Tuesday, May 1, 2012

6:00 – 6:30 pm – Registration and networking
6:30 – 7:00 pm – Buffet Dinner 
7:00 – 7:45 pm – Presentation by Marg Latham, P.Eng., CMC
7:45 – 8:30 pm –  Presentation by Catherine Roome, P.Eng.
8:45 pm  - Closing

1. "APEGBC OQM Program - A New Tool for Improving Professional Practice Quality Management

2. "Risk Management "

Marg Latham will be giving a presentation on APEGBC’s new Organizational Quality Management Program.

Later this year APEGBC will launch its new Organizational Quality Management (OQM) Program. APEGBC recognizes the significant influence that organizations employing APEGBC professionals have on the practice of the professions. The OQM Program aims to address that influence and improve professional practice quality management at an organizational level. This self-funded program is available on a voluntary basis to all organizations providing professional engineering or professional geoscience products or services in BC.

Benefits of OQM Certification

Organizations achieving OQM certification will:

• Have employees exempted from random APEGBC Practice Reviews
• Receive an OQM certificate
• Be recognized on APEGBC website and in APEGBC publications
• Support their APEGBC professionals in meeting their professional obligations

In creating the OQM Program, APEGBC has NOT created a quality management system (QMS) for organizations. Instead, the OQM Manual provides guidance to organizations about how to confirm, adapt, adopt or create policies and procedures for their QMS that are consistent with the quality management requirements that their APEGBC professionals must meet under the Act and Bylaws. As part of the OQM Program, APEGBC will issue an OQM certificate to organizations that have voluntarily implemented policies and procedures consistent with these requirements.

Catherine Roome will be talking about three related issues to the topic of Leading the need for Transformative Change in Technical Systems Safety:

1. Risk control at a macro level - What do we mean by ‘enterprise risk’ and how is technical risk viewed within an “apples to oranges” comparison?
2. Regulators and a changing world - Why regulators themselves are looking at the enterprise risk management strategies of the private sector; and, developing innovative solutions to complex risk control problems
3. Looking around the corner - predictions for how health and safety will be managed in a future world

1. Marg Latham, P.Eng., CMC.
Marg is president of Aqua Libra Consulting Ltd. She is a seasoned senior executive, professional engineer and certified management consultant with a passion for leading people and change. She is described by a former CEO as delivering “impossible missions” and by team members as a passionate leader and mentor. Marg has delivered successful change programs in knowledge management, quality management, ISO 9001, CADD standardization and automation, risk management, and health, safety and environment. She was a vice president with consulting engineering firms, UMA and later AECOM Canada Ltd. from 2000 to 2009.

Over the first 20 years of her career she managed institutional, residential and infrastructure projects in Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver. In 2001 she was named “Outstanding Woman in Construction”; an award co-presented by the Vancouver Regional Construction Association and Canadian Construction Women. Marg actively volunteers her time to encourage and support women in engineering and construction. She has been assisting APEGBC in developing and implementing the OQM Program.

2. Catherine Roome, P.Eng.
Catherine is the President & CEO at the BC Safety Authority, a 300 person risk management company committed to public safety.  She was the Vice President, Engineering and Chief Operating Officer prior to becoming the CEO. Catherine also is the Chair, Board of Directors at Actsafe BC, an agency providing health & safety services to the motion picture and performing arts' sectors. To date, amongst many other recognitions, Catherine has been the recipient of the “Influential Women in Business” award in 2008 and, the “Distinguished Alumni Award” from Faculty of Engineering at the University of Victoria in 2009. Last fall she was awarded the 2011 APEGBC’s R. A. McLachlan Memorial Award - the annual President’s Award that recognizes excellence in professional, technical and community service.

Date:

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Time:

6:00 – 6:30pm – Registration and networking
6:30 – 6:45pm – Branch business & announcements
6:45 – 7:30pm – Buffet Dinner
7:30 – 8:45pm – Presentations by Roger Schmidt, P.Eng.
9:00 pm  - Closing

Location:

Best Western Plus Abercorn Inn
9260 Bridgeport Rd.
Richmond BC   V6X 1S1

Topic:

Speaker:

Roger Schmidt, P.Eng.

