise and slang-filled phrases through a handheld radio. His competence, experience and performance directly and daily affected the process, quality and rate of construction. Heavy rains and wet site conditions led to solutions that included risk. Quick thinking and reporting led Speaking Up for Safety to revised safety protocols. In late-2015, the central–east US was hit by a series of storms that brought lighting and heavy rain to northern Alabama during the latter half of Project

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Managing Global Engineering, Geotechnical and Construction Risks

Benjamin Kent, Rob Selnes, Angus Smith

With greater global development, Strict Liability skill and care, civil law often mandates engineering, geotechnical and construction Historically, engineering, geotechnical and some form of strict liability, under which firms are benefiting from increased work construction firms have relied on “global” the firm is responsible for damage and loss in Canada and around the globe. In coverage wording in their professional caused by acts and omissions regardless of China, India, Turkey, Russia, Brazil, the liability policies to manage international culpability. Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere, risks. But as they have expanded, many One form of strict construction liability engineering, geotechnical and construction firms have come to recognize that, without under civil law is decennial liability, firms seek to capitalize on opportunities addressing local and country-specific under which an engineering, geotechnical from strong economic growth, growing insurance requirements, coverage could be or construction firm is liable for post- populations, urbanization, greater insufficient and—in some cases—null and construction defects—also referred to as infrastructure demands, and the increasing void. This is particularly important as local inherent or latent defects. Used in many former colonies of France, Portugal and use of alternative forms of project delivery regulators increasingly require proof of insurance, a trend we expect to continue in Spain, decennial liability—which suggests a and funding, including public–private 2017 and beyond. term of 10 years but can last much longer— partnerships. For global engineering, geotechnical usually attaches at the point of substantial Such global expansion holds great and construction firms, it is important to completion or handover to the owner, promise for these firms to increase their recognize the difference between common although some variations by country and revenues after years of lackluster growth. law and civil law, which is used in many code exist. But compliance with a broad set of markets outside of Canada. Common Australia has imposed an even higher diverse and often contradictory laws and law relies on case law to settle disputes standard of care on design professionals. regulations around the world can be a related to engineering, geotechnical and Under the 1974 Trade Practices Act (TPA) significant challenge. It is imperative that construction services; civil law relies on and 2010 Competition and Consumer engineering, geotechnical and construction prescribed written code and binding Protection Act (CCPA), consumers can sue firms and their risk managers be aware of rules and regulations. While common service providers for practices they deem the risks inherent in operating globally and law attaches liability to failure to perform to be misleading or deceptive, regardless be familiar with the solutions available to professional services in accordance with of intent of the firm performing the mitigate those risks. generally accepted standards of professional services. It is very rare for an engineering,

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MINING GENOMICS FOR SOLUTIONS BC Projects Harness Gene-Mapping Technologies to Overcome Mining Challenges Kylie Williams

When the human genome was sequenced waters, extract metals from low grade ore, and computer science to solve problems. 17 years ago, few people in the mining guide rehabilitation programs, and help That is the unanimous message and exploration industry could have find new orebodies. coming from workers at mine sites suspected that, less than two decades later, Genomics, the branch of molecular participating in pilot projects and from the same technologies would be used to biology concerned with the structure, the researchers guiding them. improve existing processes and develop function, evolution, and mapping of Living things are part of every aspect new ways to clean up mine-affected genomes, combines biology, genetics, of exploration and mining. They comprise

2 0 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n Genomics tools help researchers in pioneering mine projects to identify which microbe species help and which microbe species hinder removal of metals and sulphates from mine tailings water and affected sites. Photos: (above) courtesy of Dr. S. Baldwin, P.Eng.; (top left) bacterial biofilm on sand, Lewis Lab at Northeastern University; created by Anthony D'Onofrio, William H. Fowle, Eric J. Stewart, Kim Lewis cc by 2.0; (bottom left) bacteria isolated from poplar tree root system, US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

everything from the bacteria and economic benefits and productivity to funding genomics research and microorganisms in the rocks and water gains this provides. expanding its applications. “It’s not that to the plants and animals essential to “Genomics really is a problem- we have a hammer and are looking mine site rehabilitation. Genomics solving tool,” says Dr. Anikó Takács- for a nail. There are a lot of issues out helps mining practitioners to see Cox, mining, energy and environment there that we need answers to because how these organisms interact with sector manager at Genome BC, one we never had the technologies or their environments and to realize the of six groups across Canada devoted opportunity to go into it.”

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Microorganisms, for example, “Human genomics was the biggest and underground copper–gold mine have been used to extract metal from sector three or four years ago, but in south–central British Columbia piles of low-grade ore for several now it’s less” says Genome BC’s in 2013. Like many BC mines, decades. It was crudely understood Chief Scientific Officer and VP of Mount Polley faced the issue of how that microbes remove the copper Sector Development Dr. Catalina to remove metals and sulphates or gold from ore, but little was Lopez-Correa. “The mining, from tailings pond water before the known about the details of ‘who’ or agri-food, and forestry sectors company could get permits to release ‘how.’ By applying genomics to the adopted genomics a little later but, it back into the environment. problem, the right questions are since there are fewer barriers in Together with her PhD student now being asked: Who are these terms of regulation, ethics, and at the time, Dr. Baldwin tested microbes? What should they be fed approvals compared to human bench-scale bioreactors in the UBC to encourage them to dissolve metals genetics, the uptake from end users laboratory to show how a passive more efficiently? What is the ideal and commercial applications are system could be set up and operated temperature, acidity, wetness, and developing much faster.” to remove sulphate and selenium rock size to optimize metal recovery? Foresters, for example, use genetic from tailings water. A pilot-scale “It’s like making beer. If you don’t marker–assisted breeding to select the water treatment facility was built at know how to make beer, you can best seedlings for strong, tall, climate- the mine. throw in yeast, you can put in water, adapted plots. Accurate genomics tools “This type of treatment system but you’re never going to make beer help the dairy industry breed healthy, uses natural biogeochemical out of it,” Takács-Cox says. productive cows. processes to remove metals and Cheaper, Faster, Better Mining is also benefitting from sulphates from the tailings pond Genomics uses DNA-sequencing genomics. water,” she says. “We used genomics to show that the lab and pilot reactors technology to decode the genetic Cleaning the Water in Mine information contained in an were hosting the right kinds of organism’s DNA. For a soil or water Tailings Ponds microorganisms for this application.” sample, the results show what Dr. Susan Baldwin, P.Eng., has been Bioremediation employs microbes microorganisms are present and, by working with mining companies to convert the sulphates back into looking at the RNA, proteins, and on passive bioremediation of mine sulphides and precipitate the metals metabolites they produce, what the waters at sites across western Canada out of the water. Fortunately, many microbes might be up to. for almost a decade. of these active sulphate-reducing The costs and barriers to using “Back in the day, they just put bacteria are found naturally in lakes genomics technology across a range the metals into a wetland and hoped and wetlands. of industries are falling. Most of the for the best,” says the University of “If you poke at the sediments genomic techniques used today were British Columbia (UBC) Chemical at the bottom, you can see developed in the field of human health and Biological Engineering professor. little bubbles come up and more than a decade ago. Since 2001, “Nowadays, there’s a huge amount of sometimes get a nasty smell,” the cost of sequencing an organism’s science and engineering behind it.” Dr. Baldwin says. “That’s hydrogen genome has fallen from almost Dr. Baldwin started working at sulphide. These are the most $10,000 per sample to less than $1. Imperial Metal’s Mount Polley open-pit useful microorganisms for metal

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2 2 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n With genomics technology costs falling, engineers and researchers at Imperial Metal’s Mount Polley mine (Top; Dr. S. Baldwin, P.Eng.) and New Gold’s New Afton mine (Bottom; New Gold) are investigating how they can harness genetics to monitor environmental health, remediate tailings water, and reclaim mine sites.

sequestration. They generate the Measuring ‘Greenness’ at sulphide that combines with the metal New Afton ions to form insoluble metal sulphides.” This use of genomics as a diagnostic However, wetlands and bioreactors tool for monitoring ecosystem health led may contain undesirable microorganisms, mining company New Gold to set up the too. These include Thiobacillus, a sulphur- first DNA-based mine-site rehabilitation oxidizing bacteria that oxidizes sulphur program in Canada at its New Afton back to sulphate, releasing rather than copper–gold mine, near Kamloops, BC. capturing the metal ions. This is where genomics becomes a diagnostic tool, The project began when New Gold’s Baldwin says. Director of Health Safety Environment “We take sediment samples and extract and Social Responsibility Dennis the DNA. We sequence the DNA for in general and in the areas affected by Wilson heard about DNA barcoding, particular marker genes that tells us what the Mount Polley breach, genomics a pioneering genomics application microorganism species are present and can help researchers identify changes developed at the University of Guelph what functional genes are present. This in affected ecosystems at the microbial by Dr. Paul Hebert, director of the tells us what they’re doing, whether it’s level, improve tools for monitoring Centre for Biodiversity Genomics. sulphate reduction, sulphur oxidation, or bioremediation using microbes, develop DNA barcoding takes short, denitrification.” molecular markers to monitor metals distinctive snippets of DNA from The water being passively treated removal and soil rehabilitation, and organisms around the world, stores at Mount Polley, however, was so low conduct controlled trials using microbes them in a digital library, and matches in dissolved metals that the sulphate- to remediate affected ecosystems. them against unknown samples to reducing bacteria did not have enough metal to eat, says Imperial Metals’ Chief Scientific Officer Dr. ’Lyn Anglin, P. Geo. “The mine is presently initiating new YOU’RE building research into passive water treatment approaches. We expect that these studies THE FUTURE. will involve more genomics research.” We’re here to help. Since the tailings storage breach at the mine in August 2014, Dr. Baldwin has partnered with Thompson Rivers PROTECTING University Professor Dr. Lauchlan Fraser INNOVATION to identify and observe how the plants and microorganisms in the affected watershed are responding to the spilled tailings. Study plots have been established to test a variety of soil amendments for remediation and the microorganisms active in the sediments. “It’s usually when things go wrong patentable.com in the environment that you want to Oyen Wiggs Green & Mutala LLP know why. That’s where genomics INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWYERS comes in,” says Dr. Baldwin. She says,

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A New Afton mine project uses genomics to measure insect-species richness and diversity before and after site rehabilitation. Photo: New Gold

quickly and easily identify 2016, the International Barcode Wilson saw how this them—in much the same way of Life (IBOL) library contained technology could provide universal product codes are used five million snippets of DNA measurable performance to identify items at a supermarket from 550,000 species of plants, indicators for reclaimed mine checkout counter. As of June animals, and some microbes. sites and joined forces with Hebert and Fraser to design a genomics-driven monitoring project at New Afton. New Gold Manager Focusing on your construction needs in BC, for Environment, Social across Canada and everywhere else you Responsibility and Tailings Scott do business. Davidson, P. Geo., drives the project onsite. He says, “What we saw with genomics was an John S. Haythorne P.Eng opportunity to understand species D +1 604 691 6456 [email protected] richness and biodiversity at the insect level, before and after rehabilitation.” Dentons. Now the world’s Insects and spiders were largest global elite law irm.* collected in low-maintenance malaise traps—small, tent-like structures with collection bottles attached—at a range of previously disturbed, rehabilitated, and dentons.com/en/construction_canada control grassland and wetland © 2016 Dentons. Dentons is a global legal practice providing client services worldwide through its member firms and sites around the mine. These ailiates. Please see dentons.com for Legal Notices. arthropods are abundant and *Acritas Global Elite Law Firm Brand Index 2013−2016. play important roles as plant pollinators, nutrient recyclers, scavengers, and food for larger

2 4 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n animals. As such, they serve as good “Genomics is an evolving know what they’re doing. It’s early indicators of ecosystem health. field,” says Baldwin. “There days—advances are happening at The bug soup collected in are so many microorganisms an astronomic pace.” v the traps was sent to the Hebert in the environment that we at the University of Guelph for know nothing about, we don’t high-throughput next-generation know how to culture, we don’t sequencing to identify the species present at each site. More than 50,000 specimens were collected, and more than 4,000 species were identified—mostly flies, bees, ants, and wasps. These numbers are normal for a healthy grassland environment. The project also identified several new species of spider previously unrecorded in BC. “For us, there’s no regulatory driver to do the genomics,” Davidson says. “We just see it as Smart. Choice.Choice. a tool by which we can get the For 40 years, Nilex’s engineered, right information to guide our technically advanced geosynthetic management practices.” solutions have been the trusted Scaling Up choice of owners, consultants and Pioneering projects like those contractors for their incomparable at Mount Polley, New Afton, quality, durability and performance. and a handful of others around the province are outliers. Researchers and organizations From grade separation to subgrade like Genome BC are hoping stabilization, erosion control to other companies embrace stormwater management, we genomics as a diagnostic tool deliver alternatives to conventional and help build the datasets construction methods, saving time required to make the results and money while easing use of applicable to a range of issues in non-renewable resources. and around mines.

