NEWSLETTER December 2017
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NEWSLETTER December 2017 In this issue A Welcome from the Chairman _______________________________________________ 2 Restoring one of Vancouver’s architectural treasures: Christ Church Cathedral ___ 4 Emergency Program Management: The City of Surrey model ____________________ 8 Distributed Fiber Sensing Systems ___________________________________________ 10 IET’s Communities Committee for the Americas - CCA Conference _____________ 10 Social event: Celebration of Light Fireworks Cruise____________________________ 11 In prospect: ICE 200, two centuries of civil engineering achievement ____________ 12 CEP Schedule of Technical Meetings & Activities For 2018 ______________________ 13 Become a Chartered Engineer! ______________________________________________ 14 Chartered Engineers Pacific AKA - Western Canada Group of Chartered Engineers www.charterdengineerspacific.ca Members of U.K Institutions of Structural, Civil, Electrical, Building Service and Mechanical Engineers in BC, Alaska, Washington & Yukon charteredengineerspacific.ca A Welcome from the Chairman Our future appears hope, they need to be inspired by a vision, so that challenging, but then it they know where we are going and what we want always does. Major to accomplish at the end: the better world that capital projects in our their efforts will make possible, the thing that we province are being pursue. And, that vision will grow a passion in cancelled, delayed and people. And passionate people, lift us up and take reviewed. us forward. Pacific Northwest LNG cancelled their marine Chartered Engineers Pacific exists to extend our terminal in British Columbia and will now export Sponsoring Institutions' services to their Members, their product through the United States. The to you locally here in British Columbia, and to assist George Massey Tunnel Replacement Project local Professional Engineers, Engineers-in-Training procurement was cancelled and sent for review and Technologists with aspirations to register after an estimated $100 million was spent. professionally in Great Britain. As a Committee, we Mounds of material now compress the ground for set ourselves a vision, a vision to deliver construction that may never occur. The emergency inspirational engineering events and networking services still attend road traffic accidents each day opportunities. and the queues of traffic lengthen. It is easy in uncertain times to passively accept, but The federal government’s approved twinning of the if we are courageous, we can grasp the existing Trans Mountain Pipeline is being opportunities that do exist. We should hold high challenged by our provincial government using the motto nil desperandum. This year, we held “every tool in the toolbox” as our Premier said. eight events: next year, we should hold more. We Challenged, even as construction commences on should strive for monthly events to build and the marine terminal that will handle its product. maintain the enthusiasm within our Members. Bridge tolls are cancelled, negating a generation of Next year, we should hold ten events: six technical traffic projections across the Lower Mainland and presentations, a site visit, a debate, a dinner and a putting us back in our cars. Even the Site-C summer social event. But, we need passionate hydroelectric dam on the Peace River was up for people to lead us and to deliver. review, although it was approved just before Christmas saving taxpayers an estimated $4 billion We need people to stand up and to step forward. bill with nothing to offset it. The future is uncertain We need volunteers to run our Committee. and the impacts may be great for all in our industry. Volunteers who will cooperate, who will work together with their peers from different disciplines Challenges face every generation. They are and different generations. Volunteers who will rise overcome. As we will overcome these challenges, above the competition of our day-jobs to serve our if we remember that people are our most valuable Members. Whether you are working fulltime or resource, with them we can achieve anything; have stepped into retirement, now is an without them, we can do nothing. People are led, opportunity to share the wealth of your not managed. People need to understand the experience. Now is a time to share your thoughts reason for what they are being asked to do. What and ideas. is the purpose, the reason behind what it is we do? However, for people to give their all, they need 2/14 charteredengineerspacific.ca Our AGM is on January 24, 2018 at the Terminal The future is always challenging, but our vision to City Club in Vancouver. Many roles on the deliver inspirational engineering events and Committee, including mine as Chairman are