The Firm & its Principal R. Bouwmeester & Associates offers professional sun & shadow modeling services to private and public sector clients within the collision reconstruction, law enforcement, legal, insurance, architectural, land development, building and urban planning communities. Crash Investigations >>> Shadow Studies We provide forensic sun position analyses related to crime scene investigation, traffic collision investigation, and collision reconstruction. We also provide solutions to urban planning and building design and approval problems, whether to minimize the impact of potential shadowing or to optimize solar access and daylighting. A recent trend towards proactive building design has allowed us to be involved very early on in the development process. More and more Clients turn to us for building height and massing studies ("Roof Sculpting") in an effort to minimze shadowing on sensitive spaces and to reduce approval times. Ralph
Bouwmeester, principal of the firm, is a professional civil
engineer with over 40 years experience in land development and
municipal engineering. Ralph received a B.Sc. (Civil
Engineering) degree from Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, in
1976. He is a member in good standing of Professional
Engineers Ontario and the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, and
he is qualified as a Level II On-Scene Collision Investigator. -
Sun
and Shadow Modeling in Accident Reconstruction
(in PDF format), and In
addition, he presented, Virtual Modeling of Tall
Buildings - Sun & Shadows,
to the Higher Learning Symposium in Toronto, Ontario, on October 19,
2006. 1998
- Barrie Advance - Helping
opportunity knock, by Donna Douglas
1999 - Toronto Star - Working in sun and shadow, by Robert Burg 2001 - National Post - Lurking in the shadows, by Guy Babineau 2003 - Dallas Fort Worth Star Telegram - Shedding light on sun glare, by Gordon Dickson 2004 - Des Moines Register - Drivers, beware of sun's glare, by Tom Alex 2004 - Des Moines Register - Sun blamed in 1 death, 2 collisions, by Tom Alex 2005 - Des Moines Register - Equinox driving, by Jeff Bash 2005 - East Valley Tribune - Equinox means more problems for commuters, by Mike Branom 2007 - Toronto Star - Our Places in the Sun - The Shadow Factor, by Stephen Weir 2008 - Des Moines Register - Seasonal Danger - sun glare graphic 2010 - Omaha World-Herald - Sun is a glaring change, by Nancy Gaarder 2011 - Times Herald-Record - A sure sign of autumn: sun glare when driving, by Judy Rife 2012 - The Record - Cresskill crossing guard struck by Weehawken principal's car, sun glare a possible factor, police say, by Deena Yellin and Rebecca D. O'Brien 2015 - The Record - Seasonal blind spots easily turn deadly, by John Cichowski 2018 - CBC News - City's new downtown plan aims to prevent high-rise shadows on parks, create 'livable' communities, by Lauren Pelley 2018 - Toronto Star - As Toronto gets more and taller condos, the city is left grappling with shadows, by Donovan Vincent TV and radio interviews can be seen and heard at the links below. 2018
- GlobalTV
National News - Our
April TV interview in connection with the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. Ralph Bouwmeester, P. Eng.
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