Saskatchewan engineer fined for professional misconduct. An APEGA article on the trajectory of two professional engineers. The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world. These were the most-read stories in the Daily Media Report at the beginning of September.
Saskatchewan engineer fined for professional misconduct. The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) issued a $10,000 fine and a restriction of practice to Veto Varma, P.Eng., after a hearing panel found Varma guilty of three charges of professional incompetence and professional misconduct. The charges were related to deficiencies in steel beams, deficiencies in helical pile design, and the issue of compliance letters. Varma must also practice under a licence limiting unsupervised practice to single residential structures and requiring supervision by a professional engineer approved by the APEGS registrar for any practice involving commercial projects.
Destination Professional Engineer. The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA) highlight featured engineers on their website. Samantha Irwin and Dena Davies’ path to becoming licensed engineers were the focus of this article, as well as their participation in 30 by 30, the goal of having women compose 30 per cent of registrants in engineering and geoscience by 2030.
The longest enclosed pedestrian bridge in the world is in Ontario. Pickering, Ontario, less than an hour east of Toronto, is home to a 250-metre-long bridge that has earned the title of longest enclosed pedestrian bridge anywhere on Earth. The Pickering Pedestrian Bridge was completed in September 2018. The bridge spans 14 lanes of Highway 401, six live rail tracks, and a two-lane municipal roadway. In addition to the world record, the bridge received the City of Pickering’s 2019 Urban Design Award, and after a worldwide competition, Metrolinx also received the 2019 Engineering News-Record (ENR) Global Best Projects Award in the tunnel/bridge category for the Pickering Pedestrian Bridge.
