Innovation Fall 2025

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Newly published professional practice guidelines and advisories

These guidelines inform registrants about professional practice related to covered walkways, which are the temporary structures often required during the construction, renovation, or demolition of buildings and structures, and for other infrastructure project work. Covered walkways primarily shield pedestrians from the hazards of a construction site, including falling objects and other construction debris, but they can also provide a platform for the staging of construction materials, or for the placement of temporary construction office trailers. Additionally, covered walkways may serve as the base structure for attaching signage. As covered walkways have clear life-safety implications, it is important that they are properly engineered and constructed. These guidelines cover requirements for covered walkways outlined in the BC Building Code , the Vancouver Building By-law, and the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. Professional Practice Guidelines – Engineering Services for Temporary Structures: Covered Walkways These guidelines assist professional practice related to the specification, design, implementation, verification, deployment and maintenance of security-critical software. As systems ranging from critical infrastructure to consumer electronics become increasingly network connected, so have the opportunities for malicious attacks on these systems with the potential for severe impacts to the public and the environment. These guidelines outline the expectations, obligations and standards expected of professionals when developing security-critical software with the objective of establishing a common approach for carrying out professional activities related to this work with a focus on security. These guidelines help standardize professional practice in BC related to landslide inventory, landslide susceptibility, landslide hazard, and landslide risk maps. The guidelines outline the roles and responsibilities of the various parties involved with the preparation of landslide maps and introduce the concept of a three-level map system for each type of landslide map to help communicate the potential variability in level of detail, complexity, and applicability of various landslide mapping products. Landslide maps can help inform regional and community planning, emergency planning, and post-disaster recovery planning. They can also be utilized for preliminary assessments, feasibility studies, risk assessments, conceptual designs, and project planning. Professional Practice Guidelines – Landslide Mapping Professional Practice Guidelines – Development of Security-Critical Software

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Fall 2025

Innovation