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The 2016 | 2017 Project Highlights showcase recent Project Highlights engineering and geoscience work by APEGBC members in BC and elsewhere. Innovation and the APEGBC Editorial Board thank all who submitted project photographs and descriptions. High bluff overlooking Trans-Canada Highway stabilized As part of BC Ministry of Transportation slopes at a high rock bluff. The instability and Infrastructure’s progressive upgrade led to a tailored rock-bolting solution. and expansion of the Trans-Canada Significant unstable rock masses on the Highway, Tetra Tech Canada served as slope required trim blasting and rock fall the geotechnical engineers of record at protection by means of netting and a Hoffman’s Bluff, near Chase, BC. Following catch fence. Challenging soil conditions, investigation and an optimized design that combined with water springs, were also includes retaining structures, catchment found and remediated through innovative ditches, and rock and soil cut slopes, construction techniques. construction began in 2014. The expanded highway was opened in late- A key challenge was the identified kinematic December 2016. planar instability of the planned rock cut

Iconic New York City building draws on bridge-construction expertise The World Trade Center Transportation Hub, known as the Oculus, is the new transportation hub at the tip of Manhattan Island, in New York City, and serves more than 200,000 commuters daily. The structure’s design is inspired by a pair of hands releasing a white dove, which made it extremely complicated to build. The design pushed architectural and structural limits, and required innovative erection engineering for its successful construction. Buckland and Taylor International, Inc. (an affiliate of COWI North America, Inc.) was selected as the Erection Engineer. Buckland and Taylor’s engineers erected the structure’s arches segment by segment, using the free cantilever segmental construction method commonly applied in bridge erection. The method saved time and money by reducing the amount of falsework needed, and allowed the geometry of the structure to be monitored and adjusted throughout construction. APEGBC members: Dr. Tobias Petschke, P.Eng., Darryl Matson, P.Eng., Nedim Alca, P.Eng., Tom Surtees, P.Eng.

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Extradose bridge spans India’s Ganges River A new, four-kilometre-long, four-lane- wide single-cell precast concrete box highway bridge over the Ganges girder with a plane of stay cables River, near Patna in Bihar, India, is and pylons down the median erected being procured through a design– through balanced cantilevering. build contract. It includes the longest Extreme scour depths, high seismicity, extradosed spans in the country, fast water currents, and exceptionally combining structural elements of both large water-level variations make site a pre-stressed box-girder bridge and a conditions challenging. In addition, cable-stayed bridge. the construction means and methods McElhanney is the prime consultant needed to address monsoon-season for the value-engineered extradosed fluctuations in river levels and segmental concept. This includes extreme rains. Completion is expected 16 back-to-back 120-metre-long in mid-2017. spans that reduced construction APEGBC members: David Jeakle, P.Eng., duration and material consumption Raj Singh, P.Eng., Morgan Trowland, for the 1,920-metre navigation spans P.Eng., Chad Amiel, P.Eng., Gurpreet portion of the bridge. The extradosed Sohal, P.Eng., Vikram Verma, P.Eng., superstructure consists of a 20.5-metre- Brook Robazza, EIT

Bridge-demolition process minimizes environmental impacts The 70-year-old Keith Road Bridge Demolition then continued over dry land in the District of North Vancouver where the bridge was dismantled and was replaced to improve east–west shipped off-site for disposal. connectivity across the municipality, Hatch Corporation and Mott Macdonald ease traffic congestion, and support (civil and structural), Thurber Engineering future highway improvements. (geotechnical), DMD & Associates The project team planned and executed (electrical), Northwest Hydraulics the demolition of the existing lead- Consultants (hydrotechnical), B&B Heavy Civil Construction (general painted bridge to limit work above contractor), Reinforced Earth Company Lynn Creek, a fish-bearing stream. Ltd. (mechanically stabilized earth walls), The entire 490-tonne steel truss was Construction Drilling Inc. (pile driving), jacked up in one piece three metres Davies Geotechnical Inc., All-Span above the original bearing elevations, Engineering and Consultants (temporary moved laterally on sliding beams to the works, erection and demolition). new adjacent bridge structure, lowered (Photo: Hatch Corporation) onto hydraulic dollies, and towed away.

Suspension bridge provides pedestrian and utility access across Columbia River The Columbia River Skywalk, a Comprehensive analysis of the 225-metre, clear-span suspension bridge structure during all phases bridge, allows both pedestrians and of the erection needed to be utilities (water and sewer) to cross performed to ensure that the the Columbia River at Trail, BC. structure was not overloaded at any All-Span Engineering designed and stage during construction. prepared a comprehensive erection APEGBC members, COWI (bridge plan for the bridge’s installation designer): Nedim Alca, P.Eng., and erection. Elements included Julie Gubbins, P.Eng.; All-Span a 225-metre highline and work Engineering & Construction Ltd. platform for the installation of the (erection engineer): Barry Gerbracht, suspension elements and deck P.Eng.; Graham Infrastructure LP structure, along with all cable pulling (contractor) and stressing equipment.

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Condition of overpass inspected within arm’s-length distance The seven-year-old Coast Meridian of specialized in-house bridge Overpass is a six-span, 580-metre, inspectors who included both cable-stayed bridge over the Canadian qualified rope access technicians Pacific railyard in Port Coquitlam. and professional engineers, the The landmark serves as a critical inspection was completed within connection along TransLink’s regional arm’s-length distance. major roads network. To optimize The use of rope climbers and the bridge’s long-term performance, efficient traffic management plans Stantec completed a detailed condition reduced public inconvenience inspection and multi-year maintenance typically caused when roadways program for the overpass. are closed for traditional bridge The inspection’s purpose was to inspection. verify the condition of the overpass’s APEGBC members, Stantec: structural components and identify Mekdam Nima, P.Eng., Kip Skabar, P.Eng., defects that could affect public safety Niall Eivers, EIT, Frances Wee, EIT, and bridge performance. With the help Yuki Kishimoto, EIT

Assessing risks and options for Pattullo Bridge Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd. pier shapes, sizes and locations; (NHC) was retained by TransLink and scour-protection options; ship-impact Parsons to undertake hydrotechnical protection; construction and demolition testing and design for Translink’s Pattullo techniques; and mitigation for off-site Bridge Replacement Project. Because scour or sedimentation impacts. Tests of the complex hydraulics and sediment using the model incorporate known transport dynamics at this Fraser River- flow scenarios, as well as potential crossing location, and the proximity to impacts from climate change and sea- the New Westminster Rail and SkyTrain level rise. bridges, NHC is conducting a 1:80 Testing is supplemented by mobile-bed physical model study to geomorphic analysis, current-velocity assess feasibility and design mitigation measurements, and numerical for near-field instream impacts. The modelling. model will test hydraulic and morphologic impacts of the project’s reference APEGBC members: Kara Hurtig, P.Eng., concept, and develop specifications Matt Gellis, P.Eng., Jeff Van Tol, EIT, Ken for the design–build phase of the Curry, P.Eng., Gord Ruffo, P.Eng., Sany project. Specifications could include Zein, P.Eng., Phoebe Cheung, P.Eng.

Suspension bridges built on the Sea to Sky Trail The Cheakamus River Pedestrian The Train Wreck Bridge provides safe, Bridges project comprises construction of legal access to an old train wreck site two new pedestrian suspension bridges —a popular landmark visited by both over the Cheakamus River, linking key locals and tourists. Anchor frames for the recreational trail segments near Whistler, cables at each end of the Train Wreck BC. The bridges are the Sea to Sky Bridge are designed in the form of Bridge and the Train Wreck Bridge. locomotive wheels as an interesting and appealing tribute to the wreck site. The Sea to Sky Bridge incorporates an asymmetrical design with different-height Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd. provided towers that are inclined backwards to conceptual- and detailed-design and allow for a steeper backstay angle. construction-management services for This prevents the bridge cables from both bridges. encroaching on an existing forestry road.

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Satellite InSAR data used to track ground displacement The recent proliferation of high- resolution satellite imagery, coupled with improved processing algorithms, enables tracking of tens of millions of ground targets with millimetre precision in real time. 3v Geomatics applied its interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology of a project to monitor ground instabilities with high spatial detail across the Los Angeles area. The analysis tracked 65 million ground targets through 81 images acquired from 2011–2016. The results indicate both local and widespread seismic displacement. The sharp blue/red displacement boundary travelling northwest from Seal Beach is caused by the Newport–Inglewood fault. The red and blue hotspots around Long Beach indicate subsidence and uplift, respectively, due to enhanced oil recovery. Both ground subsidence and uplift are also present further north, near Santa Monica and Beverly Hills. Although this image provides an overview displacement map, any area can be zoomed into to analyze displacement histories of individual targets. APEGBC member: Parwant Ghuman, P.Eng.

Drill system reduces cost of seafloor core sampling In the winter of 2016, Cellula Robotics a drill ship, especially in deeper Ltd. delivered a fourth-generation waters. Improved operator safety CRD100 seafloor drill to Mitsubishi and higher-quality core samples are Heavy Industries, Ltd., to be used additional benefits. by the Japanese Agency for Marine– The project covered the design, Earth Science and Technology. The integration and testing of the CRD100 CRD100 is designed to drill and core and surface control van, along with up to 65 metres below the seafloor, in the specification and procurement of a water depths down to 3,000 metres. dedicated launch and recovery system. Seafloor drills are used for APEGBC members: Eric (James) Jackson, geotechnical analysis in subsea P.Eng., Paul Prunianu, P.Eng., Reuben construction and for core sampling Meikle, P.Eng., Dana Leslie, EIT, Dr. Peter in mineral exploration. Seafloor drills Hampton, EIT, Breanna Hayton, EIT, can reduce the cost of core sampling Jacqueline Nichols, EIT, Mark Wells, EIT, compared to the costs of using Sina Doroudgar, EIT, Andrew Liu, EIT

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Students use new lab to test electrical and cybersecurity systems The BC Institute of Technology IEC 61850 standard for SA systems Smart Microgrid Applied Research application and the investigation of Team designed and implemented an operating scenarios—it can be used to IEC (International Electrotechnical study network topology, test reliability Commission) 61850-compliant of process bus for protection schemes, substation automation (SA) and process and review fundamental concepts such bus demonstration laboratory. The lab as interoperability and cybersecurity. is used to train BCIT students in applied Cybersecurity intrusions can be electrical and cybersecurity engineering. simulated from multiple access points, with users able to initiate attacks, Using real-time digital simulators eavesdrop, playback, and spoof, as and commercially available equipment, well as inject malformed packets into the lab enables students to examine internal and external streams. automation, networking applications and flexibility of power system APEGBC members, BCIT: Dr. Hassan topologies and protection schemes. Farhangi, P.Eng., Dr. Heydarali (Ali) The lab supports study of the Palizban, P.Eng.; LEX Engineering Ltd.: Gagan Deep, P.Eng.

Device provides environmentally friendly high-pressure cleaning Developed by The Coulson Group The machine uses a non-pressurized of Companies, Port Alberni, BC, 90-lb (413-kg) hopper while operating at the IceStorm90 is a high-quality, a pressure of 60–150 psi (41–1,034 kPa), environmentally friendly, industrial optimal for cleaning marine and industrial precision-cleaning ice blaster. The equipment. Upon surface impact, the device uses only 10 percent of the water melting ice traps debris and fibre particles. traditionally used in pressure washing, This allows for safer asbestos removal, with and uses neither environmentally aerial contaminants being five times lower harmful abrasives nor expensive blasting than the regulated allowable maximum. media such as dry ice and sand. APEGBC members: Phil Ponka, P.Eng., Nicolaas De Beeld, EIT, Paul Oostindie, P.Eng.

Novel system compresses motion-capture data With advancements in three-dimensional rate control, bit allocation, and motion- measurement, motion-capture data adaptive filtering to maximize data quality are extending beyond animation and for a given bit budget. In addition, error- gaming to penetrate new application concealment strategies are developed areas relating to rehabilitation, remote for recovering from errors or packet interaction, virtual reality and augmented loss when data are transmitted over reality. To help further adoption of unreliable links. these technologies and enable future Unlike most other encoders for applications, researchers at the motion-capture data, the new Simon Fraser University Multimedia encoder operates in an “online” Communications Laboratory have mode—encoding the data as they are developed a novel system for motion- captured—which makes it ideal for capture data compression. low-latency, interactive virtual- and The new motion-capture codec augmented-reality applications. incorporates advanced features for APEGBC member: Dr. Ivan V. Bajić, P.Eng.