networking opportunities gives us a clear path available for those prepared to stand up and to step forward. Let us walk it together; will you lead us? forward. Will you? Matthew Walton-Knight, CEng PEng MICE Chairman | Chartered Engineers Pacific [email protected] +1 604 506 2863 3/14 charteredengineerspacific.ca Recent Events and Activities Restoring one of Vancouver’s architectural treasures: Christ Church Cathedral On September 19th a very interesting event took place at the fascinating Christ Church Cathedral. Jointly organized by CEP and SEABC - Structural Engineering Association of BC, the presentation was carried out by Ms. Meredith Anderson, MSCE, PEng, Struct.Eng and Senior Project Engineer at RJC, Mr. James Emery, M.Arch, AIBC, MRAIC, PEng, Partner & Prime Consultant at Iredale Architecture, and Mr. Ian Birtwell, Associate Warden for Restoration, Trustee and Volunteer Project Manager. The history of the Christ Church Cathedral goes back to 1889. It was once the brightest and tallest building in the city and, known as the light on the hill, has helped mariners from many different places to reach port safely. It has been serving the community uninterruptedly for almost 130 years. The three experts explained how the building has undergone 2 major extensions over the years (1905 and 1941), and how in 1974 it was agreed to preserve the Cathedral façade, registered as a Class A heritage structure. 4/14 charteredengineerspacific.ca In 1995, the Cathedral community decided to develop a plan to restore the fabric of the building, strengthen its foundations through seismic upgrade and completely renovate its interior. An additional agreement, signed in 2003, was put in place to preserve specific interior heritage elements (ceiling, hammer beams, trusses, etc.). Several restoration jobs were executed afterwards, which significantly improved both the interior (2004/05) and the exterior (2006, which included the installation of the elevator). The three speakers, who held major responsibilities during the 2015 and 2016 restoration project, described in detail how the Cathedral’s roof was raised and replaced with zinc, and how this provided an opportunity to reinforce the original top structure and to complete the 2004 seismic plan with new roof diaphragm, steel grid, and wall anchoring. The project also included the construction of an elegant stained glass 4-bell spire, and the enlargement of the kitchen to better serve Vancouver’s vulnerable and disadvantaged community. The challenges that arose during the execution of the project were numerous and diverse, and included space constraints, complex coordination requirements, on-site logistic restrictions, working with different codes, etc. But these issues also triggered innovative solutions that proved to be very appropriate and successful, such as the temporary structures, the seismic upgrade approach, or the construction and lifting of the bell tower in 2 pieces. 5/14 charteredengineerspacific.ca A few more pictures of the event… Ms. Meredith Anderson, MSCE, PEng, Struct.Eng and Senior Project Engineer at RJC (left) Mr. James Emery, M.Arch, AIBC, MRAIC, PEng, Partner & Prime Consultant at Iredale Architecture (center) Mr. Ian Birtwell, Associate Warden for Restoration, Trustee and Volunteer Project Manager (right) CEP Chairman, Mr. Matthew Walton-Knight and Mr. David Harvey, president of SEABC CEP Committee member and Program Coordinator, Mr. Douglas Yee 6/14 charteredengineerspacific.ca Ms. Meredith Anderson and Mr. James Emery CEP Chairman, Mr. Matthew Walton-Knight 7/14 charteredengineerspacific.ca Emergency Program Management: The City of Surrey Model Presenter: Mr. Mark Griffioen, Deputy Chief of Administration, City of Surrey Fire Service and Emergency Planner. On November 15, our presenter Mr. Mark Griffioen explained how The Surrey Emergency Program is working to make sure the residents and staff of Surrey are as prepared as possible in the event of emergencies such as earthquake, flood or major fire; disasters that could strike at any time. This public safety program is managed by the Surrey Fire Service and operates under Surrey's Emergency Bylaw as a separate department. A major component of the program is Neighbourhood Emergency Preparedness. The aim of the program is to educate residents and encourage them to work together collectively (on say a block by block basis) to be prepared and to be able to take care of themselves for 72 hours after a disaster. By working together in groups and by pooling resources, the population should be in a much stronger position to survive and sustain themselves as opposed to trying to cope in single family units or individually. Following a disaster, it is highly probable that most conventional forms of communication will become severely reduced if