INNOVATION January-February 2015

Stand Out from the Crowd Nominations now open for APEGBC Awards Nominations are now being accepted for APEGBC’s President’s Awards, Environmental Award, Sustainability Award and the Mentor of the Year Award. The awards will be presented at APEGBC’s 2015 Annual Conference, to be held October 15–17 in Kelowna, BC. 2015 APEGBC President’s Awards The APEGBC President’s Awards are British Columbia’s top honours for professional engineers, professional geoscientists and licensees. APEGBC needs your help to identify deserving individuals within the engineering and geoscience community— professionals who serve as role models, excel at what they do, and inspire others. The awards program was created to recognize the exemplary and outstanding professional, technical and community contributions of APEGBC members, and allows the association to showcase the professions to the public. Award winners are selected by a committee of APEGBC members based on nominations submitted by their peers. Nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 President’s Awards and the deadline for nominations is Friday, April 11, 2015. There are seven categories of President’s Awards. They include: meritorious achievement, community service, professional service and teaching at the post-secondary level. A fifth award, the Young Professional Award, recognizes an individual not older than 35 years of age who combines professional achievement, community service and professional service early in their career. The remaining awards, the R.A. McLachlan Memorial Award and the C.J. Westerman Memorial Award, are APEGBC’s premier awards for engineering and geoscience respectively. These two awards recognize those who have made a significant contribution to their profession throughout their careers. Award terms of reference, nominations forms and additional information are available online at: apeg.bc.ca/Presidents-Awards. Questions about the President’s Awards can be directed to Laurel Buss, Communications Officer at lbuss@apeg.bc.ca or 604.412.6052. APEGBC’s Sustainability Award and Environmental Award APEGBC Sustainability Award From innovative processes that do more with less to adaptive measures to address an uncertain climate future, APEGBC engineers and geosci- entists practice at the leading edge of sustainability.

APEGBC recognizes these leaders through the annual Sustainability Award as a means to celebrate and share positive contributions to a sustainable future. The award is open to any project that has demonstrated a commitment to, and understanding of, the concept of sustain- ability and/or has applied one or more of the Sustainability Guidelines. The Sustainability Committee welcomes diverse nominations from sustainable projects both large and small. The deadline for nominations is Friday, March 6, 2015 . Full details on the submission process and awards criteria are available online at apeg.bc.ca/Sustainability-Award. APEGBC Environmental Award APEGBC’s Division of Environmental Professionals encourages submissions for the Environmental Award, which highlights profes- sional engineers’ and geoscientists’ roles in responsible environ- mental management, environmental protection and/or sustainable development. The deadline for nominations is Friday, March 6, 2015. Full details on the submission process and award criteria are available online at apeg.bc.ca/Environmental-Award. Questions about the Sustainability Award or Environmental Award can be directed to Laurel Buss, Communications Officer, at A PEGBC’s Mentor of the Year Award recognizes excellence amongst mentors in the engineering and geoscience community in British Columbia. Mentorship plays a key role in supporting a successful career in engineering and geoscience. APEGBC wishes to acknowledge the importance of mentoring relationships amongst association members with the Mentor of the Year Award. Nominations for the award are now being accepted and will continue to be until March 31, 2015. Nominees must be a mentor in the APEGBC Mentoring Program. Full details on the nomination process and awards criteria can be found on the APEGBC website: apeg.bc.ca/mentoringaward. Questions about the Mentor of the Year Award can be directed to Amit Plaha, Mentoring Program Coordinator at aplaha@apeg.bc.ca or 604.412.4885. lbuss@apeg.bc.ca or 604.412.6052. APEGBC Mentor of the Year Award

New Affinity Partners Offer Discounts on Hotel, Car Rental and Shipping APEGBC is pleased to welcome two new Affinity Program partners: Local Hospitality Inc. (LHI) and UPS. Through its Affinity Program, APEGBC partners with selected suppliers to offer discounts to members on various products and services. LHI provides members with discounts on car rentals and hotel rooms in Canada and internationally. Discounted rates are avail- able from their worldwide inventory of hotels, as well as from over 1,200 car rental suppliers at over 30,000 locations. Offered through Engineers Canada, UPS offers a broad range of services for the transportation of packages and freight for engi- neering and geoscience professionals. Savings with the UPS Members Benefit Program include 30% off the base price on domestic and export services, no weekly service charge and discounts starting at 70% for UPS Freight Standard LTL Services. For details on each of these new partners and the full Affinity Program line up, please visit apeg.bc.ca/affinity. To ensure that we continue to have quality partners, we welcome your feedback, comments or suggestions based on experience with these new services. Please contact Maria-Carmen Kelly at mckelly@apeg.bc.ca or 604.639.8179.

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