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British Columbia-designed facility tests and develops negative-ion sources The Ion Source Test Facility is located measure particle characteristics such as at Buckley Systems Ltd (BSL), in beam current, position, spatial profiles Auckland, New Zealand. A joint and trajectories. Researchers from BC project owned by Canadian company and New Zealand also use the facility D-Pace, Inc., and BSL, the facility was in experiments to optimize ion sources conceived, designed, and partially built for different charged particle types. at D-Pace’s location in Nelson, BC. Applications include diagnostic and BSL manufactured the hardware and treatment accelerators used in medicine D-Pace staff assembled and integrated and ion implantation accelerators used the system in Auckland, with support in the semiconductor industry. from BSL staff. The facility has been The facility is one of the few operational since March 2016. installations built for testing and D-Pace uses the facility to research developing ion sources used to and develop ion sources—devices that generate negatively charged particles. generate charged particles for particle APEGBC members: Dr. Morgan Dehnel, accelerators. The company also tests P.Eng., David Potkins, P.Eng., Philip beam diagnostic instruments used to Jackle, EIT

BC actuators control fine linear motion in orbit Actuators are small motorized which compresses and holds the study’s components that perform the highly simulated-regolith materials in place precise back-and-forth micro- during launch to the space station and movements of intricate devices. return to Earth. Actuonix Motion Devices Inc. designed Strata-1 aims to answer questions about and provided the PQ12 actuators the regolith behaviour in micro-gravity that make possible and control linear and ambient vibration. The study’s results motion within NASA’s Strata-1 regolith will help answer questions about how experiment, currently installed on the regolith affects the safety of spacecraft International Space Station. and spacesuits, as well as adding to Regolith is the soil-like, rocky research on actual regolith samples that material that is found on asteroids have been collected and brought to Earth and other space objects that have during past missions. no atmospheres. Actuonix’s PQ12s APEGBC members: Mike (Simon) Baker, adjust the Entrapulator assembly, P.Eng., Ruaridh Mackinnon, EIT

Flood risk near popular Alberta park facilities mitigated In June 2013, a significant rainfall event The work includes river engineering, in southern Alberta over a three-day flood protection, bank stabilization, period triggered debris flooding in a erosion protection, and parking lot, number of creeks in Kananaskis Country. bridge, and road protection measures. The floods damaged, among other SweetTech is providing full-concept infrastructure, existing Ribbon Creek Day design, detailed engineering design, Use Area facilities and deposited large and construction administration support amounts of debris in Ribbon Creek. to this project. The company also Alberta Parks retained SweetTech coordinated a full site aerial drone to provide a practical design of survey with Skymatics Ltd. to gather additional flood mitigation and current survey data and aerial imagery protection works for the creek to of the Ribbon Creek and nearby protect against future design flood Kovach Pond day use areas. events (1:100-year return period). APEGBC member, SweetTech Engineering: Eric Sweet, P.Eng.

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Electrical switchgear system improves safety Prime Engineering has developed an can determine the exact instant to innovative medium-voltage electrical close the breaker so as to eliminate switchgear product that eliminates transformer inrush. By removing transformer inrush current and transformer inrush, protection relay allows for lower arc flash incident settings are able to be set much lower energy levels. and, as a result, arc flash events can be cleared faster. This, in turn, lowers Prime Engineering has partnered with downstream incident energy levels and Vizimax Inc. to bring this technology to the medium-voltage field and has improves safety. developed a product with a footprint The point on wave energy-reducing no larger than a standard medium- (POWER) switchgear also allows voltage switchgear. larger transformers to be connected to an electrical system or standard The patented technique eliminates transformers connected to weaker transformer inrush by using a systems. combination of an independent pole- operated breaker (Tavrida) and point APEGBC member, Prime Engineering on wave controller (Vizimax) that Ltd.: Eric David Sleigh, P.Eng.

SPECTOR plasma injector developed for fusion power General Fusion is developing the fastest, against simulation and iterate most practical path to commercial designs quickly. The SPECTOR fusion power—a clean, safe, abundant plasma injector (shown) reached and on-demand form of energy. At temperatures as high as 5 million its laboratories in Burnaby, BC, the degrees Celsius and provided company is developing the sub-systems valuable data on the behaviour that will comprise the world’s first of the plasma. These insights are commercially viable fusion power plant. now being applied to a new power plant–scale injector that is 10 times Fusion power plants are fueled by SPECTOR’s size, with construction superheated hydrogen plasma, which must be held stable in a magnetic field. completed at the end of 2016. To research this relatively unexplored APEGBC members: Kristin Bell, P.Eng., area of physics, General Fusion Mike Donaldson, P.Eng., Don Froese, P.Eng., developed a series of laboratory- Curtis Gutjahr, EIT, Troy Tyler, P.Eng., scale plasma injectors that enabled Janice Habibi-Sardari, P.Eng. the company to test prototypes

City converts street lighting to LED In 2016, the City of Surrey, BC, As part of the infrastructure endorsed a five-year strategy to replace installations currently underway, 28,000 existing high-pressure sodium the city will pilot other SMART streetlights with LED lights across technologies such as WiFi and the city. The city undertook pilot tests dimming in specific locations. and analysis as part of the process of The strategy aims to improve the determining suitable streetlight colour safety and comfort of pedestrians, temperatures. A 3000-Kelvin colour drivers and cyclists on streets, temperature (white) was chosen for local as well as to reduce energy residential streets, and a 4000-Kelvin consumption and maintenance costs. temperature (bluish–white, within the daylight range) for all other streets. APEGBC member: Amer Afridi, P.Eng.

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Stable cryogenic environment helps trap antimatter The Antihydrogen Laser Physics The cryogenic conditions support Apparatus (ALPHA) Collaboration a 1,000-amp superconducting at CERN recently announced the wire, wound in such a way to first-ever laser spectroscopy of produce eight poles within a single antihydrogen within a cryogenic ‘octupole’ magnet, and seven antimatter trap. Most atoms— other superconducting wires that including antihydrogen atoms— power five mirror magnets and two moving through magnetic fields solenoids. The octupole magnet gain and lose energy as the strength provides transverse confinement, of the field changes. Some very while the mirror magnets and low–energy atoms convert all of solenoids provide axial confinement. their kinetic energy to potential This configuration binds the antiatom energy, slowing them and allowing in all three dimensions. them to be captured within a strong Once the assembly traps magnetic field. antimatter, CERN physicists use TRIUMF played a key role in the laser spectroscopy to manipulate design and construction of the and study it, as documented in apparatus that creates the stable, ALPHA’s December 2016 paper super-cold environment required for published in Nature. trapping and studying antihydrogen. APEGBC member: Don Dale, P.Eng. The ALPHA-2 cryostat maintains (Photo: Bryce Maximilien, CERN) a liquid helium bath at 4.2 Kelvin (–268.0o C) and ultrahigh vacuum (10^–11 Torr).

Generating station replacement improves safety and output The John Hart Generating Station, in the City of Campbell River, BC, has been operating since 1947. The BC Hydro-owned and -operated facility is being replaced to ensure it continues to deliver clean, reliable energy. In February 2014, BC Hydro awarded the project contract to InPower BC. The Aecon and SNC-Lavalin Constructors Pacific Inc. joint venture was awarded the civil construction work. The project comprises an innovative, underground powerhouse that will provide seismic safety, improve electricity output, and provide consistent flows to the Campbell River. AECON’s team led the civil design and construction of a new water intake, replacement of three 1.8-kilometre-long above-ground penstocks with a 2.1-kilometre- long tunnel, and construction of a new underground generating station and a new water bypass facility. APEGBC members, AECON Group: Scott Marshall, P.Eng., Richard Tame, P.Eng., Nathalie Dinnissen, P.Eng., Brad Chow, P.Eng., Jerome Boucher, P.Eng., Ratko Ivanovic, EIT, Francis Gonella, EIT, Jason Stewart, EIT

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Alexandra District Energy Utility expands with Phase 4 The City of Richmond retained Kerr Once operating at full capacity, Wood Leidal Associates to design the plant is expected to reduce a 1.8-megawatt low-carbon heating greenhouse gas emissions in the and cooling plant for the new Central Alexandra neighbourhood by as

at Garden City shopping centre in much as 250 tonnes CO2-equivalent Richmond’s Alexandra neighbourhood. per year, and will provide a platform The plant features air-source heat for recovering cooling energy from pumps and condensing boilers, and the mall and sharing it with nearby will provide supplemental heating residential buildings. and cooling capacity to the Alexandra APEGBC members, City of Richmond: District Energy Utility. Kevin Roberts, EIT, Alen Postolka, P.Eng., This is one of the first combined John Irving, P.Eng.; Kerr Wood Leidal district heating and cooling systems in Associates: Mike Homenuke, P.Eng., BC that uses air-source heat pumps Karen Sutherland, P.Eng., Robin Parker, P.Eng., Alan van der Holt, P.Eng., Padraig (shown) and integrates with a geo- Harrington, P.Eng., Thomas Mah, EIT exchange system. It is also one of the only district energy systems serving large-format retail buildings.

Project improves energy reliability, lowers power costs Yukon’s hydro-based electrical system reliability and reducing both power is isolated from North America’s grid. costs and environmental impacts. Delivering a continuous source of The capital costs associated with electricity is challenged by spikes in both diesel and LNG systems were demand due to weather, transmission considered along with the estimated and hydro-generation failures. Yukon $3- to 4-million annual fuel savings Energy Corporation’s aging diesel that LNG would offer compared to backup generators increasingly present diesel. The LNG option also offered a reliability risk. The corporation, with the distinct advantage of lower First Nations support and a $21-million greenhouse gas emissions compared investment from the Kwanlin Dun First to the diesel option. Nation, constructed an innovative 8.8-megawatt liquid natural gas–fueled APEGBC members, Allnorth: Janna power-generating station, improving Gillick, P.Eng., Stephen Noble, P.Eng.

Upgrade maximizes storage at natural gas condensate terminal Keyera retained Sacré-Davey deep storage tank foundation Engineering Inc. to design an increase in design provides increased stability, natural gas condensate storage capacity which allows greater height-to-tank- at the Keyera Edmonton Terminal. The diameter ratio. Sacré-Davey also upgrade includes four new internal reduced the number of flex joints in floating-roof storage tanks, containment the piping system by strategically walls, a pumping system that includes locating the pipe restraints to allow associated piping and electrical power controlled pipe movement. This is supply, instrumentation, and controls expected to significantly increase the hardware and logic. piping system’s reliability. To maximize storage, Sacré-Davey APEGBC members, Sacré-Davey Engineering developed a layout providing Engineering (consultant): Andrea more than twice the anticipated storage Tylczak, P.Eng., David Pfeil, P.Eng.; in the given space (240,000 versus Jensen Hughes Consulting Canada Ltd 100,000 barrels). An unconventionally (sub-consultant); Keyera (owner and construction management)

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Campus modernizes its heating systems The University of British Columbia services that feed into a 2000/2660- peaking boiler plant and hot water kVA pad mount transformer, which also system was included in a $24-million provides the building with 600 volts of Campus Energy Centre overhaul alternating current. As well, three-phase to modernize the aging steam secondary service and a 1000-kilowatt heating systems and reduce energy generator provide backup for energy- consumption. The design includes three efficient fluorescent and LED lights, 15-megawatt thermal, natural gas–fired, security cameras, card access door high-efficiency boilers, a condensing controls and digital signage. economizer and a cost-effective waste The LEED Gold-certified building heat recovery system that improves the operates continuously and is staffed facility’s energy efficiency. around the clock by qualified engineers. AES Engineering provided the project’s APEGBC members: Hira Boparai, EIT, electrical engineering. The electrical Sunny Ghataurah, P.Eng. scope of work included high-voltage (Photo Credit: Ema Peter)

Battery provides utility-interactive energy-storage solution Avalon Battery developed and stack. On the electrical side, built its first-generation product, it took a strong team effort to AFB1X, at its Vancouver office achieve UL1741 and IEEE1547 in just over a year. In April 2016, certification, required to make Avalon shipped its 10-kilowatt the battery fully utility interactive. vanadium redox flow battery to a Once deployed at the customer’s customer in Fremont, California. site, Avalon used data analysis and active monitoring to optimize A key challenge that was the customer’s peak demand and overcome was evaluating energy use. components for compatibility with the electrolyte, a corrosive APEGBC members: Troy and low-surface-tension liquid. Barrie, P.Eng., Rick Blacker, P.Eng., In order to deliver a high- Matthew Harper, P.Eng., Andrew performance product, advanced Klassen, P.Eng., Brandon Lee, P.Eng., materials were used in the cell Tim Peterson, P.Eng.

