INNOVATION September-October 2018

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SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2018 | volume 22 number 5

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COVER STORY TAMING SOUND As a discipline, acoustic engineering is right at home next to a whole range of engineering and construction projects. But it was recently put to the test for a new autism centre—built about one kilometre from a runway that lands some of the loudest aircraft in the world.

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IRELAND'S PYRITIC HEAVE CRISIS

COMMENT

Experts in Ireland asked for help from BC geologists to figure out why so many relatively new houses were experiencing wall cracks and foundation buckles.

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ON THE COVER Mark Bliss, P.Eng., and Katrina

Scherebnyj, P.Eng., of Vancouver's BKL Consultants Ltd., take sound pressure measurements at the Pacific Autism Family Centre, situated just east of the Vancouver International Airport. Photo: Mike Crane

DOCUMENT RETENTION POLICIES If an engineer or geoscientist needs a document retention policy, what would it look like, and how do they begin creating one?

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