Engineering Now .: Volume 3 - Edition 10 .: May 2007
Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes receives Award of Merit
Recipients of the Award of Merit, from left to right: Ken Addeman, P.Eng., representing the structural engineering consultant Hastings and Aziz Ltd.; Paul Seibel, representing the structural steel fabricator/detailer ACL Steel Ltd.; Rick Spencer, representing the structural steel erector Spencer Steel Ltd.; Mike Bartlett, P.Eng., representing the owner, The University of Western Ontario; and Jeffrey Stephenson, P.Eng., a member of the panel of judges, from Stephenson Engineering Ltd.
Photograph, taken by A. Gilmor of CISC
The cover building at the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes was recognized Wednesday, May 16 in Toronto during the Ontario Region of the Canadian Institute for Steel Construction awards
reception. The facility was awarded an "Award of Merit" in the "Engineering" category.
The jury panel was impressed by the innovative and cost-effective approach to moving the cover building on rails to expose the full-scale test specimen to the natural environment for building envelope research or protect it from the environment for structural engineering research.
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