Thurber History
Acronyms
Accounting
Employees
Thurber Projects
100

This was the year that Thurber was founded. It was also the year Russia launches Sputnik 1, beginning what was to be known as the Space Race.

What is 1957?

100

UCS

What is Unconfined Compressive Strength?

100

Uptown Funk! was top of he charts in this year, the year BST was implemented at Thurber.

What is 2015?

100

The head of Thurber's IT department and located at the Edmonton office, he is not related to the five time James Bond actor.

Who is Aaron Moore?

100

This proposed new subway line across Canada's biggest city will be 16 km long and contain 15 stops, over 500 boreholes by 6 different consultants will have been drilled before its completion.

What is Ontario Line?

200

The founder of Thurber, with Dave Coffey, he was an avid Pilot and was once in the Royal Canadian Airforce.

Who is Reginald Cameron Thurber?

200

CHBDC

What is Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code?

200

Reduces revenue, but does not reduce effort.

What is write-offs?

200

Twenty score, or roughly the total number of employees working at Thurber Canada wide.

What is 400?

200

Named after the union that took place on July 1, 1867 in Charlottetown, this project was the largest infrastructure project awarded in the history of the city of Ottawa.

What is Confederation Line Extension?

300

The year of Reginald's tragic plan crash.

What is 1968?

300

TRCA

What is the Toronto Region Conservation Authority?

300

All work within a defined scope is to be completed for a set fee regardless of the cost of performance.

What is Lump Sum?

300

This person has managed two Thurber offices, was a Managing Director and a past President of Thurber.

Who is P.K.?

300

The furthest north of any projects conducted by Thurber's Toronto office was located on this island, it involved the development of one of the most northern iron mines in the world.

What is Baffin Island?

400

This was the original name of Thurber Engineering.

What is R.C. Thurber and Associates?

400

SSE

What is Scarborough Subway Extension?

400

The amount of money a firm receives for goods sold or services rendered.

What is Revenue?

400

This concrete expert has worked at three different Thurber Offices in three years.

Who is Oleksandr Lisoivan?

400

Care to swim at Toronto's most popular beach? Just don't swim too far out, as you may not want to be swimming in the outflow of a 7 m diameter, 3.5 km long tunnel constructed for this project.

What is Ashbridges Bay?

500

Family members of Harvey Dishaw and Reginald Thurber had to wait 38 years to find out the location of their plane crash, located near this aptly named creek.

What is Waitabit Creek?

500

ECWE

What is Eglington Crosstown West Extension?

500

Compares how much revenue has been earned to how much effort has been spent.

What is variance?

500

These two past Thurber technologists went back to school for an engineering degree and masters, and are now Partners.

Who is Weiss Mehdawi and Don Proudfoot?

500

According to Stomping Tom Conners, Big Joe Mufferaw was 50 Miles away when he put out a forest fire with 5 spit balls half way between these two towns, which also happen to be the terminus of one Thurber's larger highway twinning jobs.

What is Renfrew and (old) Arnprior?