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Vol. 6, No. 6
Monday, June 22, 2009
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Continuing Series: What’s In It For Me?
Golf, Golf, More Golf
The APEGGA Edmonton and Calgary branches would like to invite you to their annual golf tournaments. These two well respected and fun tournaments will be held on Sept. 4 at the Cougar Creek Golf Resort in Edmonton and Sept. 10 at the Lynx Ridge Golf Club in Calgary.

This is a great opportunity to network with your fellow colleagues.

For more information on these tournaments, and to register online please click here.

Please hurry as space is limited!

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2009 Value of Professional Services
Employers Please Support This Important Initiative!

Salary Survey providers afford relevant information about current salaries available to their professionals. APEGGA needs this as input to continue improving the statistical weight of this popular and highly regarded survey.

For more information on how to participate in this year’s survey, please visit www.apegga.org

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Environment Committee Tip of the Month
Driving and Car Maintenance
Driving Tips

  • Idling gets you 0 miles per gallon. The best way to warm up a vehicle is to drive it. No more than 30 seconds of idling on winter days is needed. Anything more simply wastes fuel and increases emissions.

  • Aggressive driving (speeding, rapid acceleration, and hard braking) wastes gas. It can lower your highway gas mileage 33 per cent and city mileage 5 per cent Avoid high speeds. Above 100 km/h, gas mileage drops rapidly.

  • Clear out your car; extra weight decreases gas mileage by one to two per cent for every 45 kg. Reduce drag by placing items inside the car or trunk rather than on roof racks. A roof rack or carrier provides additional cargo space and may allow you to buy a smaller car. However, a loaded roof rack can decrease your fuel economy by 5 per cent or more.

  • Check into telecommuting, carpooling and public transit to cut mileage and car maintenance costs.

Car Maintenance Tips

  • Use the grade of motor oil recommended by your car's manufacturer. Using different motor oil can lower your gasoline mileage by 1 to 2 per cent.
    Keep tires properly inflated and aligned to improve your gasoline mileage by around 3.3 per cent.

  • Get regular engine tune-ups and car maintenance checks to avoid fuel economy problems due to worn spark plugs, dragging brakes, low transmission fluid, or transmission problems. Replace clogged air filters to improve gas mileage by as much as 10 per cent and protect your engine.

  • Combine errands into one trip. Several short trips, each one taken from a cold start, can use twice as much fuel as one trip covering the same distance when the engine is warm.

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Adapting Infrastructure to a Changing Climate
PIEVC’s Engineering Protocol

Engineers Canada, with its Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee (PIEVC), has drafted a step-by-step process to assess the impact of climate change of infrastructure.

PIEVC is supported by infrastructure expert working groups consisting of engineers and other technical experts with design and operations experience in the particular infrastructure category as well as climate scientists and other subject matter experts. Engineers Canada is currently looking for volunteers for these expert working groups. PIEVC currently has four such groups to assess these categories of infrastructure:

1. Buildings
2. Roads and associated structures
3. Stormwater and wastewater treatment and collection systems
4. Water resource systems and other water management infrastructures.

Engineers Canada is also creating a knowledge base of case studies. Any vulnerable built infrastructure from the province is eligible to be assessed.

More information

For further detailed information on the protocol, to volunteer to be on one of the expert working groups, or to provide selections of case studies, please contact:

David Lapp, P.Eng.
Manager, Professional Practice
Engineers Canada
613-232-2474, ext. 240
David.Lapp@engineerscanada.ca

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2009 APEGGA Calgary Branch
Annual Golf Tournament

You are invited to the APEGGA Calgary Branch Annual Golf Tournament:

Where:

Lynx Ridge Golf Club

Lynx Ridge 11th Hole

When:

Sept. 10

Registration:

Starts at 1 p.m. 

Play:

Follows at 2

Cost:

$115 – Members
$125 – Non-Members

Tournament cost includes:

18 Holes Texas Scramble
Golf Cart
Steak Dinner
Free Driving Range (1 hour prior to play)
* GREAT PRIZES !! * *
Registration is limited so register early!
Deadline Aug. 14

Contact the Calgary APEGGA Office at 403-262-7714 or register online. Calgary Branch accepts Visa, Mastercard or American Express.

