20132012

Annual Report

The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering

ERAL UAL

GDETTE (FR) CSCE PARTNERS & SPONSORS | ASSOCIÉS ET SPONSORS SCGE

MAJOR PARTNERS / ASSOCIÉS PRINCIPAUX

PARTNERS / ASSOCIÉS

AFFILIATES / AFFILIÉS

CSCE SECTIONS SCGC

NewfoundlandContact: Bing Chen, MCSCET. 709-864-8958E-mail: bchen@mun.ca

Nova ScotiaContact: to be determined

East New Brunswick and P.E.I. (Moncton)Contact: Luc DeGrâceT. 506-856-9601E-mail: luc.degrace@valron.ca

West New BrunswickContact: to be determined

MontréalContact: to be determined

SherbrookeContact: Michael Jean, MA1 SCGCT. 819-565-3385Courriel: michael.jean@cima.ca

QuébecContact: Mario Fafard, MSCGCT. 418-656-7605Courriel: mario.fafard@gci.ulaval.ca

Capital Section (Ottawa-Gatineau)Contact: Adrian MunteanuT. 613-580-2424, x 16038E-mail: adrian.munteanu@ottawa.ca

TorontoContact: Cameron Blair, MCSCET. 905-896-8900E-mail: cblair@ellisdon.com

Hamilton/NiagaraContact: Ben Hunter, MCSCET. 905-335-2353 x 269E-mail: ben.hunter@amec.com

Northwestern OntarioContact: Gerry Buckrell, MCSCET. 807-623-3449 x 223E-mail: gbuckrell@enl-tbay.com

Durham/NorthumberlandContact: Robbie LarocqueT. 905-576-8500E-mail: robbie.larocque@dgbiddle.com

London & DistrictContact: Thomas Mara, MCSCET. 519-697-1547E-mail: tmara3@uwo.ca

ManitobaContact: Shawn Clark, Ph.D., P.Eng.T. 204-474-9046E-mail: shawn.clark@ad.umanitoba.ca

South SaskatchewanContact: Harold Retzlaff, MCSCET. 306-787-4758E-mail: harold.retzlaff@gov.sk.ca

SaskatoonContact: Brittany Brillon, P.Eng, MCSCET. 306-657-7634E-mail: BBrillon@hatch.ca

CalgaryContact: Erin DvorakT. 403-268-1330E-mail: erin.dvorak@calgary.ca

EdmontonContact: John HodgsonT. 780-482-2557E-mail: jhodgsonpeng@gmail.com

VancouverContact: Chelene Wong, AM3 CSCET. 604-639-1039E-mail: csce.vancouver@gmail.com

Vancouver IslandContact: Kevin Baskin, FCSCET. 250-387-7737E-mail: kevin.baskin@gov.bc.ca

CSCE Hong Kong BranchContact: Paul Pang, MCSCET. 011-852-2626-1132E-mail: ptcpang@bd.gov.hk

1

Table of Contents2 Minutes of the 2012 Annual General Meeting

3 President’s Report

5 Executive Director’s Report

6 Senior Vice-President's Report

11 Report of the CSCE Foundation 2012-2013

12 Report of the Vice President, Technical Divisions - Programs Coordinating Committee

14 Report of the Honorary Treasurer

15 Report of the Vice President, Technical Programs - Programs Coordinating Committee

17 CSCE Second Century Fund

18 Report of the Vice President - Administration Coordinating Committee

20 Report of the 2013-2014 Nominating Committee

21 Membership Statistics 2012 and 2011

22 Auditors’ Report and Financial Statements September 30, 2012

CSCE National Office4877 Sherbrooke Street WestWestmount, QC H3Z 1G9Tel: (514) 933-2634 Fax: (514) 933-3504e-mail: info@csce.ca web: http://www.csce.ca

Minutes of 2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM)Held June 8, 2012 Westin Hotel, Edmonton, AB

2

1. Call to Ordere 2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the CanadianSociety for Civil Engineering was called to order by PresidentRandy Pickle at 1:20 p.m

2. Adoption of the AgendaOn a motion by Alistair MacKenzie, seconded by RobertDriver, the proposed agenda for the meeting was presented tothe members for acceptance. e motion was carried unani-mously.

3. Approval of the Minutes of the 2011 Annual General Meeting, June 16, 2011 (Ottawa, ON) On a motion by Robert Driver, seconded by Gord Jinn, theminutes of the 2011 Annual General Meeting were presentedto the members for acceptance. e motion was carried unan-imously.

4. Business Arising from the previous meetingere was no business arising from the minutes of the AnnualGeneral Meeting of June 16, 2011.

5. President’s Reporte President, Randy Pickle, verbally presented his report andspoke of CSCE’s activities of the past year, in particular theadoption of three new strategic Directions for the Society. Ona motion from Mike Ircha, the President’s Report was presentedto the members for acceptance. e motion was carried unan-imously.

6. Other Annual Reports from the ExecutivesOn a motion proposed by Farnaz Sadeghpour, seconded byRobert Driver, all reports published in the 2011-2012 AnnualReport were presented to the members for acceptance.. emotion was carried unanimously.

7. Report of the Honorary Treasurere Honorary Treasurer’s report, including the audited CSCEfinancial statements for the fiscal year ended September 30th,2011, were presented as published in the 2011-2012 AnnualReport.

7.1 On a motion proposed by John Newhook, seconded by Cathy Lynn Borbely, the report of the Honorary Treasurer,

along with the financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2011, were presented to the members for ac-ceptance. e motion was carried unanimously.

7.2 On a motion proposed by Jim Kells, seconded by Alistair MacKenzie, the firm Ouseley Hanvey Clipsham Deep was pro-posed to the members as auditors of the Society for the fiscal year 2011 2012. e motion was carried unanimously.

8. Report of the Nominations Committeee Report of the Nominations Committee was presented withthe following amendments:

8.1 Reg Andres was nominated as Senior Vice President;

8.2 Marcel Chichak was nominated as Chair, Communica-tions and Publications Committee, and;

8.3 Moe Chung was nominated as Chair, Education and

Reasearch Program.

On a motion proposed by Vic Perry, seconded by Iraj Man-shadi, the new slate of nominees as modified above was pre-sented to the members for acceptance. e motion was carriedunanimously.

9. Ratification of actions of officers and directorsOn a motion by Leslie Simons, seconded by Cathy Lynn Bor-bely, the ratification of actions of officers and directors sincethe last Annual General Meeting was proposed to the mem-bers. e motion was carried unanimously.

10. Other BusinessPresident Randy Pickle turned the meeting over to Jim Kells,the new President of the CSCE.

11. AdjournmentOn a motion by Robert Driver, seconded by Mike Bartlett, ad-journment of the meeting was proposed at 1:35 p.m. e mo-tion was carried unanimously.

President’s Report

3

A key focus of the Society’s leadership team over the past year hasbeen on the implementation of our Vision 2020 strategic plan,which has been a work in progress over the past three years. Inparticular, we very deliberately directed much of our energy to-ward putting word into action for each of the plan’s three strategicdirections: enhancing services for members, growing with youth,and leadership in sustainable infrastructure. Much progress hasbeen made to this end and yet we fully realize that much work re-mains to be done.

With respect to enhancing services for members, we continue tohave communication via the monthly President’s e-letter, which isprimarily focused on the President’s activities and others from thesenior leadership team, and the monthly e-bulletin, which is fo-cused on conferences, workshops, members in the news and a va-riety of other items. We have added to the content of our flagshipmagazine, Canadian Civil Engineer (CIVIL), to include regularsubmissions on interesting projects and on Section and Region ac-tivities, beginning with the conference issue last year. As well, theroll-out of our revamped website, which took place just prior to the2012 conference, has been very favorable; the look, feel and oper-ation have been well received, and we continue to evolve the con-tent to make it even better. We have also just recently providedaccess to CSCE conference proceedings papers of the past 10 yearsvia our website, and made arrangements with the Institution ofCivil Engineers (UK) for our members to receive a discount ontheir technical publications.

Several actions have been taken to improve the connectivity withour younger members and students. In the previous year, we es-tablished a Young Professionals (YP) Committee to help us withbetter addressing the needs of this demographic of our member-ship. is year, we went one step further and established, on a trialbasis, a part-time staff position referred to as Young Professionaland Student Program Coordinator. Amie errien, one of ouryoung professional members, was hired into this position in De-cember. Some of Amie’s attention is being directed at student lead-ership training, developing a mentoring program, monitoring oursocial media communications, and coordinating student/YP ac-tivities at our annual conference. With respect to the latter item,we have made very good progress in strategically developing our YPprogramming at the annual conference to include seminars andnetworking events. In addition, we have implemented a regularStudent/YP section to CIVIL. I was also able to continue with thetradition of hosting a breakfast for YP and student members at theannual conference in Edmonton. Approximately 60 student/YPfolks attended the breakfast, which provided me a brief opportu-nity to say a few words about the long-term career and other ben-efits of active engagement in a learned society such as CSCE.Other progress on the YP and student side of our work has alsobeen made over the past year. Further to our success with becom-ing the national sponsor for the Canadian National ConcreteCanoe Competition and Troitsky Bridge Building Competition,we have now developed an agreement with the Great Northern

Concrete Toboggan Race. In this case, the main trophy is namedthe CSCE Trophy. We also continue to give out the President’sAward for best CSCE student chapter. In addition, we are build-ing on the achievement realized at the 2011 annual conference inOttawa, at which there was a very significant and successful un-dergraduate student poster session. is year, at the annual con-ference in Montreal, we are formally launching the NationalCapstone Competition, which is a poster session aimed at seniorundergraduate students who are completing their degree require-ments. For all five competitions, we invite a representative of thewinning team to attend the annual conference to receive a plaquefrom the Society.

Of course for all of us in the civil engineering profession, our rolein providing leadership in sustainable infrastructure, our thirdstrategic direction, is paramount at this time. In a time of verylimited resources and rapidly expanding demand, our work on thisfile is critical. is year, we participated in the release of the first-ever infrastructure report card for Canada, which focused on mu-nicipal roads and water systems. e press conference for therelease took place in September, with our Senior Vice President,Reg Andres, and Executive Director, Doug Salloum, in attendance.A key finding presented in the report card is that an estimated$170 billion or more is needed to bring the infrastructure up tostandard. anks to Guy Felio, Reg Andres, Nick Larson andKonrad Siu for their work on our behalf in development of the re-port card. To get out the word on the report card, a National Lec-ture Tour presentation was given to some 15 Sections across thecountry in the early fall period. Guy Felio delivered most of thepresentations; thank you Guy. We also continued to strengthenour relationship with Infrastructure Canada and were proactive inencouraging the government to include a sustainability compo-nent in the awarding of funding for projects as part of the nextFederal infrastructure program. In addition, we included a regu-lar feature on sustainable infrastructure in each issue of CIVIL,and we established the Award for Governmental Leadership in Sus-tainable Infrastructure, with the first award made at the 2012 an-nual conference in Edmonton. e Local Organizing Committeefor the Edmonton conference is commended for its efforts in help-ing to establish this award.

In my role as President, I was involved a fair bit of travel during thefirst several months of my term. Perhaps one of my key visits wasto our Hong Kong Branch at the time of the Branch’s annual gen-eral meeting in early September. e Hong Kong Branch was for-mally established in 2007 under the leadership of Moe Cheung.Since its inception, there have been some challenges in developingand maintaining linkages with the Branch members, although wedid realize some success this year. Aside from my visit, which sawPaul Pang replace Moe Cheung as Branch Chair, we were also ableto arrange for a technical presentation to be delivered to the mem-bers by Garry Mak during his visit to Hong Kong in early No-vember. We continue to work on strategies for further developingour ties to this group of international members. While in Hong

Kong, I was also hosted by the Hong Kong Institution of Engi-neers, which is a group with which we have a formal agreementfor the technical exchange of information.

