Work Experience

 

New Structures

Bridges

Glulam Bridge, Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Taylor Lake Pedestrian Bridge, U.S.A. (1992).

FiRP® Glulam Bridge, Iwamizawa city, Hokkaido, Japan (1994).

Clallam Bay Highway Bridge, U.S.A. (1995).

Lakelands Roadway Bridge, Plainfield, Illinois, U.S.A. (1997).

Buildings

Commercial structures in the United States and Canada using various wood and wood composite structural members involving the following systems and shapes: arches, trusses, bowstring, flat, conventional, shearwall/diaphragm, domes (using solid sawn timber), pressure treated timber, glulam, wood composites, logs and structural wood members.

Structural engineering consultants to private and quasi-government groups: Atlantic New Home Warranty Program, post and beam, log home, glulam, structural wood composite and timber companies.

Maritime Retreat Center, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (log construction).

Mira Lodge and Resort, Mira River, Nova Scotia, Canada (100,000 sq.ft., glulam, laminated veneer lumber, heavy timber structure).

Port Hood Wine Distillery, Port Hood, Nova Scotia, Canada (award winning post and beam/wooden peg manufacturing complex).

Boyce Farmers Market, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada (post and beam).

Bürli Industrial Hall.  First FiRP® Glulam beams produced and erected in Europe, St.-Erhard, Switzerland (2000).

Gebert Carpentry Shop.  34.50-meter long FiRP® Glulam beams with GARP reinforcement, Eschenbach, Switzerland (2000).

Iten Sawmill.  4-layer FARP Reinforced glulam beams: 180/1720 mm, 46.7 m long, Sattel, Switzerland (2001).

Blaha Building.  Vienna, Austria (2001).

Warehouse.  Parallel FiRP® Glulam beams, Kaisten, Switzerland (2001).

 

Rehabilitations

Rehabilitation design in the United States and Canada including CRP component and roof sheathing, Penticton City Arena, Penticton, British Columbia, Canada.

Frank Lloyd Wright's "Wingspread", Racine, Wisconsin, U.S.A. (1996).

Design of high strength FiRP® Reinforcement to restore utility poles for Osmose, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. (1998).

Watershed Bridge Retrofit, McCloud, California, U.S.A. (1998).

 

Laboratory Projects

Testing of unreinforced and FiRP® Reinforced truck decking (2001).

Dynamic testing of FiRP® Reinforced guardrail posts (2001).

Shear & Cyclic delamination performance of FiRP® Reinforced products with a new adhesive (2001).

Mechanical & physical properties of Brazilian Pine (2001).

Compression and density characteristics of polyurethane foamed-in-place sandwich panels (2001).

Testing (bending & shear) of small clear specimens of glued light hardwood (2002).

Test protocol for unreinforced glulam beams retrofitted with FiRP® Reinforced wood laminations (2002).

Testing of reinforced work surfaces manufactured with a wood-based particleboard core (2002).

Revision of the State of California (CALTRANS) box posts quality control shear test criteria, followed by static bending test of LVL box posts (2003).

 

Project Management

Numerous buildings ranging from The Shepody Building, Fredericton, New Brunswick to industrial warehouse space in Halifax Industrial Park, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Federal government construction project management contract with Department of Transportation (DOT), Fredericton Airport, New Brunswick, Canada.