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Ancient Engineering Principles Revisited

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features14 Revisiting Ancient Engineering Principles in a Modern Construction Context James (Jay) Drew, P.Eng.

17 The Air We Breathe; The Fuel We Burn: BC Carbon Capture and Re-use Projects Explore Solutions to a Global Problem Robin J. Miller

22 Golden Opportunity: High-grade Gold Mine on Target for 2017 Production Kylie Williams

28 Sweat the Small Stuff: Are Small Projects Hurting Your Profitability? Marg Latham, P.Eng., CMC

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news 8 NewsMakers OQM Practices Bring Recognition; Engineers Canada Recognises APEGBC

Members; Members Excel in Wood Construction

9 Association Notes 2016/2017 Council Election; Members Identify APEGBC Areas of Success and Areas for Improvement; Annual Conference and AGM Take Place in Victoria, October 20–22, 2016; BC Auditor General Releases Report on Mining Sector Compliance and Enforcement; Update: Task Force Examines Regulatory Oversight of Corporate Practice; Council Approves 2016/2017 Budget; Council Report

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4 President’s Viewpoint I Am Listening 5 Letters 26 ACEC Awards 29 Practice BC Flood Hazard Mapping Guidelines to be Developed; Building Act Update; Program Qualifies First Certified Professionals; Assessing Public Infrastructure for Future Climate Change Impacts; Trends in Practice: Uncertainty Exists Regarding Quality Management Requirements 30 OQM 31 Community Science Fair Awards Encourage Future Professionals; Foundation Invests in the Next Generation; Best Practices for Volunteer Groups to Function Effectively; It’s a Wrap: National Engineering and Geoscience Month 2016 33 Membership 34 Professional Services 39 APEGBC Professional Development

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vice President R.P. Stewart, P.Eng.

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C.J.A. Andrewes, P.Eng.; dr. C.D. ‘Lyn Anglin, P.Geo.

D.E. Campbell, P.Eng.; R. Farbridge, P.Eng.

A. Fernandes, CIM, FCSI; C. Hall, P.Eng./P.Geo.

D.I. Harvey, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., FEC; K. Laloge, CPA, CA, TEP

S. Martin, P.Eng.; T. Mitha, LLB

C. Moser, P.Eng.; C.L. Park, P.Eng.

K.V. Tarnai-Lokhorst, P.Eng.; J. Turner, P.Ag.

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MAY/JUNE 2016 VOLUME 20 NUMBER 3

I Am Listening

Transparency, accessibility and openness are among my key objectives as APEGBC president. How have we done?

I believe that a large portion of our jobs as professional engineers and geoscientists requires significant amounts of communication. This includes two-way dialogue, expressing ideas, listening, problem-solving, and considering alternate points of view.

As APEGBC president, I read and respond to every email, telephone call, or letter sent to me. If you write to [email protected], I either respond directly or alert the department that can help. I also follow up. And if an answer requires more than a simple email, I call you.

I am surprised at how many members are astonished that I read and respond to their questions.

APEGBC has recently received two written requests for membership ballot votes for Council to reconsider Engineers and Geoscientists Act change requests forwarded to government. The ballot requests are a serious and important issue, but because only 25 member signatures are required to submit a ballot-vote request, I am interested in what the rest of the membership thinks on the issue.

When looking at the names in the petition, I noticed that none of the members had reached out to express their concerns directly to me beforehand. I encourage any member to contact me directly to discuss concerns before signing a petition for a ballot. I am listening and available.

This relates directly to another matter: If the 25 concerned members feel APEGBC Council is either not accessible or not meeting its duty to uphold public interest, do all of APEGBC’s approximately 34,000 members also feel that way? The question is of great interest to both me and Council.

Communication is a two-way street. Effective communication balances active listening with transmission of a message. Yes, I am available to listen to and discuss your concerns, but I can only do so if you reach out.

You can do this in several ways. You can email me at [email protected]. You can engage me in person at a Council meeting—they are open to all members. You can contact me via LinkedIn or Twitter. You can also contact a committee or local branch member to explain your concerns and ask them to get in touch with me. Come with ideas and solutions, if possible.

If you have a concern, feel frustrated with the association, or have a simple question about the professions, contact any of us. We will respond. I may not have all the answers, but I will be open and honest about why Council is doing things, and I will listen to your concerns. I will even mention them at the next Council meeting.

We are listening and working for you to keep our professions progressive and forward-thinking. If you want change, all you need do is reach out.

Dr. Michael Wrinch,

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Submit letters to the editor, 300 words or less, to [email protected] by June 24 for the July/August issue. Letters are published as space is available. Opinions expressed in letters are not necessarily endorsed by APEGBC.

Remembering Phil Hill, P.Eng.,With great sadness, the UBC Department of Mechanical Engineering reports that Dr. Philip Hill, P.Eng., Emeritus Professor and former Head of the Department, passed away peacefully in his sleep on February 17, following a short battle with cancer.

I was fortunate to have overlapped for a number of years with Phil. His was a remarkable intellect. In recognition of his enormous talents, Phil received numerous major honours for engineering. He won the R.A. McLachlan Memorial Award, our professional association’s highest award. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He won the Encana Principal Award of the Ernest C. Manning Awards Foundation, Canada’s highest award for engineering innovation. His work on the thermodynamic properties of steam and on the fueling of diesel engines with natural gas was world-leading. He was a man whose work was respected by faculty at the best universities in the world—over the years, I have spoken with colleagues at Caltech, at Cambridge, and at MIT, all of whom had the highest regard for Phil.

Phil was much more than a towering intellect: he was a gentlemen. Phil’s personal warmth, his integrity, and his profound concern for the welfare of humanity were apparent to all who knew him. I can still picture Phil hunched over in conversation

with a student, with Job-like patience explaining some subtlety of thermodynamics. All who interacted with him felt privileged to work with such an exemplary human.

Phil will live on in our thoughts and through his impact on the thousands of students and colleagues he interacted with over the decades. —Dr. Sheldon Green, P.Eng. Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC Vancouver, BC

Public Interest Bylaw Proposal Sparks ResponseOnce again, the membership has clearly spoken against mandatory CPD reporting. As professionals, we have an obligation to stay current in our fields of expertise. All active engineers that I know do this routinely. Furthermore, I am unaware that anyone has shown that public safety has been enhanced by doing more record keeping. We do not need to waste time keeping track of mundane activities such as reading trade magazines—better that record keeping time be spent on actual professional development.

We already have a code of ethics which requires professional behavior and we have an enforcement mechanism for those members who jeopardize public safety or our standards. We do not

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Mission: InnovationAs APEGBC’s official publication, Innovation aims to publish information that is of interest and relevance to the professions, is balanced, objective and impartial, affects the conduct of members, and showcases innovative engineering and geoscience work of members. A secondary aim is to provide a forum for the exchange of views among APEGBC members through the publication of letters to the editor.

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need another program with additional rules, regulations, policies, procedures, monitors, sanctions, staff, meetings, and all that goes with a new initiative.

However, continued attempts by our association’s executive and staff show they are determined to impose this requirement. In the past, the association has proven it is willing to overturn members’ wishes by obtaining legislative authority to impose rules and make decisions without membership approval. After the latest defeat of the CPD bylaw, I fear that this history is about to be repeated. On page 13 of the January/February issue of Innovation, an article describes how the association has already applied to government for a change in the Engineers and Geoscientists Act that would enable “… Council to pass bylaws, without member ratification, on matters related to professional practice and public safety.”

If this amendment is granted, I expect Council will quickly act to impose CPD requirements. Those of us who are opposed to the CPD program should let Council and staff know this is not acceptable.—Brian Weeks, P.Eng. Harrison Hot Springs, BC

In an article titled “Amendment Requested to Safeguard Public Safety Mandate” in the January/February 2016 edition of Innovation, APEGBC attempts to justify the request to Government to amend the Engineers and Geoscientists Act to allow APEGBC Council to enact bylaws addressing public safety without formal approval by members.

In the penultimate paragraph of the background section of the article, APEGBC states “Due to member concerns at the time, Council withdrew this request in 2012 to allow for further consideration.” This sentence is a gross simplification of the facts.

At the Fall 2011 APEGBC Annual General Meeting, a member’s motion asked Council to reconsider the amendment request; this motion was defeated (by the small proportion of members who attended the AGM). Immediately following the AGM, several members commenced gathering support for a vote of ALL members as provided by Section 12(7) of the Act. In January 2012, 70 members (including 19 Past-Presidents) requested that Council poll the members on the following motion: that Council withdraw the request for amendments that would allow Council to make changes to the Bylaws of the Association without the approval of 2/3 of the votes cast by ballot as required by the Act. A vote was held in April/May 2012, with the result of 69.8% Yes votes. More members voted for this motion than had voted in the previous election for Council!

According to a report in the March/April 2012 edition of Innovation, Council withdrew the request to Government in late December 2011, presumably when Council became aware of the request for a vote of all members.

The 2012 resounding vote of members opposed to Council’s actions demonstrates how the democratic process works; a democratic process that Council now has asked Government to take away from our members.—Ernest A. Portfors P.Eng.North Vancouver, BC

Wow. What contempt for the professional judgement of APEGBC’s voting members. Should this coup succeed, who will protect the public from the consequences of Council’s dictatorial agenda? Checks and balances are important. Council’s arrogant conduct demeans all conscientious members of the association.—Keith Antonelli, P.Eng.Vancouver, BC


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OQM Practices Bring Recognition Commitment to quality recently led to community kudos for Allnorth Consultants Ltd. The company, which is certified under APEGBC’s Organizational Quality Management (OQM) Program and has applied OQM practices throughout its North American offices, recently received the 2016 Quality Management Award from the North Saskatchewan Business Association. The award distinguishes businesses that recognise and pursue activities that

define, promote and inspire quality products, services and values, and is part of the association’s Business Builder Awards.

“Being recognised by this award shows our employees, communities and clients Allnorth’s commitment to quality in all that we do,” says Allnorth Quality Manager Andrew Wilkie, CTech. “It’s a result of the hard work and dedication from our people, as we continue to build a strong quality culture in our company.”

Wilkie says the award is in part due to the implementation of OQM practices across the company and is a testament to the value of the OQM program.

RW (Bob) Askin M.Sc., MCSCE, P.Geo., P.Eng.

as a Senior Water Resource Engineer/

Applied Geoscientist.

