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Geotechnical News September 2011
CGS NEWS
Banff, Alberta, Canada from June 3 to
8, 2012. The theme of the symposium
will be Landslides and Engineered
Slopes: Protecting Society through Im-
proved Understanding.
The Technical Committee invites
participants from industry, govern-
ment and academia to submit abstracts
pertaining to the investigation, classi-
fication, monitoring, analysis and miti-
gation of landslides. Case studies to-
gether with papers featuring innovative
analysis techniques and solutions, as
well as research (recent and/ or future
trends), are strongly encouraged.
Canadian Foundation for
Geotechnique
AMEC and Stantec are
Honoured by the Canadian
Foundation for Geotechnique
Mr. Doug VanDine, President of the
CanadianFoundationforGeotechnique,
is pleased to announce that
AMEC
Environment & Infrastructure
and
Stantec
are the first two companies
to be honoured by the Foundation
as
Legacy Corporate Sponsors.
The
Legacy Corporate Sponsor Program,
established by the Foundation in early
2011, is similar to its
Legacy Donor
Program
for individuals that was
established in 2008.
The
Legacy Donor Program
rec-
ognizes and honours
individuals
who
donate, cumulatively at least $25,000 to
the Foundation in the form of cash, se-
curities or bequests. Donations can be
made by an individual or by a group of
individuals to honour a colleague. Con-
tributions can be targeted to one of the
Foundation’s existing initiatives or to the
Foundation for unspecified purposes.
The
Legacy Corporate Sponsor Pro-
gram
recognizes and honours
corpora-
tions
that donate, cumulatively at least
$30,000 to the Foundation. Contribu-
tions are typically made to help sponsor
Cross Canada Lecture Tours, but can
also be targeted to one of the Founda-
tion’s existing initiatives or to the Foun-
dation for unspecified purposes.
With both programs, the amount of
the donations is never disclosed, and
the parties are honoured at the Cana-
dian Geotechnical Conferences. Each
year, when the Foundation honours
its new
Legacy Donor Sponsors
and
Legacy Corporate Sponsors
, all pre-
vious honourees are be recounted. At
the 2011 Pan-Am CGS Geotechnical
Conference in Toronto (October 2 to 6)
AMEC Environment & Infrastruc-
ture
and
Stantec
will be honoured.
AMEC Environment & Infra-
structure,
until June 2011 known as
AMEC Earth & Environmental, has
been a generous sponsor of the Foun-
dation and the CGS Cross Canada Lec-
ture Tours since 2001. AMEC provides
engineering and project management
services to the world’s oil and gas, min-
erals and metals, clean energy, water
and environmental sectors. The com-
pany employs more than 25,000 people
in around 40 countries worldwide.
When notified of being honoured by
the Foundation, Brian Ross, P.Eng., Ex-
ecutive Vice-President of AMEC Envi-
ronment & Infrastructure operations in
Western Canada and South America,
expressed his thanks and went on to
say
“AMEC’s team of professionals are
working on a wide range of projects in-
volving environmental, infrastructure
planning and design, and construc-
tion related services around the globe.
Geotechnical engineering plays a very
important role in many of these proj-
ects. We have a culture of excellence
and our people are our biggest assets.
AMEC Environment & Infrastructure
supports the Foundation’s mission of
recognizing and fostering excellence in
the geotechnical field in Canada.”
Starting in 2000,
Jacques Whit-
ford
began a continuing relationship
with the Foundation by sponsoring the
CGS Cross Canada Lecture Tours. In
2009 Jacques Whitford amalgamated
with
Stantec
. Stantec’s geotechnical
services are focused on infrastructure,
including dams and levees, transporta-
tion facilities, abandoned mine lands,
landfills, waterfront engineering and
electric utilities, and geotechnical pro-
gram management for its national and
international clients.
Michael Whitford, P.Eng., co-
founder of Jacques Whitford and Vice
President Vice President Geotechni-
cal Canada of Stantec expressed his
thoughts of being honoured by the
Foundation this way.
“Stantec, and
our legacy company Jacques Whitford,
support the Canadian Foundation for
Geotechnique because we believe that
excellence in geotechnique should be
recognized and supported, regard-
less of whether that excellence is in
the public sector, the private sector, or
academia. Geotechnique was the origi-
nal tenet of our business and today re-
mains the basis of one of our core lines
of practice. The Foundation’s objec-
tives mirror our own internal recogni-
tion programs. Striving for excellence
and continuing education keep our in-
dustry dynamic, and we are proud to be
a supporter of the Foundation’s awards
programs and the Cross Canada Lec-
ture Tour series”.
The Foundation expresses its sincere
thanks for all the financial support is re-
ceives from individuals, local CGS sec-
tions and corporations. For more infor-
mation on the Foundation, check out its
new bilingual website
.
Editor
Phil Bruch, P.Eng.
Principal, Senior Geotechnical
Engineer
Golder Associates Ltd.
1721 – 8th Street East
Saskatoon, SK S7H 0T4
Tel.: 306-665-7989, Fax: 306-665-
3342, email:
