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Environment Committee Meeting September 10, 2013

1) Call to order Minutes of June 4, 2013 meeting confirmed. 2) Government Department Updates a) Provincial

Alberta Transportation – Mark Svenson o Eco Plan Audits have begun. Started very late. Are doing twice as many this year as done in previous years. After this year, they will look at to see if they need to shift the focus a little bit. Have the audits served its purpose? o The ECO Plan Framework is a joint document with the cities of Calgary and Edmonton and reviewed annually - http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/571.htm. o Eco Plan Framework link will be sent out to the ARHCA membership for review and comment. Please send comments/clarification requests to [email protected]. Mark will take the feedback to the joint meeting. b) Greenhouse Gas Update

No new updates. c) Federal No new updates.

Not in AttendanceBrian Waddell Alberta Environment Ryan Wonnacott AMEC Don Snider AT Gil Barber Cascade Geotechnical Cory Mandrusiak Erscon Canada Rola Hogan GENIVAR Corey Stefura Golder Associates Brian Williams Nilex Alison Wilson PCL Construction Warren Waechter Ritchie Bros Shane Hok South Rock Keyra Hawley Yurchi Sureway Bob Marajh West-Can

In Attendance Eric Gilson, Chairman Millennium EMS Ron Collins ARHCA Dawn Fenske ARHCA Peter Dzikowski AT Mark Svenson AT Eric Stanier Border Paving Dan McKinley E Construction Ltd. Erin Donovan Lafarge Mark Kondro Standard General Andrea Harvey Volker Stevin

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3) 2013 Committee Work Plan Self Audit of a Guide to Energy Efficient Best Practices Update

o Peter, Roger & Ron worked on the draft this summer. Peter had suggested at the last meeting that it should start off gradually and ask awareness questions that only take a few minutes to answer; nothing specific, more yes or no questions (ex. Have you seen it? Have you read it? Does your company use it?). Then a more thorough piece will be developed to measure where the industry is at. o The plan is to present this information to each of the sector meetings at the ARHCA convention in November to gauge members’ use and/or interest. Ultimately would like to recruit members to participate in a focus group to help develop the survey for the membership. o Heidi asked the committee if they would rather send out the survey, collect some data to present at the convention or just mention in the sector meetings that the survey will be sent out after the convention to convention attendees as well as the membership. o Eric would prefer the survey get sent out to the membership mid-November and then at the convention, speak to the sector meeting attendees about the survey & remind them to respond. o Heidi said once the data from the survey is received, it will drive the direction of the second part of the survey where more detailed questions are asked. o Peter suggested that the second part should be developed in parallel with the timeframe to collect responses. o Erin suggested not sending it to the ‘environment’ people within the companies. This is about saving money. It would be the operations people who need to look into this. o Heidi thinks we should ask what role the person answering the survey holds in the member company. That might give us some insight to why questions were answered a certain way. o Draft questions & preamble to be ready by October 15. Heidi will generate it in an online survey and it can be reviewed by the committee at the next meeting. The final version will sent out to the membership the week before the convention. Eric will also present his spiel to the committee as practice before the convention to make sure he’s getting the key messages across as the committee sees them. 4) New Business

None to report. 5) Adjournment Tuesday, October 29

ARHCA Boardroom, Edmonton