General Eligibility of Membership
As a CEBC member, consulting engineering firms are represented as the best firm and gain a high profile through the association’s General Eligibility of Membership

Corporate Membership
To qualify for Corporate Membership, a firm:

• Must be engaged primarily in the business of offering independent consulting engineering services to the public and for which purpose it shall maintain an office or offices in British Columbia.

• When a proprietorship, the proprietor shall be a registered Professional Engineer in British Columbia;

• When a partnership, the majority of the partners shall be registered Professional Engineers in British Columbia;

• When a corporation, the corporation shall be incorporated in Canada and be wholly owned within the private sector with the majority of the directors of the firm resident in Canada;

• Makes full disclosure of any conflict or potential conflict of interest;

• Has high professional repute and ethical standards and shall meet all requirements for practice as may be, from time to time, established by this Society;

• Shall not be conducted under an arrangement that involves a conflict of interest or that subordinates independent professional judgments to other considerations;

Associate Membership
To qualify for Associate Membership, a firm shall be a sole private sector practitioner, a partnership or a corporation and shall qualify for admission if it:

• derives a significant portion of its revenues from activities related to the practice of Professional Engineering;

• at all times, when it is material, fully discloses a conflict or potential conflict of interest, or business arrangements that might subordinate independent professional judgments to other considerations; and

• maintains an office in British Columbia.

Affiliate Membership
To qualify as an Affiliate Member a firm provides a product or service to engineering consulting firms, or a public sector entity. Affiliate members may include but are not limited to banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, drafting supply companies, surveyors, Crown Corporations and/or management companies.