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Celebrating One Year as Associate Owners at HGC Engineering

Just over one year ago we were fortunate to have three of our Senior Engineers become Associate owners of HGC Engineering.  Nick, Sheeba, and Alex have all been key members of our acoustical consulting team for several years, and over the last year have helped us take our management group to a higher level of performance.

Nick McCabe, PEng, joined HGC Engineering in 1997, and is part of our building vibration and industrial vibration group.  He completed his degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and has expertise in finite element methods (FEM) for analyzing the dynamics and vibration of buildings, industrial structures.  Nick also speicalizes in industrial noise assessments.

Sheeba Paul, MEng, PEng, has been with us since January 2000, working primarily in the field of noise assessment and noise control in land use planning.  She has particular expertise in analysis of traffic noise and assessment of rail noise and vibration.  While studying at the University of Guelph, Sheeba completed a bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering, and a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering. 

Alex Lorimer, MEng, PEng, received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (now Dalhousie University’s Dal-Tech) and Master’s degree in engineering from the Faculty of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa.  Alex has been in acoustical consulting since 1990 and with us since 1999, working in the areas of architectural and mechanical system noise control in buildings, industrial noise assessment, and automotive and other product noise and vibration evaluation and control.

We are happy to celebrate this milestone with Nick, Sheeba and Alex!

HGC Engineering Congratulates Kana Ganesh and Pierre Godbout on Receiving Professional Engineer Licensure

This past summer, two members of our acoustical consulting team received their Professional Engineer licenses, after completing the requisite years of work experience in noise control and vibration control at HGC Engineering.

Kana Ganesh, PhD, PEng, joined us in the autumn of 2004 after having completed his PhD in vibration at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (University of Southampton, UK).  Kana also has undergraduate and Master’s degrees in mechanical engineering.  He spent about a year working in our industrial noise control division before moving to our building noise control and vibration control division.  Currently, Kana handles many of our building noise and architectural acoustics projects ongoing in the United Arab Emirates.

Pierre Godbout, MBA, PEng, has been with HGC Engineering since January, 2005.  Prior to joining HGC Engineering, Pierre completed his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at the Royal Military College, and a Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Victoria.  Pierre is a member of our industrial noise control division, where he specializes in environmental assessments of industrial facilities and power transmission infrastructure.  He also looks after calibration and upkeep of our multitude of precision acoustic testing and sound/vibration measurement instrumentation.

Our compliments to Kana and Pierre!  We are proud that they are part of our engineering team, and we welcome each into the responsible and respected role of Professional Engineer.

Award for Excellence Goes to HGC Engineering

We were pleasantly surprised both to be nominated and to win the Top Performers Platinum Award in the category of engineering, from the Mississauga Business Times!  The engineering category of this award is not specific to acoustical consulting, and given the size and calibre of some of the other engineering firms in our region who would also be candidates for this award, we at HGC Engineering are much honored to receive this distinction.  Our mission statement is Engineering Excellence in Noise Vibration and Acoustics, and it is something we take to heart and work toward every day.  An acknowledgement from the Business Times, along with compliments from our many long time clients makes us feel that our commitment to excellence is worth the effort.  Thank you from everyone at HGC Engineering!