My other trip abroad was to China, where I was part of a delega-tion attending an international forum at Tianjin University in earlyNovember. I also attended and brought greetings at the annualconference of the Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society (CHES),which is group with which we have had a long-standing formalagreement for the technical exchange of information. e CHESconference was held in Wuhan. As well, while in Beijing, a smallgroup of us was able to meet with officials from CHES, the ChinaAssociation for International Exchange of Personnel and theSouth-North Project office in a series of separate meetings. In eachcase, it is our intention to establish ongoing relationships for theexchange of technical information and training. Ongoing leader-ship for these initiatives lies with our International Affairs Com-mittee, currently chaired by Ron Droste. Overall coordination formy trips to both Hong Kong and China was provided by ToddChan, our Vice President International, and Jeanne Huang, ourSpecial Envoy to China; a big vote of thanks is extended to bothTodd and Jeanne for their organizational leadership.

Other travel included attendance at the very successful Cold Re-gions conference in Quebec City, chaired by Guy Dore. is con-ference, which was co-sponsored with the American Society ofCivil Engineers, had delegates from 11 countries in attendance. Ialso attended the Board meetings of the Engineering Institute ofCanada (EIC), of which we are a constituent member with votingprivileges, in Toronto and of the Canadian Geotechnical Society,of which we have a non-voting position on the Board, in Win-nipeg. As well, I attended the American Society of Civil Engineers(ASCE) annual conference, which was held in Montreal. As youwould perhaps expect, we have a long-standing memorandum ofunderstanding with ASCE, which will be renewed at our annualconference in Montreal at the end of May. At all of the conferencesnoted here, I brought greetings on behalf of the Society and par-ticipated in various events in my capacity as President. Confer-ences yet to come at the time of writing this report include the21st Canadian Hydrotechnical bi-annual conference being held inBanff in mid-May, chaired by Mike Bender, and the EIC’s Boardmeeting and Award’s Gala being held in Montreal just ahead ofour annual conference in late May.

Visits to Sections and Regions were integrated with my travel forother reasons. In every instance, I was very pleased with the re-ception provided by the local groups; their commitment and en-thusiasm was clearly evident. Unfortunately, I did not accomplishnear what I had hoped to do in this aspect of my role as President;other duties and commitments with my work simply made it notpossible.

Each year, in conjunction with the semi-annual fall meeting of theBoard, we hold a workshop that focuses on some aspect of our op-erations. In keeping with a recently-established protocol, theworkshop was led by President Elect Yves Cadotte. is year, theworkshop focus was on developing an action plan for the National

Office and Board with respect to our Vision 2020 plan. e work-shop, held in Montreal at the beginning of December, was facili-tated by a representative from Association Management,Consulting & Evaluation Services. Nearly all Board members werein attendance, along with a number of other people in leadershippositions within the Society.

Among the many things going on this year, the Board did giveconsiderable attention to the requirements of the new Not-for-Profit Corporations Act administered by Industry Canada. In duecourse, we will be filing our Certificate of Continuance applica-tion and we will be seeking approval of a revised set of bylaws thatare used in the governance of our Society’s operations. We alsohad to manage the situation that arose when Yves Cadotte, ourPresident Elect, resigned from his portfolio in response to the in-creased demands of his employment. After much deliberation, theBoard decided to appoint our current Senior Vice President, RegAndres, to a two-year Presidential term in accordance with its au-thority as expressed in our bylaws. We are grateful to Reg for agree-ing to assume this undertaking, starting with this year’s annualgeneral meeting.

It has been a great privilege and honor to serve the Society as Pres-ident this year. e tremendous support of so many of our mem-bers toward the success of the Society in all that it does, includingof me in my time as President, is greatly appreciated. Indeed, Itake this opportunity to offer a big vote of thanks to our manywonderful volunteers without whom we could not accomplish allthat we do. In particular, I express my gratitude to all members ofour Board of Directors; this group of members truly holds the So-ciety’s best interests near to their heart. I am also grateful for thework done and support given by our staff team in our Nationaloffice under the leadership of Executive Director Doug Salloum;their contributions are greatly appreciated. I am confident thatmy successor, Reg Andres, will also enjoy the same support shownto me as he takes up the mantle to lead the Society forward in theyear ahead.

Respectfully submitted,

J.A. Kells, PhD, P.Eng., FCSCEPresident

4

5

Financial results:

e bottom line for the year 2011-12 was an essentially break evenoperation. Within that statement there were number of positives;student and corporate membership dues were up and the annualconference in Edmonton last year was a great success. On the neg-ative side Life Long Learning Revenues were significantly lowerthan last year as we were unable to present courses on major codechanges, normally a CSCE training that is highly subscribed. Re-serves remain strong and we are well positioned for expansion andthe implementation of new initiatives.

Strategic Direction 1: Enhanced services to members:

• CSCE has negotiated an agreement with ICE whereby CSCE members can purchase ICE publications at a 25% discount;

• CSCE members of long standing are being systematically recognized. Last year CSCE sent special membership pins to all 40 year members of the Society. is year CSCE rec-ognized 30 and 40 year members. Eventually we will have in place a process whereby 10, 20, 30 and 40 year membership milestones will be recognized by CSCE;

• CSCE will initiate a regular member survey process to de-termine member awareness, satisfaction and needs. is is a basic but necessary step to improve member service.

Strategic Direction 2: Growing with youth:

• CSCE has hired Amie errien as a Student/Young Profes-sional Program Coordinator, on a part time basis. Amie is overseeing the following activities:

o Establishment and strengthening of YP groups in all CSCE Sections;

o YP Activities at the Montreal Annual Conference;o Coordination of all CCE student competitions, and;o Development of a mentoring program.

• e list of National Student Competitions now supported by CSCE includes:

o Troitsky Popsicle stick Bridge: every year at Concordia University;

o Concrete Canoe: this year in Montreal;o Concrete Toboggan: this year in Vancouver, next year

London;o Capstone competition: a new feature this year of the

Annual conference, and;o President’s Award: for best student chapter.

Strategic Direction 3: Leadership in Sustainable Infrastructur

• CSCE’s Award for Governmental Leadership in Sustainable Infrastructure will be awarded for the second time at this year’s annual conference. e winning public sector entity will receive an original painting created by a young Quebec artist;

• CSCE and its partners, Canadian Public Works Association, Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada and the Canadian Construction Association have offered to develop an infrastructure sustainability screen and to provide train-ing in its use.

I want to thank all our volunteers across the country who con-tribute so many hours of their time to CSCE. I also want to thankour National Office staff, who continue to support you our mem-bers in a professional, prompt and courteous manner.

Doug Salloum, B.Sc., MBA, PMP – Executive Director

Executive Director’s Report

6

Report of the Senior Vice PresidentIt has been a privilege to fulfill the role of theSVP of CSCE this past year responsible forthe Sections and Regions across Canada.ere are six (6) Regional Vice-Presidents wholead five geographically distributed Regionsacross Canada and one International Regionfocused in Hong Kong. ere are 20 Sectionscurrently operating in Canada and oneBranch in Hong Kong.

Meetings of the Regional VP’s are held underthe auspices of the Regional CoordinatingCommittee (RCC). rough several meetingsthis year the RCC focused on the operationof the Regions and Sections and how we couldhelp each other by sharing the challenges andsuccesses experienced in each Region / Sec-tion. What was evident in these meetings wasthe fact that the Society has been served by agroup of dedicated volunteers working hardto improve the ultimate service to membersand to strengthen the motivation and interestof civil engineers for being a member ofCSCE. e Regional VP’s addressed a num-ber of issues of national common interest andworked together in bringing these to the na-tional office / Board meetings. One of theseissues related to the support provided by Sec-tions to organizing committees of technicalprogram conferences and workshops held intheir geographic areas and the revenue shar-ing formula for this support.

One of the tools used by this group is an an-nual Section Survey designed to collect infor-mation on the activities that take place overthe year in the Sections. CSCE’s newlyadopted vision and three strategic directionswere highlighted in the 2013 survey with theencouragement to plan future activities thatare specifically linked to each of the strategicdirections – service to members, growing withyouth and sustainable infrastructure. An im-portant part of the activities at the Sectionlevel relates to interactions with student chap-ters. Evidences of the strength of local Sectionsfrom members who started their CSCE activ-ities as students speaks to the benefit of thisstudent focus.

Reports from each of the Regional VP’s fol-lows and demonstrates the significant level ofactivity that takes place at the grass roots of

the society through the many Sections thatoperate within each Region. is is the con-necting point for virtually every Society mem-ber through the many events planned at theSection level.

Western RegionVice-President, Brad Smid, P.Eng., MCSCE

e CSCE Western Region covers the geo-graphic area of Alberta, British Columbia, andparts of Northwest Territories and the Yukon.e Region includes four incredible sections(Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, and Van-couver Island).

e Western Region team includes the Re-gional Vice President, Regional CoordinatorD. Philip Alex, Secretary/Treasurer RobertMcKay, and the four section chairs. e teammeets face-to-face once per year, and by tele-conference to conduct any other businessthroughout the year.

e Region was proud to host the 2012 Con-ference in Edmonton. With a theme of “Lead-ership in Sustainable Infrastructure”, and thecelebration of the 125th Anniversary of theEngineering Institute of Canada (EIC), theforbearer of CSCE, the conference was a com-plete success. e Region would like to ac-knowledge the hard work and dedication ofthe conference co-chairs Dr. Jeff DiBattistaand Dr. Robert Driver and their entire LocalOrganizing Committee for an outstandingjob.

In September 2012, all four sections hostedthe National Lecture Tour on Canada’s Infra-structure Report Card. Planning for the thirdannual Western Region Lecture Tour is un-derway and details will be available soon forthis event, which is scheduled for the Fall of2013.

e Edmonton Section, chaired by Dr. JohnHodgson, delivered a high quality programincluding technical seminars, workshops, andnetworking events. e core program in-cluded ten technical dinner meetings, onetechnical tour and an annual mixer/awardsnight which honoured the Section’s fellows,sponsors and the winners of the student com-

petitions. e dinner meetings focused onmajor projects and topics of interest to all CivilEngineers. Support for CSCE’s national ac-tivities included the 2012 National LectureTour and the Professional Developmentworkshop on the CSA standard for aluminumstructures. A strong student chapter at theUniversity of Alberta (the Civil Club) contin-ues to provide dynamic support to Section ac-tivities, which has led to increased youngprofessional involvement on the Section exec-utive. A Young Professionals (YoPro) programhas been established to engage recent gradu-ates. e Section continues to pursue part-nerships and opportunities to promote civilengineering in the Edmonton area. Industrysupport, and volunteer recruitment and re-tention, are some of the key reasons for theongoing success of the Section. (www.csceed-monton.org)

e Calgary Section, chaired by AndrewBoucher until November 2012 and his suc-cessor Erin Dvorak since that date, delivered aprogram including dinner meetings and paneldiscussions. e Section participated in the2012 National Lecture Tour and the Profes-sional Development workshop on the CSAstandard for aluminum structures. Dinnermeeting topics included Bridge Construction,“e Route Ahead” (Calgary’s TransportationMaster Plan), and the Port Mann Bridge. Inaddition to many ongoing initiatives such asstudent scholarships and the Graduate Stu-dent Poster Contest, the Section young pro-fessionals group is now in its second year ofoperation. e CSCE Student Chapter at theUniversity of Calgary continues to be activeas well. (www.cscecalgary.ca)

e Vancouver Section, chaired by CheleneWong, hosted several events this year includ-ing two site tours, the 2012 National LectureTour, the Professional Development work-shop on the CSA standard for aluminumstructures, a member appreciation night, anda lecture on concrete technology an its appli-cability to BC MOT bridges. On behalf of theCSCE International Affairs Committee andNational Office, the Section hosted a highlevel delegation from China in September2012. Student members were supportedthrough industry collaboration events and

7

scholarships at both the University of BritishColumbia and the British Columbia Instituteof Technology. e strong student chapters atthe University of British Columbia and theBritish Columbia Institute of Technology areassets of the Vancouver Section.(www.cscebc.ca)

e Vancouver Island Section (based in Vic-toria,) chaired by Kevin Baskin, continues tosupport the monthly luncheon meetings ofthe Vancouver Island Branch of the EIC andthe Canadian Society for Senior Engineers.Together with the CSCE History Commit-tee, the Section placed a CSCE historical siteplaque at the Victoria Airport, to recognize therole of this airfield and local Civil Engineersin the British Commonwealth Air TrainingPlan. e event was a success, drawing severallocal VIPs and media attention to this CSCEinitiative. e Section participated in the2012 National Lecture Tour. e Section ispleased to report that the University of Victo-ria is moving ahead with plans to start a CivilEngineering program starting in 2013. Initialdiscussions have been held to establish a stu-dent chapter at the University of Victoria andto continue to enhance CSCE awareness andinvolvement among the Civil EngineeringTechnology students and staff at CamosunCollege.

