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Bouwmeester & Associates offers professional sun & shadow
modeling services to private and public sector clients within the
accident reconstruction, law enforcement, legal, insurance,
architectural, land development, building and urban planning
communities.
We provide forensic sun position analyses related to crime scene
investigation, traffic accident 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.
Ralph Bouwmeester, principal of the firm, is a professional civil
engineer with over 30 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, the
Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Society for Civil
Engineering, and he is qualified as a Level II On-Scene Collision
Investigator.
Mr. Bouwmeester has appeared before civil and criminal courts as well as
before land use tribunals (Ontario Municipal Board) as an expert witness
in the field of sun and shadow position modeling.
He has presented papers to the Canadian Association of Technical
Accident Investigators and Reconstructionists (CATAIR), Ontario Region,
entitled:
-
Sun
and Shadow Modeling in Accident Reconstruction
(in PDF format), and
- Superimposing Sun Position and Total Station Survey Data into Drivers'
Eye Perspective Photographs - A Case Study
In
addition, he presented, Virtual
Modeling of Tall Buildings - Sun & Shadows, to the
Higher Learning Symposium in Toronto, Ontario, on October 19, 2006.
Mr. Bouwmeester's work has been featured in a number of newspaper
articles in recent years. Reprints are available at the links
listed below.
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
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