Engineers Urged to Incorporate Energy Efficient Designs in Plans
By: , September 4, 2015The Key Point:
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Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott (right) and President of the Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE), Andre White (left), shake hands after unveiling the JIE Engineers’ Week of Activities 2015, during the launch on Wednesday, September 2, at the offices of the National Works Agency (NWA) on Maxfield Avenue, in Kingston. At left is Charge d’affaires, Canadian High Commission, Colleen Pigeon, and in the background is President Elect of the JIE, Gary Walters. The Week will be observed from September 20 to 27.The Facts
- The Minister encouraged the group to take innovative approaches in their designs to manage environmental factors.
- President of the JIE, Andre White, said that the Week’s theme, ‘Engineering for Human and Social Development’, will push engineers to focus on how engineering improves and affects the quality of human lives.
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Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Hon. Noel Arscott, is encouraging the country’s engineers to incorporate environmentally friendly and energy efficient designs in plans.
The Minister, who was speaking at the launch of the Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) Engineers Week, at the offices of the National Works Agency (NWA) on Maxfield Avenue, in Kingston, on September 2, encouraged the group to take innovative approaches in their designs to manage environmental factors.
“At this time with severe drought and water lock offs, I am sure that you engineers will find it very important in your design work to look at how you are going to incorporate water retention or water storage capacity within buildings,” he said.
Meanwhile, President of the JIE, Andre White, said that the Week’s theme, ‘Engineering for Human and Social Development’, will push engineers to focus on how engineering improves and affects the quality of human lives.
“It therefore puts a greater requirement on engineers to improve the quality with which they go about practising engineering and making engineering decisions during design and construction,” he added
The Week, to be observed from September 20 to 27, is being coordinated collaboratively by the JIE, the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) and the Bahamas Society for Engineers (BSE).
Among the activities will be a church service at the Boulevard Baptist Church in Kingston on September 20, followed by a three-day conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, in New Kingston, from September 21 to 23. The conference is open to the public and will last from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
This will be followed by a workshop on contract administration and procurement to be held at the New Kingston Conference Centre.
There will be a tour of the National Water Commission (NWC) Artificial Groundwater Recharge System at Innswood, St. Catherine, and the JIE’s annually staged Race for Hope 5K run. Proceeds from this event will go toward supporting the Hope Botanical Gardens and Zoo.