Prairie RegionVice President, Harold Retzlaff, P.Eng.,FCSCE

e Prairie Region includes the provinces ofManitoba and Saskatchewan. e Regioncomprises three Sections, Manitoba, SouthSaskatchewan and Saskatoon. e Regionsuccessfully recruited Mark Guess to the Treas-urer position. e Region has been approvedto host the 2015 Annual Conference inRegina. Preliminary planning has begun. InSeptember, the Saskatoon and SouthSaskatchewan Sections partnered with theConsulting Engineers of Saskatchewan to fa-cilitate a seismic design seminar in Saskatoonand Regina.

South Saskatchewan Sectione Section, chaired by Harold Retzlaff, hasbeen moderately active. e Section hostedseveral technical lunch presentations. eSection successfully added a Young Profes-sional Representative to the Board. At theAGM, the membership acclaimed Ms. Kate-

lyn Frecon to the position. e Section, incooperation with the University of Regina, isplanning to host the first Popsicle Stick BridgeBuilding Competition early in 2013.

Saskatoon Sectione Section, chaired by Mike Hnatiuk, hadanother busy year in 2012. We put on ourusual array of Nooner presentations and werefortunate to have hosted a very interestingNLT stop in the fall. We have continued withour Networker evening events, which was anew initiative last year. Response is still goodas we try to fine tune the events and also keepit fresh.

We had some changes in our executive thisyear, our chair took a position in anotherprovince so we were off-stride for a shortwhile. It is a testament to the efficiency andcompetency of the entire section executivethat delivery of our programming to ourmembers was not affected.

We expect the upcoming year to be quite ex-citing with a new chair, and the new faces wecontinually add to our team. Plans are un-derway for some informative seminars, and weare considering changing the timing of a cou-ple of long standing events to better reflecttoday’s student/professional relationship.

Manitoba Sectione Section, chaired by Shaun Clark, is stillin a rebuilding phase. e 2012 year saw anincrease in the number of activities from theprevious year. Two breakfast presentations(plus one in late 2011), and an AGM in wereheld in 2012, averaging about 35 attendees.At the AGM, the Chair position was changed,as Dagmar Svecova stepped down and ShawnClark took on the role of Chair.

Two CSCE workshops were held in 2012,both with moderate attendance. Feedbackwas positive for both, and they each seemed toprovide a good service to the membership.e National Lecture Tour on Canada’s In-frastructure Report Card saw only 30 atten-dees, which was low for a NLT. Feedback wasgenerally positive.

e current Manitoba CSCE Executive re-mains the same as it has been for roughly thepast 2 years, and activities have not been as fre-quent as we would have liked. It is expectedthat things will pick up in 2013.

Ontario Region Vice-President, James Garland, P.Eng.,

Te Ontario Region comprises six Sections,namely, National Capital, Durham-Northumberland, Toronto, Hamilton-Nia-gara, Northwestern Ontario and London andDistrict. e Ontario Regional Council, withrepresentation from each section, works topromote sharing of best practices, speaker andevent information and to provide a vehicle forrepresentation of Section interests to theCSCE Board. e Council typically meets byteleconference but will meet in person at theCSCE Annual Conference.

e National Capital Section, chaired byGary Holowach, during 2012 focused theirenergies on rebuilding its Section Executive.is effort has been fruitful and the section,led by Adrian Munteanu, since February 2013now has seven members on its executive. eSection supports two Student Chapters: Car-leton University and the University of Ottawa.In October 2012 the National Capital Sectionhosted the National Lecture Tour on Canada’sInfrastructure Report Card presented by GuyFelio. e Section also provided sponsorshipand participated in the 2012 Ottawa RegionalScience Fair and the University of Ottawa Re-search Day Graduate Students Poster Com-petition.

e Durham-Northumberland Sectionserves a large geographic area from east ofToronto to Kingston and was chaired byBrandon Robinson until September, whenRobbie Larocque assumed this honour. eSection hosted one luncheon in 2012, the Na-tional Lecture Tour on Canada’s InfrastructureReport Card presented by Guy Felio. eSection is looking forward to more activity in2013.

e Toronto Section, serving the majorityof CSCE members in the province, has hada very successful year in 2012 under theleadership of Cameron Blair. e Sectionoperates with a full slate of executive membersand is delivering a complete program of lec-tures, social events and professional develop-ment activities.

e Section facilitates continuing educationworkshops, and organizes breakfast and din-ner lectures of interest to CSCE members.

8

Workshops in 2012 included Rainwater Har-vesting and Bridge Hydraulics. Lecture top-ics included the new hydro tunnel underconstruction at Niagara Falls, presentations onhigh performance concrete and innovativeformwork systems, Canada’s First Infrastruc-ture Report Card, a panel discussion on In-novation and Sustainability in Transportation,and two talks on the redevelopment of theToronto waterfront from a planning andtransportation perspective and also the com-plex stormwater management solutionsneeded to mitigate impacts to Lake Ontario.e Section is closely affiliated with the CSCEStudent Chapters at Ryerson University andthe University of Toronto. e Section offersfinancial support to the chapters and they re-ciprocate by hosting some of the evening lec-tures on campus. In March the Section madea presentation about CSCE to the RyersonStudent Chapter.

Section events typically serve 30 to 50 people.As well, three Young Professionals networkingevents were well attended. e Toronto Sec-tion maintains an active internet and socialmedia presence to communicate news ofevents and activities to members (www.csce-toronto.ca).

e Hamilton-Niagara Section serves a verylarge area with a population of approximatelyone million people. e Section supports theMcMaster University Student Chapter. eSection, chaired by Ben Hunter, was inactivein 2012. New executive members are cur-rently being recruited to assist in coordinatingthe Section’s activities.

e Northwestern Ontario Section serves anarea with a population of 150,000 people andis chaired by Gerry Buckrell. is section alsohosted the CSCE 2012 National Lecture TourCanada’s Infrastructure Report Card in Sep-tember. e Section Chair is keen to expandhis executive and so that more ideas can beimplemented.

e London and District Section is a jointCSCE-CGS Section with a representation ofprofessionals, professors and students on thesixteen-person Executive. e Section sup-ports the WSCE (Western Society for CivilEngineering), which is the Student Chapterof CSCE at Western University, through sup-port of a number of student clubs and activi-ties including the annual Polar Stick Bridge

Competition, Western Engineering ConcreteCanoe Association (WECCA), Western En-gineering Toboggan Team (WETT), as well aproviding an Outstanding Student Award atthe completion of each academic year.

e Section hosted 7 dinner presentations in2012. Student representation at the dinnermeetings is high. A new website recentlylaunched by the London and District Sectionthis year (www.csce-cgs-london.org) informsmembers of upcoming events. e Sectionwas pleased to see the Western EngineeringToboggan Team win the CSCE Cup this yearfor First Overall Team at the Great NorthernConcrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) in Van-couver this year. Western University will hostthe 2014 GNCTR in London next year. eSection is also excited as planning is underwayfor the hosting of the 2016 CSCE AnnualConference in London, for which the plan-ning committee is already taking shapethrough efforts of Western University andlocal engineering agencies in both the privateand public sectors.

Quebec RegionVice-President, Tony Bégin, ing., M.Sc.A.,MSCGC

Quebec Section:e current Section Chair, Mr. Mario Fafard,and his team of nine (9) executives have main-tained a high level standard of educationalconference activities content. e diversity ofcivil engineering domain presented and theconsistent frequency/location of the eventhave been appreciated by the clientele. efollowing various subjects were among the cal-endar of activities: Sustainable building lay-outs, endurance testing of bridge expansionmodular joints, geothermal science, thermog-raphy applied to bituminous coated material,life cycle analysis of buildings, ice pressure ondams and Canada-wide strategy for munici-pal sewage effluents. eir membershipgrowth strategic initiative has welcomed manynew members since last year.

An article about their successful recipe was re-cently published in the 2013 Spring issue ofCCE magazine. Mario’s leadership and sup-port have been instrumental in the revival ofthe Sherbrooke and Montreal Sections. A spe-cial meeting took place in Montreal on Feb-ruary 8, 2013 with individuals interested tobe active volunteer among Section Executives

in each territory. Students Chapters represen-tatives and Faculty advisors were also presentto help and support the Section’s revival.

e Quebec Section most popular annualevent is the traditional lobster dinner thatdraws about 150 participants. It is the idealsetting to strengthen the relationships betweenmembers of the CSCE, and also to thank allof the businesses and organizations that pro-vide financial support to the Quebec Section.

Montreal Section:A new team of volunteers is looking after therevival of e Montreal Section. e leadersare Najib Bouaanani who is the CSCE Fac-ulty advisor at Ecole Polytechnique and Jean-Luc Martel who the current President of theCSCE Student Chapter at Ecole de Tech-nologie Supérieure (ETS). Both are enthusi-asm and motivated to take on the challenge.ey are surrounded by at least six (6) otherspeople from different engineering firms andacademic professionals interested to join theExecutive Committee. Mr. Ghislain Dionnefrom CIMA, Mr. Simon Davidson fromROCHE, Mr. Hugues Latulippe fromGENIVAR, Stéphane Marcouiller deAECOM, Guy Mailhot de la Société desPonts Fédéraux et Michel Baraer from Ecolede Technologie Supérieure (ETS).

A strategic alliance have been put in place withthe association ‘Les Ingénieurs en Structure deMontréal (ISM)’ who are presenting seminarson periodical basis in the structural specialty ofcivil engineering. CSCE members will be in-vited to join their activities and vice-versa.CSCE Montreal Section will concentrate itsconference topics on the others domain ofcivil engineering (hydraulic, civil infrastruc-ture, geotechnical, etc.) which are comple-mentary to the ISM subjects. A joint-venturenetworking activity is scheduled on April24th, 2013.

