CURRICULUM VITAE of:

Charles E. Welsh
B.A.Sc., P.Eng.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

1993 - present
J. W. COWIE ENGINEERING LIMITED
Associate Consultant
Failure Investigations and Restoration Designs

• 1982-1991 - Chairman and President*
• 1970-1982 - Director and Executive Vice-President
• 1958-1970 - Director and Vice-President
• 1956-1958 - Design Engineer
• *Responsible for the management and engineering design for a staff of 70 professional engineers, technologists and support personnel. Typically, the annual construction costs related to the consulting services exceeded $750 million.

1953 - 1956
CITY OF TORONTO – BUILDING DEPARTMENT
Plans Examiner

AWARDS for STRUCTRAL ENGINEERING

• Award of Merit - Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada,
• Bank of Canada Head Office, Ottawa, Ontario
• Award for Engineering Excellence - Prestressed Concrete Institute
• The D. B. Weldon Library, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
• Open Design Competition - First Place – Brantford City Hall
• Masonry Design Award - Masonry Centre
• Masonry Contractors Association, Mississauga, Ontario
• Stelco Design Award - Exhibition Place, Lighting Standards

MEMBERSHIPS

• Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario
• Consulting Engineers of Ontario (Past Director)
• Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada (Past Member)
• American Concrete Institute (Past Member)
• Canadian Standards Association (Past Member)
• CSA/NBCC Joint Committee, National Building Code of Canada (Past Member)
• American Prestressed Concrete Institute (Past Member)
• University of Toronto Alumni
• Rotary Club of Toronto (Past Director)
• Craiglieth Ski Club (Past President)

MAJOR PROJECTS

Restoration:

• St. Lawrence Hall – Toronto, Ontario
• St. Lawrence Market – Toronto, Ontario
• Campbell House (moved and restored) – Toronto, Ontario
• Elm Street Facade – Rotary Laughlen Lodge – Toronto, Ontario
• Royal Bank, King & Yonge Street – Toronto, Ontario
• Sir Sanford Fleming Building – University of Toronto – Toronto, Ontario
• Queen's Park (Alterations for Television Coverage) – Toronto, Ontario
• East York Arena – Toronto, Ontario
• 101 Toronto Street – Toronto, Ontario
• Leaside Arena – Toronto, Ontario
• Southampton Museum – Southampton, Ontario
• Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital (Exterior Restoration) – Toronto, Ontario
• Lakeshore Campus, Humber College (Interior Retro Fit) – Toronto, Ontario
• Dundurn Castle, (Restoration) – Hamilton, Ontario
• Paisley Firehall (Restoration) – Paisley, Ontario
• Thomson Court Apartments (Exterior Masonry Investigation and Report) – Toronto, Ontario
• St. Lawrence Starch Company (Structural Assessment of Building Complex) – Toronto, Ontario
• OGB, Exhibition Place (Structural Assessment of Canadian National Exhibition) – Toronto, Ontario
• Osgoode Hall, Queen Street – Toronto, Ontario

• Scotia Square (all buildings and the parking garage, the apartment building, office buildings, and hotel) – Halifax, Nova Scotia
• Dalplex, Dalhousie University – Halifax, Nova Scotia
• St. John's Hospital – St. John's, Newfoundland
• University of Western Ontario: Applied Science and Engineering, Law, Music, Dentistry, D.B. Weldon Library, Alumni Hall, Men's Residence, Women's Residence, Social Sciences, Middlesex College and UCC Buildings
• Animal Research Centre – Ottawa, Ontario
• Sound Radiation Laboratory – Ottawa, Ontario
• Glendon Campus Buildings, York University – Toronto, Ontario
• Shell Oil Head Office, University Avenue – Toronto, Ontario
• Confederation Life head Office, Bloor Street – Toronto, Ontario
• Manufacturers Life Head Office, Bloor Street – Toronto, Ontario
• London Life Head Office – Toronto, Ontario
• Bank of Canada Head Office – Ottawa, Ontario
• Metropolitan Life Head Offices – Ottawa, Ontario
• Metropolitan Toronto Court House – University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
• Barrie Court House – Barrie, Ontario
• Crown Life Head Office – Bloor Street, Toronto, Ontario
• Sears Automated Warehouse – Regina, Saskatchewan
• Brantford City Hall – Brantford, Ontario
• C.N.E. Stadium – Toronto, Ontario
• Sears Distribution Centre – Belleville, Ontario
• Failure Investigations: (partial list)
• Walkerton Town Hall – Walkerton, Ontario
• Union Carbide Building – Eglinton Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
• Collapse of multi-storey structural steel frame during wind storm.
• Kimberly Clark Manufacturing and I.N.C.O. Storage Building – Niagara Falls, Ontario. Conceived and supervised unique method of stabilizing and monitoring the collapsed structure to permit the removal of $12 million worth of nickel pellets. Supervised subsequent demolition of complex using explosives in a residential area.
• Constellation Hotel – Parking Garage Failure.
• Sears Regina Park Street Warehouse (Fire Damage) – Regina, Saskatchewan
• Harbour Castle Convention Centre (Floor Settled and Cracked) – Toronto, Ontario
• 21 McGill Street (Settlement Due to Adjacent Excavation and Shoring Failure) – Toronto, Ontario
• Imperial Oil (Deep Excavation Shoring Failure) – Sarnia, Ontario
• York Condominium (Parking Garage Failure) – Toronto, Ontario
• Sears St. Laurent ({arking garage Failure) – Ottawa, Ontario
• Markborough Place (Failure of Prestressing Floor tendons) – Toronto, Ontario

Litigation and Construction Disputes:

Advice to clients and law firms on structural engineering matters and the provision of expert testimony on several occasions, when settlement could not be arranged prior to trial.