TAC’s Corporate Demos provide our members an opportunity to engage with cutting-edge companies and learn about their innovations. Read about the presentation topics and their presenters below.
Originally presented February 28, 2023
Presentation starts 13:05
The Data Journey of First Nations Assets
The National Asset Needs Study targets the required investment for the safe, effective, and sustainable operation of First Nations assets. Associated Engineering is proud to support the Assembly of First Nations to articulate through data-based evidence of the Indigenous Services Canada funding gap and define a 20-year investment plan for 634 First Nations, including capital (renewal, maintenance, upgrades), operations, and maintenance costs. This presentation will share the data approach used to develop a robust consideration for climate, remoteness and regional pressures on investment needs across all transportation assets valued at $11.6bn (33.7% of total needs) over the next 20-year period.
About the presenter: Judy Yu, P.Eng., PMP, is the Discipline Leader for Data Management and Intelligent Transportation Systems in Associated Engineering’s Strategic Service Advisory practice. She works with other national practice leaders in the company’s Asset Management and Transportation disciplines to produce evidence for infrastructure investment strategies through structured, enriched, and well managed data.
Presentation starts 13:35 at latest
Stantec.io Predictor Suite
Floods and landslides present an increasing challenge to our infrastructure. Learn how Stantec’s DebrisFlow and Flood Predictor software solutions can help identify vulnerabilities and inform planning and decision making.
DebrisFlow Predictor: Landslide runout and its impacts represent a substantial challenge for professionals trying to understand and manage hazards from steep mountainous terrain. Stantec’s DebrisFlow Predictor software uses data and controls to inform a numerical model that simulates complex behaviour of debris flows. The generated predictions include landslide pathways, runout extension, and depth along the path due to scour and deposition. Simulation results can be overlaid onto mapped landslides for performance comparisons and used to predict the behaviour of first-time landslides. The outcomes generated by DebrisFlow Predictor can help make decisions that preserve communities, infrastructure, and the environment.
Flood Predictor: With an increase in communities experiencing flooding, it's more important than ever that we try to better predict the likelihood of a major flood event. Flood Predictor is a secure, cloud-based solution that provides insights on when and where a flooding event is likely to happen. It is powered by data and engineering features to analyze flood hazards, project future climate scenarios, incorporate local adaptation, and validate against government records. Using machine teaching and learning to provide accurate, data-driven results in near real-time, can help you optimize decisions. Getting ahead of a major flood event just became possible.
About the presenters: Curtis Smith is a technical expert in the flood risk industry. His focuses are on leveraging big data and statistical analyses to identify flood-prone areas and in levee data analysis and watershed modeling. His goal is to maximize value by applying the latest approaches in cloud computing, statistics, computer science, and watershed modeling.
Rick Guthrie leads a group of goehazards specialists who help clients understand, diagnose, monitor, and mitigate the potential impacts to lives and infrastructure. He specializes in the quantification of landslide run out and mobility, hazard and risk assessment, climate change impacts, hydrologic changes, and the impacts to and from development.
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Tetra Tech and Transportation in the Canadian North – a Brief History
From our earlier days going back more than 50 years, Tetra Tech has had a unique connection with Canada’s north. It started with a new concept around permafrost engineering, and how to design and build infrastructure in this challenging environment - capable of connecting the rich, magnificent, and fragile northern world. Since then, Tetra Tech has established itself as a pioneer in arctic engineering providing world-class consulting and construction services to owners of infrastructure in transportation, mining, and energy, and to communities spanning the Canadian Arctic, and the larger circumpolar region. Specializing in the planning, design and construction of transportation infrastructure, including all weather roads, ice roads, and airports, it is proud to take part in developing and improving our northern communities. This presentation tells Tetra Tech’s Northern Transportation story.
About the presenter: Christian Babuin, Senior Vice President of Tetra Tech’s Transportation practice, leads a group of engineers, scientists and technologists in the delivery of infrastructure projects across the Canadian Arctic. Over the past 20 years, he has been directly involved in the delivery of Highway and Airports projects in the North.
Presentation starts 14:35 at latest
From Digital Design to Asset Lifecycle Management: How Intelligent As-Builts Enable Smarter Workflows
Construction project information is more abundant than ever, but often gets lost in the transition from the design phase to the building phase and then to the subsequent stages of the asset lifecycle. Harnessing this information early—and carrying it through the design, construction, operation and maintenance phases of the asset lifespan—greatly improves efficiency and cost-effectiveness for asset owners, contractors and others who touch the project.
This session highlights how to put digital delivery into action using 3D models and other tools to apply valuable insights at all phases of the asset lifecycle for a better overall result. This approach is software agnostic, using real examples of office-to-field-and-back data flow that simplifies project work from beginning to end.
About the presenters: Doug Reichard, Director of Industry Strategy – State/Federal Government, Trimble, is a 15 year veteran of the AECO technology business. Having worked extensively in vertical and horizontal construction, Infrastructure is his expertise and passion. As the Director of Industry Strategy for State/Federal Government at Trimble he serves the industry as a thought leader for digital transformation in all forms of transportation and infrastructure.
Adrien Patané, Technology Solutions Manager – Americas, Federal & Government Infrastructure Solutions, Trimble, has 20 years of industry experience working with Trimble's transportation and construction technologies on complex, wide-ranging and environmentally sensitive projects across Australia, Europe, Asia and the Americas. He now represents Trimble's Federal and Government Infrastructure solutions for the Americas, and has had a key role as part of Trimble’s partner collaborations, working with DOTs and contractors across the continents to help facilitate 3D construction workflows, aided by various Trimble technologies
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