A Special Thanks to our Sponsors:

Title Sponsor:
Girish Agrawal
 Eagle Level:
Westburne Electric
Albatross Level:
AMEC Americas Limited		 Birdie Level:
Scotia Bank
Fekete Associates Inc.
Urban Systems
WISEST  3rd Annual Fun Golf Tournament

All genders and levels of golf skills welcome!  

Thursday, July 16
The Ranch Golf & Country Club
52516 Range Road 262, Spruce Grove

Join our Texas Scramble to golf and network with those who support diversity while experiencing innovative demonstrations in science, engineering and technology.  All proceeds support WISEST initiatives.

 

7 a.m. Registration and Breakfast Buffet
8 a.m. Shotgun Start
  Awards & BBQ Luncheon to follow
Novel and scientific prizes, silent and live auctions, golf fees and cart included.  Mulligans available! 
Registration:  $150 each  (BBQ only - $35)
  On-line: www.wisest.ualberta.ca 
  Phone: Marion Ferguson, APEGGA  780-426-3990
  Registration Deadline:  July 9

 
APEGGA Head Office
1500 Scotia One
10060 Jasper Ave. NW
Edmonton AB T5J 4A2
Tel: 780-426-3990 1-­800-­661-­7020
(within North America)
Fax: 780-426-1877
E-mail: email@apegga.org
Website: www.apegga.org		 Calgary Office
2200 Scotia Centre
700 2nd Street SW
Calgary, AB T2P 2W1
Tel: 403-262-7714
Fax: 403-269-2787
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Salary Survey...
Environment Committee...
PIEVC Engineering Protocol...
Calgary Branch Golf...
Wisest Golf Tournament...

SIDEBARS

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Call for Papers

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THE PEGG ONLINE–

Albertan Leads Engineers Canada
Salary Survey Appeal
Big Year For Ian
Debate Invitation
Ethics
Compliance
Welcome to Alberta
President's Notebook
Book Donation
PD Spotlight
Readers' Forum
Carbon Storage
Retrofit in Nepal
Compliance
EWB Series
World Watch
Newsmakers
Doing Business
Engineering Declaration
Geo Donation
The Geo Beat
Education

These headlines and more await you in the June PEGG Online.

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WATCH FOR THEM
 

PEGGs Ahead

Watch for these stories in future hardcopy and online editions of The PEGG

  • The Photo Bug – an Alberta engineer uses his camera to celebrate Aboriginal cultures.

  • The Summit Series – The PEGG kicks off its Summit Series with a feature on Centennial Award winner Dr. Warren Finlay, P.Eng.

  • Engineering and Politics – one of Premier Ed Stelmach’s sons is officially inducted as an APEGGA member.

  • Pipelining and the Environment – Dr. Brenda Kenny, P.Eng., considers herself an environmentalist. She also happens to be president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
 

International Symposium on Disaster Risk Management

The World Federation of Engineering Organizations, the Japan Federation of Engineering Societies, and the Japan Society of Civil Engineers are calling for papers on disaster risk management as part of their 2009 Joint International Symposium. The task group from Japan that is organizing this is part of the WFEO Standing Committee on Engineering and the Environment, which Engineers Canada chairs through Darrel Danyluk, P.Eng. As a part of activities of the Task Group, this Symposium is being held to showcase state-of-the-art technologies, information and discuss measures to prevent, reduce and adapt to risks of water-related and earthquake-related disasters. Information and opinions will be exchanged on the above mentioned disaster risk management and will introduce knowledge and experience to avoid disasters and promote sustainable and sound development.

For more information on the Joint International Symposium click here.

Please contact for information or submissions:
Dr. Nguyen Son Hung
CTI Engineering Co. Ltd.
Tokyo, 103-8430, Japan
nguyen@ctie.co.jp

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