AMBiT in the News

AMBiT clients seek our expertise in guiding projects of significant complexity and singular importance to their stakeholders. Their project achievements, noted in the media and in their peer communities, reflect AMBiT's commitment to its clients.

2010

UBC Clinical Teaching Facility Opens at Kelowna General Hospital
Office of the Premier - News Release - January 25, 2010

UBC Sauder School of Business adds 50,000 sq.ft. in phase one of $85M renewal
Canada Views - January 14, 2010

2009

Multiple Players Align to Implement Distributed Medical Education
Tradeline Inc - September 8, 2009

UBC Pharmaceutical Sciences Building
University of British Columbia - September 4, 2009

Going the Distance with Distributed Medical Education in BC
University of British Columbia - June 17, 2009

2008

Construction Begins on Kelowna Hospital Expansion [.pdf]
Office of the Premier, British Columbia - November 17, 2008

Construction Begins on New Southern Medical School
Office of the Premier, British Columbia - September 23, 2008

UBC's Medical School Implements Advanced Video-Conferencing System for Distributed Learning
Tradeline Inc - September 3, 2008

Dal Med Program Launched in NB
Dalhousie University - June 10, 2008

Medical Program A Go For 2010
Dalhousie University - June 4, 2008

Record Number of Doctors Graduate in BC
BC Ministry of Advanced Education - May 20, 2008

2007

Premier Opens World-Class Aerospace Training Campus
Office of the Premier, British Columbia - October 12, 2007

Technology Connects Med Schools to Hospitals
Victoria Times Colonist - March 28, 2007

Next Generation of BC's Doctors Hits the Wards
BC Ministries of Health & Advanced Education - March 27, 2007

Clinical Academic Campuses and Educating Doctors in BC
BC Ministries of Health & Advanced Education - March 27, 2007

2006

Achieving Strategic Objectives
Project Management Institute's PM Network - November, 2006

World-Class Health Centre Opens in Vancouver; First Major Health Public-Private Partnership Complete
Office of the Premier, British Columbia - October 20, 2006

Learning Locally: UBC Med Students Depart for BC Communities
University of British Columbia - August 29, 2006

UBC’s Museum of Anthropology to Grow by 50 Per Cent in $52-Million Expansion
Museum of Anthropology - June 5, 2006


2005

Med School Beamed to Future Doctors [.pdf]
The Globe & Mail - March 17, 2005

The Anatomy of Distributed Learning [.pdf]
UBC Medicine - Fall, 2005

Canada’s First Library Robot Serves Phase One of Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
University of British Columbia - October 3, 2005

2004

UBC 'Diamond' a Hit with Students: Plain Exterior Belies
'Superior' High-tech Merger of Classrooms, Research
Facilities
Vancouver Sun - November 4, 2004

ITServices' Organizational Effectiveness Program
Presentation, University of British Columbia - June 15, 2004

End Users, Library Staff Benefit from Rapid Implementation Project at the Second Largest Academic Library in Canada [.pdf]
Endeavor Corporate News - May 11, 2004

2003

University Of British Columbia Selects Voyager, Encompass
eContent Magazine - October 14, 2003

Mansell to Lead ISEEE: University to Ramp Up Research in Energy, Environment and Economy
University of Calgary - October 3, 2003

Integrated Library System Announcement
Office of the University Librarian - October, 2003

How Wireless is Changing Teaching and Learning at UBC
University of British Columbia - September 17, 2003

UBC’s Wired & Wireless Networks on Par With Best Universities in the World
University of British Columbia - September 17, 2003

Wireless networks changing life on campus
The Globe & Mail - September 15, 2003

Did You Know? – Network Ports Being Installed at High Speed
University of British Columbia - February 12, 2003

Navigating the Unknown [.pdf]
IT World Canada - February 7, 2003

New SFX Sites in Canada
Ex Libris - January 14, 2003

Cisco Helps University of British Columbia Build WLAN for 35,000-student Campus
Cisco Systems - January 1, 2003

2002

UBC Launches Canada's Largest Campus Wireless Network
University of British Columbia - September 5, 2002

2001

Bits, Bytes to Move Faster on Campus
University of British Columbia - August 9, 2001







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"'Our groundbreaking success in using advanced video-conferencing to connect medical students at three university campuses has paved the way for a similar approach in teaching hospitals,' said Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell. 'We’re using the latest technology to open up opportunities for medical students throughout their training, and creating a model of medical education for other provinces and countries to follow.'"

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"'In terms of medical education programs this is absolutely cutting edge,' says Dan Zollmann, an engineer and project manager with AMBiT, a Vancouver-based consulting firm."

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"Advanced videoconferencing and e-learning technologies have been vital to the successful deployment of a distributed medical education program in British Columbia that includes three research universities and several regional hospitals. We describe how the technology solutions of this innovative program are providing the significantly added benefit of technologically savvy MDs."

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"Canada’s first and North America’s largest library robot is a key feature in the first phase of the $68 million Irving K. Barber Learning Centre opening today at the University of British Columbia."

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"Taking a program management, whole-system approach to organizational change, ITServices has identified a suite of activities to renew its culture, services, structure, and its ability to deliver-including introducing significant changes to the way it gauges its performance in the context of customer expectations."

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"Teresa Marshall, project manager for a company hired to handle the IT installations, described the centre as 'a diamond' compared to others at UBC. 'It's new, clean and definitely more efficient.'"

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"'For a library of this size and caliber to replace their entire ILS software in a six-month window is certainly commendable,' said Roland Dietz, Endeavor President and CEO."

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"UBC’s [Vice President Academic and Provost] Barry McBride praised the [University Networking Program] as a “tremendous example of attention to detail and teamwork. It’s a complicated and important project to the university– it’s wonderful.” The UNP Program Director, Susan Mair, said the key to managing such a large, complex project is to plan ahead and use good project management principles, to create a structure around the plan, and involve people from across campus."