28 - The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday February 22, 2006 S h a p in g ^"y^fyrom a distance, AM EC looks like what it is: one of the world's largest international project management and services companies, employing 4 4 , 0 0 0 people around the globe. We design, deliver and support infrastructure from local technical services to international landmarks. These are the people you call when you need to create exciting theme park rides, world-class telescopes or diamond mines. But A M EC doesn't stand at a distance: 4 0 0 of its best people work in Oakville from our Canadian headquarters off the QEW. We're involved with the Bronte Butterfly Foundation's Butterfly Park and Winter Skateway«and we are a major contributor to O a kville's U nited W a y AM EC has provided, and will continue to provide, design and construction management services at cost for the beautiful, publicly-accessible park to be located on Oakville's western waterfront. AMEC's Mike Stocks, Quality Assurance Manager/Manager of Engineering, is also Vice-Chair of the Bronte Butterfly Foundation. Mike has been on the board since 2 0 0 2 and continues to assist with the Butterfly Park and W inter Skatew ay in all engineeringrelated tasks. With 4 , 0 0 0 employees throughout Canada, AM EC plays an integral role in shaping our nation. Most recently, AMEC's world class project management expertise has been chosen to,lead O n tario's largest investm ent in e n e rg y in decades, and one of the largest in North America. AM EC will lead the highly challenging task of restarting two nuclear reactors in Ontario for Bruce Power LP O a k v ille 's F u tu re AMEC is also involved with the first ever diamond mine in Ontario: The De Beers Victor Diamond Mine. The project will provide sustainable, long-term employment for First Nation communities and other communities in northern Ontario. AMEC has also participated in Ontario's first-ever Bio diesel plant located in Hamilton. AMEC designed the innovative, alternative fuel production plant for Biox Corporation. The plant is designed to produce 60 million litres of biodiesel a year and will increase North American production capacity by 50 per cent. v ; The Toronto Medical Discovery Tower could not have been successfully completed without AMEC's Enjoy your morning coffee from design, programming, planning Tim Horton's? Believe it or not,* and engineering services to the AMEC has a taste of that too! 400.000 square feet of the AMEC provides environmental Interior lab space for the services to Tim Horton's across University Health Network. The Canada. Ongoing services for tower is a key element of the the stores since 1997 include Medical and Related Sciences site assessments, geotechnical or MaRS division within the investigations, construction Discovery District in Toronto. support, lab'services and much more. AMEC is an international AMEC, in partnership with Black & McDonald, has been designing and installing wind farms throughout Ontario for over three years. To date, AMEC has been involved in the Huron Wind, Erie Shores Wind Farm, Melancthon Grey Wind Project and Kingsbridge Wind Power Project. Worldwide, AMEC has been in the wind energy business for more than ten years and has participated in over 25 completed wind energy projects, both on-land and off shore. project management and services company that designs, delivers and supports client assets for customers worldwide across the public and private sectors. In Canada, AMEC has 4.000 employees working from 78 offices and is the #1 International Design Firm in Canada as ranked by Engineering News Record. So now when you look up to see our building, just off of the QEW at Winston Churchill, you'll know just what AMEC is all about. ABOVE: AMEC designs and builds world-class telescopes like the Gemini telescope. AMEC's. Mike Stocks with 'various members, from the Bronte Butterfly Foundation. Oakville employees participate in the annual Walk for a Cure for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. BELOW: AMEC and 50/50 joint-venture partner Black & McDonald photographed together at the . groundbreaking ceremony for Ontario's newest wind farm: Erie Shores. ^ M E C ^ e s ig n s vd a liv e rs and su pp orts c lie n t assets, rapgtfig fro m local services to in te rn a tio n a l la n d m a rk projgjpts. We lead jb h ^fie ld in ^r6 |e ;ct m anagem ent and s e rv ic e d 8 W o rld w id e . Responsibly. F g j the long te rm W e're ca ll O akville home