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From the CGS Board
History of the Development of the Canadian Foundation
Engineering Manual/
Manuel Canadien d’Ingénierie des Fondations
Part 4 of 4
Doug VanDine
Parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series were
published the March, June and
September 2018 issues and cover
the beginnings of the manual up to
the ‘
1994 French Edition’
. This last
installment brings the story up to the
present. The entire article is on the
CGS website (see
2006 Fourth Edition of the
CFEM
The preface of the
2006 Fourth Edi-
tion
(CGS, 2006, Figure 1) identifies
the specific individuals who contrib-
uted to this edition as follows (their
organizations are not identified in this
edition, but have been added where
known).
D.E. (Dennis) Becker (Editor), Golder
Associates and CGS President (2005-
2006); I.D. (Ian) Moore (Editor),
Queen’s University; J. (Jean) Lafleur
(Editor, French Edition), École Poly-
technique; S.L. (Lee) Barbour, Univer-
sity of Saskatchewan; R.J. (Richard)
Bathurst, Royal Military College; S.
(Storer) Boone, Golder Associates;
R.W.I. (Richard) Brachman, Queen’s
University; B. (Bill) Brockbank,
Reinforced Earth Canada; M. (Mark)
Diederichs, Queen’s University; M.H.
(Hesham) El Naggar, University of
Western Ontario; J. (Jonathan) Fannin,
University of British Columbia; D.
(Del) Fredlund, Golder Associates; J.
(John) Howie, University of British
Columbia; D.J. (Jean) Hutchinson,
Queen’s University; J-M. (Jean-Marie)
Konrad, Université Laval; S. (Serge)
Leroueil, Université Laval; K. (Kent)
Novakowski, Queen’s University, and
J. (Julie) Shang, University of Western
Ontario
Of this group, only Ian Moore and
Richard Bathurst were formally
involved in the
1992 Third Edition
.
Barbara Goulet, a publishing consul-
tant in Calgary, is acknowledged in
the preface to the
2006 Fourth Edition
as the individual who undertook the
layout and design.
Dennis Becker recalls that he ‘vol-
unteered’ to be a co-Editor of the
2006 Fourth Edition, because he saw
the need for the Limit States Design
chapter in the
1992 Third Edition
to
be updated to be consistent with the,
then, recently updated
NBCC
and the
Canadian Highway Bridge Design
Code (CHBDC).
Dennis Becker’s
background was appropriate for the
task. His informal involvement with
the
CFEM
began with the
1978 First
Edition
when, as a PhD student (Uni-
versity of Western Ontario), he was
asked to review several chapters by his
supervisor, KY Lo. He was peripher-
ally involved in the
1985 Second Edi-
tion
and the
1992 Third Edition
. In the
1990s he became quite involved in the
technical committees associated with
both the
NBCC
and the
CHBDC.
The preface to the
2006 Fourth Edi-
tion
includes the following paragraph:
“The Manual provides
information on geotechnical
aspects of foundation engineering,
as practiced in Canada, so that
the user will more readily be
able to interpret the intent and
performance requirements of
the
National Building Code of
Canada
(the release of this fourth
edition coincides with publication
of the
NBCC
(2005) and the
Canadian Highway Bridge
[Design] Code
(2000). The
Manual also provides additional
material on matters not covered
by these Codes.”
Figure 1: Cover of the 2006 Fourth
Edition.
