InfraSound Communications Podcast

Roberta and Glenn sit down with Luke Toller of IMARK Architectural Metals to talk cladding. The conversation starts and ends at the stunningly innovative and dramatic River Cree Medical Centre on the Enoch Cree Nation in west Edmonton. The building is cladded in a panelled representation of a historic photo from the area. Where the idea came from, where the panels came from, the painstaking work to mount them, the machines used in ...

Light is vida!

That's the mantra of lighting designer Daveed Henriquez, who joins Roberta and Glenn on this episode of InfraSound. In an insightful and inspiring interview, Daveed traces the arc of his personal and professional relationship with lighting, starting with the electrocution event in Mexico City that sparked his curiosity about the infrastructure of light. As an electrician, consultant and lighting designer, Daveed has ...

Leland Jackman of Onex River Inc. joins Roberta and Glenn to talk scaffolding. Ledgers, standards, rosettes, braces, decks, 45s, toe boards, right angles, dog bones, swivels, spigots, and more. Tube and clamp, cuplock system, cantilever, HAKI and more. Dude knows his scaffolding.

In terms of infrastructure, scaffolding is evanescent. Unlike the buildings and structures it gives shape to, it fades from view and disappears from memory...

Ernie Heins, P.Eng, of  @Agruamerica  joins Roberta and Glenn to discuss the things he knows a lot about — concrete, concrete protective liners, geomembranes and geosynthetics. And to draw all of it back to the element he is passionate about: water. Along the way, Ernie underlines the need for more awareness of the kinds of infrastructure that routinely escape notice, things like underground water pipes, pumping sta...

In this episode of Infrasound — the infrastructure podcast from reVerb Communications — Roberta Farion and Glenn Kubish welcome Georg Josi and Larissa Ulcar to discuss Sustainable Urban Integration and how its principles shaped the Valley Line Southeast LRT experience in Edmonton.

The conversation explores what it means to design infrastructure that makes people feel welcome, comfortable, and eager to return — a ke...

The debut episode of Infrasound — the infrastructure podcast from reVerb Communications — features former City of Edmonton bridge engineer Guy Boston in conversation with Roberta Farion and Glenn Kubish.Guy reflects on the end of the Rathole in Edmonton, shares stories about construction innovation and the importance of community engagement in public projects, and reveals why he wasn’t at the World Trade Center on...