October 2021 President’s Message: NFTs and BFFs October 8, 2021 As I write this, the 2021 IIBEC International Convention and Trade Show is rapidly approaching, and my thoughts have turned reflective, as they have many times over the past year. I’ve had many…
Being Resilient September 1, 2021 Resilient is one of those suddenly rediscovered adjectives in our vocabulary that has found use in a number of contexts. The Oxford English Dictionary definition of resilient is “able to withstand or recover…
August 2021 President’s Message: Involuntary Yoga August 9, 2021 As I write this message in late June 2021, the announcement has just gone live that registration is open for the IIBEC Annual Convention and Trade Show, being held this year…
July 2021 President’s Message: Stay in Your Lane – or At Least Use Your Signal! July 1, 2021 By the time you read this, summer—or “construction season,” as they call these fleeting weeks between winters up here in the Great White North—will be upon us. And with summer,…
June 2021 President’s Message: Those “Aha!” Moments June 1, 2021 Right now, at my workplace in Ottawa, ON, we have a high school student with us, learning about working in an engineering office. When initially asked by the course teacher whether we would…
May 2021 President’s Message May 19, 2021 Many of us in the architectural, engineering, and consulting world come from academic backgrounds and fear one word above all others. That evil five-letter word is . . . General Interest