Pia Abercromby Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

Lyngby, Dk

I am responsible for driving sustainability in consulting projects throughout Canada, in line with our focus on improving biodiversity, climate change, circularity and social value. This includes climate resiliency and carbon accounting considerations alongside reviewing of social, environmental, and economic impacts of projects.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

I led our team of sustainability consultants, focusing on providing sustainability advisory services (such as Envision consulting), asset management, and climate change adaptation and resilience services to our public and private sector clients. We helped our clients to improve the sustainability of their projects and processes across varied areas including infrastructure design, planning and servicing studies, policy development, asset management, surveying, and community engagement.A core group of two colleagues and I created a a sustainability services business strategy (external facing) for McElhanney, which resulted in this Group being formed.

Vancouver, Bc, Ca

My responsibilities within the group consisted of project management, sustainability advisory services and structural engineering including close liaison with clients. I followed projects from the early proposal stages right through to construction. I worked with my colleagues to apply a sustainability lens to our projects, searching for opportunities to provide clients with improved solutions considering the balance of environmental, social and financial impacts.Highlights of my experience include: - Project management and interdisciplinary coordination for an 8 km long highway widening project in the Lower Mainland. - Leading sustainability reviews for projects, running workshops to consider the environmental, social and economic impacts of designs.- Project management and bridge design for municipal bridge replacement projects in the Lower Mainland of Vancouver.I also chaired the McElhanney Bridge Technical Service Group Committee, was a member of the ESG Strategy Taskforce, and was on the Women at McElhanney Committee.

Auckland, Nz

While in this role I designed a range of civil structures including bridges, a wharf, gantries and retaining walls. Projects included design of new structures and assessment and retrofit design of existing structures as well as construction monitoring of related projects. I gained experience in design of reinforced concrete, steel and timber to the New Zealand codes and the New Zealand Bridge Manual, with seismic design a key element in all cases.The following software was used extensively in my day to day work: SAP2000, SPACE GASS, SpColumn, Response2000, Excel and Word.This role allowed me to develop strong management skills, undertaking financial, resource and programme management roles on smaller design projects. I also gained a broader skill base by undertaking tasks such as organising a conference for 80 intermediate-level civil engineers to develop their careers within the business.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Structural Engineering

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