October 2011
CEBC is now the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies - British Columbia
Eve n t s C a l e n d a r
The primary objective that resulted from
the Board’s June Strategic Planning Session, was the need to “increase our ability
to influence”.
November 2011
Nov 2
CEBC Vancouver Island Mixer (Victoria)
Nov 3
YPG Victoria Breakfast Seminar :
Tax Me If You Can (Victoria)
Nov 15
YPG Breakfast Seminar: Finance and
Legal Competency (Vancouver)
Nov 22
Tri-Cities Mixer (Coquitlam)
Nov 25
MED/MMCD AGM (Coquitlam)
January 2012
Jan 12
YPG Breakfast (Vancouver)
details to be announced in December
Jan 25
Shifting Modes - Transportation Conference 2012
see the article on page 2 of this issue of Newsbrief
March 2012
March 14-16
March 31
GLOBE 2012 (Vancouver)
The most recent activity to achieve this
objective, was the 5th annual CEBC Government Relations Day held in Victoria
on October 21st . In addition to the MLA
Breakfast, attended by 16 MLAs and 48
CEBC members, individual meetings were
held with MLAs in Government and the
Opposition.
The breakfast speakers included Minister George Abbott (Education),
MLA Ralph Sultan, one of our best supporters, Doug Donaldson,
deputy opposition critic for Finance and Energy, and CEBC President
Doug Hinton.
Meetings were later held with 10 MLAs. We discussed consulting
engineers’ contributions to the Premiers BC Jobs Plan, as a source
of high-value employment tied to the knowledge economy, and
our issues with an inconsistent infrastructure delivery model, the
30-year ultimate limitation period and procurement issues with the
New West Partnerships Trade Agreement.
CEBC Awards Gala (Vancouver)
CEBC is working for you – to improve our voice with government.
Sincerely,
The Awards Road Show is coming to a location near you! The fifty
entries in the 2011 Awards competition will be displayed throughout
the year at public venues across the province...
Glenn Martin, CAE, Executive Director
Awards Road S h ow Calendar
October, 2011
until Nov 1
Kelowna City Hall
November, 2011
Nov 1 - 25
UBC Okanagan
December, 2011
Nov 28 - Dec 16
District of Maple Ridge (to be confirmed)
January, 2012
Jan 4 - 24
Jan 25
City of Coquitlam
Shifting Modes - Transportation Conference
CEBC Awards Road Show now online
All of the display panels from the 2011CEBC Awards program
can be viewed in CEBC’s online Awards Road Show gallery, at
www.cebc.org/zenphoto/index.php?album=RoadShow
Shifting Modes - Transportation Conference 2012
Canadian Capacity Guide for Signalized Intersections
CEBC Awards Gala Update
Professional Development Committee - Call for Volunteers
Young Professionals Group update
Chris Newcomb to Represent Canada on FIDIC Executive
City of Vancouver Engineering Roundtable - Call for Volunteers
NRC Building Information Modelling (BIM) Seminars
APEGBC Council Election Results
Consulting Engineers Compensation, Benefits and
Employment Practices Survey – Now Available
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October 2011
Shifting Modes
Transportation
Transpo
tation Conference
nferen e 2012
CEBC welcomes you aboard Flight 2012 – the 23rd Annual CEBC
Awards for Engineering Excellence, Saturday March 31, 2012 at the
Westin Bayshore in Vancouver.
www.cebc.org/shiftingmodes.html
The 2012 Awards Competition Guide is now available, and a call for
intents to submit will be issued soon. Now is the time to identify
the projects you’d like to enter in the competition.
Shifting Modes is a transportation conference hosted jointly
by CEBC, the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure,
and TransLink. Shifting Modes takes place on Wednesday,
January 25, 2012 at the Executive Plaza Hotel & Conference
Centre in Coquitlam.
The Awards for Engineering Excellence demonstrate the value
of member firms to clients as they celebrate technical excellence
and innovation in engineering that is simply a cut above the rest.
The Awards have grown more prestigious since the inception of
the program 22 years ago, raising the profile of the recipients to
new heights. They provide CEBC member firms the opportunity to
showcase their projects and their firm to the consulting engineering industry.
Shifting Modes offers presentations in two main streams,
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Shifting Modes in the Port Mann Highway 1 Corridor, and
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Shifting Modes Across the Province
A morning tour of the Port Mann Bridge is planned, preceded
by a breakfast and discussion of the Port Mann Bridge Highway 1 project. Following the technical presentations and
panel discussions in the afternoon, the conference wraps
up with the Deputy Minister’s Awards dinner.
Awards are granted in the following categories:
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Buildings
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Municipal
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Transportation
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Natural Resource, Energy and Industry

Soft Engineering
Registration for the conference opens next week –
CEBC members will be notified by email.
