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The ICE Canada team provides support for ICE members in the region. You can get in touch with the team if you have a membership query or want to find out about events, committees and how to get involved.
Contact the regional teams
ICE has four regions in Canada:
- Central Canada: Manitoba, Ontario
- Eastern Canada: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec
- Prairies: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan
- Western Canada: British Columbia, Yukon
Our regional teams offer advice and support for anyone who wants to find out more about membership and the application process.
If you have a question, then please give them a call or email.
Membership Development Officers (MDOs) provide in depth information about becoming a member of ICE.
They often carry out visits to your place of work, hold regular advice surgeries and provide training to hep you becoming professionally qualified.
If you've got a question for one of the team, please contact them.
If you're not sure, you can always contact [email protected] and we'll be happy to help.
Michelle Cockburn
Membership Manager South West, Wales and the Americas
Michelle is responsible for managing membership support across the South West & Wales, as well as the Americas. She also provides support for graduates and companies in the Channel Islands, Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset.
The Canada team work to support our members, help raise the profile of civil engineering, and provide expert comment or help put you in touch with civil engineering experts.
If you have a question, then please give them a call or email.
Tom Compton
International Membership Operations Manager
Tom is the Regional Support Team contact for members in Canada. His role assists the Canada Country Representative and the Americas Regional Committee in delivering the ICE plan and International Strategy.
Pippa Higgins
Regional Representative: Central Canada
Pippa is the ICE Representative for Central & Eastern Canada, including Manitoba and Ontario.
Pippa is a Chartered Civil Engineer and a Fellow of the ICE. She started her career in construction in the UK and moved out to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2017, at the same time as switching to engineering consultants Mott MacDonald.
Pippa has spent most of her career on Design Build projects, using a variety of forms of contracts including PFI, NEC, client bespoke contracts, and more recently the Canadian P3 contract and Progressive Design Build. She has worked on a number of major projects including Crossrail (London, UK) and Ontario Line (Toronto, Canada) and smaller projects including healthcare, residential, retail projects.
Pippa is a member of the ICE Ontario committee, which actively engages with two local universities ICE student chapters. She is a member of the ICE Awards Committee and also tries to continue as a Reviewer when the time zones for the reviews permits. Having spent many years volunteering in Girlguiding UK, she now volunteers with a local Cub pack for Scouts Canada.
TBC
Regional Representative: Eastern Canada
We are currently seeking a representative for Eastern Canada. Please contact us if you are interested.
David Bartle
Regional Representative: Prairies
David is the ICE Representative for Prairies, covering Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Saskatchewan.
Dave is a retired Chartered Civil Engineer who resides just outside of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dave is also a registered Professional Engineer, P. Eng, in Alberta, Canada.
After graduation with a BSc in Civil Engineering from Sheffield Hallam University, Dave worked on a variety of heavy civil engineering projects throughout the UK ranging from Thames tidal defense projects to construction of petrochemical plants in Scotland.
After 7 years in the UK, Dave moved to Canada commencing work with a large Canadian general contractor. Working in many locations on various projects throughout Alberta, Canada and Georgia, USA as the general contractors Project Manager.
The final 16 years of his career Dave was part owner and the Operations Manager of a construction project management consultant providing project management consulting services to a diversity of clients with projects ranging from seniors housing, electrical utility service centers and large refrigerated warehouses.
In his retirement Dave is actively involved with the Canadian Prairies Group of Chartered Engineers and the ski racing community in Canada, providing race timing services for events ranging from 12 year old's races up to ski world cups.
Matthew Walton-Knight
Regional Representative: Western Canada
Matthew is the ICE Representative for Western Canada, covering British Columbia and Yukon.
A former officer in the British Army’s Corps of Royal Engineers, Matthew has delivered physical infrastructure projects in over 20 nations for owners, designers, constructors, and operators, through all stages of infrastructure works primarily within the design-build-operate sphere. A dual British and Canadian Citizen, Matthew has been a resident of North Vancouver, Canada since 2008, where he has delivered wastewater facilities, buildings, highways, bridges, and ports in British Columbia, and Hawaii.
Matthew is currently Director of Capital Projects for Synagro Technologies Inc of Baltimore.
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