Our Team

Jeffrey Leibgott,

President

A B.Eng. graduate of Concordia University, he subsequently completed various masters courses at both Concordia and McGill including prestressed concrete, soil mechanics, bridge design and theory of elasticity. Jeffrey Leibgott joined the firm in 1980, became an associate in 1988 and is currently president. He has accumulated extensive and wide-ranging experience in a large variety of projects including multi-storey office and residential buildings, schools, municipal structures, commercial developments, industrial buildings and plant renovations, aluminum smelters, printing plants and film studios. His responsibilities include project management, design, investigation, staff management, computer and CAD system development, and contract administration.

He is an active member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec and Professional Engineers Ontario.

Milo Shemie,

Vice-President

A B.Sc. graduate of London University, Milo Shemie started his career in London, England before emigrating to Canada where he joined Jack Barbacki as a design team member for the Place Victoria, Stock Exchange Tower in Montreal. He earned his Masters degree in Civil Engineering in 1971 at Concordia University in Montreal. His experience spans the full range of structural engineering including high-rise buildings, seismic analysis, precast concrete residential complexes, industrial, bridge, and municapal structures, as well as vessel, tank, stack and silo design to ASME and API regulations.  In the late 1960′s he worked on the Michelin Tire Plant with Fenco and subsequently became the chief structural engineer for Descon-Concordia, a multiple-discipline organization designing and building high-rise precast housing in the United States under licence to HUD – U.S. Department of the Interior. His publications include a paper on “Bolted Connections in Large Panel System Buildings”, published in the PCI Journal of January-February 1973. He is a regular reviewer for the PCI Journal on papers relating to precast connections and their seismic ductile behaviour.

He is an active member of the Ordre des Ingénieurs du Québec, the London Institution of Civil Engineering, the American Concrete Institute, as well as being a licensed member of state boards of professional engineering in the states of Massachusetts, Vermont, Florida, North Carolina and Georgia.