Over the past weeks, ACEC has continued to pursue its advocacy agenda to ensure the voice of consulting engineering is heard by federal decision makers. We have met with various Members of Parliament from key House of Commons Standing Committees to further advance the key messages of our pre-budget submission to the Finance Committee from this past October.

To ensure ACEC's priorities and recommendations are front and centre with the senior policy advisers assisting the Minister of Finance to develop and finalize the government's budget for 2023, our team has also submitted a departmental pre-budget submission to Minister Freeland a few weeks ago. Read the submission here. 

ACEC anticipates the Minister will table the budget to the House of Commons in late March/early April. Stay tuned for a special budget day email with details on the government's fiscal plans for the coming year and how Budget 2023 will impact our sector. 

Know someone who has made exceptional contributions to consulting engineering and the profession? Consider nominating them them for the Beaubien Award and have their lifetime contributions to the advancement of the profession and the consulting engineering industry recognized and celebrated!

The nomination process for the Beaubien Award is open until Friday April 21, 2023.

Deltek invites you to take the 44th Annual Deltek Clarity A&E Industry Study survey. Identify A/E market trends and benchmark your firm against peers. Areas include: technology trends, business development, and project, financial, and human capital management. Participants get priority report access in May, plus a custom scorecard with your firm’s results!

National Engineering Month is here!



National Engineering Month Ontario and Engineers Canada have you covered for all things #NEM2023 taking place in March. Visit the link below for more information and to register for their *FREE* events!

FIDIC’s popular annual awards are back for 2023 with the winners to be announced at a glittering gala awards ceremony on Tuesday, September 12 at the Raffles City Convention Centre at the Swissotel Singapore as part of FIDIC’s annual Global Infrastructure Conference programme.

FIDIC’s annual awards are seen across the global industry as ‘the ones to win’ and they recognise and reward excellence in project development and delivery, the activities of FIDIC’s member associations and the industry’s future and emerging leaders.

The FIDIC Project Awards celebrate the hard work and dedication of the whole project team – from designers and engineers to clients, architects and contractors. The FIDIC Member Association Excellence Awards highlight the achievements and successes of FIDIC’s international member associations and the FIDIC Future Leaders Awards acknowledge and promote the remarkable achievements of future leaders in the consulting engineering industry worldwide.

All awards are free to enter via a simple and easy-to-follow online entry process and you have until the entry deadline of Monday, May 22 2023 to put together an award-winning application.

In May of 2021, BST Global unveiled its vision for the data-driven consultancy of the future at their “Journey to Project Intelligence™” event. Now, two years later, the technology innovator is inviting AEC professionals to come together again to see that vision brought to life — and so much more — during “Journey to Project Intelligence™ 2023”!

During this exclusive event, you’ll see the AEC industry’s first suite of AI-powered project intelligence™ solutions in action. BST Global will demonstrate how its expanded offerings can complement your existing ERP system with predictive insights, consumer-grade project and resource management capabilities, and more!

Secure a front-row seat to see how becoming a data-driven consultancy is well within your reach, regardless of your current ERP platform.

Increasingly, Indigenous nations are reclaiming their leadership in the North American landscape, including their role to be equity owners in clean energy projects. Successful major projects include Indigenous environmental, social, and governance (ESG) values at all stages from initiation, to construction, operation, decommissioning and remediation.

Failure to implement Indigenous values from the initial stages of projects results in regulatory uncertainty, higher capital costs, public opposition, and, in some cases, project delays or outright cancellation.

This two-day, in-person conference will be unlike any other conference you’ve attended. It will showcase commercial Indigenous equity deals from around the world. We will hear from the dealmakers behind these transactions on how they came together so that we can all learn best practices.

Taking place April 24th-25th, 2023 at the Westin Bayshore in Vancouver, BC and on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations don’t miss out on the inspiring panels and networking opportunities at this year’s conference.

Read RSM Canada’s latest edition of The Real Economy Canada, a quarterly publication that provides a clear picture of the current economic trends and issues facing Canadian middle market businesses.

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