Bob’s multi-disciplinary background as both a water resource engineer and geomorphologist has allowed him to participate in a wide range of drainage and river engineering, as well as geomorphologic and geoenvironmental projects, for over 25 years. Bob will join our Kamloops office

and strengthen NHC’s capabilities company-wide. We look forward to the opportunities that his experience will provide to our clients.

Northwest Hydraulic Consultants is

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Engineers Canada Recognises APEGBC MembersFive APEGBC members received national recognition at the 2016 Engineers Canada Awards. The awards recognise engineering excellence and the winners’ outstanding contributions to their community, to their profession, and to the safety and well-being of Canadians.Gold Medal Award

Dr. Donald Mavinic, P.Eng., University of British ColumbiaYoung Engineer Achievement Award

Selena Wilson, P.Eng., McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.Meritorious Service Award for Professional Service

Andrew Mill, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., FEC, David Nairne & Associates Ltd.

National Award for an Engineering Project or Achievement “SunMine” principal engineer Michel de Spot, P.Eng., EcoSmart Foundation Inc.

Award for the Support of Women in the Engineering Profession Lianna Mah, P.Eng., FEC, Associated Engineering

Members Excel in Wood ConstructionAPEGBC members recently received recognition from WoodWORKS! BC at the 2016 Wood Design Awards in BC. The awards recognise leadership in advancing wood use in design and building. Wood Champion Award

Andrew Harmsworth, P.Eng., FEC, GHL Consultants Ltd., for his contributions to the establishment of wood-friendly building code changes and his leadership on tall wood construction in BC and Canada.

2016 Engineer Award Thomas Leung, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., FEC, Thomas Leung Structural Engineering Inc., for his firm’s efficient designs and practical solutions in the six-storey light-frame wood construction sector.

International Wood Design Award Gerald Epp, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., StructureCraft Builders, for his work on the Tsingtao Pearl Visitor Centre, in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China.

Jury’s Choice Award The UBC Student Union Building and its designer/project team, led by C.C. Yao, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd.More than 103 nominations in 13 categories were submitted for

the awards. APEGBC member Mark Porter, P.Eng., Struct.Eng., Associated Engineering, served as a judge, alongside Peter Wood, Weyerhaeuser, and architects Ian Niamath, AIBC, RAIC, and Joseph Mayo, Assoc. AIA.

Carol CampbellVictoria Office Manager

Carol is a Senior Project Manager with 24 years’ experience in project management and civil engineering. She joined Opus in 2005, and relocated to open and manage the Whitehorse Office for the past 4 years. Carol will focus on working with municipalities and First Nations on Vancouver Island.

Phil CookAbbotsford Office Manager

Phil is Opus’ Design Build Sector Leader with 25 years’ experience in consulting engineering and construction projects for water, wastewater, transportation and other municipal infrastructure.

Alison AndersonWhitehorse Office Manager

Alison is a Project Manager with 5 years’ engineering experience with Opus and in the Northern Canada region. Alison has a wide range of water and wastewater experience for Federal, Municipal and First Nations clients.

Opus is pleased to announce three new managerial appointments within our team.

Head Office210 - 889 Harbourside Drive, North Vancouver, BC, V7P 3S1t. +1 604-990-4800 e. [email protected]


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2016/2017 Nominating Committee Candidates for Election to Council In accordance with the association’s Bylaw 3, notice is hereby given of the nominees for the 2016/2017 Council of APEGBC. The 2016 Nominating Committee selected the following nominees:Candidate Discipline BranchPresidential CandidateR.P. (Bob) Stewart, P.Eng. Electrical VancouverVice Presidential Candidates (one to be elected)

D.I. (David) Harvey, P.Eng., StructEng., FEC Structural Richmond/DeltaK.V. (Katherina) Tarnai-Lokhorst, P.Eng., FEC Mechanical VictoriaCouncillors (five to be elected)

C.J. (Caroline) Andrewes, P.Eng. Metallurgical VancouverD.E. (Dan) Campbell, P.Eng. Mechanical Sea to SkyC.I. (Catherine) Fritter, P.Eng. Electrical Richmond/DeltaL.A. (Leon) Gous, P.Eng. Civil VancouverC.J. (Catherine) Hickson, P.Geo., FGC Geology Burnaby/New WestminsterV.G. (Vijay) Kallur, P.Eng., FEC Civil Richmond/DeltaN.B. (Neil) Kelly, P.Eng. Mechanical Sea to SkyJ. (Julius) Pataky, P.Eng. Electrical VancouverA.E. (Albert) Sommerfeld, P.Eng. Civil Central InteriorL.B. (Larry) Spence, P.Eng. Mechanical West KootenayJ.T. (Thomas) Tiedje, P.Eng. Electrical VictoriaM.P. (Matthew) Walton-Knight, P.Eng. Civil Sea to Sky

2016/2017 Council ElectionIn accordance with APEGBC’s Bylaw 3, there are two ways by which a member or limited licensee may be nominated to stand for Council election: 1) by the Nominating Committee, or 2) in writing by any 25 or more members and/or limited licensees in good standing.

2016 Nominating Committee Dr. John J. Clague, P.Geo., FGC,

FEC (Hon.), Past President, Chair

Branch AppointeesIqbal Bhuiyan, P.Eng.,

Vancouver BranchHeqing (Albert) Jian, P.Eng.,

Fraser Valley BranchPiotr Mazur, P.Eng.,

Sea to Sky BranchMalcolm Metcalfe, P.Eng.,

Okanagan BranchEric Pettit, P.Eng.,

Victoria BranchJohn Stephens, P.Eng.,

West Kootenay BranchDon Williams, P.Eng.,

Central Interior BranchWen Zhang, P.Eng.,

Burnaby/New Westminster Branch

Council AppointeesEmily Cheung, P.Eng., FEC Frank Denton, P.Eng. FEC,

FGC (Hon.) Mark Porter, P.Eng., Struct.

Eng., Doug VanDine, P.Eng./P.Geo.

FEC, FGCKimberly Wong, P.Eng.

Nomination by 25 MembersMembers are reminded that nominations for President, Vice President and Councillors may also be made in writing by any 25 or more members or limited licensees in good standing. Such nominations, signed by the members and/or limited licensees making the nomination with the written consent of the nominee, must be received by the Registrar at the association office no later than 5:00 PM, Wednesday, June 29, 2016.

The form for nomination by 25 members is available at apeg.bc.ca/25_Member_Nomination_Form, or by contacting Tracy Richards at [email protected] or 604.412.6055.

Role of the Nominating Committee The Nominating Committee is charged with seeking and selecting a slate of candidates for election to Council that they believe best demonstrate the qualities needed for strong leadership of the association. Specifically, the committee sought candidates that have demonstrated skills in strategic thinking, organisational management, financial fluency, governance and strategic planning, in addition to a minimum of five years of experience as a professional member or limited licensee. To fulfil its mandate, the committee sought candidates through a series of Call for Nominations notices sent to the membership, and committee members reached out to potential candidates in regions throughout BC.

Under Bylaw 3(b), in order to qualify as Nominating Committee candidates, candidates for the office of President must have served on Council for at least two full years prior to taking office, and candidates for the office of Vice President must have served at least one year on Council prior to taking office. Previous experience on Council is not required for write-in candidates.

Important DatesWednesday, June 29, 2016Nominations by 25 members must be received at the association office by 5:00 pm.

Friday, July 15, 2016Nominees’ Statements of Candidacy must be received at the association office by 5:00 pm.

Friday, September 9, 2016Election package and ballots will be available online to all members by this date. Paper ballots available upon request.Friday, October 7, 2016, 12:00 pm noon All ballots must be submitted and received by noon.

Election results will be published on the APEGBC website by Wednesday, October 12, 2016.


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Annual Conference and AGM Take Place in Victoria: October 20–22, 2016Join us October 20–22, 2016, in Victoria, BC, for APEGBC’s 2016 Annual Conference and 97th Annual General Meeting. The Victoria Conference Centre serves as the site of two days of professional development, networking opportunities, and a tradeshow, followed by the half-day AGM.

Professional development streams include engineering and geoscience in the resource sector, municipal engineering, environmental engineering and geoscience, emerging professional, management, structural, better business, energy efficiency and renewable energy, diversity and climate change.

All members are encouraged to attend the AGM, scheduled for the morning of October 22. There is no charge to attend the AGM business portions of the conference.

Conference information and online registration are available at apeg.bc.ca/ac16.

Sponsorship opportunities are available, with benefits to meet businesses’ needs, including recognition onsite, at events, on promotional materials, or online. For information on sponsorship opportunities, contact Marketing Specialist Maria-Carmen Kelly at [email protected].

Members Identify APEGBC Areas of Success and Areas for ImprovementJust over 2,000 members participated in APEGBC’s recent Member Satisfaction Survey, which assesses the alignment between APEGBC’s duty, programs, and services, and members’ expectations and perceptions. The results aid Council and staff in identifying areas of success, areas in which program improvements could be made, and areas where member perceptions or understanding are not aligned with APEGBC’s role.

Overall, the survey found that satisfaction across all areas amounted to 65%. Findings showed that the highest levels of satisfaction related to the resources available about ethics, law, and conduct (72.15% satisfied), interactions with APEGBC staff (78.42% satisfied), and the information available about members’ obligations under the Code of Ethics (81.96% satisfied). Areas of lower satisfaction related to access to Council (40.76%), information available about the Practice Review program (38.98%), and APEGBC’s professional development course offerings (35.01%).

The majority of respondents indicated they felt APEGBC is fulfilling its duty (50.73%) or fulfilling it most of the time (25.88%). Those who felt APEGBC is not fulfilling its duty indicated perceived shortfalls in the following areas: protecting the interests of members and licensees (63.09%); establishing, maintaining, and enforcing standards of professional and ethical practice (24.51%); and establishing

and maintaining academic and experience standards for entry to the professions (16.16%).

Members also provided valuable input on the process of registration (66.34% satisfied, 21.79% somewhat satisfied), professional practice guidelines (54.46% satisfied, 24.41% somewhat satisfied), the content of Innovation magazine (57.12% satisfied, 28.84% somewhat satisfied), and the amount of email communication received from APEGBC (80.37% feel it is about right).

Other areas measured include participation in voting, consultations, and providing feedback to APEGBC; information related to the investigation, discipline, and enforcement processes; member services such as career listings and affinity programs; events organised by branches and divisions; and, volunteer service.

