Engineering For Our Common Future, June 3~5, 2010, Vancouver

Solid Information Inspiring Examples Leading Edge Tools Provocative Inquiry


Institution of Civil Engineers 2010 Americas Convention June 3~5, 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Theme:
Engineers @ the Heart of Society:
Collaborating + Innovating for Our Common Future

Venue:
Westin Wall Centre
3099 Corvette Way, Richmond, British Columbia V6X 4K3

Thursday 3rd June - Welcome Reception
Friday 4th June - Conference & Gala Dinner Saturday 5th June - Tours


To Download Convention Program (with useful hyperlinks):
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To Register :
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I hope and I think you'll agree with me that there are many influential people amongst the list of speakers. Solving today's pressing problems requires engineers to work in partnership crossing disciplines, collaborating and innovating regionally and globally. These important people recognize the importance of this convention and are contributing their time and efforts to speak at this convention. It will be a mixture of serious discussions, inspiring examples, leading edge tools and provocative inquiry, and we believe people will leave the convention inspired and en.lighten.ed (as in both turning-on-the-bulb and
lessening-the-weight) to go out to innovate, connect and collaborate, and thence liberating the deep potential of engineering to better the world in our rapidly changing climate.

This is undoubtedly a convention designed to provoke discussions on the larger responsibilities of the profession. We would also like to think that this convention further the discussions of a previous Triennial Conference of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering (CSCE), and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on "Safety, Security and Sustainability: Can engineers rise to the global challenge?". It was at that conference in July 2006 that the three institutions signed the "Protocol for Engineering a Sustainable Future for the Planet".

We'll open the ICE 2010 Americas Convention by acknowledging the Challenges of Addressing the Imperatives of Low Carbon Design, which if you do not know already is also highly topical politically, delivered by none other than the very vocal Chairman of the UK Construction Industry Council. We will then be "(Meeting)Our Destiny" with a presentation by Canada's leading expert in climate statistics and a leading representative to the IPCC, and a presentation by the originator (and method developer) of the concept of Ecological Footprint.

Our next session looks at how we are already "Charting Our Course" to win and successfully adapt to climate change. Green Capital, Vulnerability Assessment, Water Sustainability, and Active Transportation --- will all be presented by the person very responsible for the success.

We will then have a successful pioneer in sustainable development (in both Canada and US), who has been trained as an engineer by the way, unveil to us his Framework for An Understandable Sustainability.

After lunch, we'll showcase some beautifully engineered and executed examples of "Innovating + Delivering Sustainable Elegance", some of them winning prestigious engineering awards regionally as well as internationally. These speakers will share with us the secrets of success in designing/delivering the Richmond Olympic Oval Roof, the Metro Vancouver Clean Energy from Bio-Solids Project, and the Canada Line Rapid Transit Project.

Mid-afternoon, we'll provoke a discussion on "Responding to (Our) Common Future", poking the question "How Will Engineers Respond ?", and expanding our own humble horizon to learn from young engineers' experience from working without borders.

Later in the afternoon, we'll have prominent resource, governance, valuation and financial leaders take us through "Making It Count", using as an example the major sustainability business case of Integrated Resource Management for British Columbia.

Before we close the afternoon, we will be "Measuring Up" together with the very person at the very helm of overseeing the professionalism and accountability of our profession here in British Columbia.

Our ICE President, who has long been a leader beyond all frontiers in engineer's contribution to meeting the UN Millennium Development Goals, will speak to us at the Gala Dinner.

Please register early to reserve your spot(s). We await your engineering inquisitiveness, and we believe you will make connections here to further your collaborating and innovating for our common future.


Cheers,
Wilma.



Convention Contact :
ICE Western Canada Representative
Wilma Leung CEng, MICE, MHKIE, LEED-AP
t: 1-604-833-2315
f: 1-604-738-6673
e: wilma@wisa.ca

ICE London UK HQ Contact :
Neil Bailey
e: neil.bailey@ice.org.uk

Websites :
http://www.ice.org.uk/conferences_events/conferencedetail_ice.asp?EventID=2488&EventType=ICE&FacultyID=
http://ice-americasconvention2010.weebly.com/

To Download Convention Program :
http://ice-americasconvention2010.weebly.com/uploads/3/8/2/2/3822230/ice_americas_convention_program.pdf

To Register :
http://ice-americasconvention2010.eventbrite.com/