For each of these categories one Award of Excellence and at least
one Award of Merit is presented every year.
Sponsorship Opportunities
cies and
Suppliers, contractors, engineers, geoscientists, agencies
service providers will gain valuable recognition as conference sponsors. For detailed information about conference
sponsorship, please see the Sponsorship Guide at
These extraordinary accomplishments are acknowledged by peers,
colleagues and competitors at the Awards for Engineering Excellence Gala which is our premiere professional and social event of
the year. All entries in the competition are displayed through the
year, in public locations across the province, as part of the CEBC
Awards Road Show.
www.cebc.org/sm2012/ShiftingModes2012-Sponsor.pdf
Sponsorship Opportunities
Gala Sponsorship is open to non-CEBC member companies and
organizations. Gala sponsors have a unique opportunity to
demonstrate their business’ involvement with the consulting
engineering industry and their recognition of the achievements
of the award winning firms. Through sponsorship CEBC offers
a variety of options to showcase companies to the 600 industry
leaders, professional engineers and government officials attending the Gala, and to a broader audience before and after the
Gala. For complete details, see the 2012 Awards Sponsorship
Guide.
Canadian Capacity Guide for Signalized Intersections
Following the endorsement of the Chief Engineers’ Council and
an agreement between TAC and the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Canadian Capacity Guide for Signalized
Intersections is now available as a free download from the TAC
website at:
www.tac-atc.ca/english/resourcecentre/reports.cfm
TAC invites interested parties to visit the website and download
a copy of the Guide for your reference.
For more information, contact:
Sarah Wells, P.Eng., Ph.D.
Director, Technical Programs
Transportation Association of Canada
2323 St. Laurent Blvd.
Ottawa, ON K1G 4J8
(613) 736-1350, ext 229
(613) 736-1395
swells@tac-atc.ca
Looking for Good People?
Does your company have job openings for Engineers, Engineering
Students, or Technicians/Technologists? The CEBC website
www.cebc.org offers a job posting service. Find out more by
contacting us at
info@cebc.org
CEBC members: $100 + HST for a posting of up to 3 months duration.
Non-members (and out-of-province positions): $300 + HST.
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October 2011
Chris Newcomb to Represent Canada on FIDIC's
Executive Committee
CEBC Professional Development Committee
Call for Volunteers
Canadian engineering firms will
continue to have strong representation on international issues with the
election of Chris Newcomb to the
Executive Committee of FIDIC, the
International Federation of Consulting
Engineers.
CEBC has recently re-established the Professional Development
Committee, chaired by the past chair of the Young Professionals
Group, Joel McAllister. The PD committee will seek to promote
the ongoing professional development of CEBC members, with
a special focus on the business side of consulting engineering.
Goals and objectives for this committee were finalized over
the summer by the current five committee members. We are
looking for more volunteers to join this committee. If you would
like to participate, or to learn more about the committee please
contact Joel McAllister at:
Mr. Newcomb is the first Canadian
Executive Member since 2009 and
is currently the Committee's only
representative from North America.
His nomination was put forth by
ACEC, the Association of Consulting
Engineering Companies – Canada.
ACEC President John Gamble highChris Newcomb, P.Eng.
lighted the importance of having a
strong Canadian voice within FIDIC due to increased globalization
and the impact of international events on the Canadian economy.
joel.mcallister@opusdaytonknight.com
Young Professionals Group Update
The Young Professionals Group of CEBC would like to thank the
90 Young Professionals that attended our first Vancouver Breakfast
Seminar of the year on October 12. We would also like to thank
Doug Hinton for a great presentation on Dynamic Leadership in
Project Management, and the Hyatt Regency Hotel staff for an
excellent breakfast!
Mr. Newcomb is President and CEO of McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. He is a past President of CEBC, and former Chair of ACEC.
Currently he chairs the ACEC International Committee. He has also
led ACEC's Student Outreach Committee, which founded the highly
successful Engineering Legacies program. He is an ex officio CEBC
Director, representing ACEC at our board meetings. Among other
roles within the CEBC, he has chaired various industry liaison committees with the BC Ministries of Transportation and Forests.
With extensive local and international engineering experience, Mr.
Newcomb has held executive and advisory roles in many other professional organizations. He is fluent in English, French, and Spanish.
His appointment was one of three announced at FIDIC's 2011
Conference in Davos, Switzerland. The new Executive Committee
members were selected from among seven nominees worldwide
and represent Canada, France, and Sweden respectively. Mr. Newcomb will be responsible for liaising with FIDIC's Young Professionals group and participating in the Business Practice Committee.
FIDIC was founded in 1913 in Geneva, Switzerland. The Federation
aims to represent the engineering industry internationally and to
promote the business interests of consultant engineers. Its 89
member associations currently represent more than one million
professionals.
