Background: Traditionally, children explore on common playgrounds that suggest plastic play structures. This does not encourage children to discover the natural world. More natural elements such as hobbit hills, outdoor musical instruments and wood block dividers will provide the needs for children to be creative and visual in early developmental stages.

Organization: Options Community Services Society (OCSS)

Options Community Services is a non-profit organization that provides social services primarily in Surrey, Delta, White Rock and Langley. They believe in helping people help themselves. They want to create focused, effective and responsive resources for the community in collaboration with individuals, businesses, community groups and government.

The Community Project: Guildford Family Place

The community that will benefit in Options Community Services Society’s project will be the Guildford Family Place. The community is located in Surrey, B.C. This community place is committed to many programs for people to enjoy and use in their facility. Guildford has many new plans on upgrading their facility to improve the quality for its users and to create a greener and more sustainable community.

Client Manager: Katherine Macintyre

CBEL Group #9 Members: Six second-year Civil Engineering Students from UBC Vancouver

Alborz Rezaei:

Starting with my name I am Alborz Rezaei. Originally from Iran, leaved half my life here in Vancouver and the other half back home in Tehran. I enjoy the outdoors specially the slopes we’re blessed by for skiing/snowboarding. Now to the nerd side of my life. I am a second year Civil Engineering student at UBC. I am quite interested in all aspects of Civil. If I had to choose one aspect of it, I would go with how fluids affect different structures.

Ali Baris Oztekin:

I am Ali Baris Oztekin. I am a second year civil engineering student at UBC Vancouver campus. I am originally from Turkey and I came to Canada to pursue my higher education. My goal is to become a structural engineer and possibly pursue a post graduate degree in architecture.

Howard Wong:

As you know, my name is Howard Wong. I immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong with my parents when I was three years old to find a more diverse living community. I enjoy doing many things in my life which involves social interactions with new and old friends. Currently I am in Civil Engineering Year 2 at UBC Vancouver. I am looking forward to be involved in the Structural Engineering side of Civil Engineering.

Cliff Qin:

Hi! My name is Cliff Qin and I am in my second year of Civil Engineering in UBC. I immigrated from China six years ago and came to Vancouver. I have been enjoying my life in this beautiful city ever since. I love to get involved in different kinds of design project because I enjoy the process of solving different types of challenges. Currently I try to focus on the structural side of civil engineering and hope I will be a structural engineer one day!

Ardeshir Sedighi:

I am Ardeshir Sedighi. I am from Tehran, Iran. I am a second year Civil Engineering student at UBC. I am interested in structural and earthquake aspects of civil engineering. On the other side of my life, I really enjoy playing soccer professionally. I have started playing soccer when I was only three years old and I am really into it.

Allan Chen:

Hi, my name is Allan. I came to Vancouver from Fuzhou, China when I was around 5 years old. I love snowboarding, reading Stephen King novels, and eating green tea ice cream. As you know, I’m also a Civil Engineering student at UBC. I plan on going into structural and later obtaining a Masters in Architecture, because sitting down and doodling is more my kind of thing than doing the sorts of math and physics calculations involved.