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4388.Civil News June 12 spring 2009 Faculty of Applied Science Civil Engineering News @ EngineeringThe News University of British Columbia The Canada Line Canada Line car travels across the North Arm Bridge connecting Richmond/YVR with Vancouver Construction on Canada Line, a new 18.5 kilometer River to the City of Vancouver. The alignment is elevated rapid transit system that connects Downtown over Marine Drive and enters a tunnel portal at 63rd Vancouver with Vancouver International Airport Avenue. The alignment then continues in a tunnel under (YVR) and Richmond City Centre, started in late the northbound lanes of Cambie Street until it reaches 2005. Full transit service will commence on or Olympic Village Station. The alignment downtown travels before November 2009, in time for the 2010 Winter in twin tunnels under False Creek, Davie Street and Olympics. Following is an overview and update Granville Street to a terminus at Waterfront Station. on the project. There are three major types of structures which The $2 billion project is a public-private form the guideway: partnership between various levels of government • a 2.5 km long bored tunnel, and InTransitBC, the private sector concessionaire. • a 6.5 km cut and cover tunnel, and SNC Lavalin Inc. (SLI) is responsible for all design, • a 7.5 km elevated guideway which includes two bridges. procurement and construction. Near the airport the guideway also includes a two The alignment (see map on page 8) travels from kilometer at-grade section. There are 16 stations on the south to north from near Richmond Centre line, eight underground, six elevated and two at-grade. (Brighouse), along Number 3 Road to Bridgeport The elevated guideway was constructed using the Station. From here the alignment splits in two. precast segmental methodology. The three meter precast One segment travels westbound over the Middle Arm segments were lifted into place using a special truss and of the Fraser River and parallels Grant McConachie post tensioned together into a beam (see image, page 8). Way to a terminus at YVR Airport Station. The second The majority of the elevated alignment is dual guideway segment crosses over the North Arm of the Fraser with track for both directions of travel. Single guideway Continued on page 8 In this Issue 1 The Canada Line 4 Simulating Disasters 7 Passionate about 10 Meet the Faces of 2 Message from the Head 6 Message from the Dean Structural Engineering Civil Engineering Graduate Student Awards Giving back to Civil 9 Student Co-op 12 Faculty Awards 3 Professor Doug Anderson Tongji Symposium Professor Borg Madsen OUR MISSION leading@civil The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia provides an outstanding learning and research environment inspiring technical innovation, and leadership, in social and environmental responsibility, to address current and future challenges. Congratulations to these Graduate Students for being selected for these awards! Ali Abedini Parvez Fattah •BCWWA Award •Donald R. Stanley award for Best Paper Syed Abdullah •Pacific Century Graduate Sepideh Jankhah from the Head Scholarship UBC Graduate •NSERC (PGSD3) Scholarship Message Fellowship •Killam Predoctoral Award Welcome to this issue of the civil@ubc newsletter. Having Kerry Black Bill Johnstone been appointed as the Head of the Civil Engineering •Dr. C. Guarnaschelli •Public Safety Canada Department since July 1, 2008, I hope to make a positive Scholarship impact on the Department which has already benefitted Fellowship in Honour •UBC Environmental from strong leadership and an impressive resume of achieve- of Stuart Nesbitt White Engineering Research ments. We have a world-class facility here that I am proud •Earl R. Peterson Memorial to have the opportunity to lead. As the Head of the Scholarship Scholarship in Civil Department, I hope to help guide the faculty and students •AMEC Masters Scholarship Engineering for Canadian Engineering on an educational journey that, I believe, will teach us all Isabel Londono Memorial Foundation how we can improve the world with our combined efforts. •IAWQ Water Quality Transition has certainly been a theme over the last several Alexander Forrest Scholarship months; we welcome the new Dean of Applied Science, Dr. •Canadian Water Resources Tyseer Aboulnasr; our department has undergone an invigorat- Chad Novotny Association Scholarship ing facelift, from which we will benefit from updated spaces •CAWQ Water Quality •Canadian Space Agency for our faculty and a learning environment that will give Scholarship (CSA) Student Travel Grant students an opportunity to excel in their studies; we have Saifur Rahaman successfully completed a review from the Canadian Blair Fulton •BCWWA Award Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) ensuring that we •Canadian Association on can provide a top-notch education with worldwide recognition Water Quality Scholarship Ryan Thoren to our graduates; we have completed a new strategic plan •Dr. C. Guarnaschelli •UBC