Anabelle Chabot found happiness in the technical details

barbara black

Anabelle Chabot started her university studies with architecture at the Université de Montréal.

“It was a little too artistic for me,” she admitted. “It may seem funny, but I needed to do more calculations and technical stuff. Then I heard about the program in Building Engineering, and since then, I wanted to become an engineer.”

She spent her first work term at Inspec-Sol, in Ville St. Laurent, where she had the chance to work on many projects, including renovation of the wharfs at the Port of Montreal. She did her second and third work terms at the Agence de l’efficacité énergétique du Québec.

“During those eight months I was travelling between Montreal and Quebec City each week. I had the chance to do blower door tests and inspect many mechanical rooms in different buildings.”

For their final project, Chabot’s class were told to redesign the new Concordia EV Building.

“Our class was divided into two teams, one for the structure and another for the mechanical. I was in the mechanical team, and this project permitted us to discover what kind of work we would be doing if we were working for a consultant firm on mechanical engineering. I realized that was really what I wanted to do.”

Chabot found a job at CIMA+, in downtown Montreal “I was really lucky. I just started my new job and I think I will enjoy it a lot.”