Tag: engineering
Finding Value
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Canadian Value Engineering Conference. Value Engineering? Value Engineering (VE) is much like a design vignette. A group of individuals including engineers, technicians, planners, etc get together and brainstorm solutions to a given construction opportunity. That might be a new subway, a GO expansion, a highway rehabilitation, a [...]
Posted: November 3rd, 2008 under Vanderburg, engineering, environment, technology.
Tags: creativity, engineering, environment, fiscally responsible, profit, triple bottom line, Vanderburg
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Technology, Society and the Enivornment
Although I was nervous this morning, I survived my first day of class … new program, new building and an old friend.
My first class, titled above, is taught by Professor W.H. Vanderburg. His passion’s lie in the study of technology, society, biosphere interactions and its application to the development of preventive approaches for the engineering, [...]
Posted: September 9th, 2008 under Vanderburg, environment, technology.
Tags: engineering, society, sustainability, technology
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