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Congratulations to our HH Angus colleagues on winning the ACEC 2018 Schreyer Award for technical merit and innovation. The winning project is the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM), North America’s largest healthcare P3 project and a milestone in Canadian healthcare.

We’re thrilled to be honoured with this prestigious ACEC award, and so proud that the expertise and creativity of our engineering and design colleagues has resulted in our industry’s highest honour.

On behalf of our CHUM team and everyone at HH Angus, our thanks to the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies | Canada and to Canadian Consulting Engineer magazine (CCE). The CHUM project was also honoured with this year’s Award of Excellence for Buildings.

Congratulations to all our fellow award winners at ACEC’s 50th National Awards Gala. Your outstanding achievements elevate the engineering industry and bring honour to our profession.

Read more – Press Release

Communiqué de presse

Join us in Montreal on Oct 16 as HH Angus presents “Making a Super Hospital Work” at the Canadian Centre for Healthcare Facilities conference.

As the mechanical, electrical and security design engineers for CHUM, the HH Angus team has unique insight into what it took to successfully deliver the largest healthcare project in North America – the Centre hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. Nick Stark, Marianne Lee and Phil Schuyler, principals of HH Angus and team leaders, will detail some of the key challenges and solutions for this mega hospital project. Conference attendees will also be able to tour public, clinical, mechanical and electrical facilities at CHUM.

We are pleased to introduce Sameer Dhargalkar as HH Angus’ Vice President, Marketing and Business Development. Joining the firm’s senior leadership, Sameer’s initial focus will be to sharpen HH Angus’ emphasis on client centricity while expanding the company’s client base. Sameer will be managing an experienced group of sales and marketing professionals, building on 20 years of progressively senior positions in the AEC, legal and technology sectors.

“Twenty metres below Eglinton Ave., dozens of workers wielding huge machines are building what looks like an underground cathedral. In fact, it’s the future site of Laird Station, one of 25 planned stops on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT.” (Toronto Star, April 30, 2018)

The unique mining excavation approach to building the ECLRT’s Laird Station was featured in yesterday’s Toronto Star.  HH Angus is designing and engineering the mechanical and electrical systems for three of the ECLRT’s underground stations – Laird, Mt. Pleasant and Leaside (Bayview).

The Eglinton Crosstown Light Rail Transit project is the largest transit expansion in Toronto’s history and one of the largest P3 projects in North America.

*For the Toronto Star video report and article, click here.

Hospital Substation Gas-insulated Switchgear

Located in Toronto, ON, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is a full-service hospital with over 1,300 beds, making it the largest regional trauma centre in Canada. Through its partnership with Veterans Affairs Canada, it is home to more than 500 veterans. With a main campus of approximately three million square feet, Sunnybrook is redeveloping its existing main outdoor electrical substation in its entirety. The project incorporates several innovative features, including using 38 kilovolt class gas-insulated switchgear, new power transformers with increased capacity, and multiple civil upgrades. In addition to a decreased footprint and reduced maintenance requirements, the new switchgear interfaces with a networkbased monitoring and control system. In this photo, the switchgear undergoes indepth factory acceptance testing in Frankfurt, Germany.

Sunnybrook team: Michael McRitchie, Francis Jesuthasan. Prime consultant, H.H. Angus & Associates Ltd.: Philip Chow, P.Eng.

Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

In fall 2017, Cellula Robotics Ltd. successfully demonstrated its Imotus-1 Hovering Autonomous Underwater Vehicle. During a week of testing at a local pool facility, Imotus-1 navigated using proprietary Simultaneous  Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms and was shown to hold station, waypoint track, manoeuvre around obstacles, and dock to an underwater charging station. The docking demonstration was sponsored by Ocean Networks Canada; development of SLAM was made possible through funding from the National Research Council’s Industrial Research Assistance Program. In 2018, Imotus-1 will be used by Cellula in the North Sea for commercial survey and inspection work inside the structural legs of an offshore platform.

Eric (James) Jackson, P.Eng., Melanie Devaux, P.Eng., Paul Prunianu, P.Eng., Dr. Peter Hampton, EIT, Dana Leslie, EIT, Jacqueline Nichols, P.Eng.

Novel Polystyrene Recovery System

A.H. Lundberg Systems Limited of Vancouver designed and supplied a modular distillation system for Polystyvert for its polystyrene (Styrofoam) recycling demonstration plant in Montreal. In a novel patented process, an essential oil is used to dissolve the polystyrene at the user site, thereby drastically reducing the volume and subsequent transport costs to the recycling plant. Following recovery of the polystyrene using a liquid hydrocarbon, the distillation system separates and recovers the essential oil and hydrocarbon for reuse in the process. The module was fabricated and assembled by Acier St-Michel in Laval, QC. The plant is scheduled for commissioning in May 2018.

Allan Jensen, P.Eng., Bruce Der, P.Eng., Alex Lisnevskiy, P.Eng.

Published in Innovation Magazine 
Engineers and Geoscientists British Columbia
May/June 2018