Overall, most respondents indicated they felt the survey was valuable (45.2%) or somewhat valuable (43.7%), and informative (40.0%) or somewhat informative (43.5%).

Council received the survey results at their April 15 meeting. APEGBC staff are reviewing the feedback and determining ways in which it can inform improvements to programs and services. Staff will also determine what additional information could be provided to clarify areas of misunderstanding or misalignment between members’ perceptions and APEGBC’s duty.

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BC Auditor General Releases Report on Mining Sector Compliance and EnforcementBritish Columbia Auditor General Carol Bellringer has issued a report on her audit of compliance and enforcement in the BC mining sector. The audit was conducted to determine whether BC's Ministry of Energy and Mines and Ministry of Environment activities related to regulatory compliance and enforcement activi-ties in mining protect the province from environmental risks. The report, released May 3, also reviewed the Ministry of Energy and Mines’ performance as the regulator for the Mount Polley Mine.

In her report, Bellringer concludes that the ministries’ “compliance and enforcement activities of the mining sector are inadequate to protect the province from significant environmental risks.” It identifies gaps in planning, resources, and tools. With respect to the Mount Polley tailings dam, the report notes that weak regulatory oversight by the Ministry of Energy and Mines allowed inconsistencies within the intended dam design to persist, and cites over-reliance on qualified professionals as one factor.

The report notes that the mandate of the Ministry of Energy and Mines includes a responsibility to both promote and regulate mining, and that having both activities within the ministry “creates an irreconcilable conflict.” As a result, Bellringer’s overall recommendation is that government create an integrated and independent compliance and enforcement unit for mining activities, and that compliance and enforcement be removed from the ministry. She also makes an additional 16 recommendations to improve compliance and enforcement processes.

Included in the report was the government’s response to the audit findings, which acknowledged the recommendations. While indicating agreement with most of

the recommendations, the Government of British Columbia stated that it does not support the need for the ministries’ reorganisation, but is prepared to discuss the concept further with the Office of the Auditor General. Government outlined its intention to establish a mining compliance and enforcement board that will address the need for greater integration between the two ministries, as well as with the Environmental Assessment Office.

APEGBC is reviewing the report in detail to determine the impacts it may have on members and the practice of engineering and geoscience in BC. As a regulator, APEGBC’s primary interest is in seeking to minimise risk to public safety.

APEGBC currently has an investigation underway on the role of engineering professionals involved in the Mount Polley tailings dam collapse.

Following up on the recommendations of the Independent Engineering Expert Panel Report on Mount Polley, APEGBC is continuing to provide input on the Ministry of Energy and Mines’ development of new codes for the mining industry and is working to clarify the role and responsibilities of Professionals of Record within this sector. APEGBC Council also recently approved the APEGBC Professional Practice Guidelines: Site Characterisation for Dam Foundations in British Columbia at their April meeting, with publication targeted for summer 2016.

The Auditor General’s report, An Audit of Compliance and Enforcement of the Mining Sector, is available from the Office of the Auditor General’s website, www.bcauditor.com/pubs/2016/audit-compliance-and-enforcement-mining-sector.

Council Approves 2016/2017 BudgetCouncil has approved APEGBC’s 2016/2017 operating and capital budget. The budget was prepared in accordance to the Council-approved 2016/2017 Budget Guidelines and reviewed by the Executive Committee prior to being presented to Council at its April 15 meeting.

Increases in revenue forecasted in the budget will be achieved mainly from membership growth, as well as from fees raised to cover the increased costs of providing the online

professional practice exam. The fee charged to applicants taking the exam will remain at $325.50 (including GST). The annual professional membership fee will remain at the 2015/2016 rate during this budget cycle.

This is Year 3 of the three-year budget approved in April 11, 2014, and aligns fully with the association’s strategic plan.

For more information on the 2016/2017 budget and process, visit apeg.bc.ca/Responsible-Financial-Management.

Update: Task Force Examines Regulatory Oversight of Corporate Practice The APEGBC Advisory Task Force on Corporate Practice has met twice since January and has begun work to examine whether the association should pursue regulatory oversight for corporate practice in BC. The task force is working through a high-level discussion of the potential benefits, challenges, and key problems corporate regulation could address for the public, members, organisations, and APEGBC.

The task force’s diverse representation ensures the discussions capture valuable, broad perspectives and insights. Its members include APEGBC members and

representatives from the manufacturing, construction, and high-tech industries, provincial and local governments, major utilities, the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies - BC (ACEC-BC), and others.

Over the coming months, the task force will work to develop models for possible corporate regulation in BC. As part of this, the group is reviewing existing models within the engineering, geoscience, and other professions across Canada, and consulting with engineering and geoscience regulators and other professions to learn from their

experiences, successes and challenges.The association’s primary duty of

public protection remains central to its consideration of this issue. Also key is ensuring that the perspectives of individual members and the industry are heard. Member consultation is expected to proceed later this year.

Additional information, a list of task force members, and consultation opportunities will be published on an ongoing basis at apeg.bc.ca/corporatepractice. Questions or comments on this issue are welcome at [email protected].


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APRIL 15, 2016 APEGBC Provides Feedback to Geoscientists Canada Council passed a motion to provide feedback to Geoscientists Canada—the national organisation of provincial and territorial geoscience regulators—regarding current definitions of geoscience, a draft Geoscientists-in-Training Program Guide, the applicability of a proposed Engineers Canada national code of ethics to geoscience, and the board’s diversity.Interprovincial Transfers: Nova Scotia and Prince Edward IslandCouncil approved a motion authorising the signing of an agreement with the engineering regulatory bodies for Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to enable multiple applications for professional engineer licensing or regulation through a single application process, as well as the allocation of staff resources to work with the participating jurisdictions to mitigate identified operational issues before implementation.

Revisions Made to Sustainability GuidelinesRevisions to the Sustainability Guidelines were approved by Council, with final editorial and legal review to follow. The guidelines were updated to better reference climate change and related factors.

Statement of Compliance Related to Pool RegulationPrompted by the absence of standardised wording for a compliance statement required by the Pool Regulation for the construction and operation of pools, and the potential for resulting related professional liability issues, APEGBC worked with the BC Ministry of Health to develop a Statement of Compliance that could be used for this purpose. Council endorsed the British Columbia Pool Regulation Statement of Compliance, pending further editorial amendments.

Professional Practice Guidelines for Site Characterisation for Dam Foundations in BC ApprovedCouncil approved the APEGBC Professional Practice Guidelines: Site Characterisation for Dam Foundations in BC for final editorial and legal review prior to publication. The guidelines were developed in response to Recommendation 6 in the Report on Mount Polley Tailings Storage Facility Breach prepared by the Independent Expert Engineering Investigation and Review Panel.

Member Satisfaction Survey Results Council received the result of the Member Satisfaction Survey conducted in February/March, 2016. The survey is conducted every three years to determine alignment between APEGBC’s duty, programs and services and members’ expectations and perceptions (Page 10).AGM Motion on Continuing Professional Development ProgramAt the request of Council, the CPD Committee reviewed the AGM motion that “Council consider revising the current voluntary CPD tracking guidelines and the online system to better reflect the simplified tracking as recommended by the CPD Committee.”

In the context of the defeated bylaw for a formal CPD program, and based on cost, time and resources required to change the program requirements—such as updating the online recording tool and developing a new guideline document—the CPD Committee

recommended that the voluntary program be kept as is until further direction is provided by Council on how to move forward. Council approved the recommendation. 2017 Budget Approved; Revised PPE Exam Cost ConfirmedCouncil approved the 2016/2017 operating and capital budget. The proposed budget was prepared in accordance with Council’s approved 2016/2017 Budget Guidelines.

Council also approved a motion that the Professional Practice Examination Fee remain at $325.50, including GST. This fee was set at the February meeting, and Council had asked that it be reviewed and reconfirmed for future examination sessions at the April 2016 meeting, following the 2017 budget review.

Human Rights and Diversity Guidelines ApprovedCouncil approved the Professional Practice Guidelines: Human Rights and Diversity for final editorial and legal review before publication. The guidelines were created with the aim of providing guidance to APEGBC professionals on dealing with human rights and diversity issues in the course of their professional practice, with input from APEGBC committees and divisions, and internal and external stakeholder groups, through a coordinated consultation process.

APPOINTMENTSAdvisory Task Force on Corporate Practice David Chwaklinski, P.Eng., FECPatricia Chong, P.Eng.Kathy Groves, P.Eng.Ed Miska, P.Eng.Dirk Nyland, P.Eng.

CPD CommitteeJerrick Dangaran, P.Eng.Anja Lanz, EITDr. Mahmoud Mahmoud, P.Eng., FECDennis McJunkin, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.)

Editorial Board Dr. Houman Ghalibafian, P.Eng.Allison Westin, GIT

Investigation CommitteeNeil Nyberg, P.Eng.

Practice Review CommitteeVijay Kallur, P.Eng., FEC

Technical Review BoardSebastian Guerrero, P.Eng.

APEGBC’s Council of elected members and government representatives meets throughout the year to conduct the business of association governance.

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James (Jay) Drew, P.Eng.Thousands of years ago, Roman engineers built infrastructure across their empire. They used available materials such as timber, rock, earth and mortar. Timber resists tensile forces, but deteriorates in open weather conditions. The other materials are serviceable in compression, and shear, and ancient Roman engineers used them to build long-term structures that would experience limited tensile forces. The Roman arch, for example, distributes both dead and active loads through the structure to the base and tolerates seismic loading if properly designed.

Some Roman structures built with stone and mortar—which is similar to concrete—remain standing today.

Yet, today, it is considered acceptable to design bridges and other structures with service lives of 85 to 100 years. Some modern bridges do not last 50 years without costly rehabilitation. Even our profession, which is governed by a Code of Ethics that instructs us to protect the public interest—which includes spending client and tax dollars wisely—has come to accept limited service life spans as normal and acceptable.

Why do we fall so short of our Roman predecessors? One of the main reasons is because we build with reinforced

concrete. It is a fairly inexpensive building material, and engineering students are taught in their first concrete-design course that steel and concrete make the “perfect marriage” of load-bearing structures—the coefficients of thermal expansion are almost identical and, thus, the materials will not destroy each other with temperature fluctuations.