Atlantic RegionVice-President, Susann Hickey, P.Eng.,FEC, MCSCE

Te Atlantic Region comprises four Sec-tions, including Newfoundland and Labrador,Nova Scotia, Western New Brunswick, andEastern New Brunswick and Prince EdwardIsland.

e Newfoundland and Labrador (NL)

9

Section, chaired by Bing Chen, has shownstrong growth during the past year throughthe organization of seminars, support of stu-dent events, membership promotion and thesociety’s Vision 2020.

e NL Section Executive Committee metregularly to discuss ongoing and new activi-ties. e Section’s Executive Committee wel-comed a new member, Mr. Steve Dornan,who is also the provincial representative on theCSCE’s Young Professionals Committee. Allmeetings also included a representative of theMemorial University (MUN) Student Chap-ter.

e Section continued to support and culti-vate the next generation of civil engineerswithin the Province and beyond. For exam-ple, a promotion visit to the College of theNorth Atlantic (CNA) increased interest andrecruited some new members. e MUNStudent Chapter developed its own websiteand organized the first annual MUN-CSCEBridge Building Competition. In early 2013,the Section launched the “Engineering YourFuture” seminar series for graduating civil en-gineering students and young engineers andthe first two seminars on financial and legalissues took place on February 12 and March19 and were highly appreciated by the atten-dees.e Section successfully hosted the NationalLecture Tour – Canada’s Infrastructure ReportCard, on September 25, 2012, at MemorialUniversity. Based on close collaboration withthe Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS) St.John’s Chapter, the CSCE NL members ben-efitted in four CGS seminars. e NL Sec-tion also co-sponsored an EnvironmentalAssessment Seminar on January 22, 2013,with the Professional Engineer’s and Geosci-entists Newfoundland and Labrador(PEGNL).

e Section supported Memorial engineeringstudents by sponsoring students involved inthe Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race(GNCTR) 2013 and financially supportedfour CSCE student awards and scholarships.Support was also provided to students whoprovided a booth as part of a Memorial Engi-neering Faculty and Earth Science Depart-ment Open House, which was offered as partof National Engineering Month activity inNewfoundland and Labrador.

e Nova Scotia Section is continuing its ef-forts to rejuvenate the Section. e Sectionhosted the National Lecture Tour (Canada’sInfrastructure Report Card) at the SextonCampus of Dalhousie University in Septem-ber. e event was well attended and goodexposure for the Society in Halifax was pro-vided.

e Local Organizing Committee of the Sec-tion continues its work toward the hosting ofthe Society’s 2014 Annual Conference. ecommittee has secured key venues, begun so-liciting sponsorship and submitted a prelimi-nary budget and nominations for an historicsite. Members of the organizing committeewill be in attendance in Montreal to promotethe event and its theme of “Sustainable Mu-nicipalities”.

e Western New Brunswick Section is inthe process of rebuilding. e Section is ac-tively recruiting for a new chair and hopes tohave a candidate in place in 2013. e Sec-tion, with support from the Region, sent arepresentative to Montreal in December 2012to observe the Fall Board Meeting and to havean opportunity to network with other CSCErepresentatives.

In October 2012 at the University of NewBrunswick campus, the Section hosted a din-ner event attended by students and represen-tatives of industry. Doug Salloum, ExecutiveDirector of CSCE, attended and spoke to thegroup. is event was well attended and isplanned to be hosted annually.

e section also hosted the National LectureTour – Canada’s Infrastructure Report Cardin the fall of 2012.

e Eastern New Brunswick and PrinceEdward Island Section, chaired by Luc De-Grâce, holds executive meetings every 4 to 6weeks and have hosted a number of events topromote the society. In April, the section or-ganized a dinner-and-learn on the City ofMoncton’s proposed municipal plan and alsohosted the course “Guide to Bridge Hy-draulics”. In May the Universite de Monctonhosted the annual CSCE Concrete CanoeCompetition, where the section’s executivecommittee played an active role. ere wasthe National Lecture Tour (Canada’s Infra-structure Report Card) in late September. eSection had their annual year end meeting at

Maverick’s Steakhouse in October. In mid-February the annual job shadowing activitywas organized for the Universite de Monctonstudent members, where the student mem-bers spent an afternoon with an engineer intheir field of interest. e student representa-tive played a big role in this activity and is tobe thanked for the section’s healthy studentmembership base.

e Section is doing well, however, recruitingand retaining new executive committee mem-bers has been a challenge. e current com-mittee is working hard to try to identify newdynamic candidates to join the group.

International Region Vice-President, Todd Chan, Ph.D., P.Eng.,FCSCE

e VP-International oversees CSCE inter-national members and Branches establishedoutside of Canada, provides advice and assis-tance to the CSCE Board of Directors andNational Office with respect to membershipissues and services for CSCE internationalmembers residing in countries other thanCanada, and works closely with the CSCE In-ternational Affairs Committee (IAC) onmaintaining cordial relationships with foreignengineering societies. is past year has beenvery active for the Society in terms of its in-ternational activities, and the highlights are de-scribed as follows.1. In August 2012, Mr. GeorgeCheng, an executive of the CSCE Hong KongBranch (HKB) visited Toronto and Dr. ToddChan, met with him to discuss arrangementsfor the CSCE Presidential Visit to Hong Kongin early September 2012. A number of HKBactivities to be undertaken in the subsequentmonths were also discussed in some detail atthis meeting.

2. In early September 2012, Prof. JimKells, CSCE President, paid a visit to theCSCE Hong Kong Branch. In the morningof September 6, 2012, as arranged by the HKBranch, Prof. Kells and Prof. Jeanne Huang(CSCE IAC Special Envoy to China) metwith the president and senior executives of theHong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE)and also attended a lunch reception hosted byHKIE. e CSCE has had a very good rela-tionship with the HKIE for a few years andthe meeting between the CSCE and HKIEsenior executives further strengthened the ties

10

between these two sister engineering societies.In the evening that day, Prof. Kells and Prof.Huang attended the HK Branch AGM andthe Annual Dinner participated by about 120people, including many senior governmentofficials and well known engineering profes-sionals in Hong Kong. At the AGM, Prof.Paul Pang officially became the Chair ofHKB, succeeding Prof. Moe Cheung whohad been the Founding Chair of the Branchfor six years. In addition to the meetingsarranged by the HKB on September 6, 2012,another meeting was arranged by them for theCSCE President to meet with the HKB stu-dent chapter executives at the Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology. eHKB student members enjoyed very muchthe opportunity to meet with the CSCE Pres-ident who traveled a long way to Hong Kongto meet with them. For more details and pic-tures about the CSCE Presidential visit to theHong Kong Branch, please refer to the articleprepared by Dr. Kelvin Cheung, the ViceChair of the HKB, published in the 2012winter issue of the CSCE “Canadian CivilEngineer” (CCE).

3. In early October 2012, arranged bya HKB executive, Dr. Todd Chan met withMr. Brian Lee, Chair of the HKIE CanadianChapter, to discuss how to strengthen the tiesbetween the CSCE and the HKIE CanadianChapter. As a result of this meeting, the Cana-dian chapter of the HKIE is now connectedwith the CSCE sections in Toronto, Vancou-ver and Edmonton. is relationship inCanada will certainly bring closer ties betweenthe CSCE and the HKIE in Hong Kong.

4. On November 8, Mr. Garry Mak,a long time CSCE member fromSaskatchewan, made a technical presentationto Hong Kong professional engineers at theHK University of Science and Technology.e lecture was arranged by the HKB for theCSCE Canada. It is hoped that this type ofevents can occur from time to time as a way ofengaging our HKB members a bit morestrongly with CSCE Canada.

5. On November 12, 2012, Dr. ToddChan visited HKB and met with six branchexecutives in Hong Kong. ey discussed var-ious ways to strengthen the ties betweenCSCE Canada and HK Branch. Some of thetopics discussed included the 2013 CSCEpresidential visit to HK at the end of October

2013 and proposed events between CSCECanada, HKB and CSCE sister engineeringsocieties in China.

6. On February 22, 2013, the HKBco-organized a very successful one-day sym-posium with the HK Institute of Steel Con-struction on Trend and Development in theStructural Use of steels and metals in HongKong. e event was well attended and wasprofitable to the HKB. It is hoped that simi-lar workshops/symposia in HK will be organ-ized with CSCE Canada or engineeringorganizations in Hong Kong and China.

7. A well designed Website(www.csce.org.hk) has been set up by theHKB and a great deal of information aboutthe Branch can be obtained by visiting theWebsite. e HKB plans to initiate links toCanadian university alumni associations inHK and to provide Canadian/local trainingand technical exchange activities and to initi-ate agreement of cooperation with other or-ganizations, for the joint delivery ofeducational/professional products, in the areasof environmental , structural, geotechnical,transportation, etc.

8. Two articles related to engineeringpractices in Hong Kong were published bytwo HKB executives in the 2013 spring issueof the CSCE “Canadian Civil Engineer”(CCE). As well, an article was published in theCCE by a CSCE member in China that pro-vides useful information for Canadian engi-neering firms doing (or plan to do) businesson Mainland China.

Promotion of International Membership In December 2012, a new CSCE member-ship class was established and it is called “In-stitutional Member – International”, which isan extension of the existing CSCE Canadianuniversity civil engineering (or civil-related)department membership. e new member-ship is for international university civil engi-neering (or civil-related) departments orresearch institutes located outside of Canada.With an Institutional membership – Interna-tional, two individual memberships will be of-fered free of charge to qualified academic /research staff of that department. It is hopedthat with the recruitment of new internationalinstitutional members, CSCE will be able toincrease the number of international individ-ual members by 25% in the next three years.

International Affairs Committee (IAC) activ-ities Dr. Todd Chan has worked very closely withmembers of the CSCE IAC to undertake in-ternational activities outside of Canada. Atpresent, most of these activities were under-taken in the Pacific Rim Region, particularlyin China, Hong Kong and India. During thepast several years, members of the HKB madesignificant contributions to IAC activities bytheir participation in co-organizing interna-tional conferences in Hong Kong and China.It is expected that this kind of work will be ex-panded in coming years with closer ties be-tween CSCE HKB and the CSCE’s sisterengineering societies in China and in South-East Asia. As well, the HKB executives willcontinue to promote and support the close re-lationship between the Hong Kong Institu-tion of Engineers (HKIE) and the CSCE.

A full report of the IAC can be found withinthe PCC Technical Programs Report.

e SVP would like to take this opportunityto thank the CSCE staff and all the volunteersfor the contributions during the past year.

Respectfully submitted,

Reginald J. Andres, P.Eng., FCSCESenior Vice President

11

Report of the CSCE Foundation For 2012-2013e CSCE Foundation is a registered charity whose purpose is “to acknowledge con-tributions of a civil engineering nature made by people for the benefit of society, and torecognize outstanding civil engineering works which have contributed to the develop-ment of Canada.” e CSCE Foundation includes the Canadian Society for Civil En-gineering Foundation Trustees Fund and the Donald Jamieson Fellowship Fund.Although the Foundation is independent of the Society, its financial statements are in-cluded for information in this Annual Report.

