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Category: Canada

Logjams and Debris Flows

October 29, 2014 Mike Thomas

This logjam at the Greely Bridge across the Illecillewaet River was a result of a debris flow last week. I…

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Posted in: BC, Science, Stormwater, UrbanWorkbench News, Water

Watermain Replacement

October 20, 2014 Mike Thomas 1 Comment

Among other things, one of my projects in the past month was pulling an old 40m water main out of a culvert under…

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Posted in: BC, Civil Engineering, Construction, Design, Sustainability, Water Filed under: engineering, problem solving, Revelstoke, solutions, Utilities, Water

Highway One Problems & Solutions

August 20, 2014 Mike Thomas

Summer is time for road-trips and camping, Albertan’s spilling into BC to enjoy the Province’s natural beauty, families travelling to…

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Posted in: BC, Canada, Civil Engineering, Regulation, Revelstoke, Rural, Technology, Transportation

Infrastructure, the Economy and Local Governments

June 5, 2014 Mike Thomas 1 Comment
Construction

Some of the greatest challenges that local governments face in Canada revolve around the concept of the “Infrastructure Deficit“. In Canada,…

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Posted in: BC, Canada, Community, Construction, Governance, Sustainability

Illecillewaet River in the Spring

May 19, 2014 Mike Thomas

With the recent flooding in the Balkans’ it is easy to get complacent about flood risk in this part of…

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Posted in: BC, Environmental, Photos, Revelstoke, Stormwater Filed under: BCHydro, dyke, engineering, Flooding, Revelstoke, River, spring, storm

Rural Engineering Education

January 27, 2014 Mike Thomas

A challenge of living and working as a professional in a small rural community, (regardless of how world-renowned a destination…

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Posted in: BC, Civil Engineering, Conference

Transparent Snow Plowing – ClearStreets

November 13, 2013 Mike Thomas 1 Comment

I feel like I’m tempting fate by writing about snowplowing in the middle of November, but here goes! As part…

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Posted in: Canada, Cities, Civil Engineering, Governance Filed under: Chicago, engineering, municipal, plow, Public Works, Revelstoke, Snow, snowplowing

My Totally Unscientific LinkedIn Groups Experiment

August 21, 2013 Mike Thomas

Over the past week I conducted an experiment on LinkedIn partially in an attempt to see whether there was value in participating…

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Posted in: Business, Canada, Civil Engineering, Community, Marketing, Technology

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