Innovations & Research

Research

  1. Nautilus Pond: http://www.nautilusponds.ca
  2. Experimental and Demonstration LID Features
    1. Crowchild Trail West Hillhurst
    2. University of Lethbridge
    3. Calgary LRT Tuscany Station
    4. Calgary Stampede North parking areas
    5. Villages of Walden
 

Presentations/Publications/Papers

  • Stormcon 2010, Calgary Stormwater Retrofit Program – Lessons learned to date.  San Antonio, USA, August 2010.
  • Nautilus Pond: co-developer of an optimized stormwater sediment control pond design, developed using computational fluid dynamics methods, US and Canadian patents pending, 2009.  Presented at the IWA Novatech 2010 Conference in Lyon, France, June 2010.
  • Consulting Engineers of Alberta and Alberta Minister of Transportation, 2010 Honour Awards for environmental design of stormwater wetlands at North West Stoney Trail.
  • Consulting Engineers of Canada, National Award of Excellence 2007, McLean Creek Wetlands for Suncor Ltd.
  • ICUD Sustainable Urban Drainage Conference, Edinburgh, September 2008, Calgary Stormwater Quality Retrofit Program, coauthored with Rene Letourneau.
  • IWA Watershed Conference, Calgary, 2005, paper on Alternative Design Procedures for Stormwater Ponds and Wetlands, co-authored with Dr. Angus Chu and Paul Jacobs.
  • Calgary Experimental Wetland Report on 6 Years of Data, presented to several seminars and conferences during 2005/2006.
  • Urban Stormwater Management Website – Bow Basin Council:  co-chair and a principal author of the website www.urbanswm.ab.ca.
  • Deerfoot Trail Stormwater Innovations – article published in Stormwater Journal, March 2002.
  • Constructing Wetlands for Water Treatment in Western Canada, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award 1996.
  • TransCanada Twinning, Banff National Park, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Merit Award (in conjunction with project team).