Hydroelectric project achieves commercial operation Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. cable on the bottom of Harrison Lake developed the 40.6-megawatt Big at depths of up to 250 metres. Silver Creek Hydroelectric Project, Big Silver Creek generates enough located approximately 40 kilometres electricity to power more than north of Harrison Hot Springs, BC. The 12,700 households in BC with clean, facility achieved commercial operation renewable energy and was completed in summer 2016 after two years of ahead of schedule and on budget. construction. Project challenges included building a two-kilometre drill-and- Tetra Tech, Prime Engineering, Detmold blast tunnel, as well as installing 3.8 Consulting, Dean Brox Consulting, kilometres of submarine transmission Carbonneau Group, Golder Associates, Knight Piésold Ltd.

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Retrofit reduces energy use and costs The District of North Vancouver had planned to install a biomass boiler to provide heating to the Karen Magnussen Community Recreation Centre. Under the leadership of the district’s energy-management team and SES Consulting, the district instead chose to reduce the building’s energy consumption through efficiency. The resulting project is on target to reduce the building’s energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent. Key features include a full lighting upgrade, new controls to optimize the HVAC system, and a low- energy ceiling to reduce the load on the ice plant. The new advanced heat-recovery system captures waste heat from the pools and arena to virtually eliminate the load on the existing boilers. The centre, built in 1974, is now almost as efficient as the district’s new-construction recreation centre. APEGBC members, District of North Vancouver: Monica Samuda Poitras, P.Eng., Paul Forsyth, EIT, Gary Houg, P.Eng.; SES: Scott Sinclair, P.Eng., Chris Goodchild, P.Eng., Jim Groenewoud, P.Eng.

Project improves energy reliability, lowers power costs Pattern Energy Group’s development of the Meikle Wind Energy interconnected through the new 230-kiloVolt ring bus Meikle project in BC’s Peace River Region included the 230-kiloVolt Terminal substation at the point of interconnect. The new transmission line for their facility to the point of interconnection, substation consists of 230-kiloVolt breakers in ring bus approximately 23 kilometres west of BC Hydro’s Tumbler Ridge configuration, station service transformers and a diesel substation and 36 kilometres from the Sukunka substation. The generator. The switchyard includes a spare area for one power maximum total power injection from Meikle Wind Energy is 180 distribution transformer and one 25-kiloVolt feeder. megawatts—enough to power 54,000 homes. APEGBC members: Raafat A. Megahed, P.Eng., Adam SNC-Lavalin’s Power Group was contracted to produce the Tryczynski, P.Eng., Angel Pinto Unda, P.Eng., Muhammad design and provide project and construction management Razzaq, P.Eng., Reza Youssefi, P.Eng., Jaydeepkumar services for a new terminal to connect the energy-generating Tailor, P.Eng., Luke Makischuk, P.Eng., Hardeep Saggu, EIT, Sunil facility to BC Hydro’s grid. The transmission lines were Kaliappan, EIT, Viraj Devapriya, P.Eng., Rabie Abdul-Sahib, P.Eng.

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Balancing erosion control and vegetation restoration along coastal road Erosion from wave action along Lazo Road, Comox, BC, was undermining utility poles and had the potential to undermine the road. Wedler Engineering LLP was originally retained in 2011 to complete preliminary design and cost estimating, and then retained in 2015 to complete the design and provide tender services. The project balances the need for erosion protection and vegetation restoration by incorporating rip rap at lower elevations with a very shallow slope angle on the ocean side, anchored large woody debris at mid elevations, and vegetation only at higher elevations along the beach. Rip rap was largely buried with existing beach sand to minimize the project’s aesthetic and environmental footprint. A multi-use trail was built alongside Lazo Road, with beach access points provided along the length of the work. APEGBC members, Wedler Engineering: Andrew Gower, P.Eng.; Ryzuk Geotechnical: Christian Flanagan, EIT, Shane Moore, P.Geo.; Northwest Hydraulic Consultants: Dr. Dave McLean, P.Eng.; Town of Comox: Shelley Ashfield, P.Eng.

Designing and building fish habitat at Mount Milligan mine Mountain Station Consultants Inc. was spawning gravels. Small Caterpillar 308E contracted to design and construct a and 287B machines were used to place rainbow trout rearing and spawning channel streambed and spawning gravels, logs, at Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc.’s salvaged tree stumps and cobble. Native Mount Milligan mine. The environmentally species revegetation is now underway. sensitive project required low-impact hand removal of nine fish-passage barriers, hand In total, 283 square metres of rainbow trout construction of fish-passable channels, and rearing and spawning habitat were created. creation of an upstream spawning channel. The project was part of the ongoing fish habitat compensation program operating Field observations of natural meander frequency, run length, curvature and at the Mount Milligan Mine in north– channel bankfull width aided design central BC. computations. Instream features were APEGBC member, Mountain Station designed and placed to scour and clean Consultants: Alan Thomson, P.Eng.

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Water Sustainability Act guides BC water management The Water Sustainability Act and the first The Act and regulations phase of associated regulations came into were developed by a team of effect in 2016. The Act benefits all British professionals, including APEGBC Columbians, our environment and our members who brought their economy, and marks a major step forward engineering and geoscience in water resource management in BC. Key expertise and experience in legislative provisions include: water resources management to • licensing of non-domestic use of develop the legislation. Additional groundwater (e.g., industrial, agricultural) regulations—for example, water for the first time in BC objectives, and measuring and • stronger protection for aquatic reporting of water use—will be ecosystems, especially during droughts developed in the coming years. • new rental fees for water use APEGBC members, Water • expanded protection of groundwater Sustainability Act policy team: V.J. Cameron, P.Geo., G. Davidson, P.Eng., including new well construction and J.-A. Ishikawa, P.Geo., M. Lepitre, P.Geo., maintenance standards C. Pryce, P.Eng., B. Symonds, P.Eng., • increased dam safety and awareness, S. Thomson, P.Geo., M. Wei, P.Eng. and compliance and enforcement

Fibre-optic cables deployed in the deep ocean In the summer of 2016, Ocean Networks Argus played important supporting Canada deployed steel-armoured fibre- roles by monitoring the four cable optic cables to enhance the reliability lays while also conducting scientific of the NEPTUNE ocean observatory. research and providing state-of-the- With two ships maneuvering less than art telepresence capabilities. With a 80 metres apart, the C/S Wave Venture requirement to deploy the terminations achieved a first for Ocean Networks of the cables within a 50-metre circle Canada by successfully laying 18 on the seafloor without damaging kilometres of advanced-technology existing subsea infrastructure, the extension cable onto the seafloor. operations demanded detailed Ranging from three to seven kilometres planning and a high level of precision in length, the cables were laid in water during execution. depths exceeding two kilometres. APEGBC member: Ian Kulin, P.Eng. The exploration vessel E/V Nautilus and remotely operated vehicles Hercules and

Environmental flow needs determined in Okanagan streams First Nations and government agencies environmental flow needs in Okanagan that are engaged in managing Okanagan streams. In Phase 1 of the project, water urgently needed an improved Associated Environmental Consultants understanding of environmental flow Inc. led a diverse team to develop needs. Provincial water licensing staff recommended methods for determining require this information for making water- environmental flow needs in the region, allocation decisions under the new BC and provided information to customize the Water Sustainability Act. The Okanagan methods for 19 high-priority Okanagan Nation needs the information for fish streams. Work to apply these methods on population and fish habitat restoration these priority streams is underway. plans. Long-term water use predictions, APEGBC members, Associated Environmental as well as water use restrictions during Consultants: Brian Guy, P.Geo.; Urban drought, also depend on the data. Systems: Don Dobson, P.Eng.; Polar The Okanagan Basin Water Board, Geoscience Ltd.: Lars Uunila, P.Geo.; Agua Consulting Ltd.: Bob Hrasko. P.Eng.; Okanagan Nation Alliance, and the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural province are leading a project to determine Resource Operations: Brian Symonds, P.Eng.

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A triple-port upgrade decentralizes operations in the Bahamas The Sandy Bottom Project represents (343,000-square-kilometre) maritime the single largest capital investment domain to enhance safety and security the Government of the Bahamas, at sea and on the Bahamas’ 700 islands Ministry of National Security, has made and cays. in the Royal Bahamas Defence Force The Government’s Sandy Bottom (RBDF) since its inception in 1980. Project Execution Unit consisted of The $232-million project includes RBDF and ministry personnel. Damen the design and construction of nine Shipyards/Van Oord (Netherlands) naval vessels and three island port served as design–build contractor. JV upgrades—including harbour dredging, Paul Hanna & Associates (Bahamas) breakwaters, revetments, quay walls, and Rendel (UK) was the employer’s jetties, 0.73-hectare land reclamation, representative engineer. support buildings and infrastructure. The upgrades decentralize operations APEGBC member: Henry Moxey, P.Eng. and logistic support across the (project liaison officer between the Bahamas’ 100,000-square-nautical-mile Government of the Bahamas, the contractor and the engineer)

Sulphur terminal upgrades reduce risk Pacific Coast Terminals is integrating transfer operations, reduced the K+S Potash Canada’s potash handling installation time during shutdowns, system into its existing Port Moody lowered the potential for dust sulphur terminal. The project required generation and product degradation, modifications to two sulphur conveyors and decreased mechanical complexity. to prevent cross-contamination on the Although construction took place in an ship-loading conveyor. operating terminal, site-construction CWA Systems Inc. (CSI), a CWA labour hours and operational Group company, developed a diverter disruptions were minimized. The CSI system and executed the project team successfully completed the under an engineering–procurement– project without lost-time incidents. construction contract. By implementing APEGBC members, CWA Engineers a lower profile (20 percent of the Inc.: Craig Stenhouse, P.Eng., Paul originally proposed system), CSI Dunwoody, P.Eng., Elvin Yutuc, P.Eng., minimized the risk to existing sulphur- Keith Arnstead, P.Eng.

Port expansion increases berth and storage capacity The Port of Prince Rupert’s Fairview In addition, the project creates three Container Terminal opened in 2007, hectares of container storage space, becoming one of North America’s revamps the rail-loading facilities and fastest-growing intermodal gateways and adds three more quay cranes. the first fully dedicated ship-to-rail facility. Fairview Container Terminal is already In 2013, planning began for the facility’s an economic anchor for the local Phase II North expansion to increase community, and this project resulted in annual capacity to 1.35 million TEUs more than $40 million in local spending. (20-foot equivalent units, each of which The project team included a dozen equals about 38.5 m3) at completion in APEGBC members full-time onsite, with 2017. many more in supporting roles. The $200-million project increases the DP World Prince Rupert (operator), Herold berth to 800 metres, long enough to Engineering (Engineer of Record), CGR accommodate two of the largest trans- Canada (engineer), FRPD-Bel Gateway JV Pacific container vessels simultaneously. (contractor)

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Process reclaims minerals from Chicago-area sewage The Metropolitan Water Reclamation causing the nutrients to crystallize. District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) faced The reactor design enables the higher regulatory limits affecting effluent granules to grow to the size and discharge permits. Its wastewater system purity used in standard fertilizer was also experiencing struvite mineral blends, and to be harvested directly build-up at their Stickney plant, the world’s from the reactor. They can then be largest wastewater treatment facility. dried and bagged for distribution and sale from the Stickney plant. Ostara’s Pearl process provided a solution. The Pearl’s fluidized bed The process has increased Stickney’s reactor recovers phosphorus and operational efficiency by preventing nitrogen from nutrient-rich wastewater struvite build-up, reducing loads on liquor, reclaiming more than 85 percent other plant processes, and supporting of phosphorus and up to 15 percent MWRD’s clean-water mandate. of nitrogen from wastewater streams APEGBC members: Ahren Britton, P.Eng., before they accumulate as struvite in Derek Lycke, P.Eng., Lani (Mahilan) pipes and equipment. Somasunderam, P.Eng., David In the reactor, magnesium is added Alexander, P.Eng., Sam Leung, P.Eng. to wastewater under a controlled pH,

Potable water treatment plant serves large, remote construction site Construction of a 1,100-megawatt The resulting plant employs hydroelectric power generation flocculation, clarification, plant in remote British Columbia is sand filtration, UV disinfection the culmination of two decades of and chlorination to deliver negotiations with land owners for 585 cubic metres of potable water approval. Experienced in remote projects, per day. To address fire prevention newterra was contracted by ATCO to requirements, the system also engineer and manufacture a potable includes high-pressure pumping water treatment plant to support the stations. 2,700 construction workers who will be APEGBC members, newterra: Brad working at the Site C construction site. Gaffney, P.Eng., Jeff Kempson, P.Eng.

