The Western Canada Group of Chartered Engineers
Serving
members of the British Chartered Engineering Institutions resident in B.C.,
Yukon, Washington and Alaska
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Dateline 28 June 2009
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NOTICE OF
17TH
ANNUAL PHONE BOX & GAZEBO INSPECTION, HANDMADE BEVERAGE CONTEST
& BARBECUE
Location: Webmaster's Residence, 2414 Tree Top Lane, North Vancouver BC
Date: Saturday 25th July 2009 - (if wet, Sunday 26th July)
Time: 5:00 pm on
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WE PROVIDE |
YOU BRING |
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Forest-front Lot |
Meaty Morsel |
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Charcoal Grills |
Knife & Fork |
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Salads |
Beverages of your Choice * |
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Potatoes |
Spouse or Soulmate |
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Corkscrews & Bottle openers |
Lawn chair(s), and |
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Paper plates & plastic cups |
Scintillating company! |
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Ambience, and of course |
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The PAYPHONE |
* including contest entry if desired! |
In order to avoid over- or
under-abundance of salad and spuds, please advise
Ian or Jane Price (604-929-7566 or
ian@priceng.com)
whether you will attend, not
later than Wednesday July 22nd .
(Regrets not necessary
unless you already said you were coming)
Once
again we look forward to the possibility of meeting as many of the Group as
possible at this LEAST SERIOUS event of the year, including making new friends
with others with a common background.
REPORT ON JUNE SITE VISIT
The speaker was Ian Price, C.Eng, P.Eng,
who escorted us on a site visit to the ATI Truck Repair Ltd facility where he
had assisted in designing a paint spray booth for trucks.
Ian pointed out that fire safety,
occupational health and safety, and
atmospheric emissions of paint spraying operations had to be carefully designed
and installed to meet the requirements of the regulatory bodies. The booth is
question was about 60’ x 20’ x 20’ high to accommodate large vehicles. For safety
the ventilation air is driven by a 20,000 cfm fan heated by a 2,500,000 btu directed
fired gas burner and then pushed through the end wall, which is a bank of
filters, before entering the space. The exhaust air is also filtered at the
opposite end of the space through a column of filters on either side of the
double doors. These filters are backed by perforated plates to even out the
pressure difference to even out the flow through the filters so that the air
does not go through the ones closest to the exhaust fan.
There are 2 compressed air outlets in
the long walls to provide power to the paint spray guns.
There are safety switches on the doors
to prevent operation unless the doors are closed, and the automatic control
panel is mounted on the exterior of the long wall adjacent to the side door.
Air temperature is adjusted from this panel to suit the drying requirements of
the paint being applied.
Future
meetings
- If you have an interesting product or project at
work that you feel our Group members would like to know more about,
please don't hesitate to contact James
Canova, who can arrange
with you a suitable time and date for a talk or tour. Our technical
meetings program comprises an eclectic mix of engineering topics as well
as general items of interest to engineers, and the Group welcomes a
further broadening of its topic base.
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Background
Founded in 1987
as an amalgamation of the Western Canada branches of the Institutions of Civil,
Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, the Group expanded in 1994 to include
members of the Institutions of Structural and Chemical Engineers. In 1998 the
Group expanded again to include the Chartered Institution of Building Services
Engineers. It now represents over 1000 members of these U.K. engineering
Institutions, residents of B.C., Yukon, Washington State, and Alaska.
Mission
The Group exists
not only to extend the Institutions' services to their overseas members, but
also to assist local engineers, EITs and technologists with an interest in
European practices and technology, and/or aspirations to register professionally
in Europe, to join the appropriate Institution.
Activities
The Group runs a
technical meeting and site visit program out of Vancouver, B.C., and publishes
a newsletter, the ChallEnge,
twice a year. Additional services include this Webpage, assistance with the
APEGBC mentoring program, and assistance to members with Continuing
Professional Development
Those visiting
this website in order to research prospects
for an engineering job here in British Columbia, should navigate to a new page identified on our main
services menu. This is based on a letter we have been using as a reply to
inquiries over the last couple of years. We have tried to portray a realistic
appreciation of what your chances of getting a job here might be, and not we
hope either too rosy or too negative a picture.
This page and
all subsidiary pages are currently under continuous development. If there's
anything you need to know about the Group, further details of the Group may be
obtained from the Group Webmaster,
Ian W. Price, B.Sc., C.Eng., M.I.E.E., P.Eng.
2414 Tree Top Lane, North Vancouver, BC V7H 2K5
Tel: (604) 929-7566
Fax: (604) 929-6826
e-mail: wcgcewebmaster@priceng.com, or click on name
above
