November 2011, Point Nexus signed an agreement with Crosby Property Management Inc. of Vancouver BC to perform a maintenance needs assessment of Stirling Place East, a 24 story residential high-rise in New Westminster. Stirling Place is a 17 year old concrete building with extruded aluminum framed windows and painted concrete main structure. The needs assessment was in response to a resident survey completed by Crosby Property Management that found a number of residents had noted minor water issues with a small number of significant issues as well.

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Crosby Property Management is one of the Vancouver lower mainland’s premier management companies and prides itself in providing the best advice and services to strata managers and owners.

Point Nexus Consulting is a project development and facilitation company with many years of commercial and residential building maintenance and remediation experience. Point Nexus’ Construction Division specializes in water ingress issues including being a leading advocate for maintenance programs and educational information designed to mitigate future issues with glass high-rise buildings. These are mostly residential high rise towers that have been built with low cost and low quality glass curtain wall assemblies and are beginning to show significant signs of air and water envelope breakdown. These could and most likely will be a signficant problem and cost for strata owners as these glass-walled buildings age.

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Here is another way of looking at Abbotsford’s water use and future water needs. I have added some elements to Abbotsford’s water use and future needs graph that sheds a different light on the problem and possible solution. 

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The Polis Study for Water Supply found a Reuse/Recycle/Conserve Adequate for Less Money

November 11, 2011

It is absolutely true the Abbotsford City Council came their decision for the Stave Lake Pipeling based on $100’s of thousands spent on numerous studies since 2002. Unfortunately, their decsion-making process was flawed. In 2010, without realizing the implications, they adopted the AECOM Water Report and effectively abdicated your right-to-decide on a “new pipeline vs conservation” to an [...]

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Creating billions of dollars from waste… Edmonton gets it!

March 30, 2011

For any municipality to actually produce a revenue stream from waste, new technologies have to be employed. Unfortunately, most municipalities in Western Canada don’t do that. Instead, they continue to use tried-and-true technologies that their engineers and managers feel comfortable with. These business-as-usual methods are decades old, and though some new technologies can be embedded [...]

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Could Abbotsford and Mission Save Hundreds of Millions?

March 26, 2011

The tragedy of the half billion dollar Abbotsford Mission Water and Sewer Capital Project as recommended by its City Managers is it misses completely the lessons and opportunities learned recognized by other cities around the world. Such cities are integrating water supplies and waste into systems that are more innovative, more efficient and far less [...]

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Kitchen scraps to be banned from trash across Metro Vancouver

February 21, 2011

By the end of next year, if you live in a house in Metro Vancouver, your kitchen scraps will be banned from the trash.
That means everything from apples cores to chicken bones, bread crusts, eggshells, coffee grounds, tea bags, paper towels and pizza boxes must be in your green bin instead of the garbage can.
Port [...]

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Simple Machine that Converts Plastic Into Oil

November 19, 2010

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As Point Nexus increases its engagement with a variety of renewable energy clients, it becomes increasingly clear this is the way of the future for industry… soon to be the new world order for business. Point Nexus recognizes this is not only good world stewardship, but also excellent business strategy. 
While this is [...]

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Casa Humana plays key role combating Haiti’s cholera emergency

October 25, 2010

Abbotsford, BC – October 25, 2010 – On Friday, Casa Humana International partnered with Pure Compassion Ministries, Proctor & Gamble and The Clinton Group to ship P&G’s PUR water purification system to Haiti. Less than 72 hours after the initial phone call, 2,300,000 packets arrived in Port-au-Prince Monday morning.
The PuR system will help stop the [...]

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Haiti’s cholera outbreak spreads toward quake-ravaged Port-au-Prince

October 24, 2010

October 23, 2010
Written by: Jacob Kushner, The Associated Press

ST. MARC, Haiti – An outbreak of cholera has spread outside a rural valley in central Haiti, intensifying worries the disease could reach squalid tarp camps that house hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in the capital.
By early Saturday, nearly 200 people were confirmed dead in [...]

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BC Hydro Excavation Equipment Inventor Contracts Point Nexus Consulting

July 29, 2010

KPD Consulting announced today that Point Nexus Consulting Inc is contracted to help it bring its new Hydro Excavation De-Watering Equipment to market.

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