Features

October 1, 2003
Starbucks Smarts

October 1, 2003
Engineering Energy

Michael Stuparyk/Toronto StarPeople line up at a hotdog stall in a darkened Toronto on August 14. The Ontario premier quickly announced a state of emergency.

October 1, 2003
The Great Blackout

System's main interface.

October 1, 2003
Award of Excellence: Sihu Basin Flood Management

Stories continue below

Existing Keenleyside Dam in background, and the new bypass channel and generating station built on a bedrock in foreground. Instead of cofferdams, in-situ material was left to isolate the construction site.

October 1, 2003
Award of Excellence: Arrow Lakes Generating Station

Image of road in northeastern Quebec captured by the system.

October 1, 2003
Award of Excellence: XEOS Aerial Imagery

Aerial view of construction project to extend the plant for the new machine. Solvay took over the abandoned industrial site 10 years ago.

October 1, 2003
Schreyer Award: Solvay Paperboard Machine

Drawing of pilot wetland project with (left to right) "salvaged" cell, "do nothing" cell and "planted" cell.

October 1, 2003
Award of Excellence: Bayview Avenue Extension

Princess Anne receives Humanitarian Awards from International Cooperative Minister, the Hon. Susan Whelan, as the RedR Canada board Chair, David Chalcroft, looks on.

October 1, 2003
RedR Canada in full operation

October 1, 2003
Canada’s Second National Debt

Night view of the bridge, which has a main span 300 metres, and a total span of 475 metres, supported by a 160-metre tall inverted Y-shaped tower. The structure is one of the world's longest asymmetric cable-stayed crossings.

October 1, 2003
Award of Excellence: Rama 8 Bridge

Malls of the future? A new store in Birmingham, England is being hailed as the "future shape of retail." Designed by Arup Associates engineers and Future Systems, the windowless Selfridge's store bursts over the city with its bulging, animal-like form. The sprayed concrete skin is covered in insulation and plaster, and studded with 15,000 anodized aluminum discs. An article in the Times newspaper called it "the first cathedral of junkspace."

October 1, 2003
News (October 01, 2003)

October 1, 2003
Canadian Engineering Firms Third in International Revenues

Richard Kell

October 1, 2003
Responsible Investments Theme of FIDIC 2003

October 1, 2003
Task Force Applauds Kyoto Funding

October 1, 2003
What’s New… (October 01, 2003)

Mike Murray, P.Eng. - Chair

October 1, 2003
Chair’s Comments: 35th Annual Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards

August 1, 2003
Where’s Canada’s Wind?

New terminal roof and control tower, with access road bridge on the inside.

August 1, 2003
Pearson International: Thinking Big

August 1, 2003
ACEC Activities At A Glance 2002-2003

Archival map showing Henry Ketchum's scheme to link the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy.

August 1, 2003
Ship Railways

August 1, 2003
Climate Change Update

Construction of the underground tank, built partially below a planned aircraft apron and stretching the length of two football fields.

August 1, 2003
Pearson International: Moore Creek Stormwater Facility

August 1, 2003
CIDA INC. Reductions a Serious Concern

August 1, 2003
Networks & Building Controls

August 1, 2003
Sales Pitch

Above: concrete bridges curve in every direction.

August 1, 2003
Pearson International: Roads, Bridges and Project Management

August 1, 2003
Pearson International: New Terminal 1 Mechanical Systems

The building's curtain wall has thin structural elements to minimize the obstruction of daylight; expansion joints isolate the walls from the arched roof, which deflects under snow and wind loading.

August 1, 2003
Pearson International: New Terminal 1 Building Structural Engineering

August 1, 2003
Book Lover

August 1, 2003
15 Years

White Rock Operations Building in B.C. is powered by solar energy and uses recycled stormwater. Photo: Gregg Scott, P.Eng.

August 1, 2003
Leeding the Way