A disciplinary notice in BC. Expanding a downtown Montreal boutique hotel with no place to anchor a crane. These were the most-read stories in the Daily Media Report from mid-May.
BC disciplinary notice: Stephen Petrovich agreed to a Consent Order in which his membership with Engineers and Geoscientists BC is suspended for three months, after the regulator issued a Notice of Inquiry in January 2020 alleging that Petrovich had demonstrated unprofessional conduct, incompetence, or negligence in relation to engineering services he provided.
Montreal hotel expansion: When Le Germain Hotel, a boutique hotel that fronts onto a busy downtown Montreal street and is surrounded by other tall buildings, wanted to add six more floors to the 11-storey structure, it turned to an innovative method of erecting high rise steel and concrete buildings without using a crane.