Changing Lanes Transportation Conference

February 5, 2004 — Richmond BC


This is the best practices document that has come from the Changing Lanes meeting held on February 5, 2004 in Richmond.

The purpose of that meeting was to solicit dialogue between the Consulting Engineers of British Columbia, the British Columbia Road Builders Association and the Ministry of Transportation on how we can work together, consistently and successfully, in the delivery of construction projects.

During the Changing Lanes meeting, a fictitious project and a series of problems were presented to the audience. The audience, which consisted of representatives from the Consulting Engineers of British Columbia, the British Columbia Road Builders Association and the Ministry of Transportation, was invited to discuss these problems amongst their tables and come up with solutions.

After the meeting, these solutions were submitted to a committee to distill a best practices document in the sections of: 1) Authority, 2) Quality Control, Quality Assurance and End Product Specifications, and 3) Environmental.

First section - Authority:

Rodney Chapman

Ministry of Transportation

Bill Swaine

British Columbia Road Builders Association

Chris Newcomb

Consulting Engineers of British Columbia

Second section - Quality Control,
Quality Assurance and End Product Specifications:

Don Shaw

Ministry of Transportation

Ken Day

British Columbia Road Builders Association

Mike Bishop

Consulting Engineers of British Columbia

Third section - Environmental:

Mike Kent

Ministry of Transportation

Randy Zbytnuik

British Columbia Road Builders Association

Tim Bekhuys

Consulting Engineers of British Columbia

Appendices as follows:

Appendix A :

Information about the fictitious project

Appendix B :

Summary of the table comments from the Changing Lanes meeting

Appendix C :

Authority Levels for Consultants, including Definitions and Examples and Authority Levels Matrix