For the year 2011-2012, interest income was $8,126 and donations $15,392, with ex-penditures on awards, administration and publications totalling $20,160. As of Sep-tember 30, 2012, the assets of the CSCE Foundation were $262,895. ese assets werecomprised of the Foundation Fund at $145,121, which includes the History ProgramFund at $3,801; the Shanly Award Fund at $10,559 and the Foundation General Fundat $130,077; and the Jamieson Fund at $117,774. As per an agreement between thetrustees and the Society, the CSCE Foundation pays an annual administration fee to theSociety equal to the greater of $1,500 or 0.5 percent of the assets at the end of the fi-nancial year.

e Foundation has devised an Investment Policy to clarify transactions and to diver-sify portfolio assets across various sectors. e portfolio’s return objectives are con-structed to earn an average rate of return over a ten-year period and minimize the riskof capital loss. e portfolio’s asset allocation includes: bonds and debentures, 60-70 per-cent; preferred shares 20-25 percent; equity as common shares or income trusts 10-15percent; and 0-5 percent cash. e Investment Policy also established portfolio man-agement guidelines. ese include: no more than 15 percent of equity in any one se-curity, maintaining diversity across multiple sectors, equity holdings in mid-sized tolarge dividend paying companies, investment grade bonds and debentures with a max-imum time to maturity of 10 years or less, and no more than 15 percent of preferredshares in any one mid-sized to large company. Several investments have subsequentlybeen made in accordance with the Foundation’s Investment Policy.

In the past, the CSCE Board of Directors established a Foundation Advisory Boardcomprised of CSCE past-presidents. e Foundation Advisory Board was resurrectedat the 2012 Annual Conference chaired by the CSCE’s immediate Past-President, withthe Senior Trustee as vice-chair.

Members of the Society are urged to consider making donations to the Foundation forwhich official receipts will be issued for income tax purposes. Members are also en-couraged to include bequests to the CSCE Foundation or to a specific award.

Trustees (2012-13): Michael Ircha, Ottawa, ON P. Daniel Burns, Calgary, AB Peter Wright, Toronto, ON Lloyd Waugh, Fredericton, NB (Chair, Honours and Fellows Committee) Dan Dankewich, Winnipeg, MB (Honourary Treasurer)

Michael Ircha, P.Eng., FCSCE, FEIC Senior Trustee, CSCE Foundation

12

Cold Regions e 15th International Specialty Conferenceon Cold Regions in Engineering was held inQuebec City, August 18–23, 2012. e Con-ference, organised jointly by ASCE andCSCE, was very successful. e TechnicalCouncil on Cold Regions Engineering, whichis composed of CSCE and ASCE members, isin the process of revising the Cold RegionsUtilities Monograph (CRUM).

Construction Division Chair: Mohamed Attalla, P.Eng., FCSCE For the 2013 Annual Conference in Mon-treal, the third Students colloquium was or-ganised as well as the 4th InternationalConstruction Specialty Conference with over170 papers submitted. A special issue on Con-struction productivity is being planned for theCCE for the summer 2013. e CanadianJournal of Civil Engineering published a Spe-cial Issue on Construction Engineering andManagement (CJCE Volume 39, Number 9,September 2012). is was co-edited by theConstruction Division members AminahRobinson Fayek and Jeff Rankin, with papercontributions from many of our Divisionmembers, and drew from topics presented atthe CSCE 3rd International ConstructionSpecialty Conference held in Ottawa, June2011. e Division continued its collabora-tion with the Construction Research Con-gress, American Society of Civil Engineering(ASCE) and the Construction Industry Insti-tute (CII). Members of the Division partici-pated also in the Construction Sector Councilinitiatives as well as in the Canadian Council

for Innovation in Construction. Many construction research activities arebeing undertaken by members in their re-spective institutions: here are a few examples,at the University of Calgary, reduction of theconstruction project transaction costs; Appli-cation of SMART Project Management(TM); Development of a model for partner-ing on construction projects (implemented on80 projects in Alberta); Study cost overruns,construction productivity and benchmarkingon major capital projects in the oil and gas in-dustry. At the University of Alberta, the HoleSchool of Construction Engineering (HSCE)hosted the inaugural Modular & Offsite Con-struction (MOC) Summit, which brought to-gether international experts from industry andacademia in the emerging field of industrial-ized construction. Currently, the HSCE ispartnering with an industry steering commit-tee to plan Innovation in Construction:Forum 2013. is event will connect industrymembers with a broad range of business andtechnological innovations that can enhancecompetitiveness.

Engineering Mechanics/Materials Division Chair: Medhat Shehata, P.Eng., MCSCE For the 2013 Annual Conference in Mon-treal, the Engineering Materials and Mechan-ics (EMM) organized the third internationalEMM specialty conference with more than100 contributions received. In line with thevision of CSCE, many of the manuscriptscovered the concept of sustainability and in-novative materials. e Division holds its spe-cialty conference every other year in

association with the annual CSCE conference. Under the potential theme of Materials for the21st century, the Division will guest edit theWinter 2013/2014 edition of the CCE Mag-azine. e issue will cover innovations and ad-vances in areas of materials and engineeringmechanics. Members of the Divisions have been workingon developing the criteria for an award in thearea of engineering materials. e award islikely to take place every other year. Details ofthe award will be finalized within the comingyear.

Hydrotechnical DivisionChair: Michael Bender, P. Eng., MCSCEe Division meets via online on a monthlybasis. e Hydrotechnical EngineeringAward for the best master’s thesis, sponsoredby Golder Associates, was presented to Ab-dullah al Mamun, from the University ofBritish Columbia. For the 2013 Annual Con-ference in Montreal, the Division organizedthe Specialty conference on the Coastal Estu-ary and Offshore Engineering Conference,chaired by Ioan Nistor. e Division ispreparing a CCE special edition for 2014. eDivision organized the CSCE 21st CanadianHydrotechnical Conference from May 14 to17, 2013, in Banff Alberta. e conferenceincluded keynote speakers from across thecountry on the topic of recent flood manage-ment lessons. is selected topic follows a pe-riod of several major regional flood events thatseverely tested the sustainability of our civil in-frastructures. We invited senior governmentofficials from several provinces and cities todescribe how they managed their crises, whatthey learned, and how they are changing theirmanagement systems or their infrastructure tocope with future flood events.A sub-committee of the Division “Archive” isplanning to preserve our division legacy. eDivision is also planning to construct the webpage on CSCE.ca. is will include access tohistorical information related to division ac-tivities, increased collaboration with our localchapters, or links to current professional ac-tivities outside of the CSCE. We aren’t quiteinto the world of social networking, but we’ve

The Programs Coordinating Committee (PCC) is responsible for coordinating the de-velopment and delivery of the technical products and services that are produced byand on behalf of the Society (e.g., conferences, symposia, seminars, lectures, shortcourses and workshops). The framework that guides PCC activities addresses cur-rent civil engineering issues such as: the image, awareness and perception of theprofession; the challenges of infrastructure renewal; the incorporation of sustain-able development; and the application of emerging technologies. As each of theseissues extends to all the technical areas within our Society, PCC continues to placean emphasis on aligning its program objectives for the benefit of its members, whilemaintaining the CSCE’s Vision 2020—Leadership in Sustainable Infrastructure. Thefollowing summaries provide an overview of the recent activities in the Society’stechnical divisions and interdivisional committees.

Report of the Vice-PresidentTechnical Divisions — Programs Coordinating Committee

noticed that some of the local chapters havebought into Twitter and similar tools. Wehope to get better at this.e target audience of the Division is the hy-drotechnical engineering community inCanada. It’s an audience with many manychoices of professional organizations that areclosely related to us because they provide sim-ilar networking and professional developmentopportunities: Choices include: CWRA,CDA, CWWA, CANCID, CSHS, and oth-ers. None of these organizations cater specifi-cally to the hydrotechnical engineeringcommunity, but many of them deal in partwith hydrotechnical topics. is presents akey challenge for our division. We will needto find ways to meet the needs of our audi-ence in a relatively crowded “market place”.

Environnemental DivisionChair: Gopal Achari, P.Eng., MCSCE In June 2012, the Division hosted the 12thInternational Environmental Specialty conference in Edmonton. e participa-tion/number of papers was one of the high-est, with papers on solid/hazardous waste,air/water/land pollution, climate change andsustainability issues and green technology. Aspecial issue of the CCE was dedicated to theproblems facing “Small and Rural Water Sys-tems”. e Division is working on a specialissue of the Canadian Journal of Civil Engi-neering dedicated to environmental engineer-ing research in Canada. e Division is alsoworking on a national lecture tour (NLT) foran area of interest.

Structural Division Chair: Khaled Sennah, P.Eng., MCSCE e Division is involved in organizing the 9thInternational Conference on Short andMedium Span Bridges, SMSB-IX, to be heldin Calgary in 2014, with the collaboration ofthe City of Calgary and Alberta Transporta-tion and Infrastructure. In the spring of 2014,a special issue of the CCE will be dedicated tobridges. A Sub-committee of the Division onAdvanced Composite Materials (ACM) is inthe process of selecting papers from the 2012ACMBS-VI conference for a special issue ofthe CJCE. e Division is also involved inthe organization of the 4rd InternationalStructural Specialty Conference, ISCC-IV, tobe held in conjunction with the CSCE An-nual Conference in Halifax in June 2014. e7th International Conference on AdvancedComposite Materials in Bridges and Struc-

tures, ACMBS-VII, is planned to be held inVancouver in 2016. In addition to the 6 sub-divisions of Masonry,Timber, Steel structures, ACM, Buried Struc-tures, Structural Dynamics and ConcreteStructures, the Division established a new sub-division on Bridges.

Transportation DivisionChair: Liping Fu, P.Eng., MCSCEe Division successfully hosted CSCE 2012Transportation Specialty Conference in Ed-monton, in parallel with the CSCE AnnualMeeting. Right before this meeting, the Divi-sion hosted a joint China-Canada WinterTransportation Symposium with ChinaHighway Transportation Society (CHTS) andseveral high-level officials, business leaders andresearchers in this area from China. CHTSand CSCE also signed a renewed memoran-dum for future collaborations. As the CSCErepresentative, Dr. Said Easa will serve on theSteering Committee for updating TAC Geo-metric Design Guide for Canadian Roads.CSCE has also become a sponsor of this proj-ect. e Division has been very active with ourpartners in China: 2013 International Con-ference on Transportation Information andSafety (with Wuhan University of Technol-ogy); 2013 International Highway Technol-ogy Summit (with CHTS); An InternationalWorkshop for Urban Transportation Research(with Beijing Jiaotong University). A delega-tion of the Division visited several universitiesin China for possible potential collaborations.e Division actively participate in manyTAC Committees and task forces. All these ef-forts are believed to contribute to CSCE’sleadership in sustainable infrastructure. To meet Vision 20/20, the Division proposedto change its current management system byhaving a representative from each CSCE Re-gion to be on every CSCE Technical Division.

Infrastructure Renewal CommitteeChair: Reg Andres, P.Eng., FCSCEe Committee is providing Leadership inSustainable Infrastructure and its renewal bydeveloping relationship with other nationalbodies such as the Canadian Public Works As-sociation (CPWA), the Canadian Network ofAsset Managers (CNAM), the Federation ofCanadian Municipalities (FCM), the Cana-dian Construction Association (CCA) and theAssociation of Consulting Engineering Com-panies in Canada (ACEC). CSCE recognizes

that the renewal of our deteriorating infra-structure should be completed with properconsideration of a variety of long term sus-tainability factors. In 2012, the first Canadian Infrastructure Re-port Card was released. is was a joint un-dertaking by CSCE, FCM, CCA and CPWA.Guy Felio, the primary author of the ReportCard, completed a National Lecture Tourwith stops across the County to present theprocess of developing the Report Card. e concept of a Canadian system for evalu-ating and rating the sustainability of our in-frastructure projects is under development.e newly formed Institute for Sustainable In-frastructure (ISI) in the US has produced theEnvision rating system. A Canadian versionof this system is considered to be an impor-tant initiative, and also aligns with the Vision2020 Strategic Direction – Leadership in Sus-tainable Infrastructure.

