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Welcome Zara Hafid

July 27, 2022 By Ed Vardy

Zara Hafid

Terrapex is very pleased to welcome Zara Hafid to our team as Health and Safety Manger. Zara holds a Bachelors degree from Wilfrid Laurier University and a Masters in Business Administration from Laurentian University. Zara is a certified health and safety consultant with over eight years of experience in the private and government sectors including the environmental, mining, and construction industries.

Zara is a certified lead auditor for ISO 45001, 14001 and COR internal auditor. She has experience writing and reviewing policies, procedures, risk assessments and contractor management. In addition, she brings a broad base of experience in implementing and auditing Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems and advising on safety standards, regulations, and legislative compliance, as well as making recommendations to improve workers’ health, safety, and wellbeing.

Zara is an active member of the Ontario Municipal Health and Safety Professional’s Association, Women in Occupational Health and Safety and the International Health And Safety Knowledge Network.

Zara will be overseeing Terrapex's health and safety management system, advising on standards and best industry best practices, and assisting clients with occupational health and safety and/or industrial hygiene services.

Please feel free to contact us with any inquiries on how we can assist and/or support you in improving your health and safety program.

 

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Welcome Meysam Najari

June 30, 2022 By Ed Vardy

Meysam Najari

Terrapex is very pleased to welcome Meysam Najari to our team as Vice President of Geotechnical Services. Meysam holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from McGill University, specializing in Geomechanics, and is the co-author of numerous academic papers.

In addition to his management expertise, Meysam brings a broad base of experience in geotechnical design work and recommendations, including low-rise and high-rise developments, water/sewer services, tunnels, pavement design, slope stability assessment, slope stabilization design, and geotechnical instrumentation & monitoring.

Meysam will be overseeing the operations of our geotechnical service line, including investigations, inspection and testing work, monitoring, and the laboratory. Please feel free to contact us with any inquiries on how we can assist and/or support you in completing your geotechnical projects.

 

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Covid-19 Statement

April 22, 2022 By Ed Vardy

Our top priority at Terrapex continues to be social responsibility: to our staff, to our business associates, and to our community at large. We remain proactive in seeking out and implementing recommended best practice to manage the risks presented by COVID-19, as we continue to serve our clients in the safest, most efficient and most effective way possible.

Our COVID Management Group meets (virtually) on a regular basis to review regulatory, staff, client and supplier input to inform our policy and practice. As always, our staff are fully engaged in promoting health & safety, not only for themselves but for all those they encounter in their work, and they have been provided with the tools, procedures, and training to do so.

We are grateful to those with whom we continue to work, while together we strive to protect the health and well-being of our collective staff and associated communities. If you have any questions about how Terrapex can assist you through these challenging times, please contact us.

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Modular Housing Initiative project wins a “Brownie” Award

November 29, 2021 By Ed Vardy

Terrapex environmental scientists Samantha Beatty and Nick Settecase were pleased to see a project in which they have invested many long hours win the REFOCUS award.

Terrapex was extremely pleased to accept, on behalf of the entire project team, a much‑coveted “Brownie Award” for the 150 Harrison Street Modular Housing Initiative project at the 2021 Brownfields Awards Gala in downtown Toronto on November 23rd. The award represents Terrapex’s third “Brownie”, following previous wins in 2017 and 2020.

The Brownfields Awards (brownieawards.ca) are an annual presentation by Actual Media and the Canadian Brownfields Network (CBN) to recognize and promote brownfield redevelopment projects across Canada in seven different categories. The 150 Harrison Street Modular Housing Initiative project was the winner in the brand-new REFOCUS category established to recognize projects that:

  • Demonstrate alignment with broader social initiatives and mandates;
  • Demonstrate significant improvements towards GHG reduction, climate resiliency, affordable housing, healthy communities, and/or diversity and inclusion;
    or;
  • Use alternative lenses to see remediation and redevelopment from different perspectives other than economic and environmental ones.

The 150 Harrison Street project was part of the City of Toronto’s commitment to construct 1,000 new homes for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, with a plan to employ modular construction techniques to rapidly construct 44 studio units (11 of which were built to accessibility standards) at the 150 Harrison Street site. Terrapex provided geotechnical, hydrogeological, and environmental consulting services (including two Risk Assessments completed under Ontario Regulation 153/04) for this project, all under an extremely tight timeline – the project was approved by Toronto City Council on April 30, 2020 and the modular housing facilities at 150 Harrison Street officially opened less than nine months later!

Terrapex is extremely grateful to the City of Toronto and its real estate agency CreateTO for the opportunity to be involved in a unique and very challenging brownfield project, and one that also contributes to addressing a pressing social ill in the wider community. Congratulations to all of our staff who made Terrapex’s contributions to this project a success. We’d also like to congratulate the rest of the 150 Harrison Street Modular Housing Initiative project team: Montgomery Sisan Architects, Baker Turner Landscape Architects, Design Works Engineering, Nextrans Consulting Engineers, NRB / Horizon North, and Husky General Contracting.

 

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Terrapex Announces Leadership Transition

November 22, 2021 By Ed Vardy

Mike Osborne

Paddle the Don: Mike leveraged his love of the water during Terrapex’s 7 year reign from 2008-2014 as Corporate Champion of this fundraising event for restoration of the Don River.

To all our current and past clients, suppliers, sub-consultants, business partners, former staff, and many friends and colleagues:

Terrapex has reached a significant milestone in its evolution. It is with mixed feelings that we announce that our founder, Mike Osborne, has taken the first steps toward retirement. Mike started Terrapex in 1995 and for the past 27 years has put his heart and soul into the company, instilling his values of integrity, quality, and client service into our culture.

Over the past few years Mike has been actively working with our senior leadership to ensure a smooth succession, starting in 2019 with the appointments of Jennifer O’Grady as President and Peter Sutton who joined Vic Nersesian as Vice-President.

Following an ownership transition to several long-term senior staff earlier this year, Mike has now also stepped down from his role of CEO. He will, however, continue his high level involvement in the delivery of consulting services to our clients related to soil and groundwater contamination issues and provide internal advice and guidance to Terrapex’s management with respect to development and implementation of long-term strategies.

Terrapex’s executive and senior management team are very well prepared and excited to lead the Company into its next chapter of growth and development. In Mike’s words to our staff,

“One thing I’ve done really well is to surround myself with exceptional people. Along with their wealth of experience, Terrapex’s management team brings a broad diversity of personality, perspective, and expertise to the table. Every day they have made my job immeasurably easier.

Terrapex has afforded me with incredible life experience that I can’t begin to articulate. I’ve had the privilege of meeting and working with so many of the very best in our industry. I’ve never stopped learning – about environmental consulting, about business management, and most of all about people.”

All of us at Terrapex are happy that Mike will have more time to enjoy life outside of work, and that Terrapex will continue to move forward with his support and guidance.

 

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