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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JULY 2009 BARBECUE

REPORT ON JUNE SITE VISIT  

 

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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

 

      

WE PROVIDE

YOU BRING

Forest-front Lot

Meaty Morsel

Charcoal Grills

Knife & Fork

Salads

Beverages of your Choice *

Potatoes

Spouse or Soulmate

Corkscrews & Bottle openers

Lawn chair(s), and

Paper plates & plastic cups

Scintillating company!

Ambience, and of course

 

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

 

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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


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