Building BridgesNovember 22 - 25Municipal Engineers

Association

We build too many walls & not enough bridges. Isaac Newton

The Municipal Engineers Association (MEA) Annual Workshop and General Meeting is held annually in November and it is hosted by different member municipalities throughout Ontario. This year, The City of St. Catharines in partnership with Regional Municipality of Niagara and our neighbouring communities is pleased to host the 57th Annual MEA Workshop at The Holiday Inn and Conference Centre, 327 Ontario Street in the City of St. Catharines from November 23 to 25, 2016.

The theme for this year’s Workshop is Building Bridges. This theme is based on the important role bridges play in our society, both physically and metaphorically. Bridges literally connect people and businesses to one another, linking cities to create a shared land. Without bridges, many municipalities would simply be an island. No city can function in isolation – it takes a community and it takes partnerships to create unity. That’s where the power of the bridge lies. A bridge is a linking of ideas, an invitation to others to collaborate and to share. Where a wall divides, a bridge unites.

Hello.Welcome to the 2016 Annual MEA Workshop and General Meeting.

327 Ontario Street St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 5L3Phone: 905.688.2324, Toll Free 1.877.688.2324, Fax: 905.684.6432, www.holidayinn.com/stcatharines

The Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Centre

Opening its doors in fall 2015, the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre is a 95,000 square foot academic and cultural complex comprised of four state-of-the-art performance venues: Partridge Hall , Cairns Recital Hall , Robertson Theatre and the Film House. The state of the art Diamond Schmitt Architects designed facility is located in the heart of downtown St. Catharines, on the corner of Carlisle and St. Paul streets, adjacent to Brock University’s Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts.

Visit www.firstontariopac.ca for more information.

FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre

The Venues

Busing provided from Holiday Inn and Suites Parkway Conference Centre for Wednesday Evening.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22

Registration

Registration- 5 pm - 8 pmHospitality Suite - 6 pm onwards

Afternoon SessionDesign and RelationshipsChaired by Tim Marotta, Senior Project Manager, Niagara Region

1:30 pm - 2 pmDr. Roozbeh Rashedi, Neil Roberts and Karolina Konarski, Infrastructure Solutions Pavement Optimization

2 pm - 2:30 pmMarcel Dion, Marcel Dion Lighting Design Lighting of Welland Bridge

2:30 pm - 3 pmBrian Ellis, Duane Vangeest, Ellis Engineering CNP Bridge - Willis Chipman Award, Consulting Engineers of Ontario

3 pm - 3:15 pm - BREAK

3:15 pm - 3:45 pmCindy Pfeffer, City of St. Catharines Mind the Gap: Millennials at Work

3:45 pm - 4:15 pmBrian Hughes, City of Hamilton Electronic Sidewalk Inspection System

4:15 pm - 4:45 pmTom Boyle, Buffalo & Fort Erie Peace Bridge Authority Rehabilitation of the Peace Bridge

6 pm - 10 pm Dinner & a Movie FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre

The Film House presents ABEGWEIT: A day-to-day record of the construction of the Confederation Bridge

8 pm onwardsHospitality Suite

Morning SessionPlanning and RelationshipsChaired by Sean Dunsmore, Manager of Engineering, City of Thorold

8:15 am - 8:25 amDan Dillon, City of St. Catharines Opening Remarks by Workshop Chair

8:25 am - 8:55 amPeter Kryger, Michael Wilson, Niagara Region Aboriginal Consultation

8:55 am - 9:25 amRebecca Cann, City of St. Catharines Welland Canal Fallen Workers Memorial (Fundraising/inter municipality cooperation)

9:25 am - 9:55 amMaureen Johnson, Ministry of Infrastructure Updates on Asset Management Regulation

9:55 am - 10:05 am - BREAK

10:05 am - 10:35 amPhil Lambert, Niagara Region 2041

10:35 am - 11:05 amChristian Bélanger, Englobe Salt Impacted Remediation

11:05 am - 11:35 amLindsay Discossmo, Rich Merlino, WildPlay Niagara Falls Zipline to the Falls

