M. (Bruce) Salama, P. Eng.,

Civil/Structural/Mechanical Engineering Manager,

ad2c3h@r.postjobfree.com

403-***-****

Objective:

To provide engineering, manufacturing, construction and project management, work effectively in a multi-disciplinary project team; to implement challenging Innovative civil/structural/mechanical requirements for better, safe, affordable, zero energy and fast built communities.

Qualifications:

Over 35 years North American and globe extensive lead expertise in building science all applications; qualified and expert in civil/structural/mechanical engineering consultation, management, design, procurement, manufacturing, construction, field engineering and inspections,

We are experts in Building Science; residential, commercial and municipal building industries engineering, manufacturing, construction and site review, all applications. I have provided Roofing and Building Envelope design and construction services in Canada, USA and overseas:

Mr. M. Salama spent 4 years in R & D and innovated new revolutionary technology using LGS (FEA) structural steel panelling (absolutely not STUDS) buildings’ system which is unique; cost-effective, fast assembled, safe; fire resistant and strong pre-engineered, durable up to 200 years life time maintenance/retrofit free, environment friendly; insulated to suit the climate anywhere in the world; ensuring that these wall, roofing and floor assemblies can be practically constructed and will actually meet the desired thermal performance and aesthetic criteria; heat transfer, calculation of effective R-values, parallel heat flow paths, design and construction; to fulfil the zero energy, etc. have been accomplished by Mr. M. Salama to resist severe winds, great earthquake and other worst climate conditions as Tsunami and even explosion?!. This unique system has been utilized by Mr. M. Salama in Sri-Lanka, India and Kuwait. He holds all solid proven documents, manuals, photos, contracts with Government's Ministers, etc. Utilizing over 35 years local and international experience in civil/structural/mechanical engineering consultation, management, design, procurement, manufacturing, construction, field engineering and inspections for wood, hot rolled and light gauge steel framing floor, walls and roof trusses for residential low/high rise towers, modular commercial buildings including remote and man camps, industrial pre-engineered steel buildings for infrastructures all applications, using ACAD, P & S Frame, STAAD.Pro, RISA-3D, ALGOR. Accountable for developing the construction execution plan, managing the corresponding budget, the construction schedule, performance and future changes, ensuring the engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractors were executing work in accordance in the Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) procedures in addition to conforming to the construction execution plan. Provide quality value-conscious building science solutions.

Employment Experience:

Jan 1996 – present Civil/Structural/Mechanical/Industrial Engineering Manager (Team of: 10 to 50 engineers & technicians)

Innovative Steel Buildings Inc., 8033188 Canada Ltd., Fast-Track Engineered Building Inc., AB-BC-SK-NL Canada, USA and Overseas Responsible for consultation, design, manufacturing and construction of large energy projects; $6 billion Vale Nickle processing plant construction at NL Canada, etc. Civil/structural/mechanical/business development/sales/industrial/engineering consultation, management, design, procurement, manufacturing, construction field engineering and inspections for LVL structural wood products, hot rolled and light gauge steel paneling framing floors, walls and roofs trusses for residential, commercial, institutional, agricultural and industrial buildings including modular remote and man camps, for energy and infrastructures all applications, including electric power generation plants, solar energy and transmission lines, refinery projects, oil & gas stress field detection (SFD), drilling, refinery plants, oil sand extraction, petrochemical, mining and pre-engineered buildings, using ACAD, AUTOCAD, 3D building modeling software,STAAD.PRO, RISA-3D, ALGOR, etc.computer programs. Provide quality value-conscious building science solutions. Projects involved in commercial/industrial and residential buildings; local and international from small to large size projects; providing construction engineering, inspection, and test support when not performed by Trade Contractors; answering and closing RFI’s; solving complicated problem for skids, huge modules and other structural systems, including concrete foundations and other plant construction components, etc. including modifying Standards drawing in errors. Liaison with design engineering, client and vendors for clarifications as may be required from time to time.

Shaw Engineering Intl., National engineering, Houston, TX, Spectrum Engineering Inc., Baton Rouge, LA, Mar 2008 – Oct 2009

Sr. Lead civil/Structural/Field Engineer (Team of: 15) completed the following orders:

-ALONUSA Refinery at Big Spring, TX, USA responsibilities; consultation/design for rebuild, rehabilitation and restoration of the affected, due to explosion, concrete and steel structural components of buildings for power plant, flares, tank farm, pipe lines racks, and other plant components; Provided supervision, design, review and approval of the aforementioned structures and foundations, using ACAD, STAAD.Pro, RISA-3D, leading engineers and designers.

-KOSP for imperial oil, duties to provide consultation and design for Sand oil extraction at Fort McMurray, B.C., Canada

-Western Refineries, El Paso, TX

Complete design and site inspections for: LNG, Gas compressor building layout including supporting heavy concrete foundation, structural steel platform and tanks tower.

- Plant 3 expansion steel structure and foundation for Baker Petrolite Corp.