New ship loader moves grain and pulse crops Viterra is Canada’s premier grain handler. the design–build contracts. Dredging As part of the modernization of its Pacific support was provided by JJM Terminal in the Port of Vancouver, the Construction Ltd. provided dredging company constructed a 2800-mtph ship support. Hemmera Envirochem Inc. loader through a series of design–build provided environmental support. contracts. The project involved the APEGBC members: Rick Doxtator, installation of state-of-the-art fugitive dust P.Eng., Paul Dafoe, P.Eng., Jorgen control for handling pulse crops from Jensen, P.Eng., Steve Thackray, P.Eng., Western Canada. Work included new Reza Tabesh, P.Eng., Harald Kullmann, shipping conveyors inside the terminal to P.Eng., Chuck Jochems, P.Eng., Tobin support the overall shipping capacity. The Hwang, P.Eng., Peter Idema, P.Eng. ship loader commenced operations in Recently deceased member David Smith September 2016. provided geotechnical support. EMS-Tech Inc., Vancouver Pile Driving Ltd., and Dynamic Installations Inc. led

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Vessel provides high-performance emergency response The first of two custom, high-performance Protector is designed to support fireboat and emergency response vessels emergency medical services, diving and built for the Port of Long Beach, California, pollution response activities, and to act as Protector is designed for emergency an incident command and control centre response in the era of super-sized cargo for emergency response. Fitted with a ships and post-9/11 security conditions. military-grade air-filtration system, it can Advancing the port’s firefighting and also be operated in areas contaminated security system, the vessel features with hazardous chemical, biological, seven fire pumps that serve an array radiological and nuclear materials (CBRN). of 10 water cannons with an aggregate Protector measures 33 metres long, capacity of 9,300 m³/hr, with the 10.7 metres across the beam, and largest water cannon alone capable 4.6 metres in draft. A cycloidal propeller of delivering water at 2,700 m³/hr system provides highly accurate control at a range of 180 metres. Discharge for maneuvering and positioning. manifolds are fitted to provide shore-side water supply at up to 5,000 m³/hr. APEGBC members, Design team: Henry Reeve, P. Eng., Hans F. Muhlert, P. Eng., Robert G. Allan, P. Eng., Darren Hass, P. Eng., Allan Turner, P. Eng. Water treatment plant uses gravity to increase efficiency In response to changing regulations, 99 percent of incoming water is treated, the City of Nanaimo, Kenaidan and the residual solid waste is composted Contracting Ltd. and Associated and mixed into topsoil. Engineering collaborated to build a Innovative design features and a small new membrane water treatment plant energy footprint enable production of to provide filtered drinking water to 116 megalitres/day of safe drinking Nanaimo, BC. water for Nanaimo’s growing population The South Fork plant takes advantage until well past 2035, and an end to boil- of local elevation and topography to water advisories. siphon water through the membranes APEGBC members, Associated Engineering: and supply the city by gravity. This Matt Henney, P.Eng., Quinn Crosina, P.Eng., eliminates the need for pumps and Matthew Lozie, P.Eng., Ken Neave, P.Eng., results in significantly lower energy Lauren Vale, EIT, Alyson Pickett, EIT, Dave use. The water is filtered through Winter, P.Eng., Leif Marmolejo, P.Eng.; a two-stage membrane system to Kenaidan Contracting Ltd.; City of Nanaimo remove organics, viruses, protozoa, Water Resources. bacteria, and turbidity. More than (Photo: Wesley Holmes Photography)

Construction and environmental monitoring of outfall replacement Opus was lead consultant for design Trench construction involved dredging of and construction supervision of a the seabed and blasting rock, requiring new outfall for the Regional District of extensive environmental monitoring. Nanaimo’s Greater Nanaimo Pollution Eelgrass was harvested before dredging Control Centre. The $12-million for transplanting, daily turbidity levels project replaced the original welded- and acoustic and over pressure were steel outfall pipe with a new outfall of monitored during blasting to limit 1,372-millimetre-diameter high-density construction impacts on marine life. polyethylene DR21 pipe. The outfall APEGBC members, Opus: Phil Cook, P.Eng., discharges 2,000 metres into the Strait Dennis Harrington, P.Eng., Raymond of Georgia towards Five Fingers Island Chin, P.Eng., Peter Hutchins, EIT. and includes a 100-metre-long multiport Sub-consultants: WSP, Great Pacific diffuser section. The installation used a Consulting Ltd., ITB Subsea Ltd., Russ “float-and-sink” technique, allowing for Fogel, Inc., Zentech Cyprus, Limited, CRA remote assembly and rapid installation Canada Surveys, Inc. during stable weather.

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Discovery of Boleras Silver Deposit, Sandra Escobar Project, Mexico In 2016, Orex Minerals Inc. and This discovery is relatively unique their joint venture partner Canasil within the Mexican “Silver Trend” Resources Inc. discovered a new in that, unlike the traditional vein- silver deposit in northern Mexico. hosted epithermal silver systems, In less than a year, Orex has the silver mineralization at Boleras completed drilling to define a first is strataform along a rhyolite horizon resource estimate on the Boleras and contains primarily disseminated Silver Deposit. Fifty-nine diamond- silver-bearing minerals, with lesser drill holes, totalling just under broad stockwork zones. Few 7,500 metres, have been used sulphides and no gossan are found to delineate an inferred resource at surface to mark the location. of 9.8 million tonnes, grading APEGBC members, Orex Minerals 106 grams per tonne silver, for a Inc.: Ben Whiting, P.Geo., Dale total of 945 tonnes (33.3 million Brittliffe, P.Geo., Art Freeze, P.Geo., ounces) of silver. Rob van Egmond, P.Geo.

Building mine facilities in remote, high-elevation environment Pretium Resources, Inc.’s Brucejack mine is a world-class, plant, a 330-person permanent camp, and a 20-MVA high-grade underground gold mine located northwest of substation. Stewart, BC. The remote site is reached by a 54-kilometre The project’s design, logistics and construction must take gravel access road, followed by a 12-kilometre ice road over into account high winds, snow loading, ice buildup and low the Knipple Glacier. temperatures. Addressing these issues has proven vital to the Amec Foster Wheeler is providing detailed engineering, safety of more than 900 employees and contractors at the site procurement and site construction–assistance services for this and to the overall success of Brucejack mine. project. Facilities include mine-ventilation fans, underground APEGBC members, Amec Foster Wheeler: Eric Young, P.Eng., ore crushing and conveying, an ore concentrator with grinding Alan Keylock, P.Eng., Raymond Lo, P.Eng., Ryan Hempton, P.Eng., mills, flotation and dewatering equipment, a water treatment Regina Voron, P.Eng.

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Cerro Verde production unit expands in Peru Processing 240,000 tonnes of ore new concentrator. Other infrastructure per day, the Cerro Verde Production elements include the water pumping/ Unit Expansion is the largest one- pipeline system, a 40-kilometre time built copper concentrator in the 220-kilovolt transmission line, and the world. Fluor provided engineering, tailing handling/distribution and water procurement, construction management recovery systems. and commissioning services. The The project took more than 65 million process incorporates energy-efficient hours to construct and peaked with high-pressure grinding roll comminution 19,000 people on site. The project was technology, first introduced by Fluor at a completed ahead of schedule and on predecessor plant in 2006. budget, with an excellent safety record— The project includes a new sewage including a run of 20 million hours treatment plant that processes 80 without a lost-time incident. percent of the City of Arequipa’s raw APEGBC member: Brad Matthews, P.Eng. sewage and provides water for the

Technology recovers chemicals in pulp and paper operations A Kraft pulp and paper mill in the US and recovering reusable pulping- has become the eighth adopter in liquor chemicals. Mill costs and the Americas of a short-column ion- environmental performance benefit exchange technology that provides from a reduced demand for caustic high selectivity for chlorides and and salt-cake makeup chemicals, performance with high-carbonate ash. while reduced boiler scaling from Commissioned in March 2016, the lower chloride levels improves installation is capable of treating 40 asset uptime and performance. The tonnes of ash per day. technology sets new benchmarks for The precipitator dust purification chemical management and recovery boiler operations. (PDPTM) technology was modified by NORAM for the pulp and paper sector NORAM Engineering & Constructors and improves on prior technologies, Ltd. (supply and design engineering); allowing selective removal of chloride Eco-Tec Inc. (key equipment and from recovery boiler precipitator ash technology)

Two-stage oxygen delignification project increases pulp-mill yields Canfor Pulp Ltd.’s Intercontinental Pulp Canfor Pulp engineers were supported by Mill in Prince George produces ECF 90 external resources, including Clean Energy pulp from a mixture of softwood species Consulting Inc. for project management, indigenous to BC’s north–central interior. Allnorth Consultants Ltd. and Andritz The opportunity to increase yield, lower Automation Ltd. for engineering and bleaching costs, and lower adsorbable G. Morrow Contracting Ltd. for construction organic halogen (AOX) levels in pulping- management. Construction was executed process effluent prompted the addition of by multiple contractors during normal mill a second stage of oxygen delignification. operation, in tight working quarters with The project consisted of a new building, significant over/under conflicts. an oxygen reactor, an oxygen mixer, a The project was successfully completed and booster pump, a top scraper, and electrical, is meeting operational targets. instrumentation and controls upgrades.

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Tank reduces time and costs for remote fuel deliveries Bering Air sought a better way of using to haul fuel in, then, after unloading its Bell 412 helicopter to deliver fuel the fuel, haul paying cargo back out, to remote cell towers, which are often instead of the common practice of located on the top of mountains. The flying empty fuel drums out. Because Bell 412 helicopter offers an ideal the tank is not a slung load, the airframe for hauling fuel inside the helicopter can fly at full speed, which aircraft, except for the location of its also reduces costs and time. challenging centre rotor mast. Now ready for the marketplace, Tasked with finding a solution, SEI the BATT 412 hybrid tank meets all Industries Ltd. developed a new fuel- requirements for flight safety and hauling container that combines SEI’s requires no heavy equipment. It can be award-winning fabric BATT inner tank assembled and disassembled inside with a strong aluminum outer tank. the aircraft by two people. With built-in wave baffling, the BATT APEGBC member: Victor Yaremenko, P.Eng. hybrid tank allows Bell 412 helicopters

Runway safety improved at Vancouver International Airport The Vancouver Airport Authority (YVR) implementing RESAs on Runway is implementing Runway End Safety 08R-26L—the airport’s longest runway Areas (RESAs) for its runways in on the south—and Runway 13-31—the order to meet new Transport Canada crosswind runway. The project includes safety requirements. A RESA provides a paved extension of the east end a surface at the end of a runway strip of the south runway, with site works that would help reduce the severity including removals, excavation, sand of damage to an aircraft in the preload/surcharge, construction of new event of the aircraft undershooting, flexible and rigid pavement structures, overrunning, or veering off the runway new storm drainage, relocation during landing or take off, as well as of the 08R localizer, relocation of facilitating the movement of rescue underground utilities and navigation and fire fighting vehicles. aids, and installation of airfield lighting and infrastructures. Hatch is providing detailed design and construction inspection services for the APEGBC member, Hatch: Lincoln first phase of the project, which involves Chan, P.Eng. (Project Manager)

Engineering improves mountain bike design DaamBuilt is a North Vancouver, BC- climbing and pedalling traits best based custom bicycle frame–building suited to tackle the BC North Shore’s company that uses engineering toughest trails. techniques to achieve fabrication To build this comfortable yet efficiencies and to develop innovative aggressive frame, the company’s designs that enhance the rider’s engineer used aerospace-grade experience. butted steel tubes for the main DaamBuilt designed this full- triangles and machined billet suspension frame for a client who aluminum for the linkage plates. wanted custom geometry and an These materials balance weight and efficient suspension platform. The strength while maintaining the classic suspension linkage was designed by lively feel of a steel bicycle frame. selecting a leverage ratio, anti-rise APEGBC member: Peter Daam, P.Eng. and anti-squat values to match the

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Snow nets improve national park highway safety Every year, numerous snow avalanches design, which included 1,937 metres threaten the Trans-Canada Highway of Geobrugg snow nets in 39 separate in BC’s Glacier National Park. A rows. Three debris-flow barriers combination of snow sheds, earthworks, were used in terrain too incised for and artillery-based avalanche control has traditional snow nets. effectively protected highway travelers All rows for two avalanche paths were since the highway opened in 1962. installed in 2016, and the third path is In order to improve highway reliability, scheduled to be completed in 2017. Parks Canada commissioned what APEGBC members, Alpine Solutions is, to date, the western hemisphere’s Avalanche Services: Brian Gould, P.Eng., largest snow-net project to permanently Cam Campbell. Eng.L.; BAT Construction stabilize the snowpack in three Ltd: Jenna Zdunich, P.Eng.; Prime problematic avalanche paths at Cougar Consultant: McElhanney Consulting Corner #6, #7, and #8. Alpine Solutions Services Ltd. Avalanche Services completed the

Vehicle places 27th in international motorsport race Every year, students from across the driver of the car is the current team globe design and build unique single- leader, Wilson Hay, a mechanical seater open-wheel race cars for an engineering student. international competition held by the The car was built by a diverse group of Society of Automotive Engineers, undergraduates studying engineering at Michigan International Raceway, and computer science. Team alumni in Brooklynn, Michigan. Last year, have gone on to successful careers in the University of Victoria’s Formula the transportation industry. Motorsport team raced their car to a 27th-place finish, making them the best APEGBC member: Dr. Stephanie team in Western Canada and second Willerth, P.Eng. overall out of Canadian teams. The

Upgrades improve station capacity and accessibility Translink is upgrading and expressive curvilinear trusses expanding the Metrotown Skytrain over the existing guideway. These Station and Bus Exchange, in minimize and strategically position Burnaby, BC, to improve capacity the support columns, allowing and accessibility, and address the unimpeded pedestrian flow to the surrounding community’s needs. floor levels below. The station is TransLink’s second- APEGBC members, Translink: busiest SkyTrain station, with more Mark Minson, P.Eng., Jennifer than 50,000 commuters passing MacLean, P.Eng.; Fast + Epp (structural through it daily. It is also one of the consultant): Duane Palibroda, P.Eng., original Expo Line stations, having Struct.Eng., Brian Seo, P. Eng.; AES opened in 1986. Engineering (electrical consultant): Ahmet Ulker, P.Eng., Phil O’Neill, P.Eng., The project includes three new fare- Amrit Mahal, EIT; The AME Consulting gate entries, a passerelle centered Group (mechanical consultant): Zlatko within the station, and 60-metre Puljic, P.Eng., Jerry Chung, EIT, Eric expansions at the station’s east and Cresswell, EIT; MMM Group (civil west ends. The expansions feature consultant): Laurel Richl, P.Eng., Floris Van Weelderen, P.Eng.