Sustainable Development Committee Catherine Mulligan, P.Eng., MCSCE Te Committee was involved in the 5thASTM International Symposium on Con-taminated Sediments: Sustainable Manage-ment and Remediation held in Montreal in2012. e Committee was also involved inorganizing the 1st International Conferenceon Sustaining Public Infrastructure, held inEdmonton in 2012. e focus was on plan-ning, funding, building, operating and main-taining public infrastructure. e chair of theCommittee was representing the CSCE onthe Organization Committee of the secondEIC Climate Change Conference held atConcordia University, Montreal in 2013. For the future, SDC is aiming to provide as-sistance in defining sustainable infrastructureand establishing methodology to evaluate sus-tainable infrastructure through tool develop-ment.

Innovations and IT CommitteeChair: Simon Foo, P.Eng., MCSCE e Committee is coordinating the publica-tion, in the spring/summer of 2013, of a Spe-cial Issue of the Canadian Journal of CivilEngineering on “Innovation & IT” with 7 pa-pers. e Committee has been working with theNational Office and the Canadian StandardsAssociation (CSA) on the organization of a 1-day course across Canada in the fall of 2013,on the new CSA Standard S850 - Blast De-sign and Assessment for Buildings. e new

13

14

CSA Standard was published in the spring of2012. e Committee is also working on a nationallecture tour (NLT) on “Smart Technologiesand Structural Health Monitoring for CivilEngineering”. e chair of the Committee Dr.Simon Foo has been named to representCSCE at the ICE-ASCE-CSCE Cooperativebody on codes/standard.

Concluding Remarks As a voluntary organisation with many techni-cal divisions, committees and programs workingand interacting together, CSCE is providing tech-nical, professional and administrative services toits members. e quantity and quality of theservices are the direct product of contributions bythe participating members. ese may differfrom one year to another since that is the in-evitable nature of a volunteer organisation. isyear, some of the technical divisions and com-mittees were more active than others and this isreflected in the summary of the reports providedabove. As VP – Technical Divisions and Committees, Iwould like to thank all the Chairs and membersof the seven technical divisions and of the threetechnical committees for their work, support andhelp running this part of the CSCE. e coop-eration of all has made it a pleasure as well as anopportunity to serve as VP.

Georges Akhras, P.Eng, ing, FCSCE, FEIC,FASCEVP – PCC Technical Divisions and Committees

Report of the Honorary Treasurere multi-year global financial crisis has tested many countries; Canada thank-fully continues to weather the economic downturn better than most of the devel-oped nations. In a similar tone, the Canadian Society for Civil Engineeringcontinues to maintain a relatively strong financial footing coming through 2011-2012. e number of regular members declined slightly this year; however thestudent membership roll increased, driving membership slightly higher. Total rev-enues year-over-year came in 9% lower; however expenses also come in lower by17% producing a net surplus of $30,000 for the Society.e core revenues for this fiscal year continued to be membership fees (36%), con-ferences (20%), continuing education (15%), and advertising (14%). Member-ship fees came in lower than expected owing to a decision by national office toissue fee renewal notices by email without sending the traditional renewal formthrough Canada Post. e number of online renewals initially spiked than droppedoff significantly. National office subsequently sent paper renewals in late winter tomembers that had not yet renewed. Continuing education revenues came in lowerthan expected partially due to the economy and partially from the lack of any newstructural design code releases this past year. anks to the successful efforts ofour local organizing committees, conference revenues came in higher than antic-ipated from the ACMBS held in Kingston, and the Edmonton Conference andAGM.e core expenditures for 2011-2012 include operations (51%), communications(15%), continuing education (14%) and support of committees and meetings(6%). e increase in operations expenditures reflects new national office initia-tives related to building closer ties with civil engineering students through nationalstudent engineering competitions including the Trotsky Bridge, concrete tobogganand concrete canoe races. National office was active this year promoting the newAward for Governmental Leadership in Sustainable Infrastructure. Communica-tions, continuing education and support of committees and meetings expendi-tures remained largely unchanged year-over-year.Further details of the revenues and expenditures are available in the attached au-dited financial statements. In summary, this past year’s financial success reflectsthe continuing hard work and dedication of volunteers throughout the Society atthe national, regional and local levels, and the efficiency of staff at national office.e diligent management and delivery of world-class conferences, educationalseminars and informative publications have provided significant value to mem-bers and the broader Civil Engineering community. e Canadian Society forCivil Engineering is in a healthy financial position to further support the effortsof our volunteers and to leverage our leadership position in all matters related tocivil engineering.

Dan Dankewich, MCSCE Honorary Treasurer

Career Development Committee (CDC) e Career Development Committee(CDC) has a threefold mandate: monitor-ing of the state-of-the profession, promo-tion of the profession by the developmentand dissemination of public information,and the development and review of CSCEpolicy and programs pertaining to continu-ing education and professional develop-ment. e CDC reviews information andpolicies concerning civil engineering prac-tise, and requirements and opportunities forprofessional development. e Career De-velopment Committee has proposed itsname be changed to the Engineering Prac-tice Committee to reflect better the com-mittee’s role.

During the past year, the committee webpage was updated, with the support of Na-tional Office, with information on CDCmembers, and committee roles and respon-sibilities. In the forthcoming year, an effortwill be made to keep the information up-todate and informative.

e CDC contributed to the publication ofthe summer 2012 issue of CIVIL CanadianCivil Engineer, Volume 29.3 on the themePractical Professional Development forPractising Engineers. Bhuwan Devkota,CDC Chair, was Guest Editor. Articles in-cluded Burrell, B. and Devkota, B. Profes-sional development for practising engineers;Lis, D. and Veenstra, T. Engineering lead-ership and emotional intelligence; andAdmas, E. Guidelines for professional de-velopment across Canada. e CDC, in co-operation with the CSCE’s InternationalAffairs, and Education and Research Com-mittees, will contribute to Fall 2014 edi-tion, Volume 31.4 issue of CIVIL to bepublished on the theme Global Trends in

Professional Development.

e CDC continued to provide advice tothe National office and other CSCE com-mittees concerning potential professionaldevelopment and technical activities. eCDC also contributed to discussions con-cerning the 2nd Forum on Career Devel-opment and Professional Practice.

During the past year, the CDC worked onthe establishment of a Task Force on Glob-alization, and is now accepting volunteersfor that Task Force. e Task Force is to ex-amine the competitiveness of Canadian civilengineers in the international market forengineering services. e Task Force is toconsider issues such as professional devel-opment for increased international com-petiveness and international promotion ofCanadian engineering.

CSCE members are invited to join the Ca-reer Development Committee. Increasedcommittee membership will increase the ca-pability of the CDC to undertake ongoingprojects and new initiatives.

Education and Research Committee(ERC) e mandate of the Educations and Re-search Committee (ERC) is development,promotion, and advocacy of issues relatedto national education strategies and engi-neering research. During the past year, thecommittee was renewed by recruiting newmembers from academic, research institutesand the construction industry. In addition,a draft of the committee objectives and awork plan was developed. e proposed ob-jectives are to develop close working rela-tionships and strategies for collaborationbetween the civil-engineering academic

community and Canadian construction in-dustry; to work closely with CSCE CivilEngineering Heads of Department Com-mittee on improvements to civil engineer-ing curricula and course contents, and tosupport community driven programs in thearea of engineering education and research.An in-person meeting will be held in Mon-treal during the CSCE annual conferencethis May. Committee membership and thedraft committee objectives and work planwill be discussed.

CSCE International Affairs Committee(IAC) IAC plans and carries-out CSCE’s interna-tional activities, undertakes its internationaldevelopment projects, and promotes theCSCE and Canadian engineering in foreigncountries. In fulfilling its mandate, IAC isdevelops and implements agreements of co-operation with foreign and internationalengineering bodies, and interacts with for-eign organizations to foster relations thatwill lead to joint meetings, conferences,courses, and work projects that benefitCSCE members. IAC assists other arms ofthe CSCE with respect to hosting and pro-tocol associated with visiting foreign dele-gates from engineering societies. IAC’smandate, however, excludes the operationsof foreign branches of the CSCE and inter-national / foreign conference sponsorshiphandled directly by Technical Divisions orthe National Office.

People’s Republic of China. During the pastyear, China has continued to be a majorfocus and area of activity. Under the guid-ance of CSCE Liaison Officer- ChinaTransportation, Dr. Andrew Liu, several ac-tivities have been completed or planned. Inaddition, CSCE’s Envoy to China, Dr.Jeanne Huang, has facilitated several meet-ings and events involving CSCE members.

Canadian-China Winter TransportationSymposium 2012. Andrew Liu was an or-ganizer of the first Canadian-China WinterTransportation Symposium (CCWTS) heldon June 4th 2012 at the University of Al-

Report of the Vice-PresidentTechnical Programs — Programs Coordinating CommitteeTechnical Programs consists of three committees: Career Development, Educationand Research, and International Affairs plus individual program officers responsi-ble for conference monitoring, national lecture tours, and the editorial functions ofthe Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering (CJCE). Program Committees and the workof Program Officers are intended to be function oriented, i.e. the delivery of a spe-cific service or type of service to CSCE members, unlike Technical Committees thatdeal with technical subjects. This report includes a brief statement of the purposeand recent activities of the Program Committees and Program Officers.

15

16

berta, Edmonton. e symposium is theoutcome of a joint effort between CSCE In-ternational Affairs Committee (IAC),CSCE Transportation Division, and ChinaHighway and Transportation Society(CHTS). e CHTS delegation consistedof 14 senior officials from CHTS, provin-cial highway agencies, research institute,and companies involved in winter roadmaintenance & operation in China. CHTShas agreed to host the second such sympo-sium in two years.

CSCE-CHTS Memorandum of Understand-ing (MOU). CHTS and CSCE have beencollaborating since 1987, when the two so-cieties signed a MOU for technical and pro-fessional exchanges. e Presidents ofCSCE and CHTS signed a new MOU onJune 5, 2012 immediately after the Canada-China Winter Transportation Symposium.Both CSCE and CHTS hope this newMOU will result in greater scope and im-pact of joint collaborations. As a first activ-ity under the new MOU, CSCE has offeredto be a partner in the 2013 InternationalHighway Technology Summit (IHTS).2nd International Conference on Trans-portation Information and Safety, June 28 -July 1, 2013, Wuhan, China (ICTIS 2013).CSCE signed an MOU with our Chinesepartner Wuhan University of Technology.CSCE sent support letter to the conferencein Nov. 2012. Four CSCE members wereinvited to serve on the international aca-demic committee of the conference.

2014 International Water Conference. An in-ternational water management conference,scheduled for the fall of 2014, is being or-ganized by IAC and the Hydrotechnical Di-vision (Chair: Mike Bender) with TianjinUniversity and the Chinese Hydraulic En-gineering Society. Ron Droste chairs theCSCE contingent on the general organiz-ing committee; other CSCE committeemembers are Todd Chan, Jeanne Huang,Brian Burrell and Shouhong Wu.