What students are not told about is the nasty divorce that happens after some 85 years. The expansion of embedded rebar in a concrete matrix limits the service life of reinforced concrete structures in open weather or wet environments. Concrete is porous. It allows moisture and oxygen to penetrate to the rebar, which causes rusting and subsequent expansion. This, in turn, cracks the concrete.

Students are also encouraged to minimise the dimensions of load-bearing members, which results in stresses close to the maximum allowable levels. Higher stress contributes to earlier failures.

If concrete does not contain steel and is subjected to predominately compressive forces, it lasts considerably longer, even in wet environments.

As current structures are replaced, wouldn’t it be fantastic to replace them with 2,000-year structures? Although compressive designs, such as those favoured by ancient Roman engineers, are not practical for many modern structures, appropriate structures to consider include bridges and tunnels with spans of 30 metres or less, as examples scattered across Europe demonstrate. We could build highway overpasses, small bridges, railway snow sheds, wine cellars, underground homes, and so on, to last. Think of the incredible savings for residents of towns or cities that would not need to rebuild bridges for another 20 centuries or more.

Because modern concrete is a relatively inexpensive building material, by increasing the size of compressive concrete members in a structural arch, two considerable benefits accrue for little additional cost. The wider load-bearing surfaces between members makes the arch more stable, and the concrete lasts longer in service at lower stress levels. Furthermore, compressive arches constructed with modular voussoirs and locking keys are more stable than monolithically cast arches without reinforcement. A one-piece arch will eventually crack and may fail if the crack occurs at the wrong angle and location. In modular arches, cracks are predetermined between voussoirs to remain stable. Keyways keep the voussoirs aligned during movement caused by differential settling, landslides, and so on.

The timing for revisiting this approach is perfect. The current federal government is committed to stimulating the economy by building infrastructure. Let us, the engineering profession, take a leadership role in encouraging today’s politicians to favour designs with lower annual costs of ownership tied to extended service lifespans. I believe this approach is feasible and have dedicated the last 15 years to this goal. If we work together, BC engineers can lead in promoting the construction of long-lasting infrastructure that will benefit society in more ways than we can imagine. vJay Drew, P.Eng., is president of Richmond, BC-based Lock-Block Ltd., makers of Lego-like, concrete retaining wall blocks. He is also an inventor, and keeps his 1938 Dodge vehicle (Shown) in excellent working condition.

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The old Abby Senior dated from 1952 and was “deteriorating rapidly,” says Bob Mainman, Assistant Director of

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School District 34 also wanted the new Abby Secondary to be a model of how to build responsibly, sustainably and

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Some heavy hitters have become associated with carbon-capture ventures in British Columbia. Nobel Laureate and former US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu sits on the board of Burnaby's Inventys Inc., and Bill Gates has invested heavily in Calgary, Alberta-based Carbon Engineering, which recently built a carbon-capture plant in Squamish, BC.

The reason for such high-powered involvement is easy to see: these Canadian ventures could significantly affect the worldwide effort to dampen predicted rising temperatures and sea levels.

It’s been known for decades that carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere, largely by burning fossil fuels, is responsible for about 76 percent of the planet’s current greenhouse gas emissions. Those emissions, in turn, are contributing to making the earth warmer than it would otherwise be. It’s also been known for decades that carbon capture and storage (CCS), along with CO2 re-use where possible, currently remain the best options—if we continue to rely on fossil fuels at today’s rates—for reducing the billions of tonnes of CO2 we emit.

However, the prohibitive cost of current CCS processes has made such solutions economically, politically and corporately controversial.

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Known to locals as “Abby Senior,” the new Abbotsford Senior Secondary School incorporates technology suggested

by BC Hydro that has helped make it 33% more energy efficient than it might otherwise have been.

The old Abby Senior dated from 1952 and was “deteriorating rapidly,” says Bob Mainman, Assistant Director of

Facilities for School District No. 34 (Abbotsford). “It turned out that it was more economical to retain a few of the

newer sections, two gyms and some classrooms, and build the rest new – and better. We had the opportunity to

make the new school a school to be proud of, that the students would really like to come to every morning.”

School District 34 also wanted the new Abby Secondary to be a model of how to build responsibly, sustainably and

energy efficiently, even on a limited budget. With the help of an energy-modeling study funded by BC Hydro’s New

Construction Program, the District was able “to ask all of the ‘what if” questions: what if we turn the building this

way, what if we add triple glazing, what if we go to three storeys instead of two,” says Rick Walker, in charge of energy

management for the District.

The result is a building situated east-west to capture the most light and heat, with a stunning, three-storey,

cast-in-place concrete, steel, glass and wood rotunda that provides natural “stack effect” ventilation. It also features

increased roof and wall insulation, a heat recovery ventilator, and a wind and solar powered computer lab (if it’s

cloudy or calm, students pedal stationary bikes to generate electricity). The building’s advanced, energy-efficient

lighting systems – designed by Abbotsford’s Jarvis Engineering Consultant’s Ltd. – account for 33 per cent of the

school’s total electrical energy savings, but perhaps the most innovative energy conservation measure of all is an

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Making the new Abby Senior even more special: it was designed by Ryan Huston of Chilliwack’s Craven Huston

Powers Architects. Huston graduated from Abby Senior in 1975. 37 years later, he returned to design a beautiful new,

sustainable school for generations to come.

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Carbon Engineering recently built and opened a carbon-capture plant in Squamish, BC.


removing one million tonnes of CO2 per year from emissions released by a coal-fired power plant and, in Alberta, the provincial government has committed to investing $1.3 billion over 15 years in oilsands CCS projects.

British Columbia has not yet announced similar CCS projects, but the BC government’s Climate Action Plan is scheduled to be released this year, and is meant to provide direction on how the province will reduce greenhouse gases, support a carbon-neutral economy and encourage economic development, while protecting the affordability of BC families and maintaining the competitiveness of BC businesses. Furthermore, liquid natural gas development and production remain key to the province’s economic strategy, and liquid natural gas production naturally lends itself to CCS.

Unlike coal and oil processing, CO2 separation is an integral part of natural gas processing. Processing removes CO2 and other impurities from wellhead natural gas to produce the sales-quality natural gas used in homes and businesses. Until recently, natural gas processing plants simply vented the removed CO2. However, according to Gary Weilinger, vice-president of external affairs for Spectra Energy, “it’s actually a relatively straight-forward process to take it and safely store it within a geologic formation, like a saline-filled aquifer, instead of venting it. All we have to do is ensure it’s compressed, piped, properly stored, and monitored.”

Six of Spectra’s smaller, newer gas-processing plants already sequester 100,000 tonnes of CO2 each year in deep saline aquifers. But the company’s older Fort Nelson plant, which is one of North America’s largest gas plants and, at roughly 1.3-million tonnes

of CO2 per year, one of BC's biggest CO2 emitters, does not. A feasibility test funded by Spectra Energy and government agencies several years ago revealed both good and bad news.

“We’re in the perfect spot. We only need 20 kilometres of pipeline from the gas plant to the storage reservoir,” says Weilinger, “and the storage reservoir itself is two kilometres deep, so it is safe, permanent storage for the plant’s entire CO2 stream. But it would be an investment of about Cdn$500 million. We need a solid business case to make an investment like that on behalf of our company and customers, and we don’t see the return on that investment right now.”

Spectra Energy is what is known as a natural gas midstream company. It does not produce natural gas; it processes the gas for gas producers, who actually own the gas, the CO2 and the emission liability. It will take either clear direction from government, perhaps in the form of making CCS mandatory, providing subsidies, or adjusting the existing carbon tax, or clear direction from investors to ensure gas producers engage in CCS development.

If and when that happens, CCS may already be more affordable, thanks to Burnaby's Inventys Inc. Inventys has developed a process called VeloxoTherm for capturing CO2 from

the flue gases of fossil fuel power plants. The process is smaller, less expensive to build, and requires less energy to operate than conventional post-combustion CCS systems. Its size and low cost—one-third the cost of conventional systems—make it attractive for retrofits and new plants.

“We have successfully tested the prototype system in our own facility,” says Brett Henkel, vice-president of commercial development, “and are now working on bigger projects to move us to full commercialisation.”

The company has completed engineering for a 10-tonne-per-day project with Husky Energy in Saskatchewan that is scheduled to go live in 2017, and is working with the US Department of Energy on a 500-tonne-per-day project at a coal plant in Texas. The UK government has also expressed interest.

“We’ve got the potential to go global,” says Henkel. “Carbon capture is very, very expensive. It’s a worldwide challenge. But our solution gets the economics right.”

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VeloxoTherm uses structured absorbent—layers of wafer-thin carbon material designed and manufactured by Inventys engineers—that acts like a filter, placed inside a rotating drum. As the drum turns, the CO2 sticks lightly to the carbon material, making it easy to remove.

“The VeloxoTherm process is a new approach using conventional equipment that has been re-purposed,” says Darryl Wolanski, Inventys vice-president of business development. “The result is a process that is far less costly than the chemical processes considered to be the incumbent technology for CO2 capture today.”

American energy luminary Steven Chu liked the idea enough to join Inventys’s board of directors in 2013. Public and private funding quickly followed.

The next step for the company is to find more ways to use the captured CO2. It can be used to push more crude oil to the surface in depleted oil fields. It’s also used in beer and baking soda, but a single coal plant can put out 14,000 tonnes of CO2 per day—far more than even the heaviest beer- and cake-consuming nation can use.

One company’s emissions are other companies’ raw resources. Carbon Engineering, for example, has figured out how to vacuum CO2 out of the air, instead of capturing it within industrial flues, and has come up with a potentially game-changing way to turn it into something useful.

Officially opened in October 2015 but operating since May 2015, Carbon Engineering’s $9-million pilot plant in Squamish captures about one tonne of CO2 per day, the equivalent of taking about 100 cars off the road each year.

That is a drop in the bucket of what the company’s engineers think the process could do.

“We want to prove that our technology is capable of working on a much larger scale,” says Scott Brundrett, P.Eng., the plant’s project manager. “That it could, in fact, take in up to one million tonnes per day, right out of the atmosphere. It’s very

scalable, which is very important, and uses no new materials. All of them exist commercially.”

