A committee from New Westminster will be heading to the coast of the Eastern United States to learn a few things about how to handle a disaster like Superstorm Sandy. City Councilor Chuck Puchmayr says a third of New Westminster lives below the flood plain and there have been a couple of close calls over the last decade. He says the team won't go … [Read more...]
09/27/2012 – Risky Business – Risk Management Series
September 27, 2012 by
Risks can come from uncertainty in financial markets, project failures, legal liabilities, credit risk, accidents, natural causes and disasters as well as deliberate attack from an adversary, or events of unpredictable root-cause. How robust is your governance, risk and compliance program?Your companies risk management strategy should create value … [Read more...]
Civic politicians will be updated on new RCMP contract management committee
September 26, 2012 by
Civic politicians will get an update Thursday on the work of the new provincial contract management committee dealing with local government concerns over the new RCMP deal. Politicians at the Union of BC Municipalities convention will hear from RCMP Deputy Commissioner Craig Callens and Langley city Mayor Peter … [Read more...]
Emergency Management Director’s job still open
May 9, 2012 by
It's the middle of Emergency Preparedness Week in the Province, but the City of Vancouver still doesn't have a permanent replacement for its former Director of Emergency Management. Kevin Wallinger was let go in mid-March, and the city has confirmed the search for his replacement is on-going. Daniel Stevens who was the Manager of Emergency … [Read more...]
APICS – Operations Management – Vancouver Chapter presents a DDMRP Workshop
November 17, 2011 by
Carol Ptak and Chad Smith, authors of Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3/E, (McGraw-Hill, 2011) will offer an in-depth exploration of the logic behind the innovative and groundbreaking multi-echelon inventory and materials planning and execution method known as Demand Driven MRP (DDMRP). The workshop will describe and clarify the poor … [Read more...]
EnergyHub’s energy management system on sale now to American planetlovers
August 31, 2011 by
Those Smart Meters may not have went over so well in San Francisco, and Google may have shuttered PowerMeter just a few months ago... but that doesn't mean that Ma Earth is doomed to live a life a few centigrade higher than she should, right? EnergyHub has just announced that its snazzily designed energy monitoring system is now on sale for … [Read more...]