Environmental with one of its major goals being the improvement of the cur- Research Scholarship Engineering Research riculum that we offer so we can build on the momentum of •UMA Scholarship in Civil Scholarship our previous achievements and deliver the very best graduates Engineering who make a positive and enduring difference in the quality of •Ian S. Ross Memorial Award people’s lives. in Engineering I hope you will find this issue of civil@ubc interesting •J. Fred Muir Memorial and informative. Our focus in this issue is on the research Scholarship within the Structural and Earthquake Engineering group. Dr. Carlos Ventura gives an overview of his research which simulates human interaction tools to coordinate joint actions by various organizations before and during large scale In our NEXT issue: emergency events. Mr. John Pao, Chair of the Structural • The forward thinking team behind redeveloping the UBC Civil Engineers Association of B.C. (SEABC) discusses his passion Engineering undergraduate Curriculum work to create learning for structural engineering. We welcome some of the people opportunities for students. who have joined Civil Engineering, and bid farewell to those who’ve left us. I hope you gain some insight into the hard • Highlights from the third in a series of lectures work and dedication of the men and women who contribute commemorating the late Professor Noel Nathan, and his to the Department, the University and ultimately to the world. contributions to the Department of Civil Engineering. I welcome your comments and suggestions about • Professor Ventura is ecstatic about the donation of a new this newsletter; please feel free to send me a message at Shaker Table, courtesy of Nokia Products of Burnaby, [email protected] which will enhance the Earthquake Engineering Program. … and much more! Reza Vaziri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Head, Department of Civil Engineering 2 flashback@civil UBC Civil Engineering Remembers Assistant Professor in enough paintings by the Civil Engineering and was Group of Seven that he promoted to Associate could leave one to each of Professor in 1966. He con- his nieces and nephews. tinued to serve the depart- Born in Prince Rupert, ment and Faculty of Applied Doug grew up in Vancouver Science (APSC) from 1964 and studied at UBC, gradu- until his retirement in 1987 ating in 1945 with a B.A.Sc. in various roles, including in Civil Engineering. Upon Assistant to the Head of graduation, he was awarded Civil Engineering, Assistant a Graduate Research to the Dean of APSC and Fellowship at the University Assistant Dean of APSC. of Washington where he Professor Emeritus, From 1948-1956, Doug Doug was an unassum- obtained an M.Sc. degree John Douglas (Doug) worked for the engineering ing person not given to wild in 1947. Prior to beginning Anderson, 1922-2006 department of the Canadian outbursts of enthusiasm, his career at CPR, Doug Pacific Railway (CPR), and but one who has a good was an Instructor in Doug Anderson, long time during his career ascended sense of humour and was a Civil Engineering at UBC Civil Engineering faculty to the fourth ranked engi- faithful friend. He loved from 1946 to 1948. member, passed away neering position for the good bicycles and expensive Doug lived in the family December 8, 2006 at the CPR system, the Assistant cars — Jaguars, Cadillacs (in home in the Dunbar area age of 84. He experienced Engineer of Track. the days when Cadillacs and cared for his aged progressive dementia over In 1958, Doug brought still had some panache) and parents for many years. the last decade. his wealth of experience and Mercedes. He also loved knowledge to UBC as an art, and had collected Professor Emeritus, engineering applications resistance towards the end Borg Madsen, (he coined the words “in- of WWII, and of his alma 1926-2008 grade testing”). He was a mater, Technical University well known national and of Denmark, conferring Professor Borg Madsen, a international figure, with an upon him an Honorary member of the Civil enthusiastic approach Doctorate degree in 1990. Engineering department towards innovations in the He was extraordinarily from 1970 until his retire- forest industries. active in national and ment in 1991, passed away His passion for timber international Codes for tim- in January, 2008. We engineering included ber engineering and was were saddened by this loss. presenting his ideas around a Fellow of the Canadian Borg focused on timber the globe, at educational Society of Civil Engineering. engineering and he was or research institutions in At UBC he never missed a Borg Madsen will be fond of saying that he was Mexico, Chile, Russia, South morning or afternoon coffee missed, and his unique and studying “timber” and Africa and, of course, break, or lunch at the old outstanding contributions to not “wood”. This distinction Denmark, his native land. Faculty Club, with the rest of the advancement of timber led him to a series of inter- A modest man, Borg the faculty.
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