- Pipe rack T-Poles for Lin Backup System project

- Safe design of protective Barriers (Blast walls), for Air Liquide project Fast- Track Engineered Building Inc. March 1996–Nov 2011 (Contracts through it) Lead/Principal Civil/Structural/Mechanical/Business Development/Sales/Field/Project Engineer,Canada & USA (Team of: 35) Duties and responsibilities of position include civil/structural engineering consultation, management, design, procurement, construction field engineering and inspections, sales and business development for LVL structural wood products, concrete, hot rolled and light gauge steel framing floor, walls and roof trusses for residential, commercial, institutional, agricultural and industrial buildings including modular remote and man camps, for energy and infrastructures all applications, including electric power generation plants, solar energy and transmission lines, refinery projects, oil & gas and oil sand extraction, petrochemical, mining and pre-engineered buildings, using ACAD, P & S Frame, STAAD.Pro, RISA-3D, ALGOR. Provide quality value-conscious building science solutions.

- Supervision and design of oil & gas projects, building structures, (equipment structures, control room building, pipe racks), foundations (heat exchangers, air coolers, vessels, tanks, spheres, pumps, towers, heaters, compressors, flare stacks, equipment structures, control room building, pipe racks), for multiple projects ranging in sizes from large to small primarily for petrochemical, refinery industry. Activities include use of many computer applications and development of specific required applications:

Contracts: Mar, 2007 - Mar, 2008

Cory Potash, Saskatoon, SK Canada

Sr. Lead Structural Consulting & Design Engineer

(Team of: 10), completed the following orders:

- Responsible for Cory Potash mining red and white structures engineering consultation and design, including field assessments and restoration for existing building structures to withstand extra loads, using ACAD, STAAD.Pro. Sr. Lead civil/structural engineer - Red Dog Mine, Alaska, USA Mill project, Red Dog Mine for Teck Cominco Alaska, Kotzebue, Alaska including a new regrind building (Isa Mill) conceptual design study LNG compressor room, structural and foundation consulting design engineering, review drawing issued for construction and calculations.

Sr. Lead Civil/Structural Engineer - Stewart & Stevens Canada Inc. Alberta, Canada Solved and reported on model DSS-1000SD-118 huge telescopic oil drilling rig structure; design, analysis review and correction (as per API4F and Euro code 3, are completed, using ACAD, RISA-3D,site inspection has been carried out after the above been completed and prior to assembly.

Contracts:Mar, 2006 - Jan, 2007, completed the following orders, using ACAD, P & S Frame, STAAD.Pro, RISA-3D:

- Generator exhaust silencer structure, board walk design compressor building station for Gulf South pipeline at Owensboro, KY, USA

- Long Lake Debottlenecking Commercial SAGD Project (Oil & Gas) $2 Billion, phase ii consultation and design completed

- Aerial Coolers, Weigh Bins, Temporary Platform, Piles & piles Caps, etc. for Nova Chemical at Alberta, Canada, consultation and design completed.

- Presson Enerflex, Nisku, AB Canada

Consultation and design engineering have been provided to complete: Mar 2006

- Gulf South Pipeline, Boardwalk pipeline steel structure, tanks mat and equipment foundation. Fuel Gas Mix Platform Structural Design, Delayed Coker Unit -Plant 69, Horizontal inlet Separator Package for Petro Canada (Edmonton Refinery)

Air Terminal & Maintenance Building for Suncor at Firebag, Fort McMurray, AB Projects include: Tank tower supporting structure, including foundation design for Imperial Oil. Sr. Structural Engineer leading a team for engineering industrial plant c/w heavy O/H cranes, structures for oil & gas, petrochemical and building industries, etc. Contracts/Projects completed:1996 - 2006, completed the following orders, using ACAD, P & S Frame, STAAD.Pro, RISA-3D, ALGOR,

As Lead consulting/design Structural/Specialty Engineer, (Team of:20) successfully completed:

Hundreds of residential, commercial & institutional LVL structural wood products, concrete and steel structural framing for buildings, including welded and bolted connections, floor and roof trusses, guard railings, shop drawings, review, certification, manufacturing, Q.C. and site inspections.

Utilizing my unique innovated FEA; LGS steel structural system(approved by University of British Columbia, Canada, Professor Carlos Ventura), to design and build thousands of engineered wood structures, concrete and steel low and high rise building framing for Tsunami victims in Sri-Lanka, residential and commercial projects in India, and Kuwait.

The following projects are some of my hundreds successfully completed projects during the above said period:

- Aboriginal at Mission, BC Canada: 10,000 SQ. FT. Fish processing plant building, turnkey project, as main contractor; project management, engineering design and coordination professional for concrete foundation including retaining walls, plumbing, pre-engineered steel super structure, wall building envelope for freezers, septic system, etc.

- Millar Industrial Western, White Court, AB Canada: 116,000 SQ. FT. Saw Mill Plant building, complete engineering design, including detailed shop drawings and connections, deep foundation (piles), industrial steel structures. Project was completed within time and budget, approved and permitted based on my final field review report.

- Vancouver port authority, Vancouver, BC: Complete design of 6 mobile gangway electric power driven retractable steel platforms, connections calculations, design and certified drawings, review and shop radiographic non-destructive tests and solving problems, etc.