Join us for a presentation on the new South Fraser Perimeter Road by our speaker, Roger Schmidt.

Approximately 40km long, South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) is a new four-lane, 80km/hr route along the south side of the Fraser River from Deltaport Way in southwest Delta to 176th Street (Hwy 15) in Surrey, with connections to Highways 1, 17, 91, 99, and TransLink’s Golden Ears Bridge connector road.  In July 2010, The Fraser Transportation Group was awarded the contract to design build and operate the SFPR. 
The project includes extensive earthworks, numerous bridges and walls and faces challenges associated with building over soft soils. The presentation will describe how design strategies were developed to overcome the project’s technical challenges.

Roger Schmidt holds a BASc from UBC and has an extensive structural engineering background gained on a variety of bridge projects, many of them competitive designs, such as the Castlegar /Robson Bridge over the Columbia River, the award winning Tsable River Bridge on the Island Highway and the H-3 Viaduct in Hawaii.  Since 1998 he has focused on design management and he formed Emplex Consulting in 2000 to provide transportation engineering, project management and quality services to public and private sector clients.  He has managed significant portions of large transportation projects such as the Vancouver segment of the $1.2B SkyTrain ALRT extension for which he was design manager and the $1.6B Canada Line Project for which he was elevated guideway structural design manager. He managed the Pattullo Coating and Knight St Seismic Upgrade projects for Translink and was one of four project managers for the early stages of the Evergreen Line. He was the design manager for the Coast Meridian Overpass - the longest launched girder in Canada - and currently is the Technical Director for the Fraser Transportation Group which is the Design Build Contractor building the South Fraser Perimeter Road Project.

Cost:

$40 for members and guests who pre-register on-line at APEGBC.
$45 for late registrations at the door.
$35 for EIT/GIT’s and retired members.
$25 MAPS (students)
Cash bar.

To register on-line at APEGBC, please see details below. 
If you have questions, please contact Ron McOuat, P.Eng at 604 802 8953 or email: rmcouat@smartt.com.

New Members:

If you have recently received your certificate, then this is an excellent time to receive your frame so that you can proudly display your certificate at work.  Please contact us in advance so that we can plan for your attendance.

Credit:

1.0 Professional Development Hour (PDH)

Lansdowne Mall, Richmond, BC.

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Friday, March 16, 2012

Meet at  7:45 am at 1400 Lindsey Place, Annacis Island, Delta. Parking is on the south side of the building. Directions: From the north, Take Highway 91A South towards Highway 91 South; Take the Annacis Island Exit, staying right to merge onto Cliveden Avenue West; Turn left onto Eaton Way and left onto Lindsay Place; Go to the cul de sac and turn right into the south side parking lot

AWC - The Annacis Wastewater Centre is the first of Metro Vancouver’s Academies to be built. It is a unique facility that blends research, education and training opportunities in a building and its surroundings while exemplifying leadership in sustainability.

The AWC will provide top-quality laboratory facilities for research, teaching space and access to various in-plant wastewater streams for manufacturers and suppliers of equipment to demonstrate processes, as well as pilot facilities for optimizing full scale processes. In addition, AWC contains multi-purpose meeting rooms and a classroom providing space for public discourse, education, training and other professional services.

The Annacis Wastewater Centre will provide longterm benefits for Canadian’s by enabling partners from various agencies and organizations to respond to the multiple challenges related to energy use, water, materials, environment, sustainability and integration of wastewater systems.

Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant - The Annacis Island Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) is the  largest Metro Vancouver plant and provides secondary treatment to wastewater from approximately 1,000,000 people in parts of Burnaby, New Westminster, Port Moody,  Port Coquitlam, Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge, Surrey, Delta, White Rock, City of Langley and Township of Langley.

Please meet at the Skyhawk Restaurant first then we will proceed to the HeliOne facility after dinner.

Skyhawk Restaurant
Boundary Bay Airport
102 -7800 Alpha Way  Delta, BC

Heli-One - Corporate Head Office
4300 80th Street 
Delta, BC

7:00 pm - “Update on Council and the Association”
Dr. Michael Isaacson, P.Eng., PhD.
Vice President, APEGBC

Join us for an informative evening with APEGBC Vice President, Michael Isaacson, P.Eng., PhD.    Dr. Isaacson will speak to us and take your questions regarding current APEGBC affairs including an update on Council initiatives and the Association.

