When Clean Water Is a Bad Thing
By Ian Chan
We live in a society, especially here in North America, which prides itself upon the clean supply of a city’s domestic water system. In Vancouver, this is especially the case with our water often coming from glacial run-off. This purity, in water management terms, is measured in microSiemens,... Read more
From V-Tracks and Pin-Bars to the Big BIM, Bam, Boom!
By Geoff McDonell, PEng., LEED AP
I am watching this whole Revit® and 3-D Building Information Modelling (BIM) software slowly permeate the building design industry here in our little part of the world, and after surviving the initial entry of computer aided drafting (CAD) back in the mid-1980s, I think I can render an opinion... Read more
The Techno-Solution Debate: Is Technology Always the Answer?
By Geoff McDonell, PEng., LEED AP
I have to admit that as a mechanical engineer I’ve always been fascinated with technical things. Starting as a kid, I was fascinated with taking apart old alarm clocks and putting them back together to see if they’d work. Right up to today, with more than three decades practicing as a... Read more