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New hospitals achieve LEED Gold requirements Under the BC Ministry of Health’s Design and construction methods on North Island Hospitals Project, these two new CSA Z317.2-10– two new hospitals are being built compliant, LEED Gold hospitals to improve quality of healthcare include a column-hung forming system for patients and increase capacity for the main suspended floor slabs, on Vancouver, BC. Both facilities chillers with exhaust-air heat-reclaim are designed with environmental coils for heat recovery, outbreak sustainability in mind. control zones, systems for variable air volume, active gas scavenging, Graham Design Builders LP reverse osmosis, and clean-agent partnered with Stantec Consulting fire suppression. Post-disaster to provide design and construction solutions include external hookups, services for the acute-care dual incoming water feeds, 72-hour facilities. Graham applied construction propane-fuel backup systems and best practices and sustainable emergency sanitary storage tanks. design criteria to achieve LEED Gold certification, promote environmental APEGBC member, Graham Design quality, and achieve the project Builders LP: Imtae Lee, P.Eng. schedule and cost baseline.

Brock Commons advances use of wood in tall buildings The UBC Brock Commons student residence sets new wood-construction standards by using advanced wood-based building systems and demonstrating use of wood in tall buildings. The timber superstructure of UBC Brock Commons APEGBC members, Fast+Epp (structural engineering, in is an innovative application of cross-laminated timber panels, conjunction with Acton Ostry Architects and Hermann Kaufmann which are point-supported on glulam columns, eliminating Architekten): Paul Fast, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., Robert Jackson, EIT; ACC Structural Engineers: Bernhard Gafner, P.Eng. (at the need for beams. Offsite prefabrication of the structure, Fast+EPP during project); FP Innovations (structural lab testing): the building-envelope panels, the main roof panels, and Paul Symons, P.Eng.; GeoPacific Consultants (geotechnical some interior items facilitated fast erection in just over nine engineering): Michael Indelak, P.Eng., Steve Fofonoff, P.Eng., weeks. Peter Wittstock, EIT; GHL Consultants (fire and building code At 53 metres and 18 storeys, UBC Brock Commons is engineering): Andrew Harmsworth, P.Eng., Gary Chen, P.Eng.; Kamps Engineering (civil/utilities engineering): Michael currently the world’s tallest wood building. It provides 404 Kamps, P.Eng.; RDH Building Engineering (building envelope student residence beds, and each suite includes its own engineering): Brian Hubbs, P.Eng., Graham Finch, P.Eng.; integrated kitchen facilities. The building has been designed Read Jones Christofferson (structural peer review): Grant to LEED Gold standard and is an integrated project delivery Newfield, P.Eng.; Stantec (mechanical engineering): Svetlana and building information modeling project, with build videos Vujic, P.Eng.; Urban One Builders (construction planning and shared extensively in the industry. management): Brent Olund, P.Eng. (Photo: KK Law)

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Building furthers corporation’s sustainability goals The Coast Capital Head Office, electronically commutated motors dubbed “Help Headquarters” that are connected to the City of and located in Surrey, BC, Surrey district energy system. encompasses seven above- The project’s guiding principles ground and three underground included a creative and levels to house offices, retail accessible work environment, store space, a daycare, bank community connection, and branch and cafeteria. This environmental sustainability. LEED Gold-registered building features numerous sustainability The Integral Group provided technologies such as heat- mechanical consulting services for recovery ventilation, high- this project. efficiency Aermec air-cooled APEGBC members, Integral Group: chillers, low-flow water fixtures, Jubin Jalili, P.Eng., Kenneth Ng, P.Eng. lighting power–density reductions, (Photo Credit: Jubin Jalili) and four-pipe fan coils with

Steel construction enables cantilevered cinema Marine Gateway is a transit- complex had to cantilever over oriented multi-use development one of these, and extremely containing office and residential limited space for load transfer was space, retail and a cinema available. Choosing steel rather complex. Targeting LEED Gold than traditional concrete in the certification, Marine Gateway cinema construction enabled the features geothermal heating and structural engineers to reduce the cooling with an ambient heat– load considerably. This allowed recovery energy loop, thermal much of the weight to transfer mass, and sun-shading devices. onto a single, elegant column. A key challenge for structural APEGBC members, engineering consultant Glotman•Simpson Consulting Glotman•Simpson involved fitting Engineers (structural engineering): the development between two Micheál O’Keeffe, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., major transit hubs. The cinema Neil Wilson, P.Eng.

Sustainable design leads to net increase in habitat quality Tsawwassen Mills mall features 111,000 square metres of Primary civil consultant Associated Engineering worked with retail space located on Tsawwassen First Nation lands on BC’s developer and manager Ivanhoé Cambridge to develop the Highway 17. The mall’s design and construction addressed 75-hectare greenfield site. The project involved planning, design challenging soil conditions and a high water table, and achieved and construction of 32 lane-kilometres of municipal roads and sustainable design goals. highways, a 6,000-stall parking lot, 3.8 kilometres of water mains, 5.5 kilometres of sanitary force mains, 1.4 kilometres of storm sewers, 25 culverts, two drainage overshot gates, one drainage pumpstation upgrade, one pressure reducing–valve station, and three sanitary lift stations. Stormwater runoff is directed into rain gardens onsite and vegetated bioswales offsite, and is treated in oil/water separators before discharge. Sustainable design features resulted in a net increase in the quality and area of natural habitat. APEGBC members, Associated Engineering: Helen Chan, P.Eng., Shaun Bidulka, P.Eng.; InterCAD Services: Stephen Clinton, P.Eng.

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School becomes the first base-isolated building in Canada Vancouver’s Lord Strathcona Elementary School is one of APEGBC members, Ausenco: John Sherstobitoff, P.Eng., Sebastian British Columbia’s oldest, continuously operating schools. Guerrero, P.Eng., Ramin Latifi-Naeini, P.Eng., Danny Yu, P.Eng., Three heritage buildings, to continue to be used as school Struct.Eng., Reza Mousavi-Jarrahi, P.Eng., Aref Arefnia, P. Eng., buildings in the future, were assessed as having high seismic Amir Afrasiabi Garekani, EIT, Miguel Fraino-Gonzalez, EIT risk. Ausenco was contracted to design the seismic upgrades. Two buildings were upgraded using conventional upgrading methods—one externally, one internally. The third building— a load-bearing, unreinforced brick and stone building built in 1897—was upgraded using base-isolation technology. This is the first time base isolation has been applied to a building in Canada. The upgrade completely separates the structure above the isolation plane (yellow line in photo) from that below, with the school’s upper floors now connected to the basement walls and columns by only 30 isolators, devices that ‘soften’ the response and dissipate energy during earthquakes. Perimeter load-bearing stone walls were saw cut, and flat-jacks were used to transfer the vertical load to the isolators. The work conserved the building’s exterior heritage aspects and will enable the building to be used immediately after an earthquake. Projects elsewhere in the world have typically used below-grade, below-foundation isolation planes in buildings. This project shows applying an above-ground, mid-structure isolation plane is cost-effective.

Shoring supported three storeys of walls without touching main floor aDB Engineering provided temporary structure engineering during restoration of the Vancouver School Board’s Lord Strathcona Elementary School. The team designed custom shoring to support three storeys of brick walls so that the main floor could be removed and a new slab could be poured. To accomplish this, the team designed a system to hold up the second and attic floors and the roof loads without touching the main floor for support. Custom hollow structural section (HSS) shoring posts that bore on specific concrete footings both the brick wall and the lattice work of support were used to support the second floor. The attic floor members. The main support system was laterally was shored using regular reusable, rentable items supported by using horizontal and diagonal struts from an equipment supplier. Wall uniformity was anchored into the new footings. ensured by bolting horizontal and vertical members APEGBC members, Sean Dingley, P.Eng., Andrew to the existing brace walls, thereby supporting Boettcher, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., Arben Gashi, P.Eng. v

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IN MEMORIAM of the following E.M. Baird, P.Eng., O. Bot, P.Eng., F. Campbell, P.Eng., L.A. Paul, P.Eng., The Association members: Burnaby, BC Castlegar, BC St. Alberta, AB Surrey, BC announces with C.A. Aird, P.Eng., W.H. Blakeston, P.M. Butler, P.Eng., D.P. Dodge, P.Eng., R.C.W. Smyth, regret the passing Vancouver, BC Abbotsford, BC Victoria, BC Langley, BC P.Eng., Cork, G.J. Donnelly, Ireland c lassifieds P.Eng. M.H. Tromp, P.Eng., K.H. Engelhardt, Victoria, BC P.Eng., J.H. Van Wijlen, Vancouver, BC P.Eng., You can’t aord I.W. Hargreaves, Beaconsfield, QC P.Eng., North G.K. Vanslyke, to guess! Vancouver, BC P.Eng., Victoria, P.R. Holland, BC Will your drilling method show samples like these? P.Eng., Nakusp, G.L. Wilcox, P.Eng., Continuous core of coarse gravel formation. Does your project’s geotechnical report include a soil stratigraphy BC Vancouver, BC borehole log based upon SONIC DRILLING TECHNOLOGY? B. Houlden, P.Eng., LIFE MEMBERS The SONIC DRILLING SYSTEM provides the highest quality soil and ground Kelowna, BC The following water samples to meet the challenges of today’s geotechnical and A.D. Huffman, members have geo-construction markets. P.Eng., Sidney, BC been granted Life J.E. Hughes, P.Eng., Membership under Victoria, BC Bylaw 10(c1) D.R.O. Lennox, B.O. Andersson, Large diameter core of sand formation. P.Eng., Nanaimo, P.Eng., FEC BC G.S. Hsu, P.Eng. www.mudbaydrilling.com | p. [604] 888.2206 A.C. Mullen, P.Eng., C.V. Kartha, P.Eng. West Vancouver, P.S. Lotay, P.Eng. BC A.K. Mak, P.Eng. R.F. Murfitt, P.Eng., B.A. Slim, P.Eng. Nanaimo, BC D.M. Thompson, T.P. O’Connor, P.Eng. P.Eng. v

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Improvements to Volunteer Onboarding APEGBC is committed to creating a receiving a standardized welcome package, support they need to be successful in their welcoming and inclusive environment that volunteers now also receive a link to our role. All volunteers, including existing values and respects diversity, both within our new volunteer guidelines on our website. volunteers, are asked to read through these organization and in our larger community. The guidelines describe APEGBC’s guidelines to ensure they understand how In the 2015 APEGBC Volunteer mission, vision and values, as well as best to function as an APEGBC volunteer. Engagement Survey, our volunteers our commitments to our volunteers. Our new onboarding process will indicated they wanted a more In addition, the guidelines ask for a help ensure we maintain a welcoming consistent orientation process. Based commitment from volunteers in several and inclusive environment where our on that feedback, we have improved critical areas, including confidentiality, volunteers are comfortable learning and our onboarding process for volunteers professionalism, respectfulness and developing their skills, confident in sharing to ensure they have the resources they accountability. The guidelines strive to their expertise, open to meeting new need to feel welcome and succeed in ensure our volunteers function in a safe people, and successful in building their their volunteer position. In addition to environment and have the resources and professional networks.