7:40 pm - "CP140 Airborne Imaging Radar Systems"
Jerry Lim, P. Eng, FEC
MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Ltd.

Join us for a presentation on CP140 Airborne Imaging Radar System by our speaker, Jerry Lim.  The Canadian Forces currently operates a fleet of 18 CP140 Aurora Long Range Patrol Aircraft used for surface and undersea surveillance role. The Canadian Department of National Defense is currently executing a CP140 Aurora Incremental Modernization Project, with the objectives of restoring the Aurora’s operational capabilities through an incremental replacement of existing avionics systems with modern avionics system.

MDA was selected as the Prime Contractor to supply the multi-mode long-range imaging and surveillance radars for the DND’s CP140 Aurora fleet.  In addition, MDA developed and delivered Ground Replay and Processing Facilities and Airborne Radar Simulator to support the radar sensor operations and training of the radar operators.

Michael Isaacson, P.Eng., PhD
Vice President, APEGBC
Dr. Isaacson is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He received his degrees in engineering from the University of Cambridge. He has been a faculty member at UBC for over 30 years, and has served as Head of Civil Engineering and as Dean of Applied Science. His area of research relates to coastal and ocean engineering and he is the author or co-author of two texts and over 250 technical papers. Throughout his career, Dr. Isaacson has remained active as an engineering consultant. Dr. Isaacson is the recipient of several awards, including the R.A. McLachlan Memorial Award from APEGBC.

Jerry Lim, P. Eng, FEC
MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Ltd.
Jerry Lim is a Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager with MacDonald Dettwiler.  He graduated from UBC with a Bachelor's degree (Honors) in Applied Science in 1973. He did his post graduate studies in System Engineering at Carleton University. Jerry was the Chief Engineer on the CP140 Project. Jerry is a Fellow Engineer of Canada, Senior Member of IEEE, Senior Member of ACM, a member of INCOSE, a member of APEGBC, and a P.Eng since 1978.Jerry has worked at MDA for the past thirty-five years on a wide variety of projects such as satellite ground stations, Spaceborne and Airborne Radar System, Radar Jammers, Air Traffic Control System, Graphics and Image Processing Systems, and PCB Plotters.  Prior to that, Jerry worked in the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing and the Department of Transport in Air Traffic Control.

City of RIchmond

Branch AGM

Join us for our Branch AGM and a presentation on “Getting District Energy Off the Ground in the City of Richmond”, by our speaker John Irving, P.Eng..

AGM - Election of Richmond/Delta Branch Executive for 2012
The following members have expressed interest in the following positions by serving on the interim branch executive since early May 2011. Nominations from the floor will be accepted and a vote will be held if necessary.

Presentation: "Getting District Energy Off the Ground in the City of Richmond"
Richmond is a culturally diverse and geographically unique community of 190,000 residents located in Metro Vancouver. The City of Richmond has used a flexible strategy to overcome administrative, financial and regulatory challenges to move forward the establishment of district energy systems around critical development nodes. The City’s first district energy utility is under construction and scheduled for commissioning in mid-2011, a second system is in the concept design phase and several pre-feasibility studies are completed or underway for additional systems.

John Irving, P.Eng, Director of Engineering, City of Richmond

John Irving is a Professional Engineer with a Master’s Degree in Public Administration.  John has combined 20 years work experience in land development and municipal engineering and local government management and administration.  John is currently the Director of Engineering at the City of Richmond, and for the last 2 years has co-led the development of district energy initiatives in Richmond.

$40 for members and guests who pre-register on-line at APEGBC.
$45 for late registrations at the door.
$30 for EIT/GIT’s and retired members.
$20 MAPS (students)
Cash bar.

APEGBC members and non-members are welcome!

To register on-line at APEGBC, please see details below. 
If you have questions, please contact Ron McOuat, P.Eng at 604.802.8953 or email : rmcouat@smartt.com.

Note: Please Meet at 6:00 pm at the Haida Gwaii sculpture (opposite the Food Court on Level 3, International Departure level, of the International Terminal Building). The bus will leave at 6:15 pm sharp, latecomers will be left behind!!