Presidential Visit to China, Nov 1-10, 2012.A CSCE Presidential Delegation visited var-ious agencies in China. e delegation in-cluded CSCE President Jim Kells, V-PInternational Todd Chan, IAC chair RonDroste, Special Envoy to China JeanneHuang and Dr. Ed McBean. e delegationmet with senior officials of the South-to-

North Water Diversion Project Commis-sion, which is seeking assistance in solvingvarious design and construction issues in-cluding ice jamming and sediment trans-port. Members of the CSCE delegation alsomet with the director and staff of the ChinaAssociation for International Exchange ofPersonnel (CAIEP), a non-governmentalorganization founded in 1985 that liaiseswith the government’s State Administrationof Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA). CAIEPinvites foreign experts to give seminars andprovides training for foreigners. It was sug-gested that the CSCE be a partner forCAIEP –organized Sino-American Engi-neers conference to be held in 2014. CSCEPresident, Jim Kells, was part of the open-ing podium presentation at the ChineseHydraulic Engineering Society AnnualConference (November 6 & 7). CSCE pre-senters participated in an international ses-sion of the conference by presentingtechnical papers demonstrating Canadianexpertise. Meetings were also held withCHES officials. On November 7, RonDroste attended a workshop organized bythe Ontario-China Research InnovationFund (OCRIF) and made a presentation.Ed McBean and Ron Droste plan to de-velop a proposal for the one OCRIF projectto be funded in the coming year.

India. Dr Gupta, IAC Deputy Chair andCSCE Liaison Officer – India, worked on anew agreement of cooperation between theCSCE and the Institution of Engineers,India (IEI), to replace the expired agree-ment. A draft agreement proposed by IEIwas revised and has been signed by CSCEand submitted to IE(I) for their signature.IE(I) has subsequently signed the agree-ment.

Other Activities. A few other IAC activitiesare mentioned below.

Web Page. With assistance from NationalOffice, IAC Deputy Chair Rishi Gupta wasable to make some modifications to theIAC webpage including posting photos ofall the members.

Meeting with Spanish Engineers. IAC ChairRon Droste and CSCE Executive DirectorDoug Salloum met in Montreal with sen-ior engineering officials from Catalonia,Spain, on August 30 to discuss short-term

employment requirements for civil engi-neers in Spain and Canada. e Spanishgroup plans to submit a proposal to theCSCE to evaluate qualifications of Spanishengineers seeking employment in Canada.CIVIL Magazine. Rishi Gupta was guesttechnical editor for the Autumn 2012 issue(Volume 29.4) of CIVIL Canadian CivilEngineer, which was on the IAC-sponsoredtheme of Civil Engineering Lessons fromAbroad.

CAIEP Canada. On Dec 5, 2012 ToddChan met Ms. WU, Yunru, President,China Association for International Ex-change of Personnel (CAIEP Canada). Itwas suggested that the CSCE work with theState Administration of Foreign Experts Af-fairs, China (SAFEA) to become a certifiedtraining institution in Canada providingtraining to Chinese engineers on topics re-lated to civil engineering. Follow-up dis-cussions are planned.

Advisory Services within the CSCE. IACmembers agreed to provide advice to theNational Office on technical material thatcan be sold or made available for free on theCSCE website (Bing Chen) and to partici-pate on international discussion groupsconcerning . infrastructure financing andcodes and standards (David Pratt).

Visiting Delegations. e CSCE, with IACinvolvement, continues to meet foreign del-egations visiting Canada. e IAC Secretarywill maintain a historical record of these vis-its and the visits made by CSCE membersto other engineering associations.

Institutional Members – International. InFeb. 2013, Todd Chan and Kirk omp-son of IAC initiated a project to obtain newCSCE Institutional Members – Interna-tional (see the report by the VP-Interna-tional).

e Canadian Journal for Civil Engi-neering (CJCE). TPublished since 1974, the CJCE is the of-ficial journal of the CSCE and the onlyjournal presently affiliated with the CSCE.e CJCE is published by the not-for-profitcompany Canadian Science Publishing.CSCE members may subscribe to the elec-tronic and print versions of the CJCE toCSCE members at rates substantially below

17

CSCE Second Century FundIn early 1987, CSCE established the Second Century Fund for thepurpose of ensuring the continuity and growth of the Society. efundraising campaign took place under the Honorary Chairmanshipof Camille Dagenais, then CEO of SNC and the Chairmanship ofJohn Bahen, then President of Peter Kiewit Sons Co. Ltd. of Toronto.

e function of the Fund is to provide seed money for conferencesand lecture tours; funds for publishing and marketing contracts;funds for the development of new divisions; and funds to inform theengineering community of all of the above.

e Fund will ensure the continued development of dynamic tech-nical activities and world-class publications. Borrowing from theFund is limited to 50% of the accumulated revenue in the previousyear for non-revenue generating activities and is at competitive in-terest rates for revenue generating activities. Funding is accessedthrough a proposal to the Board of Directors. e Fund is adminis-tered by a committee of three trustees. e current trustees are: DanDankewich, MCSCE, Winnipeg; Alan Perks, FCSCE, Ottawa; andChris ompson, FCSCE, Brampton.

Founding Sponsors

Acres International Limited Delcan Corporation Amca International Limited Peter Kiewit Sons Co. Ltd. C.C. Parker Consultants Limited Trow Inc.

Founding Members

George Akhras Harold L. Macklin Ira M. Beattie D. Miklas E. John Bliss M. Saeed Mirza H. Keith Bowers R.C. Monaghan Camille A. Dagenais Daniel W. Smith Robert Hewitt H. Leslie Smith Leslie G. Jaeger Gerard J. Splinter D.J. Laurie Kennedy Chris D. ompson Bernard Lamarre Ken Worsley

non-member subscription rates.e CJCE attracts over 500 manuscriptsubmissions per year, with less than halfcoming from Canada. Approximately two-thirds of all submissions are not acceptedfor publication. e CJCE Editors,Dr.Tarek Sayed and Dr. Mike Bartlett, aregrateful for the services of assistant editorsand reviewers whose work helps maintainhigh journal standards.

Conference Monitor. e conference mon-itor provides general advice early in confer-ence planning on conference organizationand budgeting to CSCE Technical Divi-sions planning a conference. e conferencemonitor is to identify potential problemswith conference organization as they arise,and to ensure that the CSCE and CSCEmembers-in-good-standing remain promi-nent in the organization of CSCE events.e position also serves as an unofficial om-budsman for CSCE members to contact onmatters concerning CSCE conferences.CSCE members should use the services ofthe Conference Monitor more effectively inthe future.

National Lecture Tour Coordinator. e National Lecture Tour Coordinatorworks with the Technical Divisions in iden-tifying potential speakers for the CSCE se-ries of National Lecture Tours (NLTs), andthen assists the National Office with the co-ordination of lecture delivery at selectedvenues across Canada. Members are en-

couraged to contact the NLT Coordinatoror CSCE National Office to provide sug-gestions for topics and speakers

VP Position. As VP-Technical Programs, in addition toduties related to the Programs Coordinat-ing Committee, I participated in telecon-ferences of the CSCE working group onBy-Law revision, the National ManagementCommittee, and the Board of Directors. Iadvocated increased interaction with themembership, democratic reform of the de-cision-making and nomination processeswithin the CSCE, and for increased re-sources for technical programs.

I was also guest technical editor for theSpring 2013 issue of CIVIL Canadian CivilEngineer, on the theme Engineering Prac-tice in Other Countries. e issue was co-sponsored by two program committees(CDC and IAC).

Concluding Remarks A volunteer organization does not (andshould not) operate like a business, yet theCSCE membership should expect a reason-able level of service from the organizationthey support. e onus is on the CSCEmembership to see that this happens! Be ac-tive in your Society and make your viewsknown.

Opportunities exist for CSCE members tovolunteer to serve on Technical Program

Committees and task forces/workinggroups established under the program com-mittees. Learn how you may become in-volved by contacting the committee chairof the program committee in which youhave an interest. During 2013-2014, theCareer Development Committee and theTask Force on Globalization, especially, areseeking additional members to contributeto new initiatives.

Financial resources are needed to supportprogram delivery. Offers of financial sup-port for program activities, such as interna-tional technical exchanges and NationalLecture Tours, would be appreciated.

e delivery of program activities dependsupon many volunteers. As CSCE VP –Technical Programs, I thank members ofthe three program committees and the pro-gram officers for their service to our Soci-ety. Special acknowledgement is given isgiven to Program Officers with terms end-ing in June 2013: Conference Monitor EvaCheung, and NLT Coordinator Lisa Feld-man for their work on behalf of the CSCEmembership. I also thank other CSCEmembers who offer occasional support withrespect to program delivery at the Sectionor Branch level. Finally, I express my grati-tude to the CSCE membership for givingme the opportunity to serve as VP-Techni-cal ProgramsBrian C. Burrell, FCSCE CSCE VP-Technical Programs

18

e role of the VP ACC is largely one ofcoordinating the interaction between theCommittee’s Chairs, providing guidanceon an as-needed basis, and liaising with theBoard of Directors in respect of the Com-mittee’s work.

1. Business Development Committee Chair: Don Hopkins

e New Category of Corporate Member-ship for Non Canadian University CivilEngineering (or equivalent) Departmentshas been approved on a trial basis allowing2 universities from each continent to ob-tain a CSCE corporate membership.

In an effort to develop additional corporatememberships, each of the five BD mem-bers contacted 5 companies in December.is was followed up in February with re-minder emails to each of these firms. Un-fortunately no one has taken up our kindoffer to date.

2. Communications and PublicationsCommittee Chair: Marcel ChichakNo report

3. National History Committee Chair: W.C. (Cal) Sexsmith

e National History Committee (NHC)is continuing to be active. e Committeehas been holding regular teleconferenceswith participation from many regions ofthe country. We are also encouraging Com-mittee members to make contact with theirlocal CSCE Sections to raise the profile ofthe NHC at the local level. Upon approvalof the Committee’s terms of reference by

the Board each CSCE Section Chair wassent a copy of the guidelines and wereasked to suggest a potential committeemember (or members) from their section.So far we have gained two new committeemembers as a result of this activity.

e Tracel Cap Rouge near Quebec Cityhas been approved by the Committee as aNational Civil Engineering Historic Site.Also the Atwater Treatment Plant in Mon-treal has been approved as a National CivilEngineering Historic Site and will be rec-ognized as part of the Montreal Confer-ence. e ceremony for the Tracel CapRouge is being organized by the QuebecCity Section. We have had enquiries fromacross the country on other potential siteswhich will be dealt with as we receive thenominations.

Eric Jamieson’s book “Tragedy at SecondNarrows” has been nominated for thePlewes Award. e award will be presentedat the Montreal Conference.

4. Honours and Fellowships Committee Chair: L.M. WaughNo report

5. Member Services Committee Chair: Peter Calcetas

Membership Data:e Edmonton Section pilot was con-ducted during the latter part of 2011 andthe early part of 2012 worked well as ithappened to overlap with the registrationphase for the CSCE Conference and AGMin Edmonton. As a development it wasproposed that the pilot be extended fivemonths to November 2012 and expanded

to include five additional active Sections.e participating Sections drafted a shortbrief to ACC relaying their specific experi-ences. ACC will report to the Board onhow the Society shall proceed.

Member Services Vision for CSCE:An expansion of the draft of the MemberServices Vision for CSCE is in develop-ment which incorporates comments andsuggestions from the Committee Chairs.e document outlined the focus and in-tent for this committee, in brief:• Vision:o Create a membership growth rate

reaching a self-sustainable “Critical Mass” Level of participation among Canadian based Civil Engineers. In support of this vision the following items were developed to “Frame” the issues and develop a focused plan going forward.

• Mission:o Increase the lifelong retention of Civil

Engineers from Student to Retireeo Create a Brand Perception which is at-

tractive to the majority of Civil Engi-neers throughout each phase of their professional lives

o Become the ad hoc standard career development space for Civil Engineers.