Seeking Volunteers Registration and Expert Review Committees APEGBC seeks volunteers for its various Registration and Expert Review committees. These featured volunteer roles are critical to the application process of prospective members. In particular, the association needs qualified member–volunteers for the following roles: • Registration Competency • R egistration Fairness Panel Expert • Registration Reviewers – Assessors Reviewer (Mining Discipline) Board of Examiners • Registration Interviewers Visit apeg.bc.ca/Volunteer-Registration-Committees for information and to apply. Science Spotlight Outreach Initiative APEGBC is partnering with three regional library networks in BC to engage local students in engineering and geoscience. To support this new outreach initiative, we are looking for volunteers in or near the following cities: • Agassiz • Victoria • Revelstoke • Hope • Vernon • Oyama • Chilliwack • West Kelowna Learn more about APEGBC’s partnership with BC libraries and how to volunteer: apeg.bc.ca/Sci-Spotlight-vol-call

Foundation Supports Tomorrow’s Professionals The APEG Foundation supports BC’s Julia Lenton, a fourth-year mechanical Institute of Technology’s new Mining and engineering and geoscience future by engineering student at the University Mineral Resource Engineering program. providing scholarships and bursaries to of British Columbia – Okanagan, has Aside from his school work, Uzair students enrolled in related studies at volunteered as vice president and executive volunteers at meetings to provide support BC post-secondary institutions. Thanks secretary of UBC’s Okanagan Campus and guidance to prospective students to community-minded individuals who Aero Club, which builds unmanned aerial by sharing his experiences, knowledge generously contribute, the Foundation's vehicles. She is passionate about promoting about the program, and study tips. He is program expands each year. the enrolment, success, and employment passionate about the outdoors and loves This year, the Sheri Plewes Scholarships of women in engineering—as part of a to hike, camp, snowboard, bike, and play for Women in Engineering, valued at $2,000, GoENG Girl event, she introduced girls in sports. Uzair is eager to begin his career was awarded to Julia grades 6–9 to engineering by working at a mine site to Lenton (Left). The disciplines though lab tours gain hands-on experience. Frank Baumann and hands-on activities. His ultimate career goal is to Bursary, valued at She also volunteered for become a consultant to share $1,500, was awarded to the university’s Women in his expertise with mining Uzair Farooqi (Right). Engineering “Introduce a companies. The recipients were Girl to Engineering” event The APEG Foundation selected from among to encourage female high offers scholarships throughout a large pool of high- school students to enroll the year for high school calibre candidates, in the Faculty of Applied graduates and post-secondary and the Foundation Science. students. To find a list of congratulates them Uzair Farooqi is scholarships currently on their well-earned finishing his third-year accepting applications, visit award. in British Columbia apeg.bc.ca/scholarships.

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Richmond/Delta Branch held its annual Science and Engineering Fair and Popsicle Stick Bridge Building Competition at the Richmond Public Library’s Brighouse Library, March 4.

National Engineering and Geoscience Month Wraps Up APEGBC hosted another successful IMAX's engineering documentary Dream Innovative discoveries and technologies National Engineering and Geoscience Big and TRIUMF Labs to host public tours. can make a difference in the world—from Month (NEGM) this year. The theme was APEGBC and the Applied Science smart phones to energy efficiency, to new “My ideas make a difference.” Technology and Technicians of BC and safer ways to travel. All possibilities During the month, APEGBC and our (ASTTBC) held a drawing contest for kids start with just one idea, and that idea branches around the province organized ages 4 to 12. Kids were asked to draw a can make a difference to society and to family-oriented events, including picture of an invention that would make our lives. Professional engineers and Engineering and Geoscience Fest, popsicle a difference in someone’s life. APEGBC geoscientists truly make a difference. stick bridge building contests, Science thanks all 150 participants. To view all To view more NEGM events and photos Games and Dig Day. In addition, we the winning drawing contest submissions, by APEGBC branches, visit apeg.bc.ca partnered with Science World to promote visit apeg.bc.ca/NEGM. /2017-NEGM-branch-events.

Left: East Kootenay Branch members assisted at a spaghetti bridge building competition at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook, BC, and visited the grade 3–4 class at St. Mary’s Elementary School in Cranbrook. Right: Peace River Branch’s annual Popsicle Stick Bridge Competition drew a crowd that filled a set of gymnasium bleachers at Fort St. John’s Dr. Kearney Middle School, on March 11.

5 6 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n Behind the Scenes at an NEGM Event The Final Hours Unfold Before Tri-City Branch’s Annual Popsicle Stick Bridge Building Competition

Karen Chan, P.Eng., Jane Guo, P.Eng.

April 8, 2017 – After more than three have led NEGM popsicle months of planning, the Big Day has stick bridge building finally arrived. Tri-City Branch is competitions before. This holding its annual NEGM Popsicle Stick year, the organizing committee relied coordinators, many entries this year Bridge Building Competition. heavily on Cam’s brochure, rulebook, are supported by teachers. Through her Jane Guo, P.Eng., 2016/2017 Chair and construction tips. An FAQ website neighbor, Sarah connected with SNAPD of Tri-City Branch, reviews her "to do" also saved time by anticipating and and The Tri-City News to promote the list. She has updated it continually since responding to questions from parents, NEGM event to community organizations, planning began. Like all APEGBC contestants, teachers and sponsors. including Under the GUI – Coding for branches, Tri-City Branch relies on Jane thinks of Inn, who spent hours Kids, Science Al!ve at SFU, Robokids and dedicated to make events like this contacting School District 43 and teachers, UME Academy. happen. Her list details each volunteer’s assembling bridge building kits, obtaining Coquitlam Library employees at City responsibilities at this event. sponsorship pledges, and managing event Centre Branch have also been awesome, Jane counts 20 volunteers* on the list, email inquiries. He also distributed the kits Jane thinks. They helped pre-register including three former Tri-City Branch to participating schools. Thanks to Sarah participants and held bridge kits for chairs. Cam, Stella and Gloria each and Dan, the branch’s school outreach pickup by contestants.

* Sarah Alloisio, P.Geo., Ovi Almasan, P.Eng., Anett Briggs, P.Geo., Lenka Kral, P.Eng., Gloria Kwong, EIT, Dan Meldrum, P.Eng., Karen Chan, P.Eng., Stella Chiu, P.Eng., Ana Coady, P.Eng., Michael Meslin, EIT, Sean O’Sullivan, P.Eng., Yue (Michael) Doru Cornescu, P.Eng., Jing Du, P.Eng., Cam Finnigan, P.Eng., Qiu, P.Eng., Inn Tang, P.Eng., Stefanie Teo, EIT, Owen Wou. Jane Guo, P.Eng., Christopher Homes, P.Geo., Michael Jewett, EIT,

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Jane notices Ovi’s arrival. He will some Tri-City Branch NEGM photos to “Things are going just fine,” Jane assemble the bridge tester on loan begin the celebrations. reassures herself, as she and Brian from WSP and set up the computer Cam holds a microphone, ready to step forward to begin their opening recorder. The day before, he and begin his commentary on each bridge as speeches. “Let the games begin—We Jane visited WSP’s Richmond office stress loads are added to determine its have 128 bridges to break!” to learn how to assemble the heavy strength. rigs. Doru will return them to WSP tomorrow. Because many contestants and parents at last year’s event felt weighing and testing the bridges took too long, the Tri-City Branch NEGM team has arranged for two test rigs this year. Operators standing by! A YEAR can Jing, who has just flown back CHANGE from a construction project in Fort Nelson, BC, mentions last year’s EVERYTHING glitch with the electronics, and shows Mike J., Mike M. and Owen how to work the testers. Dr. Brian Chapell, Douglas College’s Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology, has arranged the event’s projectors, screens, and microphones. Brian is a keen supporter of the Tri-City Branch and its NEGM event—today marks the fifth year the college’s Coquitlam campus has hosted the popsicle stick bridge building competition. Jane introduces Lenka to Brian. Lenka has drafted a detailed floor plan showing where the sponsorship mel.ubc.ca and judges’ tables are to be set up. Mitsubishi Electric, the event’s largest financial supporter this year, has a prominent display. Lafarge Concrete also has a display table. Sean, who works for the City of Coquitlam and has just arrived, has collected donations from his co-workers at the city’s engineering department to support the event, while Michael Q. also obtained pledges for funds from Suncor. The volunteers are now all onsite. Gloria is laying out certificates and setting up the helium tank for balloons. Ana and Stefanie are organizing the branch’s display table. The rock plaques that Dan designed and had made to commemorate the event really seem to rock with the kids! Jane, Inn and Stella will judge entries for the “most creative design” award. But wait!—The opening slide show has started. Anett organized

5 8 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n Sea to Sky Branch Tour Introduces Members to North Shore Geology Dr. Mahmoud Mahmoud, P.Eng., FEC, Brooke Clements, P.Geo.

On September 24, 2016, more than 20 contains 30-million-year-old volcanic the basin continues to receive sediments professional engineers and geoscientists rocks—covering 100 million years of deposited in river deltas. and others took part in the Sea to Sky geologic time in one outcrop—as well When we hiked along the Capilano Branch–organized Tour and Introduction as igneous dykes and a fault. Bottomer River Valley, near the Cleveland Dam, we to the Geology of the North Shore, led by explained that the rocks were once buried saw evidence that the valley was filled by a Lindsay Bottomer, P.Geo., FGC. Bottomer 12 kilometres below the surface, and he glacial lake 40,000 years ago. The evidence has travelled the world exploring for showed us how geologists interpret rocks took the form of lake sediments, the age of base metals and gold and has long been a to determine age relationships. A keen which has been determined by analyzing dedicated APEGBC volunteer. participant spotted epidotes—lime-green the pollen trapped within them. We were The seven-hour field trip included stops minerals— embedded in cavities within shown thin layers of sediment—called at Pilot House in Caulfield, the Cypress the granitic rock. varves—that represent annual sediment Mountain lookout point, Capilano River At the Cypress Mountain lookout deposition. Regional Park, and the Cleveland Dam. point, we reviewed the geologic history Everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy Among the tour’s highlights, we of the Vancouver area. We learned that the tour, and was happy for the day spent viewed an amphibolite outcrop at Pilot the Georgia Basin was formed about on this professional development activity, House. The amphibolite, at 135 million 65 million years ago, when it began which can be tracked under the “formal” years old, is the oldest-known rock in the filling with sediments that turned to category within APEGBC’s CPD reporting Vancouver area. The same outcrop also sandstone and conglomerate, and that and recording guidelines.

Symposium Explores Canadian Ship Design for Dual-Fueled LNG Ferries John Morgan, P.Eng., FEC

On March 16, APEGBC’s Sea to Sky attended the joint presentation. ship storage are developing in concert Branch and the Society of Naval The presenters comprised experts with the design process. Architects and Marine Engineers’ on LNG ship design, construction, and BC Ferries Corporation’s Director Pacific Northwest division presented a fleet handling. of Engineering Services Greg Peterson symposium on Canadian ship design for Tony Vollmers, P.Eng., is Vard provided an overview of the feasablity dual-fueled liquid natural gas (LNG)– Marine Inc.’s lead mechanical engineer evaluation and decision making process propulsion ferries. Eighty members for the Canadian polar icebreaker to choose LNG. He then discussed the project, the Royal Canadian Navy new LNG ferries going into service, the Arctic and offshore patrol vessel mid-life refit of the Spirit Class ferries, concept design, the US Coast Guard and the training that is required for offshore patrol cutter project, and the employees at all levels because of the use current Chilean icebreaker design. of LNG fuel on ferries. With 27 years at He is also involved in the Société BC Ferries, Greg’s experience includes des traversiers du Québec’s 94-metre maintenance and engineering projects, ferries being built by Davie, Harvey technical investigations, environment Gulf’s LNG platform supply vessel, management, and regulatory regimes. Seaspan’s dual-fuel trailer ferry, and Calum McClure, P.Eng., who has the ongoing BC Ferries Spirit Class more than 15 years of experience LNG conversion. Tony introduced working on LNG projects and served the symposium attendees to the latest with Teekay Corporation—which information about using LNG in owns the world’s second-largest ferry fuel systems, including existing independently owned LNG fleets— safety assessments and integration reviewed transportation, storage of onshore and shipboard system vessels, safe handling and training for requirements. He also outlined how LNG-fuel handling for gas release and standards for on-deck refueling and in- fire suppression in Canada. v

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Design Flood Hydrology Under a Changing Climate Brian Chow, P.Eng., Dr. Dave Spittlehouse, P.Ag., Dr. Francis Zwiers, Kathy Hopkins, RPF, Harshan Radhakrishnan, P.Eng., Lee DesLauriers, P.Eng., Dr. Matthias Jakob, P.Geo., Megan Hanacek, RPF, RPBio, Dr. Paul Whitfield