6:00 – 6:15 pm – Sign-in and networking
6:15 – 6:30 pm – Bus to YVR South Terminal
6:30 – 7:00 pm – Groundside tour of Ground Run-up Enclosure facility
7:00 – 7:15 pm – Bus back to main terminal
7:15 – 8:00 pm – Dinner
8:00 – 8:30 pm – Presentation by John Lenahan, P. Eng,
8:45 pm – Closing

Vancouver International Airport - 3211 Grant McConachie Way, Richmond, BC  V7B 1Y7

Special Instructions:

• Please Meet at 6:00 pm at the Haida Gwaii sculpture (opposite the Food Court on Level 3, International Departure level, of the International Terminal Building). The bus will leave at 6:15 pm sharp. Latecomers will be left behind!!
  
• Park in short-term parkade (complimentary parking passes will be provided for you to present upon exit).
• Participants are advised to bring along a photo ID to meet security clearance requirements.

Kwantlen University - Richmond Campus.
8771 Lansdowne Road, Richmond, BC ( map )

Hello Richmond-Delta Branch Volunteers!

This event is aimed at Junior and Senior Secondary Students (Grades 8-12) in a fun filled day of science and engineering challenges. The Branch supports Kwantlen in this annual competition which consists of Junior and Senior Design Challenges by rendering assistance in the running of the competition.

We need volunteers to assist with running the events and providing some last minute mentoring to the students. This is a fun, easy and gratifying event as you get swept up in the enthusiasm shown by the various teams. Please check the website : www.kwantlen.ca/sciencechallenge for more information.

We need a minimum of two volunteers for each event (4 total) - the more the better so we can take breaks, tour the other events of just commit for part of the day. Please feel free to recruit your friends and co-workers - everyone is welcome. 

Please reply to Mike Trevorrow at trevorrow.m (at) gmail.com on your preferred time (morning or afternoon) to help out in the competition. 

Please note that the deadline to sign up as volunteers is Friday 18 Nov 2011. Thank you and we look forward to your response.


Sincerely,

Ravee Ramakrishnan, MBA, P. Eng., CHRP
Ag Chair, Richmond-Delta Branch APEGBC

Best Western Plus Abercorn Inn
9260 Bridgeport Rd.
Richmond BC V6X 1S1

Jerry Sobejko, P.Eng.

Join us for a presentation on Gas Collection at the Vancouver Landfill by our speaker, Jerry Sobejko.

The City of Vancouver manages and operates the Landfill located south of the George Massey Tunnel in Delta.  The Landfill supports various municipalities in the neighboring region since 1966, with ever expanding recycling, composting, and landfill gas facilities. Dumps such as shown in the movie Slumdog Millionaire have been known to be a threat to the environment through fires, odours, vectors, groundwater pollution, and air pollution.  On the other hand, engineered landfills are the number one method of garbage disposal in North America and have to meet strict regulations and on going testing to show that the environment is not being polluted and that the operation is safe for the community with minimal undesirable impacts.  Furthermore, the landfill gas collected is being used for building heating and electricity generation with further beneficial uses being considered in the future.  The process of gas collection poses various operational challenges worth discussing and being presented in this seminar.

Jerry Sobejko is an engineer at the City of Vancouver Landfill.  He graduated from UBC with a Master's degree in Engineering and a Bachelor's degree in Applied Science in 2002. Jerry is a member of APEGBC and a P.Eng since 2007.

Jerry worked at the Vancouver Landfill for the past three years on a number of capital projects such as landfill gas collection, progressive closure, water supply, and entrance expansion.  Prior to that, Jerry worked in the Equipment Services Branch of the City of Vancouver and RST Instruments, a local geotechnical instrumentation firm.

$30 for members and guests who pre-register on-line at APEGBC.
$35 for late registrations at the door.
$25 for EIT/GIT’s and retired members.
$20 MAPS (students)
Cash bar.
To register on-line at APEGBC, please see details below. 

Register Online

To help us predict our catering needs, please register by Thursday, Nov 3rd, 2011.  Due to space limitations, registrations will be limited to the first 100 online responses.

