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摘要

Consulting Engineers of Alberta were quick to act during the devastating forest fires in northern Alberta and the mass evacuation of 88,000 people from Fort McMurray and other towns on May 4. A week later Ken Pilip, P.Eng., chief executive officer of CEA, was meeting with members of the Alberta Consulting Construction Emergency Response Team ("ACCERT") to provide help with reconstruction efforts. ACCERT was set up following the last great natural disaster to hit Alberta, the great floods of June 2013 in Calgary and the southern area of the province. Four organizations - the Alberta Construction Association, Consulting Engineers of Alberta, Consulting Architects of Alberta and the Alberta Roadbuilders and Heavy Construction Association - created a legal entity and agreed to coordinate their efforts to help governments rebuild after the crisis.