Using a process called direct-air carbon capture, the plant works by moving large volumes of air through a device called a contactor. There, the air is exposed to a solution containing potassium hydroxide, which turns the CO2 in the air into pellets of calcium carbonate. The pellets are then heated to 900° Celsius, at which point they release pure carbon that can be either stored or re-used—possibly, if the company’s plans work out, as synthetic fuel.

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Inventys Inc.’s VeloxoTherm process (filter drum, shown left), which captures CO2

from flue gases, could provide low-cost CO2-capture options for plants such as Spectra Energy’s Fort Nelson gas plant (Previous Page). Carbon Engineer-ing’s Squamish plant (above) vacuums CO2 directly from the air.

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Carbon Engineering plans to add a second pilot plant on the same site soon. The second plant will take the captured CO2 and turn it into fuel for heavy-transport vehicles. Unlike light vehicles, airplanes, ships and trains cannot easily be converted to run on electric batteries or alternative fuels.

All the pure CO2 requires to turn it into useable fuel is hydrogen, which could be gathered from renewable sources, such as wind, solar or hydro. Once the fuel-synthesis plant is up and running in 2017, the company expects to be producing 200 to 400 litres of gasoline or diesel per day.

The ability to recycle the chemicals used in capturing the CO2 makes Carbon Engineering’s process cost-effective. That both the current and planned plants are designed to not re-emit CO2 increases the combined processes’ carbon-recycling efficiency. In fact, the promise of capturing huge amounts of CO2 and using it to produce viable synthetic fuel has drawn major funding from private investors such as Bill Gates, as well as significant support from various levels of government.

“The world is looking for this type of solution,” says Kenton Heidel, P.Eng. (Alberta), the company’s engineering lead. The solution could, in theory, eliminate fossil-based heavy-transport fuels—provided, of course, industry is willing to pay the cost

of the new fuel, which will most likely be more than twice the cost of wholesale gasoline. Over time, as Carbon Engineering refines its processes, that cost will decrease. And if emissions regulations tighten, Heidel thinks “the initial gut reaction people have—that this is really hard to do, that it’s a commercialisation challenge”—will go away.

“The economics are actually quite favourable,” he says. “It’s a true, long-term solution that can go on forever. It’s very appealing.”

So appealing, says Carbon Engineering’s senior process development engineer Jane Ritchie, P.Eng. (Alberta), that nearby locals “have been known to drop by with cakes and cookies. The First Nations here are big supporters, too. It feels like we are working towards what everybody wants.”

And towards solutions to a complex global problem. v

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British Columbia is home to a number of ventures seeking to transform captured CO2 into usable and valued products.

Vancouver’s Mantra Energy Alternatives Ltd. was recently granted a patent for its carbon capture and re-use process that electrochemically converts the greenhouse gas into chemicals, such as carbon monoxide, which are used for production of liquid fuels and chemicals such as gasoline, diesel, jet-fuel, and methanol, and

formic acid/formate salts, which are used in dyeing fabric and printing, as a drilling fluid in oil-well drilling, and as a buffering agent for strong mineral acids, and as a food additive, de-iceing agent, and hydrogen carrier. Once operational, Mantra's pilot plant at the Lafarge Canada, Inc., cement plant in Richmond, BC, will be the world’s first demonstration of electrochemical reduction of CO2 in an industrial setting.

In Delta, BC, ProSelect Gas Treating Inc. gives positive meaning to the term “greenhouse

gas.” Unveiled in 2012 in sister company SunSelect’s 17-hectare greenhouse complex, ProSelect’s GC6 Green Carbon Capture System collects emissions released from biomass fuel used to heat the greenhouses, filters and purifies the CO2, then delivers it back to the greenhouses to grow fruit and vegetable crops. By increasing the amount of CO2 the plants in the greenhouses can access, ProSelect’s system helps to accelerate the crops’ growth.

The BC companies and APEGBC members that have developed carbon capture, storage and re-use processes are part of the nucleus of a new carbon-focused industry in the province. Joining them, CMC Research Institutes, Inc., of Alberta, recently launched the BC-based Carbon Capture and Conversion Institute in partnership with the University of British Columbia and BC Research Inc. The institute’s role is to accelerate the development, piloting, scale-up and validation of new carbon capture and conversion technologies.

Inventys, Carbon Engineering (shown), and others are seeking ways to re-use CO2.

Mantra (toP) recently patented its process to electrochemically convert CO2 into other chemicals for use in fuels and industry.

ProSelect's heating fuel-derived CO2 helps fuel photosynthesis in sister company SunSelect's food-crop greenhouses (bottom).

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Just a decade ago, the Brucejack Gold Project in northern British Columbia was bare rock and a sealed underground portal. The site had been reclaimed by the previous owners who had discovered the smaller

West Zone deposit but were unable to develop it due to low metal prices. Silver Standard Resources took over the property in 1999 and drilled into the adjacent Valley of the Kings zone in 2009, encountering visible gold and unearthing what is now considered one of the largest undeveloped high-grade gold deposits in the world. Based on a handful of promising drill holes, Pretium Resources Inc. bought the project in 2010 and forged ahead, undeterred by the industry downturn. Today, the site hosts over 400 people, and construction of the mill has begun, driven by a team with a single, collective focus: production in the summer of 2017.

The mine area is 65 kilometres north of Stewart, BC, above the tree line in open, alpine tundra at an elevation of 1,400 metres, with little in the way of soil, plants or animals. Visitors to the site, however, are met with a hum of human activity, as Pretium constructs BC’s newest underground gold mine.

“It’s been impressive when you think how, five years ago, this was merely a concept,” says Robert Quartermain, P.Geo., chief executive officer of Pretium Resources Inc., the company he created in late 2010 to buy the Brucejack project. “We had a piece of drill core and thought there was high-grade mineralisation there, and now here we are. This spring, we start construction of the mill building and, at the same time, we’re excavating underground. In the summer of 2017, we’ll start producing gold.”

One of the many benefits of developing a project in northern BC is that the Vancouver-based senior management group can visit the site easily and regularly. Quartermain and Pretium’s president, Joseph Ovsenek, P.Eng., visit at least once a month to check on progress and ensure the entire team stays focused on the schedule and budget required to meet the 2017 production goal.

But the reasons Pretium rocketed from three employees in January 2011 to more than 700 employees and contractors and a fully permitted-and-financed project advancing underground in January 2016 go beyond location and people. The single biggest reason Pretium is able to survive and thrive during a brutal industry downturn is gold grade.

Bonanza-Grade Gold“First and foremost is grade,” says Ovsenek, one of the original three people to form Pretium in the winter of 2010/2011. “We have half an ounce [14.18 grams] of gold per tonne of rock. That’s a very high-grade mine in current conditions. With these grades, we can sustain lower gold prices, and this has allowed us to raise the money to build a mine.”

Brucejack has estimated reserves of 207 tonnes of gold. In March this year, the company announced the latest drill results from the underground infill drill program at Valley of the Kings. The reported assays included multiple intersections of high-grade and visible gold—four of which graded higher than 1,000 grams per tonne gold. These add to the 24 similarly rich intersections reported from the 2015/2016 infill drill program.


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The Brucejack Mine site sits above treeline, in open alpine tundra, in northern BC (above). The mine taps into what may be one of the largest undeveloped high-grade gold deposits in the world (Previous Page; core samPle Photo: kim stallnecht.)

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Exploration drilling is also being undertaken away from these known deposits in an attempt to understand the extent of the mineralisation in the Valley of the Kings and other potential on the property. About half a dozen holes have been drilled to the east of the Brucejack site recently. All six drill holes hit gold, and the intersections occurred along trend of the known deposit, demonstrating that the Valley of the Kings orebody remains open to the east and west along strike and at depth.

Quartermain is obviously pleased with the results. The holes encountered visible gold, similar to the Brucejack site, and demonstrate the full exploration potential of the project. In addition, regional exploration drilling in the Bowser Lake area, approximately 14 kilometres to the east, encountered the same stratigraphy as that which hosted the world-class Eskay Creek deposit, the rich volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposit further northwest—indicating another model type.

Both Quartermain and Ovsenek are confident that the grades encountered and the exploration potential have kept the project powering forward despite difficult markets.

“A quality project can be financed and, therefore, will attract the appropriate capital we need,” says Quartermain. “We just completed US$130 million in financing in March, and that closed the final gap to have all the funding necessary to bring the project to production, on top of the $540-million financing package we concluded in the fall of 2015.”

This, he adds, means “lots of people, lots of jobs, and lots of expenditures in BC’s north.”

A Growing Workforce On SiteThis past March, more than 400 people worked at Brucejack. The main construction focus has been to flatten the mill pad, preparing for the mill’s construction to begin in April. Power for the site will come via a transmission line to the south, also set to begin construction this spring.


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“During the peak construction period, which we expect to occur in early summer, we’re looking at having as many as 900 people employed at the site,” says Quartermain. “They’ll be on rotation, so a maximum of somewhere over 500 people on site.”

Many of the employees at Brucejack are from northern BC communities, including Terrace, Stewart, Prince George and Hazelton. Pretium has established good relationships with the First Nations in the area, and a cooperation and benefit agreement is in place with the Nisga’a Nation. The site access road off Highway 37 crosses the asserted traditional territory of the Skii km Lax Ha First Nation and a portion of the Tahltan First Nation territory. It is also located in the Naas Area, as defined by the Nisga’a Final Agreement.

“We want to ensure we’re hiring First Nations as well as individuals who live and work in the area,” says Quartermain. People from the Skii km Lax Ha First Nation and Hazelton region have been working at the site since 2010.

Susan Flasha has worked on the project since Pretium’s first summer at Brucejack in 2011. She agrees the onsite team is diverse and dynamic.

“For all of the years I’ve worked there, the mood’s been excited,” she says. “I think people just feel like they’re part of something big when they get to Brucejack. There’s always been a lot of momentum behind this project. We’ve always had big goals, big focus—when you go there, there’s always a big end goal for that year.”

She adds, “The fact that you still get to see these spectacular gold specimens helps, as well.”