Betty Lou Pacey
Betty Lou Pacey is the founder, President and CEO of BL Innovative Lighting Ltd. She is a highly sought after speaker and has been a featured presenter on several platforms. She has been  as invited as a speaker at many prestigious conferences, including the US Department of Energy Conference in New Orleans, and annually at the POF Conference in Santa Monica.

Betty Lou Pacey serves on the Board of the Illuminating Engineering Society as the Chair of the Membership Committee (BC Chapter). She also serves on the Board and acts as a Treasurer of the British Columbia Electrical Association, while serving  on the Executive Boards of the BC Division of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association, on the Board of St. Paul's Hospital Foundation for the past 14 years and on the Executive Board of the Fair Tax Coalition

Founded in 1986, her company, BL Innovative Lighting has focused on specialty lighting with emphasis on LED and Fibre-optic lighting.    It is also Canadian manufacturer of Optical Fibre for lighting. Please join us in welcoming this highly distinguished speaker as she delivers a fascinating seminar about LED Lighting.

Summary:

Hello Richmond-Delta Branch Volunteers!

Kwantlen Polytechnic Science Challenge - Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009

Location: Kwantlen University - Richmond Campus.
8771 Lansdowne Road, Richmond, BC ( map )

This event is aimed at Junior and Senior Secondary Students (Grades 8-12) in a fun filled day of science and engineering challenges. The Branch sponsors the Junior and Senior Design Challenges and presents awards to the winners at the end of the day. 

We need volunteers to assist with running the events and providing some last second mentoring to the students. This is a fun, easy and gratifying event as you get swept up in the enthusiasm shown by the various teams. Please check the attached PDF or the website/more info. We need a minimum of two volunteers for each event (4 total) - the more the better so we can take breaks, tour the other events of just commit for part of the day. Please feel free to recruit your friends and co-workers - everyone is welcome. 

Please e-mail me back with your response, time commitment and preferred time (morning or afternoon). this opportunity is restricted to P. Eng and P. Geo only by the by-laws. 

Thank you one and all for your past support and continued support moving forward. Please note the pressing deadlines on this opportunity and give these matters due attention.

Respectfully,

Philip Parker, P. Eng. Chair,
Richmond-Delta Branch APEGBC
pparker@rjc.ca

Respectfully,

Philip Parker, P. Eng.
Chair, Richmond-Delta Branch APEGBC

Summary:

On August 21st, 2009 the Burnaby Product Engineering, Test Engineering, and CCAM team decided to try something new for a team-building event.  In past years we organized an internal “Fun Day” with physics challenges; this year we included a Difference element, and partnered with our local Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vancouver club to host what we called a “Creation Engineering & Science Day”.

Taking over a day within the Fraserview Club’s daycamp schedule, our goal was to introduce basic concepts of science and engineering to 60 kids (aged 6-12); to get them thinking about things around them, and of course to have FUN!  And fun we had, as we went through a demonstration and two team challenges, which were prepared by the Engineering team in the weeks leading up to the event.

We started off building bridges made of Popsicle sticks.  Using glue and tape, each team was challenged to design a structure that would resist the greatest point load.  Thanks to the tremendous support of our provincial engineering association (APEGBC), we had all the materials and equipment to replicate an earlier regional event hosted by APEGBC.  The bridges were allowed to do dry for only 3 hours before being placed in “The Crusher” to be tested.  The creativity in the bridges can be seen in the pictures below; the strongest bridge resisted a 29-lb load!

Next, we provided a quick lesson on concrete and roadways – we brought unmixed concrete and showed the kids how it turns into the hard concrete they run on so often.  It was refreshing to see them eager to handle the sample and even wanting to put their fingers into the concrete!

Our last challenge of the day involved an inventory box, rubber bands, and ping pong ball, among other materials.  Each team constructed a device that launched the ball as far as possible, but with precision over 3 trials.  Once again, the creativity in the kids was evident in the various ideas they came up with, and the enthusiasm as they watched everyone else during the contest. 

The kids ended the day wanting to take home as many “souvenirs” as possible – from the launching device to bits and pieces of the crushed bridges.  The kids, staff, and Engineering all had a great time and it was exciting to see some budding mini-Engineers out there!