British Columbia’s hydrological cycles resource-industry practices. They also resource infrastructure is critical to are changing, and many resource discussed possible changes to design determining the design, operations and professionals are grappling with the flow requirements under the Forest and maintenance strategies that will be useful implications for design of bridges, Range Practices Act and dealing with in addressing risks, costs and benefits in culverts and other structures. Design hydrologic non-stationarity. infrastructure design. Climate change flood hydrology is already complex, but will add one additional component of Information, Tools and Guidance climate change will make it more so. uncertainty for the design of structures APEGBC recently hosted a workshop Needed on small and typically steep creeks. on design flood hydrology for BC’s Participants identified information, Reliably quantifying other uncertainties natural resource professionals. Funded tools and guidance needed to effectively inherent in ungauged basins is also by Ministry of Forests, Lands, and address changing climate in structure important. In this context, changes in Natural Resource Operations and design. These included more LIDAR hydroclimatic extremes, rather than supported by the Association of BC data to understand the geomorphology, annual means, are key. Forest Professionals, the workshop climate change–based intensity– addressed climate change–induced duration–frequency (IDF) curves, a tool Updates to the Climate Change variations in precipitation patterns, for quantifying risk of debris floods, Information Portal resulting flood hydrology, and steep- policy, practice guidelines, rules of thumb APEGBC has updated its Climate creek processes. for scaling culvert designs, metrics Change Information Portal to include More than 140 professionals explored for changes to run-off coefficients, more resources for professional issues related to terrain stability information about experimental basins, engineers and geoscientists in the and the design and maintenance and watershed models. natural resources sector who are actively of natural resource infrastructure. involved in design flood hydrology. They viewed presentations, reviewed Next Steps In addition, APEGBC offers members case studies and discussed strategies It became clear that best-available professional development opportunities for improving the robustness of science includes a great deal of and guidelines to support members in natural resource infrastructure in a climate information to help advance their consideration of climate change in changing climate, gaining insight into understanding of the potential effects of their professional practice. current understanding of possible climate change on design flood hydrology. future changes to hydrology and Close collaboration between hydrologists, Visit the Climate Change Information potential impacts to natural resource geomorphologists, meteorologists, Portal, apeg.bc.ca/climateportal, for more infrastructure, as well as into current climatologists, and owners of natural information about the workshop.

6 0 M AY/JUNE 2017 i n n o v a t i o n New Guidelines Available for Riparian Area Assessments and Flood Mapping Professional Practice Guidelines – been appended to the Riparian Areas should follow in providing professional Legislated Riparian Area Assessments Regulation, until now professional services related to this professional in British Columbia provide guidance practice guidelines for riparian activity, and specify the tasks APEGBC and establish the standard of assessments had not been available. members should perform to fulfill their practice when carrying out riparian APEGBC, the Association of BC Forest professional obligations. assessments consistent with BC’s Professionals (ABCFP) and the College The flood mapping guidelines Riparian Areas Regulation. of Applied Biology (CAB) produced were developed with support of The guidelines clarify issues around the guidelines, with input from the BC the BC Ministry of Transportation carrying out riparian assessments, Institute of Agrologists, and the Applied and Infrastructure – Emergency including matters related to the Science Technologists and Technicians Management BC. respective roles and responsibilities of of BC (ASTTBC). APEGBC, ABCFP Professionals carrying out riparian various registered professionals involved and CAB are working to provide related area assessments or flood mapping in in a riparian assessment. Residential, training opportunities later this year. BC need to be aware of their obligations commercial, industrial, and other Flooding Mapping in BC regarding the appropriate standard development activities can directly affect Professional Practice Guidelines of care for this work, and are urged nearby aquatic habitats. Legislation – Flooding Mapping in BC provide to familiarize themselves with these requires that a riparian assessment be guidance on professional practice professional practice guidelines. completed by a Qualified Environmental for APEGBC members who prepare Find the guidelines at apeg.bc.ca/ Professional before a development flood maps for river, creek and coastal guidelines. For information, contact an permit can be issued for work in that flooding in BC. The guidelines describe APEGBC professional practice advisor, at area. Although assessment methods had the standard of care APEGBC members [email protected]

Introduction of the Energy Step Code as an Amendment to the BC Building Code Peter Mitchell, P.Eng., Susan Hayes, P.Eng., Harshan Radhakrishnan, P.Eng.

Effective April 7, 2017, the BC Energy in the Lower Mainland, on southern Step Code has been introduced as an Vancouver Island, and in the south amendment to the 2012 BC Building Okanagan. It enables building owners Code (BCBC). The BC Energy Step to voluntarily build to the requirements Code is a voluntary compliance path in the BC Energy Step Code or be within the BCBC (via new Subsections incentivized or required to do so under 9.36.6. and 10.2.3. of Division B) that local government bylaws and policies. establishes progressive performance The Building and Safety Standards targets (or steps) to support Branch is consulting with APEGBC and transformation from the current AIBC regarding the revisions to Letters energy-efficiency requirements in the of Assurance under the BCBC as a result BC Building Code to net zero energy– Organizational Quality of this amendment. Guidance will be OQM Management Program ready buildings by 2032. provided on their use through a bulletin On December 15, 2017, section 5 The following organizations have recently and practice guidelines for whole received OQM Certification. Find out more of the Building Act will require local building energy modelling services, at apeg.bc.ca/oqm. governments wishing to set higher both now being developed. Additional ABM Engineering Services energy-efficiency standards than those education materials and training BEST Consultants Building in the BCBC to do so using the BC opportunities will be available from Science Engineering Inc. Energy Step Code, while current local CH2M HILL Canada Limited APEGBC and the Energy Step Code government bylaws with technical FWS Group of Companies Council in coming months. v building requirements will be rendered Interior Dams Inc. of no legal force. The Energy Step Resources are available at www2.gov. NEXT Environmental Inc. NRS Engineering Ltd. Code will apply to new residential bc.ca/gov/content/industry/construction- Starline Windows Ltd. construction province-wide, and to industry/building-codes-standards/ Tetra Tech Canada Inc. multi-unit and commercial buildings energy-efficiency/energy-step-code.

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Disciplinary Notice: Daniel Lu-Chin Wu, P. Eng., Burnaby, BC A Notice of Inquiry was issued to Mr. Wu regarding his B. Mr. Wu will complete the APEGBC Professional mechanical engineering services. In lieu of proceeding to Engineering and Geoscience Practice in BC Online a disciplinary inquiry, Mr. Wu agreed to a Consent Order Seminar by May 15, 2017; dated February 17, 2017. By way of the Consent Order, Mr. C. Mr. Wu will complete the APEGBC Working Wu admitted that he demonstrated unprofessional conduct in Canada Seminar by May 15, 2017; and by providing a written assurance through a sealed Schedule B to the City of Surrey that a fire suppression system D. if Mr. Wu does not complete the requirements set complied with the requirements of the British Columbia out at items B and C above, Mr. Wu’s membership in Building Code when Mr. Wu lacked reasonable and factual APEGBC will be automatically suspended. basis to provide the assurance. Further, Mr. Wu admitted The full text of the Consent Order agreed to by Mr. Wu can that he affixed his APEGBC seal and signature to design be found on our website at https://www.apeg.bc.ca/For-Members/ drawings that he had not prepared or were not prepared Complaints/Disciplinary-Actions under his direct supervision. Find information on the association’s complaint, investigation and As part of the Consent Order, Mr. Wu agreed to the following: discipline process at apeg.bc.ca/For-Members/Complaints. You A. Mr. Wu’s membership in APEGBC will be suspended can also contact us at 604.412.4869 or toll-free at 1.888.430.8035 for two months; ext. 4869 or by email at [email protected].

By the Numbers Organizations that employ APEGBC professionals significantly influence the practice of the professions. To encourage members’ employer to implement policies and procedures that are consistent with the quality management requirements of the Engineers and Geoscientists Act, APEGBC provides the Organizational Quality Management (OQM) Program to improve quality management practices at the individual and organizational levels. The voluntary program includes certification for organizations. 298

248 240 143 firms certification certified BC undergoing # certification audits and audits certification compliance audits performed engineering/ under OQM. Certification audits geoscience occur when organizations firms apply for certification. Compliance audits occur after 97 certification to encourage ongoing compliance with the 57compliance program’s quality management audits # engineering and geoscience requirements. firms certified and undergoing

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Learn how to June 8, 2017 keep your data and photos more organized, accessible, Now more than ever, individuals at work want a leader Seismic Retrofit Guidelines Third Edition (SRG3) and useful to yourself and your intended audience. whom they can trust—someone whose values and June 22, 2017; Vancouver, BC and Webinar character they can identify with. In short, they want to The SRG3 workshop provides training on the new edition Webinar: Marketing and Selling Professional be lead by a person who is genuine. The most impactful of the Seismic Retrofit Guidelines and the updated Seismic Services leaders demonstrate a passion for their purpose—they Performance Analyzer (Analyzer 1 Version 3.0). The work- June 1, 2017 are driven by vision and connected to their values, while shop provides an overview of the 11 volumes contained This workshop has proven to be an extremely powerful still being able to share their own weaknesses and within the Manual for SRG3. Importantly, SRG3 considers and practical learning experience for all customer contact fears. Authentic leaders have the privilege to be really the effects of the new ground motions developed for the people. This course covers creating and communicating transformational leaders who can motivate other people National Building Code of Canada 2015. value, client-centered selling, strategic selling, building to leave their mark. NAFTA Requirement for Working in the United and maintaining client relationships, and state-of-the-art Fundamentals of Power System Protection tactical selling skills. States June 12–15, 2017; Vancouver, BC September 27, 2017; Vancouver, BC Technical Writing: Solutions for Effective Written This course introduces the subject of power system Have you ever considered working in the United States Communication protection to enable engineers to understand techniques (US) and are not sure how to begin? Under NAFTA law, June 1, 2017; Vancouver, BC of applying and setting protective relays. It covers short certain professionals including engineers, geoscientists This seminar provides practical, applicable solutions, and circuit analysis, symmetrical components, overcurrent and engineering technicians can often obtain “Trade techniques for how to express your thoughts succinctly in protection, distribution system protection, differential NAFTA” (TN) Visas to work in the US, once they receive written format. Through a series of hands-on workshops, protection and transformer protection. In addition, an employment offer from an appropriate US employer. you’ll learn to write effective emails, technical memos, transmission line protection is discussed. Alternatively, experienced professionals may be en- letters, reports, and other documents. Whether you’re gaged as “consultants” under NAFTA rules and share Value by Design – Integrating Value Engineering a junior employee or a seasoned professional in your their expertise with US-based businesses. This seminar and Sustainability technical field, this seminar will help you to improve your reviews all viable US immigration options for Canadian technical writing skills. June 15, 2017; Vancouver, BC and Mexican professionals. Value by Design is a collaborative and systematic OQM Certification Training Session approach to a project or product design that draws out June 6, 2017; Kelowna, BC creativity and innovation of the people integrating June 19, 2017; Burnaby, BC their ideas to develop the most efficient and value 2017 Annual Conference and AGM APEGBC’s Organizational Quality Management (OQM) enhanced solutions. October 19–21, 2017; Whistler, BC Program improves the quality management of profes- The 2017 APEGBC Annual Conference and AGM Introduction to Business Writing sional engineering and geoscience practices at the indi- comprise two days of professional development, June 21, 2017; Vancouver, BC vidual and organizational level. This voluntary program networking events, an industry tradeshow, and offers certification to participating organizations. The This seminar is for engineers and geoscientists who wish to your association’s annual general meeting. Profes- OQM Program offers organizations employing APEGBC improve their writing skills. Through a series of hands-on sional development streams include engineering professionals the opportunity to implement or adapt workshops, along with a focus on grammar and related and geoscience in the resource sector, municipal in-house quality management policies and procedures writing principles, you will learn the key elements of busi- engineering, environmental engineering and consistent with the requirements of the Engineers and ness and technical communications for the workplace. We’ll geoscience, emerging professional, management, Geoscientists Act and Bylaws. look at grammar from a pragmatic perspective to develop structural, better business, energy efficiency and your skills to write clearly and succinctly. renewable energy, diversity, and climate change. Geofilters: Granular and Geotextile For conference information and to register online, June 7, 2017; Prince Rupert, BC Roles and Responsibilities of a Qualified Person visit apeg.bc.ca/ac17. June 22, 2017; Vancouver, BC In this course, you will learn to develop an understanding of the fundamental concepts that govern the Involvement of a Qualified Person in preparing public disclosure design of filters in geotechnical applications; identify on mining projects is a fundamental principle of National Call for Presenters the nature and limitations of empiricism in design Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Are you an expert in your field who would like to contribute practice; and, to illustrate, with reference to the The naming of Qualified Persons in disclosure documents to state-of-practice in embankment dam engineering, meet NI 43-101 and stock exchange policies can create ongoing to the future of engineering and geoscience? APEGBC is actively seeking members to present on a variety of topics. 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