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In addition to providing employees with an innovative and collaborative workplace, Mr. Cuku encourages staff to volunteer in the community and gives them time off to help out with organizations like Habitat for Humanity, Edmonton Food Bank, and Stollery Children’s Hospital. You’ll find him right by the sides of volunteers, pounding nails or packing hampers. Another advocate of great design, structural engineer Cameron Franchuk, P.Eng. , made Avenue Edmonton’ s list. An associate with DIALOG — an architectural, engineering, interior design, urban design, and planning firm — he creates buildings and public spaces that do more than just look good. His vision is to create spaces that positively impact how people interact, learn, and live. He says: “Engineers and architects have this amazing oppor- tunity and I don’t think people recognize how much a space can affect how they behave, how they learn, how they act with other people.” Over the course of his career, he’s had the opportunity to influence projects across the city, including educational and health care facilities, a seminary, and a wellness centre. He’s currently managing structural design for an expansion to Lillian Osborne High School, a redevelopment at the Alberta School for the Deaf, and a parkade for Edmonton’s new ICE District. The 38-year-old has a civil engineering degree from the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Engineering and also earned a master’s degree in structural engineering there. He’s maintained his ties to the school as a part-time instructor in the U of A’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, sharing his passion for engineering mechanics with first-year students. He also volunteers as an industry mentor to fourth-year civil engineering students. When he’s not volunteering at the U of A — or with the Con- sulting Engineers of Alberta’s Young Professionals’ Group, or the Canadian Institute for Steel Construction — you just might find him with his Nikon D7000 strapped around his neck. Mr. Franchuk is an avid photographer, who enjoys turning his lenses on buildings around the city, to celebrate the art in architectural design. The recipient of the 2012 Harold L. Morrison Rising Young Professional Award from the Consulting Engineers of Alberta,
ORDER OF CANADA TITLE HOLDERS Don Taylor, OC, P.Eng., and Kim Sturgess, CM, P.Eng., FCAE, have some new titles — and they’re important ones, from the Order of Canada. Mr. Taylor (top), a supporter of the Calgary Stampede and much more, moves from a Member to an Officer of the Order of Canada. Ms. Sturgess (bottom), shown here with her dog Chinook at Prairie Creek, the founder and CEO of Alberta WaterSMART, is a new Member of the Order of Canada. Ms. Sturgess is also featured on page 46 of this PEG , sharing the best advice she ever received.
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