Kathy Liu

Experience

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  Inspec-Sol

  Sept 2005 - Feb 2007

  Project leader

  - Communicate with various financial institutions, and perform Level I Property Condition Assessments on a variety of buildings including residential, commercial, light industrial, warehouses and highest manufacturing plants. Aspects of these investigations comprise:*Structural evaluation; building envelope and roofing.*Asphalt and concrete parking areas.*Heating, ventilation and air conditioning.*Fire safety systems.*Electrical components and elevators.- Evaluate and assess structural slabs in parking garages (interior and exterior) using data acquired by direct surface delamination surveys of slab surfaces and soffits and ASTM test results. - Perform various building expertise projects, which include evaluate building envelope materials, balcony surveys, structural load testing and vapour transmission testing in slabs-on-grade. - Supervise technicians for drawing preparation and on-site works. - Oversee the projects and prepare the final reports. Show less

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  Stru-des Inc.

  Feb 2007 - Jul 2011

  Structural engineer

  - Prepare preliminary structural design drawings for industrial buildings such as cement & rock products industry by using AutoCAD:*Gather relevant drawings and information to establish general arrangement lay-out.- Communicate with clients:*Communicate with clients, establish the clients’ needs.- Perform engineering calculations by using Excel and Mathcad:*Make assumptions of design loads mostly for industrial buildings/facilities such as cement products industry, according to design criteria, site condition and apropos building codes (International Building Code, National Building Code of Canada).*Perform steel and concrete structural design for industrial buildings/facilities complying with various design codes (ASD or LRFD in United States, Limit states Design in Canada.)*Quantity take-off of on-going and future projects for cement plants.- Model the structural systems by using RISA-3D and StaaPro:*Model the designed structure systems such as truss system of pan conveyor gallery and steel structures for cement products industry.*Evaluate existing structural system to determine the possibility of adding equipments to the existing structural system of manufactory buildings.*Analyze the results from the computer software and seek a feasible solution.- Prepare final structural drawings with autoCAD:*Prepare drawings for construction.- Review shop drawings:*Review detailer’s shop drawings.*Prepare drawings as built. Show less

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  BBA

  Jul 2011 - Feb 2014

  Ingénieure en structure

  --Project management:*Prepare project design criteria, technical specification and scope of work based on the location and needs of the project.*Communicate with clients, present detail design to the clients.*Participate in the coordination meeting with other departments and with the clients.*Lead and supervise the civil structural team of the project to meet the dead lines.*Carry out site visit and site surveying according to the needs of the project.*Present project scope of work to the potential contractors, analyze the bids and make recommendation to the client based on financial and technical requirements. - Perform engineering calculations by using Excel and Mathcad:*Make assumptions of design loads mostly for industrial buildings/facilities such as industrial buildings, duct/pipe supports and transformer basins according to design criteria, site condition and apropos building codes (International Building Code, National Building Code of Canada).*Perform steel and concrete structural design for industrial buildings/facilities complying with various design codes (ASD or LRFD in United States, Limit states Design in Canada.)*Quantity take-off of on-going and future projects for industrial buildings/facilities and electrical substations.- Computerized structural analysis of the designed structural systems by using adequate software such as SAFI, Advanced Design and Robot:*Model the designed structure systems such as electrical substation and industrial buildings.*Evaluate existing structural system to determine the possibility of adding equipments to the existing structural system and design reinforcement for the existing structural.*Analyze the results from the computer software and seek a feasible solution.- Review shop drawings:*Review detailer’s shop drawings.*Prepare drawings as built. Show less

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  Les Consultants S.M. inc.

  Feb 2014 - Sept 2014

  Ingénieure Structure

  Structural steel and concrete design for electrical substation.

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  GE

  Sept 2014 - Apr 2018

  Civil Work Design Engineer

  Project management, coordinate with various disciplines;Preliminary structural design (steel and concrete) for tender;Detailed structural design (steel and concrete)

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  Groupe Canam

  Mar 2018 - now

  Chief Engineer