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Engineering

Tunnel interior safe areas (see access door at right) are located at 400 metre intervals; powerful fans purge the tunnel of smoke during a fire.

October 1, 2001
SCHREYER AWARD: Whittier Access Project Tunnel Segment, Alaska, U.S.

October 1, 2001
Careful where you stand

September 19, 2001
Consulting engineers reflect on the World Trade Center disaster

September 7, 2001
Software design moves into engineers’ arena

Stories continue below

August 29, 2001
Wind turbine begins turning at Pickering Nuclear Station

August 22, 2001
SNC-Lavalin now largest international Canadian firm

August 22, 2001
Ontario listens to ideas on how to plan development and infrastructure

August 15, 2001
Design-build methods used to repair major Montreal bridge

August 15, 2001
New road funding for Nova Scotia

August 8, 2001
Dollars flow for waterworks

August 1, 2001
PRODUCTS (August 01, 2001)

August 1, 2001
EXHIBITION: Out of this World

Cripwell helps a group of Grade 12 students design a "cybernetic walker."

August 1, 2001
Time to Teach

August 1, 2001
Moving Time

August 1, 2001
Details

The No. 2 Hangar at Oshawa, Ontario, circa 1943. In the foreground is a swimming pool-cum-water reservoir for firefighting. Many of the airfields remain in use today, and in 1999 this was the first to be commemorated as a National Historic Engineering Project.

August 1, 2001
HISTORY: A Herculean Task

August 1, 2001
Le nouveau president lance un appel pour une augmentation de la remuneration

Author Roger Miller, ing. "You need institutional structures to anchor projects because, based on our sample, it takes on average 13 years before you can really figure out how much revenue is coming. "

August 1, 2001
PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Mega-Building Risks

Meso Optics diffusers and reflectors

August 1, 2001
New Product Winners at Lightfair 2001

The Taylor Bridge in Headingley, Manitoba was partially designed according to the draft new Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code. Completed in 1997, the bridge uses fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) in its deck slab and girders -- a material for which the new code introduces design guidelines for the first time. Wardrop Engineering's Winnipeg office worked with ISIS Canada on the bridge design.

August 1, 2001
TRANSPORTATION: New Highway Bridge Design Code

August 1, 2001
Building Systems: Fire protection of Internet Data Centres

Power distribution schematic.

August 1, 2001
ELECTRICAL: Power Play

Above: curtain wall system. Left: new face along Robson Street.

August 1, 2001
BUILDINGS: TELUS BUILDING REVITALIZATION, VANCOUVER

August 1, 2001
Building Systems: Hot Spots

Bob Matheson, Art & Architecture PhotographyThe elliptical tower soars above its neighbours at the corner of Hornby and Nelson Streets in downtown Vancouver. Much citizen debate has revolved around its height and appearance. Clear glass walls mark the upper condominium portion and dark reflective glass is in the hotel floors below (it was originally designed to be all clear glass). The tower sits on a four-storey podium and is connected to the existing Wall Centre conference centre.

August 1, 2001
BUILDINGS: One Wall Centre mechanical and electrical systems

August 1, 2001
BUILDINGS: ONE WALL CENTRE, VANCOUVER

Canadian Light Source Synchrotron facility, University of Saskatchewan.

August 1, 2001
PUBLIC RELATIONS: What’s in a name?

August 1, 2001
Caught in libel chill

August 1, 2001
Insurance Watch

August 1, 2001
CHAIR’S REPORT: New Chair calls for improved industry remuneration

August 1, 2001
2001-2002 ACEC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

July 30, 2001
First consultant awards announced in Saskatchewan