11:35 am - 12:05 pmAndrew Nolan, St. Lawrence Seaway Authority Computer Automation of Seaway Bridges

12:05 pm - 1:30 pmMayor Walter Sendzik MAYOR’S LUNCH Sponsored by City of St. Catharines

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 23

Day OneTrade Show - 7:30 am - 5 pm

Breakfast - 7:30 am - 8:15 amSponsored by Concrete Ontario

Registration- 7:30 am- 3:00 pm

11:20 am - 11:40 amHuimin Zhu, University of Toronto Concrete Permeable Pavement Water Quality Results

11:40 am -12:10 pmMEA Annual General Meeting

12:10 pm - 1:10 pmLunch Buffet Sponsored by Kerry T. Howe

Morning SessionConstruction and RelationshipsChaired by Erik Nickel, Manager of Engineering, City of Welland

8:25 am - 8:45 amStan Matthew, Associated Engineering Bridge Load Testing

8:45 am - 9:45 amPhilippe Goulet, Pomerleau Kevin McElhone, Walters Marc Langlois, Canam Burgoyne Bridge and Structural Arch

9:45 am - 10 amBREAK

10 am - 10:20 amTerry Kelly, Hatch Central Avenue Jack and Slide

10:20 am - 10:40 amMark Ayton, Ministry of Transportation Roadside Safety

10:40 am - 11 amAlen Keri, Concrete Ontario Concrete Pavements (Project Profiles)

11 am - 11:20 am Paolo Masaro and Lawrence Arcand, T2 Utility Engineers“Tools and Techniques used by the City of Vaughan to Manage Utility Risks”

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 24

Day TwoTrade Show - 7:30 am - 1 pm

Breakfast - 7:30 am - 8:25 amSponsored by Decast Ltd.

Registration - 7:30 am - 1pm

Afternoon Session1:15 pm - 4:30 pmTour 1 – Burgoyne Bridge/Meridian Centre/FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre

1:00 pm - 4:30 pmTour 2 – Dillon’s Small Batch Distillery

1:30 pm - 3:30 pmAnnual Steve Carroll East/West Hockey Classic

6 pm - 8 pmPresidents Banquet Keynote Speaker Brian Hutchings, Vice President, Administration, Brock University

8 pm Bridge Breaking Competition

Morning SessionLessons Learned & RelationshipsChaired by Livia McEachern City of Niagara Falls

8:30 am - 9 amKarthik Venkataraman, City of St. Catharines Emerging Concepts for Municipal IT Systems & “The Internet of Things”

9 am - 9:30 amSteven Murphy, Niagara Region Five Standards

9:30 am - 10 amBecca Lane, Ministry of Transportation MTO Use of Recycled Aggregrate (Both RCM and RAP)

10 am - 10:15 am - BREAK

10:15 am - 10:45 amCameron Rapp, City of Waterloo Effectively Bridging the Finance, Planning & Engineering Gap With Evidence Based Asset Management

10:45 am - 11:15 amBrianne Wilson, Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority Niagara Children’s Water Festival

11:15 am - 12:05 pmShort Snorts (10 minutes each)

Darla Campbell Ontario Coalition for Sustainable Infrastructure

Pete Bziuk Best Practices Manual for Municipal Concrete Infrastructure

Duane Meyers Update on OPS/OPSD

Paul Knowles, Carlton Place MCEA Update

Alan Korell, Municipal Engineers Association 5 Year Update on Minimum Maintenance Standards

12:05 pm - 12:10 pm Dan Dillon, City of St. Catharines Closing Remarks by Workshop Chair

12:10 pm - 1 pmBUFFET LUNCH Sponsored by Hatch

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 25

Day ThreeTrade Show - 7:30 am -10 am

Breakfast - 7:30 am - 8:30 amSponsored by Niagara Region

Registration- 7:30 am - 9:30 am