The Association of Canadian Engineering Companies, formerly known as the Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada, is an association of six hundred independent engineering

Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...

 consultancies

Consultant

A consultant is a professional who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as management, accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law , human resources, marketing, emergency management, food production, medicine, finance, life management, economics, public...

 across Canada.

Its members offer professional engineering services to the public and private sectors world wide. Based in Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, the association’s mission is to promote and safeguard the business and professional interests of the Canadian consulting engineering industry.

The members are independent consulting engineering firms as well as eleven affiliated provincial and territorial member organizations. Members range in size from single-person operations to multinational companies.

The association publishes a serial magazine, the Canadian Consulting Engineer.