- Yakima Forest Products, Yakima, WA USA: 4-12,000 SQ.FT. Saw mill industrial pre-engineered steel buildings c/w supporting structures for heavy equipment conveyors, complete engineering design, including detailed shop drawings and connections, foundation, industrial steel structures. Artists’ Studios, Vancouver, BC Canada: Two connected high rise buildings from concrete, steel and LVL structural wood products structures. Complete structural engineering evaluation, design, drawings, endorsing letter of assurance, on-site daily management, measurements, and inspections for the following:

-Building Envelop for walls; LGS wall studs, insulation, barrier, condensation drain out arrangement, and copper cladding system.

-26 Loft units, c/w interior stairs, all steel and wood structures.

-Exterior emergency galvanized steel stairs & guard railings.

-Modified Balcony and walkway guard railing,Loading gate, and underground parking floor protective covering as per Specification.

RT& T Development,Huntington, BC Canada: 6,000 SQ. FT. turnkey project, as main contractor; project management, engineering design and coordination professional for concrete foundation, plumbing, pre-engineered steel building super structure; building and equipment supporting structure, etc.

Contracts/Projects: (June 1982 - May, 1996), completed the following orders: Sr. Civil/Structural Engineering Manager (Team of: 15); services been provided for: Hundreds of residential, commercial & institutional engineered wood structures from HDO Plywood, MDO Plywood, Glulam, LVL, Microlam, Parallam PSL, and OSB Trim and Lumber: Structural Composite Lumber concrete, H/R, LGS steel structural framing for buildings, provided quality value-conscious building science solutions; structural glass, building restoration, and building envelop for low/high rise towers. including welded and bolted connections, roof trusses, guard railings, shop drawings, review, certification, manufacturing, Q.C., site inspections & reporting, business development, directing & training engineering & construction teams, etc.:

- K & M Project Development Ltd., 1993-1994 Vancouver, BC: Latimar Road Elementary School buildings project; 15,000 SQ. FT. concrete and steel structural framings, completed detailed and connections calculations, design and certified shop drawings,provided Roofing and Building Envelope design, review and site inspections, etc.

- Department of National Defense, 1992, Victoria, BC Canada: As a Sr. consulting Marine Engineer & Naval Architect, I solved shelved technical problems, preparation of reports in; field construction, gas turbines, structural, mechanical and process engineering, invented centrifugal water desalination processing system, planned maintenance for Navy Ships, underwater deployments hydraulic systems, correction and amend Mil Spec.

- Perma 2000/Gulf Steel Corp., 1985-1992 /General Motors, 1984 /Harper Detroit Diesel, 1982-1984 Toronto, Ont.: As engineering consulting engineering manager (shareholder): (Team of: 20)

My duties were: design, calculation, analysis, manufacturing and site inspections for hundreds of residential, commercial & institutional concrete, engineered wood structures from HDO Plywood, MDO Plywood, Glulam, LVL, Microlam, PSL, and OSB Trim and Lumber: Structural Composite Lumber H/R, LGS steel structural framing for buildings all applications, provided quality value-conscious building science solutions; structural glass, building restoration, and building envelop for low/high rise towers welded and bolted connections, roof trusses, guard railings, shop drawings, review, certification, manufacturing, Q.C., site inspections & reporting, business development, directing& training engineering & construction teams, structural, mechanical systems engineering, R&D for military vehicles and construction equipment for General Motors, Revolutionary refrigerating unit for food conservation, diesel generator sets, marine structural and propulsion units, pumps and power drive.

Industrial & commercial conventional & Pre-engineered projects, from H/R & Cold-Formed steel structures, Innovative in applying engineering skills to find solutions for steel structures and equipment that optimize strength, ease transport, provide fast assembly at low cost.

Extensive experience in specialty engineering design for steel trusses, chemical pipe racks, platforms, guard railings, structural connections & detailing, shop drawing preparation, computer modeling (P&S-Frame and Loske Engineering Programs), calculations for the analysis and design of conventional & pre-engineered residential & commercial structures, equipment, open web trusses & rigid frames, light gauge metal walls & floors systems components, and spread sheet software application Education and Training

BS Structural & Mechanical Engineering, University of Alexandria West Texas Safety Training Center ALONUSA Refinery, Big Spring, Texas

-14ALONOR 5/06/09 BW /BOP 5/06/09 (2008)

Advanced graduate courses in structural stress analysis, machine design, HVAC, heat transfer and applications, engineering economy - University of Toronto, Ontario, 1985 Earthquake Engineering & Seismicity - C4 course completed – UBC (2005) Construction Quality Management for Contractors Certificate - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Memphis, USA (2009)

Professional Membership/Registration

P. Eng. In Newfoundland& Labrador #06523

P. Eng. In Alberta #M48877

P. Eng. In Saskatchewan #14812

Member: CWB, CSCE, ASCE, CISC and SFA`

Familiar, knowledgeable with North American building Codes including CSA, AISC, LRFD, API, ACI, ASCE, NBC, IBC, RUSSIAN, INDIAN Building Codes, ABS, etc. Languages: English, French, Portuguese and Arabic

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