PROFILES IN ACHIEVEMENT
The Company:
Based in Warman, MuniCode Services Ltd. has over 30 years of experience helping municipal and provincial governments and building owners and designers in the application and enforcement of building and fire code requirements by providing plan review and inspection services. MuniCode Services Ltd. has provided services for more than 26,000 projects in over 400 different municipalities. MuniCode Services Ltd. currently employs four building officials, including a building official manager, and three administrative staff, including an office manager.
The Achievement:
As of December 2017, MuniCode Services Ltd. Services qualified to offer consulting engineering services in the fields of fire and building code engineering. These branches of engineering have typically only been offered primarily by architects in the past.
The focus is on reviewing new buildings being constructed and existing buildings being renovated to ensure designs meet or exceed the National Building Code of Canada and National Fire Code of Canada or to provide an alternative to those codes in cases where the codes cannot be met.
This past year, MuniCode Services Ltd. was nominated for the Warman and Martensville Chamber of Commerce Business and Customer Service Awards. MuniCode Services Ltd. was one of the top five finalists for the Business of the Year award. It was also nominated for the Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce ABEX Awards, Customer Service of the Year.
The Team:
At the start of 2017, Shenah Cartier, P.Eng. joined MuniCode Services Ltd.’s team of building officials, allowing the firm for the first time to qualify as a consulting engineering firm. She has since completed two of the three exams required to be licensed through the government of Saskatchewan as a building official and is a Restricted Class 3 Building Official. Before joining the team in 2017, Shenah worked for over four years at a structural consulting engineering firm in Saskatoon and gained extensive experience in residential and commercial construction.
Shenah received her degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan in 2012 and her professional engineering designation in 2016. During her schooling, she was awarded the SaskTel Métis Scholarship as well as the Wally and Mavis Pieczonka Bursary for Academic Achievement. Shenah is also a member of the Saskatoon Construction Association Young Executives Committee.