Movers & Shakers
MEMBER NEWS
STOREY BY STORY — APEGA MEMBER SLOWS THE WRECKING BALL Downtown Edmonton is rapidly changing, particularly since the closing of the City Centre Airport and its flight paths have allowed for more construction of tall buildings. A skyline of glass and steel is sprouting from places brick buildings have disappeared from. Tegan Martin-Drysdale, P.Eng. , is making sure some of the city’s old landmarks stick around. She established RedBrick Real Estate in 2012, with the vision of refreshing the city from within by preserving historic buildings and their stories. One of her rescues is the Alberta Block Building at 105 Street and Jasper Avenue in downtown Edmonton. Housing the CKUA radio station for nearly 60 years, the 100-year-old building was left to an unpromising fate when the station moved, sitting on the market for two years. “I thought it was too big to be my first project,” Ms. Martin-Drysdale told the University of Alberta’s engineering alumni magazine, The Builder . “But I kept driving past it, thinking, I can’t let this go. There is something drawing me to this.”
The hard part was to make others see what she saw — that there was potential in that labyrinth of small rooms being opened into an airy, modern space. But her vision goes beyond design. Her boutique infill company specializes in in new and retrofitted residential and commercial buildings. By creating affordable spaces in older neighbourhoods, Ms. Martin-Drysdale hopes to contribute to sustainable communities and help prevent urban sprawl. NEW LEADER AT GEOSCIENTISTS CANADA Our own George Eynon, P.Geo., FGC, FEC (Hon.) , an APEGA Councillor, has shifted into the Past-President role with Geoscientists Canada, the national body for nine geoscience self-regulating organizations in Canada. All told, APEGA and the eight other organizations regulate more than 9,500 Professional Geoscientists and more than 2,000 Geoscientists-in-Training. Leading Geoscientists Canada now is President Jeff O’Keefe, P.Geo. (NL), the Director of Resource Management and Chief Conservation Officer with the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, in St. John’s.
REFLECTING ON ARCHITECTURE Tegan Martin Drysdale, P.Eng., stands on one of Edmonton’s roof- tops, the Alberta Block Building, reflected in the largely glass-and- steel skyline that surrounds it. -photo courtesy Demetri Gianitsios, University of Alberta Faculty of Engineering
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