Rocky Point Engineering and EFMA:
A mutually beneficial partnership fessionals. Of our 11 principals, eight worked together at Keen Engineering Co. Ltd. between the 1970s and 1990s, so our leadership group goes back a long way together and shares common core values about how to successfully operate our business. RPE has completed a significant number of complex school projects, from small additions and full-size elementary, middle and secondary schools to HVAC upgrades, boiler upgrades, dustcollection system upgrades, solar-wall installations and DDC system upgrades. We have always striven to ensure the The RPE team at our booth for the Star Wars theme night at EFMA’s 2013 Conference and Trade Show. From left to right: Cory Langevin, Sarah Goddard, Richard Corra, Bobbie Green, Emmanuel Lavoie, Barb McNicholls, and Stephen McNicholls.
2014 will be the 13th consecutive year that Rocky Point Engineering Ltd. (RPE) has been an exhibitor at the annual EFMA Conference and Trade Show in Penticton. That’s almost as long as our company has been operating! Since establishing the company in 1997, our mechanical engineering firm has been providing quality design and services to diversified clients in the public and private sectors, including the education, healthcare, civic/government, commercial, data centre, senior/social housing, hospitality and recreation markets. All along, the K-12 education sector has been a core part of RPE’s business and our involvement with EFMA is a big reason why this is so. Prior to our first year at EFMA in 2002, our school district client list consisted of eight districts. At the time, we had provided services to the Nanaimo, Alberni, Comox Valley, 26
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Vancouver Island West, Howe Sound (now Sea-to-Sky), West Vancouver, Haida Gwaii and Coast Mountain school districts. Fast-forward to 2014 and we have now worked with 51 districts across the province, including 45 districts in the past two years alone. British Columbia’s K-12 school districts have, to a large degree, fostered the growth of our firm. At the end of 2009, Rocky Point consisted of two offices, in Nanaimo and Langley, with a combined total of 15 employees. Today, we have added offices in Vancouver, Victoria, Kelowna, Kamloops and Nelson—a total of seven offices in B.C., with 64 employees. We employ 11 professional engineers, six engineers-in-training (EITs) and 14 technology graduates from B.C. Technology schools, with 16 of our senior staff being LEED®-accredited pro-
mechanical and plumbing systems associated with these designs include current best practices and we are constantly
Project: Ballanes Secondary School, Parksville. Client: SD #69 (Qualicum). Description: Condensing boilers.
updating our standards and finding ways to improve our designs. Our design philosophy has always been: “If the designs are simple, they will be easy-to-maintain, easy-to-operate and will have a better
