Engineers and Geoscientists BC cancels licence of engineer who designed Danbrook One. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives spoke to engineers and geoscientists about actions that the BC government must take to avoid preventable landslide and flood deaths and damage. A disciplinary hearing for the Saskatchewan engineer who designed bridge that collapse hours after opening. These were the most-read stories in the Daily Media Report in the first part of June.
Danbrook One: Engineers and Geoscientists BC has concluded disciplinary proceedings against Brian McClure, an engineer whose design of the former Danbrook One building in Langford, BC, failed to meet the 2012 BC Building Code. Engineers and Geoscientists BC has cancelled McClure’s licence, and accordingly he is no longer licensed to practice professional engineering in BC. McClure must pay a fine of $25,000–the maximum allowable under the legislation in place at the time–and has agreed to pay $32,000 in legal costs to Engineers and Geoscientists BC.
BC floods and landslides: In an article in The Tyee, a resource policy analyst for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives writes that the Centre reached out to engineers and geoscientists, who had experience working in or for the BC provincial government, to learn more about the landslide and associated effects of the atmospheric river that impacted BC in November 2021. The engineers and geoscientists argued that while climate change is a clear threat, the more pressing issue is how government manages key natural resources.
Saskatchewan bridge: A disciplinary hearing has begun for Regina engineer Scott Gullacher, who designed a bridge in rural Saskatchewan that collapsed hours after it opened in 2018. The Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS) alleges Gullacher broke rules when he designed the bridge.