Spectacular gold grades and a motivated team of people have allowed Pretium to thrive during the recent, prolonged downturn. And when that first gold bar is poured at the Brucejack mine site next summer, it will be an exciting moment for all involved, and a good news story that lends hope to a BC industry. v


2015 ACEC-BC Awards for Engineering ExcellenceBUILDINGS Award of ExcellenceGrandview Heights Aquatic CentreConsultant: Fast + Epp; AME Consulting Group (Mechanical); AES Engineering (Electrical) • Owner/Client: City of Surrey • Location: Surrey, BC

The City of Surrey required a cost-effective, efficient and welcoming

aquatic/fitness centre. Structural challenges included creating a roof structure to span 105 metres and withstand wind forces and unbalanced snow loading. Pairs of glue-laminated timber “cables” suspended between concrete end buttresses and a centre V-column support made use of the large, vertical concrete elements required for the pools’ dive towers and water-slide support. The façade structure was built with steel tube columns, which resist wind loads and double as ventilator ducts to control in-building humidity.

Award of MeritUBC Student Union Building Consultant: Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd. • Owner/Client: UBC Alma Mater

Society • Location: Vancouver, BC

The consultant worked with project stakeholders and students through an integrated design process. The vision for The Nest came from the students, and the consultant was responsible for making it reality, while optimising sustainability, durability, and future flexibility and adaptation. The Nest contains many complex architectural features with structural challenges, including a five-storey atrium, floating steel staircases, cantilevered heavy-wood and steel sky-bridges, irregularly shaped floors, and extensive clear spans with isolated columns.

ENERGY & INDUSTRY Award of ExcellenceThe McLymont Creek Hydropower Project: Diverting Water for Hydropower in BC’s Coastal MountainsConsultant: Gygax Engineering Associates Ltd. and Northwest Hydraulic Consultants

• Owner/Client: AltaGas Ltd. • Location: About 500 km north of Terrace, BC

AltaGas Ltd., through its subsidiary Coast Mountain Hydro LP, proceeded with developing a 66-megaWatt hydroelectric run-of-river project on McLymont Creek, a tributary of the Iskut River north of Terrace. The consultants successfully met the challenges of a difficult site, highly variable hydrology, significant sediment flows, delayed access, and accelerated project implementation schedule by designing and implementing numerous innovative technical solutions to the cofferdam, spillway, weir, powerhouse and other elements. Environmental, economic, and social sustainability aspects and aesthetics were also addressed.

MUNICIPAL & CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE Award of ExcellenceSechelt Water Resource Centre Consultant: Urban Systems Ltd. • Owner/Client: District of Sechelt • Location: Sechelt, BC

The Sechelt Water Resource Centre integrates wastewater treatment into an urban environment. The facility combines an Organica Fed Batch Reactor system, a heat-recovery system that extracts heat from incoming sewage to heat the facility, a rooftop solar system, and use of reclaimed water to cool the emergency generator. Solids discharged to the ocean are reduced by 90%, power use is halved, water is conserved by reusing treated effluent, and bio-solids create Class A compost for sale and reuse. As well, the plant’s effluent is one of the five cleanest municipal effluents in Canada, and noise and smell complaints have decreased..

Awards of MeritBarnston / Maple Ridge Pump Station: Heart of the Community Consultant: Associated Engineering (BC) Ltd. • Owner/Client: Metro Vancouver • Location: Pitt Meadows, BC

Metro Vancouver’s new pump station is one of the largest municipal water distribution pump stations in BC. Associated Engineering provided engineering services for all phases. Challenges included proximity to residential communities, a very constrained site on the Fraser River floodplain, pump-control automation, and energy efficiency during peak-demand periods through the year. Green-building features and sustainability have increased the pump station's efficiency and minimise its impact on the community and the greater environment.

Seymour–Capilano Twin Tunnels Project Consultant: Hatch • Owner/Client: Metro Vancouver • Location: North Vancouver, BC

The twin tunnels connect the Capilano drinking-water source to Metro Vancouver’s new Seymour–Capilano Filtration Plant. Hatch investigated alignment, geotechnical conditions, project delivery alternatives, future operations and maintenance, and tunnel hydraulic design. Tunnelling by a tunnel boring machine was identified as the preferred method to effectively create hydraulically efficient pipes in sound rock. Tunnel depth, alignment, and shaft locations were chosen to avoid fractured rock areas and avoid potential glacial soil-filled valleys. Depth and grade were designed to be at least 50 metres below interpreted top-of-rock, and alignments provide 100-metre separation to prevent cross-tunnel flow.


ENERGY & INDUSTRY Awards of MeritCapilano Energy Recovery Facility Consultant: Knight Piésold Ltd. • Owner/Client: Metro Vancouver • Location: North Vancouver, BC

Metro Vancouver’s Energy Recovery Facility is located at the downstream end of a seven-kilometre tunnel from the Seymour–Capilano Filtration Plant. With a 30-metre elevation drop from plant to facility, a system to dissipate excess pressure energy and provide reliable water supply continuity was required. The consultant supplied and installed the turbine—one of the largest-known hydroelectric turbines in a municipal treated drinking water system in North America—as well as upgrades to the dechlorination system, and final commissioning of the facility.

Fort St. John Micro Hydro Facility Consultant: Urban Systems Ltd. • Owner/Client: City of Fort St. John • Location: Fort St. John, BC

The City of Fort St. John engaged the consultant to seek out opportunities for clean and renewable energy production within the city. The city’s south sewage lagoon system was selected as the source for a micro hydro facility. The resulting facility intercepts and diverts the existing effluent stream to a small building that houses a pelton wheel turbine and 100 kiloWatt generator. After discharging through the turbine, the effluent stream is diverted back to the original outfall line, where it continues on to the Peace River. Electricity generated is metered and sent to the local grid.

TRANSPORTATION & BRIDGES Award of ExcellenceWorld Trade Centre Transportation Hub: The Oculus Consultant: COWI North America (COWI Bridge, formerly Buckland & Taylor) • Owner: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey • Client: Skanska USA • Location: Manhattan, New York

Located where the World Trade Centre twin towers once stood, the World Trade Centre Transportation Hub—the Oculus—serves as the entrance to the new transit station. Inspired by a pair of hands releasing a white dove, the Oculus’s design pushes architectural and structural limits, and its erection engineering, completed by the consultant, was equally complicated. The consultant applied its expertise in bridge engineering to design a safe and successful construction method, which reduced the Oculus’s project cost and schedule, and in the end met the tight geometric tolerances required for the building’s glazing.

Award of MeritPiece-by-Piece: The Deconstruction of the Old Port Mann Bridge Consultant: McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. • Owner: BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure • Client: Kiewit–Flatiron Joint Venture • Location: Surrey and Coquitlam, BC

McElhanney engineered and prepared a step-by-step manual for removing the five-decade-old Port Mann Bridge across the Fraser River in a way that would be safe for workers, the environment, and the new bridge and its travelers just 25 metres away. The team designed temporary towers and stay cables to support the bridge during deconstruction, as well as a sequence that incorporated layers of redundancy and the ability to adapt to the unpredictable behavior of the old structure in real time. Shipping and rail traffic next to the bridge remained uninterrupted through deconstruction.

SOFT ENGINEERING Award of ExcellenceRiver Training Works in Bangladesh: Protecting the Padma Bridge Consultant: Northwest Hydraulic Consultants • Owner/Client: Bangladesh Bridge Authority • Location: Bangladesh

The Padma River Multipurpose Bridge provides a new fixed crossing in Bangladesh. Because of the river’s high flow and shifting banks, the project required extreme river engineering and river training. The consultant designed the training works to stabilise and guide the typically greater than 10-kilometre-wide channel through the existing five-kilometre-wide channel at the bridge, and to protect against scour failure of the piers and abutments, while minimising upstream and downstream impacts. The consultant applied extensive numerical and physical models to evaluate options and designs.

Award of MeritQuesnel Lake Observations and Modelling Consultant: Tetra Tech EBA • Owner: Imperial Metals • Client: Mount Polley Mining Corporation/Imperial Metals Ltd. • Location: Likely, BC

After the 2014 failure of the tailings storage facility at the Mount Polley Mine and a debris flow along Hazeltine Creek, suspended particulate material entered Quesnel Lake. The consultant was retained to

measure, then predict, behaviour of suspended particulate matter in Quesnel Lake, and to reconcile the volumes of deposited material with estimates of the volumes discharged. Tetra Tech implemented its hydrodynamic model H3D, addressed wind and material-composition uncertainties, and provided predictions of turbidity levels within two months. The predictions, verified and improved as observational data became available, accurately indicated timing and magnitude of turbidity levels. v


Sweat the Small Stuff Are Small Projects Hurting Your Profitability?

Marg Latham, P.Eng., CMC‘Don’t sweat the small stuff ’ is a common expression—and one that many consulting engineering firms seem to practice. Large projects get attention, detailed planning, resources and continual monitoring. The thinking is that the big projects involve big risks and big bucks. And they do.

Yet small projects are the bread and butter of most firms. What happens to them? Well, they are small. Doesn’t that mean less risk and less potential loss when things go wrong? Individually, that may be true. However, when small projects collectively amount to 50 percent or more of your business, as is the case with most engineering companies, they deserve attention.

Small projects also serve as the training ground for project managers. Allowing employees to be casual about managing small projects can lead to bad habits and will not embed those best practices that you want your managers to graduate with and then apply to larger projects.

Small projects need to be planned, resourced and monitored. This doesn’t mean managing them with the same tools as large projects. Doing so can add bureaucracy and costs that may price you out of the market. If your project management tools are designed for large projects and you impose them on the small projects, your frontline will gripe about how much complying is costing their projects. Eventually, they may stop using the tools and fill the vacuum with other ways of managing the projects or—worse yet—not fill the vacuum at all.

So what is the solution? Consider taking some of the following steps.

• Set up systems to provide parameters within which project managers on small projects must operate. Think performance

outcomes rather than prescriptive procedures. Apply more detailed procedures only where the risk requires it. Don’t handcuff your project managers, but do make it clear what is expected of them.

• Map out the project delivery process for small projects, from proposal to closeout. Keep it simple and generic enough to capture the variety and types of projects you carry out. Remember to include decision points where confirmations, checks, reviews, and approvals occur.

• Create simple tools that project managers can use at each decision point to easily capture output from confirmations, reviews, checks, and approvals throughout the project.

• Develop a simple small-project directory or file structure. For some companies, projects may be small enough to fit in one project folder. Others may require more structure. Six to eight folders, ten at the most, should be sufficient. Seek input from those who carry out small projects on the folders they use regularly.

• Use the same naming conventions for electronic files across the organisation, whether for large or small projects.