Our next Breakfast Seminar is November 15, and it will cover the
subject of Finance and Legal Competency: Professional Liability and
Insurance. Be sure to check our Events Calendar to sign up for the
event soon.
Remember to use your Event Passes! We sold 30 of them this year,
so be sure to buy them early for next year!
The theme of this year’s conference was Local Resources – Global
Perspectives. Participants from around the world had the opportunity to hear from, and converse with experts in the field of business
and engineering. Conference presentations can be viewed at:
Our Social Director, Steve Bassel, is planning an informal social
pub-night for November 16. Again, be sure to check our Events
Calendar or future emails for more information!
www.fidic2011.org
Thanks!
Trever Gatto
YPG Communications Director
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October 2011
Call for Participants City of Vancouver Engineering Roundtable
APEGBC Council Election Results
The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of
BC (APEGBC) has elected a new President and Council for the
2011/2012 term. The new APEGBC Executive includes:
The Consulting Engineers of British Columbia is inviting its membership to consider submitting proposals to participate in a roundtable discussion with the City of Vancouver Engineering Staff. The
theme of the discussion will focus on Municipal Sustainability and
the City’s Greenest City Action Plan as described in the document
entitled Vancouver 2020 – A Bright Green Future. The purpose
of the discussion is for member firms to inform the City of available
products, techniques, services and benefits.
President: Jeff Holm, P.Eng., FEC (Kamloops)
Vice-President: Michael Isaacson, P.Eng., PhD (North Vancouver)
Past President: Frank Denton, P.Eng., FEC (Comox, BC)
CEBC congratulates incoming President Jeff Holm, Vice-President
Dr. Michael Isaacson, and all of the elected and continuing Councillors.
Proposals specific to the following topics will be considered:
CEBC will be well represented as Frank Denton, P.Eng., FEC of
McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. returns to Council Executive as
Past President, and the following returning and elected Councillors
are also CEBC members:
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Neighbourhood Energy Utilities
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Waste to Energy Recovery Options
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Energy Conservation through Street Light Design
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Sustainable Concrete and Pavement Options
Herb Hawson, P.Eng., FEC, Golder Associates
Donna Howes, P.Eng., former CEBC Director, now with Howes
Technical Advantage Ltd.
Harlan Kelly, P.Eng., Opus DaytonKnight
Matt Cameron, P.Eng., CTQ Consultants
Mark Porter, P.Eng., StructEng, Associated Engineering

Sustainable Streets and Neighbourhood Greenways

Green Infrastructure Design
Take advantage of this opportunity to share your company’s best
practices, highlight projects and network with colleagues and City
of Vancouver engineering staff. The roundtable will be held in the
winter of 2012 (date and time TBD). Proposals are due by November 25th, 2011 at 3pm.
For complete information on the APEGBC Council Election, see
www.apeg.bc.ca/about/council/index.html
For submission guidelines and details related to this exciting opportunity please contact Ms. Glenn Martin, CEBC Executive Director
glenn@cebc.org.
at 604.687.2811;
Building Information Modeling (BIM)
BUILDING SCIENCE INSIGHT 20111/12
Consulting Engineers Compensation, Benefits
and Employment Practices Survey
A unique half-day learning and networking opportunity presented by
the National Research Council of Canada
Building Science Insight is a national seminar series presented
annually by the National Research Council of Canada Institute for
Research in Construction (NRC-IRC) to provide construction professionals with practical information. Each seminar focuses on technical advances in building science on a specific topic and includes
the results of NRC-IRC research.
2011/2012 Survey Results Now Available
Produced annually by Western Compensation and Benefits
Consultants (WCBC), the Consulting Engineers Compensation,
Benefits & Employment Practices Survey covers 67 positions. The
survey report provides industry specific data on engineering
and technical positions, as well as data on executive, management, information technology and administrative positions.
This year's seminar will address how Building Information Modeling
(BIM) is influencing practices in the construction sector.
2011/2012 survey results are now available - for more details
and ordering information, see:
The following topics will be addressed:
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Status, relevance and context of BIM in the construction sector
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Considerations for transitioning to BIM in projects
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Demonstration 1: Illustrating the re-use and evolution of
model information over the life cycle
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Demonstration 2: BIM -Introductory use and contributions
www.wcbc.ca/surveys/consultingengineers
CEBC/ACEC members will receive a 15% discount on the cost of
the report. Survey participants receive a 50% discount – a great
reason to consider taking part next year.
Speakers include NRC-IRC building science specialists Shafee Ahamed,
John Dickinson, and Roberto Canas.
Special thanks to the Canadian Construction Association and the
Institute for BIM in Canada for their support with this event.
For current information, see
bsi.gc.ca
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