Ron Macdonald, P.Eng, MASc – Environmental Engineer

Ron Macdonald is a professional engineer with a Master’s degree in environmental engineering. He started in the petroleum sector in Alberta, then worked in water and wastewater management in BC, and has melded the two in his current practice areas of municipal energy planning, urban resource conservation, and life cycle assessment (LCA).

Ron has conducted several energy and GHG plans for local governments - both at the corporate level and at the community scale. These have helped his clients define a pragmatic and sequential path towards becoming more energy efficient.

Ron has specialized expertise in conducting life cycle assessment (LCA) projects. LCA allows for the inclusion of all factors involved in the production of a product or service to be evaluated and not just the consumption or emissions that occur at one stage in the process. The factors included within these LCA studies have included fossil fuel consumption; electricity consumption and production; emissions of air contaminants and greenhouse gases (GHGs); and discharges of effluents and wastes. The results of these projects have been used to develop triple bottom line business cases for local governments.