• Decide on the outcomes you want project managers to achieve. Keep them simple and easily tracked. Four to six outcomes should be sufficient. Consider including objectives for client satisfaction, profitability and schedules, as well as other objectives for behaviours you wish to reinforce. Set measurable targets for each objective and monitor the results.

• When small projects go well, reward the team and learn from the successes. When small projects go off the rails, investigate the root causes, take corrective action, and communicate the lessons learned.

The bottom line is ‘sweat the small stuff’ for the sake of your bottom line. v

Marg Latham, P.Eng., CMC, is President of Aqua Libra Consulting Ltd., where she assists clients in improving quality management, professional practice and project delivery.

She is passionate about leading people and change. Latham has served as vice president with consulting engineering firms, UMA and AECOM Canada Ltd. from 2000 to 2009. She has managed institutional, residential and infrastructure projects in Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver.

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BC Flood Hazard Mapping Guidelines to be DevelopedWith funding support from Emergency Management BC, APEGBC is developing professional practice guidelines for flood hazard mapping. The guidelines are intended to provide guidance and information suitable for use related to flood risk management, land use planning and management, emergency planning, and flood insurance.

The BC flood hazard mapping guidelines will support the development of flood maps in a consistent manner that uses best practices. Sections of the APEGBC Professional Practice Guidelines – Legislated Flood Assessments in a Changing Climate in BC may also be revised to align with the flood hazard mapping guidelines.

The guidelines will outline a common approach to be followed for carrying out professional activities such as data requirements and input, appropriate use and interpretation of data and flood modelling, typical hazard assessment methods, and climate and environmental considerations.

APEGBC develops guidelines to proactively address practice issues by establishing shared expectations regarding professional services for specific areas of engineering and geoscience. The guidelines clarify and define standards of practice.

The flood hazard mapping guidelines are expected to be completed by spring 2017.

Information about APEGBC guidelines is available at apeg.bc.ca/guidelines, or by contacting Lindsay Steele, P.Geo., Practice Advisor, at [email protected].

Building Act UpdateThe British Columbia Building and Safety Standards Branch recently released an information bulletin regarding upcoming changes to the Building Act. The bulletin provides preliminary information about changes under Section 5 of the Act, amending or repealing building requirements in bylaws, other aspects of the Act’s implementation, and an updated timeline for building official qualifications.

Full details can be found in Building Act Information Bulletin BA16-01, available via apeg.bc.ca/News/Articles/Building-Act-Update.

Program Qualifies First Certified ProfessionalsThirteen candidates recently qualified for the specialist designation of Certified Professional (CP) under APEGBC’s and the Architectural Institute of BC’s (AIBC) Certified Professional Program. The CP Program provides an alternative to the conventional building permit and inspection process used by the cities of Vancouver and Surrey and other municipalities. Through the program, participating municipalities can issue building permits on the certification of a recognised registered professional engineer or architect—the CP.

APEGBC and AIBC worked together to deliver the 15-session course, which ran from September to January. Sessions focused on Advanced Code Knowledge, with emphasis on Part 3 and relevant associated provisions of the BC Building Code and the Vancouver Building Bylaw, as well as topics closely related to CP practice. An intense two-day exam followed the course.

Thirty-five candidates undertook the program. Of the candidates who successfully completed the program, five professional

engineers and three architects were granted the CP designation (See page 38). Five engineers-in-training also successfully completed the program and will receive the CP designation when they achieve Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) status.

AIBC and APEGBC are planning on offering the next CP course in 2017.

Assessing Public Infrastructure for Future Climate Change Impacts Kel Coulson, P.Eng., Harshan Radhakrishnan, P.Eng., Emma Hendry

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To increase awareness of the tool and facilitate multi-disciplinary collaboration in climate-risk assessment, the Planning Institute of BC, in collaboration with APEGBC and Engineers Canada, recently hosted a PIEVC risk assessment workshop in Vancouver. Participating engineers and planners worked to assess potential climate-related risks to the City of Victoria’s David Foster Harbour Pathway project. They learned from experts working to adapt to climate change in BC and saw how professionals working in multi-stakeholder teams can identify adaptation options.

The collaborative approach highlighted the importance of drawing on multi-disciplinary teams to assess risk, and the unique perspectives that engineers and planners bring to the table. The PIEVC process also established common definitions and methods for assessing risks, allowing planners and engineers to speak the same language when communicating climate-related risks.

In coming years, infrastructure design and planning will require due diligence in incorporating climate resilience into the planning and infrastructure design process in order to mitigate community vulnerability. The protocol provides an opportunity for APEGBC professionals to integrate climate resilience into Canada’s infrastructure.

To learn more about the PIEVC Engineering Protocol, visit www.pievc.ca.More Tools for BC EngineersTo further address the issue of climate risks to infrastructure, APEGBC is working with the BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to develop guidelines that will outline best practices for incorporating climate resilience into highway infrastructure design. The guidelines will be consistent with the principles outlined in the protocol and in Engineers Canada’s Principles of Climate Change Adaptation for Engineers.


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APEGBC and its members are governed by the Engineers and Geoscientists Act, the APEGBC Bylaws, and the Code of Ethics. The bylaws contain seven quality management requirements:• Use of the APEGBC Seal• Retention of project documentation• Documented checks of engineering and geoscience work• Direct supervision• Documented field reviews during implementation or

construction• Documented independent review of structural designs• Application of relevant professional practice guidelines

For each requirement except the last, APEGBC provides a quality management guideline that explains the requirements and establishes standard of care.

APEGBC has also developed a certification program for organizations that is based on the quality management requirements and aims to improve quality management of professional engineering and geoscience practices at the individual and organizational levels. The Organizational Quality Management (OQM) Program is voluntary and available to organizations that employ APEGBC professionals.

Through the program and the practice-related questions that APEGBC receives, it has become clear not all members are familiar with the quality management requirements and the professional duty to meet the requirements’ intent.

We outline here the two most misunderstood issues relating to quality management requirements:

Practice GuidelinesMany members are unaware of APEGBC's practice guidelines. An APEGBC objective stated in the Act is

“to establish, maintain, and enforce standards for the qualifications and practice of its members and licencees.” Practice guidelines are one way in which APEGBC fulfills this obligation.

Practice guidelines describe standards of practice and may establish the standard of care to be met in a given area by an APEGBC professional exercising due diligence in carrying out engineering or geoscience work in that area.

APEGBC has created dozens of practice guidelines. Examples include Legislated Dam Safety Reviews in BC; Designing Guards for Buildings; Seismic Retrofit Guidelines, and Sustainability Guidelines. (See apeg.bc.ca for a complete list.) Practice guidelines are developed in collaboration with the appropriate regulatory and technical bodies. They are prepared by teams of authors who are APEGBC Professionals with expertise in the subject area. Throughout development, each guideline is reviewed by a team of stakeholders with interest in the subject matter, and before publication, they receive legal review.

APEGBC typically creates two new guidelines each year and updates them regularly to keep them relevant.

Use of the APEGBC SealEngineers and geoscientists create many types of documents and drawings, and it can be unclear as to which ones need to be sealed. The questions to ask are: Does the document contain engineering or geoscience content? And, is it going to be delivered to someone who will make a decision or take action based on the information contained within the document?

Examples of documents that require a seal are technical reports, Issued for Tender drawings, Issued for Permit drawings, Issued for Construction drawings, revision documents, and so on. By applying your seal

to a document, you commit to the standards of the professions and signify to the public that you accept professional responsibility for the document and its contents.

You add no extra liability to yourself when you seal your documents: If you created it, you are responsible for it—seal or no seal. Failure to seal documents breaches Section 20(9) of the Act, and may result in disciplinary action.

For more information on the quality management requirements, visit www.apeg.bc.ca/Quality-Management-Guidelines. v

Trends in Practice: Uncertainty Exists Regarding Quality Management Requirements

Lindsay Steele, P.Geo.

OQM Organizational QualityManagement Program

The following organizations have recently received OQM Certification. To find out more, visit apeg.bc.ca/oqm.

Allnorth Americas LLCAVH EngineeringGeo Construction Consulting Inc.GeoNorth Engineering Ltd.ICI Electrical Engineering Ltd.International Quest Engineering Ltd.

Maven Consulting Ltd.On Point Project Engineers Ltd.ROV Consulting Inc.Telford Geotechnical Ltd.UBC Energy & Water ServicesWhiteWater West Industries Ltd.


Trends in Practice: Uncertainty Exists Regarding Quality Management Requirements

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Science Fair Awards Encourage Future ProfessionalsAPEGBC promotes the professions within the community and helps to engage young people in science and engineering by supporting BC’s science fairs at several levels. We sponsor the Science Fair Foundation of BC, as well as individual awards at the

Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair and the Vancouver Island Science Fair. Many APEGBC branches, as well as the Division for the Advancement of Women in Engineering and Geoscience, also sponsor awards at regional science fairs, including those in the Fraser Valley, Central Interior, Northern BC, and East and West Kootenay regions.

Dr. Hamid Ghanbari, P.Eng., Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair committee member and Janet Sinclair, APEGBC Chief Operating Officer, present student Ethan Fraser with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC Award (intermediate category) for his Robotic Hand project, at the Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair.

Foundation Invests in the Next GenerationThe APEG Foundation supports BC’s engineering and geoscience students by providing scholarships and bursaries. Thanks to community-minded individuals who continue to generously contribute to the Foundation’s philanthropic efforts, student outreach expands each year.

This year, the Foundation added new scholarships to honour two well-respected, outstanding and admired individuals. The inaugural Sheri Plewes Scholarship for Women in Engineering, valued at $2,000, was awarded to Jessica Van Brummelen and Elizabeth Wicks. The inaugural Frank Baumann Bursary, valued at $1,500, was awarded to Melanie Hackett.

The Foundation selected the recipients from among a large pool of high-calibre candidates, and congratulates them on their well-earned awards.

For more information about this year’s scholarship recipients, visit apeg.bc.ca/scholarship-recipients-Apr2016. For scholarship information, see apeg.bc.ca/For-Students/Scholarships.

The APEG Foundation is also now accepting Entrance and Entrance Transfer scholarship applications for BC’s 2016 high school graduates.

The Entrance Scholarship, valued at $2,500, is available to students entering engineering or geoscience programs at the

University of British Columbia, the University of Northern British Columbia, the University of Victoria, British Columbia Institute of Technology, or Simon Fraser University. The Entrance Transfer Scholarship, valued at $1,000, is available to students entering an engineering transfer program at any BC post-secondary institution.

