Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
The CSCE is a learned society created to develop and maintain high standards of civil engineering practice in Canada.
- Date
- 07 May 2025
- Time
- 18:00 - 19:30 BST (GMT+1)
- Location
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Online
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Overview
This is the latest in the series of “The New Transatlantic Cable” tripartite civil engineering webinars, which look at projects carried out jointly by Canadian, American and British engineer. In this webinar, Dr Michael Bartlett will examine surveying the United States/Canada International Boundary.
Nine treaties defined, and field surveys between 1794 and 1925 located and marked, the boundary which is the longest in the world at 5525 miles (8890 km).
Logistical challenges included operating in the remote and rugged terrain of the Maine/New Brunswick forest and the Cascade and Rocky Mountains, as well as the perpetual snow and ice of the Alaska Panhandle. On the prairies, surveyors slept under canvas in temperatures colder than 40 below zero.
British, American, and Canadian surveyors displayed remarkable cooperation to overcome these challenges and to achieve an extremely accurate survey, particularly given the limitations of the available technology.
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American Society of Civil Engineers
The American Society of Civil Engineers represents more than 150000 members of the civil engineering profession in 177 countries.
Speaker
Mike Bartlett
chair
American Concrete Institue Committee
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Mike Bartlett
Mike Bartlett is past chair of the CSCE National History Committee, a voting member of the ASCE History and Heritage Committee, and the new chair of American Concrete Institute Committee 120 “History of Concrete”.
Upon his retirement from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, he earned a Master of Arts degree in History at Western and now describes himself as a “public historian in training”.
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