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Life membership may be granted to current or former CDA members whose lifetime of dedication and achievement has contributed significantly to the dam industry in Canada. The CDA Honours and Awards Committee recommends individual(s) to the Board for receiving Life Membership. Generally, recipients will have retired from active work (beyond occasional individual consulting) and will have been active members of the CDA or its predecessor associations for at least 10 years. Life Membership includes complimentary membership in CDA.
Life Membership Application Form
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Meet Bob Patrick, P.Eng., 2023 recipient
Most of Bob’s work involved the investigation, design, construction, and performance monitoring for new earthfill dams or the remedial works on existing dams.This experience led to Dam Safety Reviews and eventually to being a member of Dam Safety Review Boards. Involvement with CDA started with membership in the mid-1980’s and attendance at several annual conferences. In 2014 Bob was elected as BC Director and then in 2016 as Vice President, which led to a year as President and another as Past President. During his time on council he took part in various committees. His most lasting accomplishments include initiating and chairing the Membership Committee and updating the Vision and Mission statements.
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Meet Richard Slopek, P.Eng., 2023 recipient Richard Slopek was born in Manchester, England and moved to Montreal, Canada at the ripe old age of three. He graduated from Concordia University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree. He began his engineering career with Montreal Engineering Company Limited. In 1979 he was transferred to the company’s Calgary office. Richard worked for Montreal Engineering through its many iterations (Monenco, Monenco Agra, Agra Monenco, AMEC) for 25 years. During this time he got involved with dam safety work, initially for TransAlta, formerly Calgary Power, in the early 1980’s, and then for numerous other utilities and agencies across Canada. He attended his first dam safety conference, which was organized by Inge Anderson and Barry Hurndall of Alberta Environment, in Edmonton in 1986 and he has attended and participated in the majority of the Canadian Dam Association annual dam safety conferences since, and was part of the ed organizing committee for all of the conferences that were held in Calgary. Richard joined Canadian Projects Limited in 2002 where he continued his career in dam safety, dam rehabilitation, hydro development, due diligence assessments and water resources work. He retired, or tried to retire, in 2018 but continues to provide support to Canadian Projects Limited, which is now a Tetra Tech company. |
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After receiving his MSc (Geotechnical) from Newcastle University, Bob spent 43 years as a consulting engineer. This work started in Calgary, then continued in Vancouver, Nipawin, Regina, and Auckland. His ‘final’ move, in 1991, was to join EBA Engineering Consultants (later Tetra Tech Canada) in Nanaimo, where he worked until 2022.
