10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SHORT AND MEDIUM SPAN BRIDGES

We are proud to present our

Honourary Chair, Mr. François Morton

François Morton is SNC Lavalin’s Infrastructure Engineering Executive Vice President. Responsibilities include looking after the Professional Services business in Canada including our Environmental and Geoscience practices. Prior to joining SNC, Francois spent 7 years at Genivar\WSP in senior VP roles and completed a number of acquisitions and integration of consulting companies into what is now WSP. Francois has over 38 years of experience in consulting and began his career at McElhanney as a surveyor’s assistant in 1980 and then joined UMA Engineering in 1989. He held positions of increasing responsibilities; became UMA’s Regional Vice President for BC in 2002, Francois is also a Past President (2007-2008) of the Consulting Engineers of British Columbia, now ACEC-British Columbia.

The 10th International Conference on Short and Medium Span Bridges, SMSB – X, will take place in Quebec City, Canada in July – August 2018. The SMSB Conference has been organized under the auspices of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, CSCE, and is held every four years in one of the Canadian Cities. It has traditionally provided a worldwide state-of-the-art forum on all aspects of short and medium span bridges. The earlier conferences, with the latest held in Calgary (2014), had significant international representation. The conference includes planning, design, construction and management of short and medium span bridges. The SMSB series of conferences is a premier forum to share knowledge and provide guidance for future developments. The conference is sponsored by many engineering organizations.

The Conference is focussing on the theme “Build Bridges…not Walls”

Co-Chairs:

Adel R. Zaki, SNC-Lavalin Inc., Adel.Zaki@snclavalin.com
Josee Bastien, Université Laval, Josee.Bastien@gci.ulaval.ca