2024 PD Day - Northern Real Property
The Northern Real Property PD Day, held on February 28, 2024, featured presentations and panels on advancing northern real property infrastructure. Distinguished speakers discussed key topics affecting real property services in the north.
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Crawford Kilpatrick
Director General, RCMP
Dean Janvier
Partner in Audit & Assurance, Deloitte
Session Description
Description to come.
Speakers
David Thompson
Director General, Portfolio Requirements – ADM( Infrastructure and Environment), National Defence
Diane Wilson
Executive Director, Real Property and Asset Program Management, Parks Canada
Ian Kydd
A./Regional Director, RCMP
Maria Rice
Regional Director, Professional & Technical Services, Public Services and Procurement Canada
Naim Ghawi
Director, Policy Operations, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
Session Description
Northern real property assets are more challenging to maintain, construct, rehabilitate, and operate than non-northern ones. The recently completed Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat Horizontal Fixed Asset Review (FAR) report found that custodial departments are facing accumulating deferred maintenance, increasing costs, and pressure to modernize their real property assets. The four largest federal custodial departments with a northern real property portolio are National Defence, Public Services and Procurement Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Parks Canada. This panel features experts from these organizations to discuss their respective experiences in managing their northern portfolios, and potential opportunities for collaboration and …
Speakers
Chris Chisholm
Director, Facilities, Polar Knowledge Canada
JP Lamberti
Sr Director, Public Services and Procurement Canada
Mathieu Bourdon
Director, RCMP
Sarah Kalhok
Director, Northern Science and Contaminants Research, Government of Canada
Session Description
Working above the 60th parallel can be quite challenging. Harsh weather conditions, difficulties arranging transportation to the site and other obstacles were encountered during the construction of the Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS) in Cambridge Bay, a remote northern hamlet in Nunavut. CHARS is an innovative facility that supports a wide range of research needs to help better understand the effects of climate change. Recently recognized at the 2023 RPIC National Workshop for Excellence in Engagement and Partnerships with Indigenous Peoples, the team ensured the new facility included a traditional knowledge centre, and a design inspired by Inuit culture. …
Speakers
Daniela Humeniuk
Project Manager, RCMP
Jim Shivas
Manager, RCMP
Peter Joice
Manager, RCMP
Ryan Gannon
Manager, Technical Standards, RCMP
Session Description
The RCMP has recently delivered three successful detachment replacement projects in the north, using an innovative construction approach. The presentation will go over some of the RCMP’s experiences delivering modular buildings in a northern environment, and the process related to community engagement and collaboration. The presentation will expand on considerations, constraints and foster discussion around lessons learned.
Speakers
Byron Gilday
NGC Builders
Jorgen Kvist
Director, Industry Practices and Procurement, Canadian Construction Association
Murray Arsenault
Session Description
Supported by the Canadian Construction Association (CCA), this private-sector panel of experts will discuss northern construction-related experiences, challenges, and opportunities from both a Civil perspective, and an Industrial, Commercial, and Institutional perspective.
Speakers
Alex Lothian
Asset Manager, Parks Canada
Gisele Amow
Defence Scientist, Defence Research and Development Canada
John Clarke
Director, Environment and Sustainable Development, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
Justin Tamasauskas
Research Engineer, Natural Resources Canada – CanmetENERGY in Varennes
Michael Bernardin
Sustainability Coordinator, Western Region, Public Services and Procurement Canada
Nelson Pisco
Director, Technical Services Division, Government of Nunavut
Nick Xenos
Executive Director, TBS-Centre for Greening Government
Session Description
Northern communities face a unique set of challenges in mitigating and adapting to climate change, with limited use of renewables and heavier reliance on expensive and carbon-intensive energy sources. The panel will provide their views on addressing these challenges, and designing buildings suited to northern Canada, integrating renewable energy and adaptation to climate change. The panel features engineers, environmental scientists and senior policymakers, from federal and territorial governments, providing wide diverse perspectives on successes and challenges with government policies and incentives.