• Situation: Current Profile of Member-ship “e Dog Bone Effect”

o Higher levels of participation from students/new grads and Senior Practi-tioners /Professors

o Mid-Career Civil engineers have lower levels of participation. Once the member leaves the society, returns are rare.

o Conceptual Plan of Implementationo Understand the short, mid and long

term needs of Civil Engineers in Canada as it pertains to the develop-ment, growth and sustainability of the profession and the general population that it serves.

o Reinforce/highlight existing linkages between the Society’s capabilities and the needs of Civil Engineers

Report of the Vice-PresidentAdministration Coordinating CommitteeThe Administration Coordinating Committee (ACC) consists of nine national non-technical committees responsible for the services and activities of the Society inthe areas of finance, communications and membership. Representation on ACC isprovided by the chairs of the committees listed below. Through the work of ACC, thevarious committees are given the opportunity to exchange ideas and to discuss So-cietal and committee issues of mutual concern. On behalf of the committees, theACC presents the recommendations and reports of the committees to the Board ofDirectors.

19

o Create new linkages between capabil-ities and member need

• In light of this approach, we have devel-oped 5 distinct Member Profiles which are understudy for further insight.

o Rookieso Developmental Professionalo Professionalo Seasoned Professionalo Statesperson

6. Student Affairs Committee Chair: Lynne Cowe FallsNo report

7. Life Members CommitteeChair: Joules HoudeNo report

8. Financial Planning and AccountingCommitteeChair: Dan Dankiewich, Honorary Treas-urer

e multi-year global financial crisis hastested many countries; Canada thankfullycontinues to weather the economic down-turn better than most of the developed na-tions. In a similar tone, the CanadianSociety for Civil Engineering continues tomaintain a relatively strong financial foot-ing coming through 2011-2012. e num-ber of regular members declined slightlythis year; however the student membershiproll increased, driving membership slightlyhigher. Total revenues year-over-year camein 9% lower; however expenses also comein lower by 17% producing a net surplusof $30,000 for the Society.e core revenues for this fiscal year con-tinued to be membership fees (36%), con-ferences (20%), continuing education(15%), and advertising (14%). Member-ship fees came in lower than expectedowing to a decision by national office toissue fee renewal notices by email withoutsending the traditional renewal formthrough Canada Post. e number of on-line renewals initially spiked than droppedoff significantly. National office subse-quently sent paper renewals in late winterto members that had not yet renewed.Continuing education revenues came inlower than expected partially due to theeconomy and partially from the lack of anynew structural design code releases this past

year. anks to the successful efforts of ourlocal organizing committees, conferencerevenues came in higher than anticipatedfrom the ACMBS held in Kingston, andthe Edmonton Conference and AGM.e core expenditures for 2011-2012 in-clude operations (51%), communications(15%), continuing education (14%) andsupport of committees and meetings (6%).e increase in operations expenditures re-flects new national office initiatives relatedto building closer ties with civil engineeringstudents through national student engi-neering competitions including the TrotskyBridge, concrete toboggan and concretecanoe races. National office was active thisyear promoting the new Award for Gov-ernmental Leadership in Sustainable Infra-structure. Communications, continuingeducation and support of committees andmeetings expenditures remained largely un-changed year-over-year.Further details of the revenues and expen-ditures are available in the attached auditedfinancial statements. In summary, this pastyear’s financial success reflects the continu-ing hard work and dedication of volunteersthroughout the Society at the national, re-gional and local levels, and the efficiency ofstaff at national office. e diligent man-agement and delivery of world-class con-ferences, educational seminars andinformative publications have provided sig-nificant value to members and the broaderCivil Engineering community. e Cana-dian Society for Civil Engineering is in ahealthy financial position to further sup-port the efforts of our volunteers and toleverage our leadership position in all mat-ters related to civil engineering.

9. Young Professionals CommitteeChair: Nigel Parker, AMCSCE

e mandate of this committee is to pro-vide services and programming for youngermembers or those who are new to the pro-fession. In this second year, the committeefocused its effort on raising awareness of itsexistence and its mandate. e creation ofthe “Young Professionals’ Corner” columnin CIVIL magazine helped to spread theword and was and continues to be featuredin issues of CIVIL in the future to help YPsacross the country connect.

is year also saw the committee grow by

establishing YP representative positions inthe 12 of the local section executive com-mittees. YP representatives from 11 of the12 represented sections have hosted suc-cessful events in the past year. As the exec-utive positions within the local sectionschange hands at the end of the year, it is ex-pected that there will be YP representativesinstalled in many other local sections acrossthe country by years end.

e committee has also filled all executivepositions, with the exception of Secre-tary/Treasurer, and will be working to fillthis role in the coming months. With thegrowth in the committee conference callshave been held every two months and a dis-cussion forum board was created to facili-tate the sharing of information.

e committee successfully hosted a num-ber of events at last year’s conference in Ed-monton that helped paved the way for theexciting schedule of YP events held at thisyear’s conference as well as future confer-ences.

Committee goals for the next year are tocontinue increasing the number of YP rep-resentatives and local events as well as in-vestigating the possibility of regional eventsand YP conferences.

is committee is here to serve you, ouryounger members. Let us know if you haveany suggestions and/or want to get in-volved. You have a voice!

Email nparker@rjc.ca.

Report of the CSCE Nominating Committee (2013–2014)

The Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering hereby provides for approval by the members the following nominations to the Board of Directors.Position Incumbent Proposed TermPresident Kells, finishing term Reg Andres 2 yrsPresident Elect Cadotte, resigned To be vacant for 2013 1 yrSenior Vice-President and Chair, Regional Coordinating Committee Andres, finishing term Tony Begin 1 yrPast-President Pickle, finishing term Jim Kells 2 yrsAtlantic Vice-President Woolgar - Hickey, 2nd yr Susann Hickey 2 yrsQuebec Vice-President Begin, finishing 2nd yr Suzanne St-Laurent 2 yrsOntario Vice-President Garland, finishing 3rd yr James Garland 1 yrPrairie Vice-President Retzlaff, finishing 2nd yr Harold Retzlaff 2 yrWestern Vice-President Smid, finishing term Philip Alex 2 yrsVice-President, International Chan, finishing 2nd yr Todd Chan 2 yrVice-President, Administration Coordinating Committee Mainali, finishing 2nd yr Arbind Mainali 2 yrHonourary Treasurer Dankewich, finishing 1st yr Dan Dankewich 1 yrVice President, Technical Divisions and Committees Akhras, finishing 1st yr 2 yrsVice President, Technical Programs Burrell, finishing 3rd yr Brian Burrell 1 yrRepresenting Corporate members Hewus, finishing 3rd yr Glenn Hewus 1 yr

In addition to the above elected Director positions there are three positions on the Board as appointed by others:

Representing Council of Heads and Chairs of Canadian Civil Engineering Departments Van Nguyen, finishing term Craig Lake 1 yrRepresenting Canadian Geotechnical Society (non-voting) MacLellan, finishing term Catherine Mulligan 1 yrRepresenting Hong Kong Branch (non-voting) Cheung, finishing term Paul Pang 2 yrs

At this time, the Chairs of the Divisions, Committees and Programs of CSCE are also elected or re-elected by the members of the Divisions, Committees and Programs as follows:

ADMINISTRATION COORDINATING COMMITTEE Chair, Communications and Publications Chicak, finishing 1st yr Mike Hnatiuk 2 yrsChair, History Sexsmith, finishing 3rd yr Cal Sexsmith 1 yrChair, Business Development Hopkins, finishing 1st yr Don Hopkins 1 yrChair, Membership Services Calcetas , finishing 1st yr Peter Calcetas 1 yrChair, Honours and Awards Waugh, finishing 4th yr Randy Pickle 2 yrsChair, Student Affairs Cowe Falls, finishing 2nd yr Charles – Darwin Annan 2 yrsChair, Life Members Houde, finishing 1st yr Jules Houde 1 yrChair, Young Professionals Group Therrien, finishing 2nd yr Nigel Parker 2 yrs

PROGRAMS COORDINATING COMMITTEE Technical Divisions & Committees Chair, Cold Regions Division Smith, finishing 2nd yr Dan Smith 2 yrsChair, Construction Division Attalla, finishing 4th yr Farnaz Sadeghpour 2 yrsChair, Engineering Mechanics/Materials Division Shehata, finishing 4th yr Dan Palermo 2 yrsChair, Hydrotechnical Division Bender, finishing 1st yr Mike Bender 1 yrChair, Environmental Division Achari, finishing 2nd yr Gopal Achari 2 yrsChair, Structures Division Sennah, finishing 3rd yr Khaled Sennah 1 yrChair, Transportation Division Zhong, finishing 1st yr Ming Zhong 1 yrChair, Infrastructure Renewal Committee Larson, finishing 1st yr Nick Larson 1 yrChair, Sustainable Development Committee Mulligan, finishing 5th yr Edwin Tam 2 yrsChair, Innovation and IT Committee Foo, finishing 2nd yr Simon Foo 2 yrs Technical Programs Chair, Career Development Devkota, finishing 2nd yr Bhuwan Devkota 2 yrsChair, International Affairs Droste, finishing 2nd yr Ron Droste 2 yrsChair, Education and Research Cheung, finishing 1st yr Moe Cheung 1 yrNLT Coordinator Feldman, finishing 5th yr Sherry Sparks 2 yrsConference Coordinator Cheung, finishing 2nd yr 2 yrsEditor, CJCE Sayed, finishing 7th yr Tarek Sayed 1 yr Bartlett, finishing 3rd yr Mike Bartlett 2 yrs

20

CSCE Membership / Membres SCGC

Sustaining Members—Civil Engineering Departments Membres de soutien—départements de génie civil

REGION 2012 2011Atlantic 234

Ontario 1453

Prairie 295

Quebec 807

Western 1287

SUB TOTAL - CDN 4076TOTAL Foreign & US 108

GRAND TOTAL 4184

GRADE 2012 2011Fellow 238

Member 1294

Associate Member 200

Technical/Professional Affiliate 20

Life Member 305

Fellow Life Member 130

Retired Member 10

Fellow Retired Member 43

Student 1835

Technologist 1

SUB TOTAL - CDN 4076TOTAL Foreign & US 108

GRAND TOTAL 4184

SECTION 2012 2011Calgary 370

Durham/Northumberland 80

East New Brunswick/P.E.I. 70

Edmonton 358

Hamilton 203

London & District 211

Manitoba 114

Montreal 421

National Capital Section 193

Newfoundland 66

North Bay 15

Northwestern Ontario 111

Nova Scotia 55

Quebec 281

Saskatoon 139

Sherbrooke 105

South Saskatchewan (Interim) 42

Toronto 640

Vancouver 513

Vancouver Island 46

West New Brunswick 43

SUB TOTAL - CDN 4076Foreign 91

Hong Kong 17

GRAND TOTAL 4184

Atlantic/AtlantiqueDalhousie University University of New BrunswickQuébecConcordia UniversityÉcole Polytechnique

École de Technologie Supérieure

Université Laval

McGill University

Université de Sherbrooke

OntarioCarleton UniversityMcMaster UniversityUniversity of OttawaQueen’s UniversityRoyal Military College of CanadaRyerson UniversityUniversity of TorontoUniversity of WaterlooUniversity of Western OntarioUniversity of Windsor

PrairiesUniversity of Manitoba University of SaskatchewanWest/OuestUniversity of Alberta British Columbia Institute of Technology University of British Columbia University of British Columbia–Okanagan University of CalgaryUniversity of Victoria

268

1446

168

13

307

138

8

41

1211

3

3603117

3720

246

1148

307

658

1244

3603117

3720

379

66

85

337

135

205

102

319

192

60

16

78

52

224

162

115

43

456

478

50

49

3603100

17

3720

21