Applications for both awards are due June 24, 2016.Visit apeg.bc.ca/Foundation-2016-High-School for information.

Fourth-year Simon Fraser University geoscience student Melanie Hackett received the first-ever Frank Baumann Bursary.

Best Practices for Volunteer Groups to Function Effectively Emiline Willson and Gillian Harper

In APEGBC’s 2015 volunteer engagement survey, our volunteers shared their thoughts on best practices that help the association’s volunteer groups function effectively. Based on this feedback and on our experience with governing committees and other volunteer groups, as well as the expertise provided by external consultants, we summarise and share the following best practices. Hold Regular Meetings It’s important to plan and prepare for regular meetings. Include conference calls as an option to increase attendance at meetings. Committee meetings tend to be most efficient when following Robert’s Rules of Order. The purpose of these rules is to facilitate progress, deal with complex issues, enable equal participation in decision making, and protect the rights of those involved. These practices help to ensure objectives are understood and reviewed, and that everyone is engaged.

Communicate Clear Expectations Communicate expectations and make sure everyone understands the volunteer group's Terms of Reference, guidelines, or policies. Make sure action items are clearly delegated, committee activities are well documented, and that processes are transparent. Follow proper meeting protocol and etiquette to ensure discussions are respectful and issue focused. Maintain Open Communication Maintaining open dialogue helps to improve a group’s effectiveness. Ensure members are heard, invited to share, and that their input is valued. Develop a feedback mechanism, and focus on the importance of listening and learning from each other. These activities support the goal of shared decision making.

As APEGBC’s Volunteer Management Program develops, we will provide tools to our volunteers to support and maintain best practices.


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APEGBC Branch members hosted popsicle stick bridge building contests throughout the province, and put many unique bridge designs to the test before community audiences

(A: West Kootenay Branch; b: Burnaby–New Westiminster Branch; d: Vancouver Island Branch; E: Fraser Valley Branch; F: East Kootenay Branch; G: Tri-Cities Branch).

Okanagan Branch members toured the Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) lab at Kelowna’s University of British Columbia campus (H). In the Central Interior, kids panned for gold (i) during an NEGM event at one of the region’s malls.

Vancouver Branch held Engineering and Geoscience Fest, March 19, at the Vancouver Public Library (J).

Team Omnimus Maximus from Omni Engineering (C) won the NEGM Challenge.

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Adamson, P.Eng. (1961)

Louis Allaye-Chan, P.Eng. (1968)

Hans Wilhelm Albert Karl Bonin, P.Eng. (1985)

Joseph Jacobus Burgerjon, P.Eng. (1969)

Harold Norman Burgess, P.Eng. (1956)

Wing Hong (Bill) Chan, P.Eng. (1982)

William Royce Craig, P.Eng. (1952)

Homi Merwan Engineer, P.Eng. (1957)

Norman Fawkes, P.Eng. (1954)

Stephen Istvan Gyabronka, P.Eng. (1964)

Thomas Allen Haslett, P.Eng. (1960)

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For the NEGM Challenge (C, Previous page), teams of APEGBC members submitted photos demonstrating the weekly challenge. The winning team was Team

Omnimus Maximus from Omni Engineering: Kristine Solano, AScT, Andre Herath, EIT, and civil engineering co-op student Shane Duke. Along with the coveted NEGM Challenge Cup and APEGBC swag, $1,000 is being donated in Team Omnimus Maximus’s name to GeeringUp!, in support of science-education outreach.

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Fundamentals of Pumps, Valves, Piping, and Electrical from a Municipal Design PerspectiveJune 8, 2016: Kelowna, BCThis seminar provides an understanding of the fundamentals and terminology applicable to positive displacement and centrifugal pumps, conventional and automatic valves, piping and fittings, basic electrical, motor control components, motors, generators, and basic control. Also provides a holistic approach to the application and interrelationship of these water- and wastewater-handling components.

Microsoft Project Training for Engineers and GeoscientistsJune 8 & 9, 2016: Vancouver, BCThis two-day hands-on workshop provides a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft Project using a practical approach to project management. The course provides you with the skills to effectively track and analyze projects with a better understanding of the schedule and impact of changes.

Applied Soil Mechanics and Shoring Design CourseJune 8 – 10, 2016: Vancouver, BCDesigned to meet the national competency standards for the installation of primary ground support, this course provides practical training on shoring design, reviews the related soil mechanics knowledge, and demonstrates how to apply soil mechanics theory to actual and practical shoring design, as well as the equations and loads that are derived for shoring design.

Conveying Bulk Materials other than Troughing ConveyorsJune 10, 2016: Vancouver, BCThis presentation looks at methods for conveying bulk materials other than troughing conveyors in sufficient detail to understand the main differentiators. The presentation covers systems that have been available for many years through to current developments, including for larger capacities.

Introduction to a Team Approach to Project ManagementJune 13, 2016: Prince George, BCSuccessful projects are the result of good time and cost management and effective, motivated teams. Both are achieved by using a team approach in planning, scheduling, monitoring and evaluating projects. This introductory workshop provides useful, hands-on experience with some key processes that are immediately transferable to engineering projects at work.

Technical Writing: Solutions for Effective Written CommunicationJune 14, 2016: Vancouver, BCThis seminar provides practical, applicable solutions and techniques for expressing your thoughts succinctly in written format. Through a series of hands-on workshops, you’ll learn to write effective emails, technical memos, letters, reports, and other documents.

Introduction to Stormwater ManagementJune 15, 2016: Nanaimo, BCThis seminar provides an introduction to the details of analytical techniques and computer model data requirements.

The Complete Professional Seminar—Soft Skills to Enhance Your Career & LifeJune 16, 2016: Vancouver, BCThis session enhances participants’ personal and professional lives by providing them with simple strategies to quickly build rapport with others. Plenty of scenario demonstrations ensure participants gain skills, confidence and feel more comfortable connecting with others internally and externally, and thereby increase their personal effectiveness.

Project Productivity and Performance ManagementJune 16 & 17, 2016: Vancouver, BCThis two-day workshop focuses on topics that can help maximizie the benefits to working organizations of enhancing their overall project productivity.

Business Networking for SuccessJune 17, 2016: Vancouver, BCIn this workshop, participants learn the essential ingredients for business networking, including in-person, people-centered connections, and online spaces such as LinkedIn.

A Coach Approach to Problem Solving and Conflict ManagementJune 17, 2016: Vancouver, BCIn this one-day workshop, participants learn how to structure coaching conversations to address some of the most demanding issues we face in the workplace.

Fatigue Design and Fatigue Failure Analysis June 20, 2016: Richmond, BCThe workshop considers elements of fatigue assessment in detail. Assessment techniques, such as Nominal Stress (S-N), the Hot Spot Stress and the Effective Notch Method, will be covered in-depth using real assessment examples. Hot topics, such as cycle counting procedures, cumulative damage and the use of the Finite Element method for the fatigue assessment, are discussed.

Fracture Mechanics Based Fatigue Analyses June 21, 2016: Richmond, BCThis seminar covers the basics of the fracture mechanics theory, the derivation of all input data necessary for fracture mechanics analyses and their physical meanings, general rules concerning the static strength analysis of cracked bodies, and fracture mechanics-based fatigue analyses (da/dN - ∆K). The course concludes with failure analysis of several mechanical and structural cases encountered in practice.

An Integrated Framework of Risk Management and Simulation in Project ManagementJuly 6 & 7, 2016: Vancouver, BCA proper risk analysis must identify and analyse the potential strategic and tactical risks. A well-planned risk analysis should typically involve estimating the impact of risks on project objectives. This course provides an overview of such expertise and knowledge to develop an integrated framework of risk management and simulation.

Smart Work Strategies: Time Management Practices that Make Sense and Actually WorkJuly 7, 2016: Vancouver, BCThis lively course combines the latest time management research with a fresh look at behavior, energy, and habits. The end results will be smarter work practices, broadened perspective, greater focus, and renewed energy to accomplish goals.

Smart Work Strategies: Productivity Hacks that Maximize Workflow EfficiencyJuly 7, 2016: Vancouver, BCBy the end of the course, attendees will have gained enough insight to create practical, targeted, and biologically smart workflow management plans. They will also know how to sustain enthusiasm and commitment to implement them.

Fundamentals of Power Systems for Non-Electrical EngineersJuly 14 & 15, 2016: Vancouver, BCThe objective of this two-day workshop is to provide an overview of the electric power system, associated sub-systems and industry practices, with fundamentals balanced by the state of the art. Attendees will acquire sufficient depth and breadth on various topics on electrical power engineering to allow them to communicate in technical terms and achieve higher success in their respective fields of practice.


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Seismic and wind events pose serious threats to structural integrity and safety. Building structures with a continuous load path can mean the difference between withstanding these types of natural disasters – or not.

All wood-framed buildings need to be designed to resist shearwall overturning and roof-uplift forces. For one-and two-storey structures, structural connectors (straps, hurricane ties and holdowns) have been the traditional answer. With the growth in light-frame, multi-storey wood structures including mid-rise buildings, continous rod systems have become an increasingly popular load-resistant solution.

Simpson Strong-Tie® Strong-Rod™ continuous rod tiedown systems are designed to restrain both lateral and uplift loads, while maintaining reasonable costs on material and labour. Our continuous rod tiedown systems address the many design factors that need to be considered to ensure proper performance against shearwall overturning, such as rod elongation, wood shrinkage, construction settling, shrinkage compensating device deflection, incremental loads, cumulative tension loads, and anchorage. Our continuous rod tiedown system for Canada is the Anchor Tiedown System for shearwall overturning restraint (Strong-Rod™ ATS).

Strong-Rod ATS Systems have been extensively tested by engineers at our state-of-the-art, accredited labs. Our testing and expertise are crucial in providing customers with code-listed solutions. The take-up devices used in the system are code-listed in the United States under evaluation report ICC-ES ESR-2320.

Because no two buildings are alike, Simpson Strong-Tie offers many design methods using components and systems to help you meet your complex design challenges.

Let us help you optimize your designs. For more information about our Strong-Rod continuous rod tiedown solutions or traditional connector solutions, call (800) 999-5099 or download our new Strong-Rod Systems Catalogue for Canada at strongtie.com/literature/canada.html.

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