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He worked professionally in Prince George, British Columbia, in 1971-72 with Architect Desmond Parker and in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1976 with John Schreiber/Eva Vecsei/Yasmeen Lari, Architects, and he has since been active in teaching and/or research in Mexico, China, Romania, South Korea, Singapore and Egypt. He is a Member of the Order of Architects of Quebec and has maintained a private consulting practice since 1976. Since 2019, he has served the City of Pointe Claire as a member of the Comit茅 Consultatif d鈥橴rbanisme (CCU).

Recognitions of his contributions to education and practice include election to the College of Fellows of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 1998, the Order of Athabasca University in 2012, and appointment as Professor Honoris Causa by Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, Romania, in 2015. He is a member and current President of the Board of Directors of the Arthur Erickson Foundation, a Vancouver-based, non-profit organization with a mandate based on education, stewardship, and preservation of the both the architectural legacy of Arthur Erickson and the House and Garden where Erickson lived for more than 50 years.

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In 2023-2024, he was Guest Curator for the exhibition Being There (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 14 November 2024 - 23 March 2025), an exhibition in the Octagonal Gallery exploring the photography, field notes and copious correspondence that constitute the travel diaries of celebrated Canadian Architect Arthur Erickson, and examining the impact of his travels on his writings, public presentations and architectural work. ( )

He was a member of a task force working with the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and Athabasca University on the design and implementation of a new professional architecture program based on a hybrid model that combines internship with traditional design teaching and online education. The work of the group was recognized by Athabasca University in June 2012 with awards of the Order of Athabasca to each of the members of the task force. He was a member of the RAIC Syllabus National Advisory Group until December 2017 and is still active as a member of Athabasca University鈥檚 Program Advisory Committee for Architecture.

Covo is a past president of the Canadian Architectural Certification Board and has participated as a member of the Visiting Teams for program reviews at Dalhousie (observer), the University of Calgary (member), Carleton (Chair) and the University of Manitoba (Chair). He has also participated in internal program reviews of the School of Architecture for both UBC and Toronto Metropolitan University. In 2012 he was a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects Visiting Team for the accreditation of Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest, and in 2019 he was a member of the UNESCO-UIA Visiting Team for the accreditation of the Department of Architectural Engineering and Technology at Cairo University.

In 2014, he served as the Professional Advisor for the inaugural cycle of the Moriyama RAIC International Prize and served again as the Professional Advisor for the 2017, 2019 and 2022 editions of the Prize. He chaired the jury for the Ontario Association of Architects Design Excellence awards in 2016, the jury for the American Institute of Architects (Vermont Chapter) in 2015, and the design jury for the Public Works and Government Services Canada international competition for the Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay in 2012. Other panels on which he has served include the juries for the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg in 2005 and the transformation of the Mus茅e d鈥檃rt contemporain in Montreal in 2017.

An enthusiastic sailor, he is a past president of the sport governing bodies for sailing for both Quebec and Canada. He is currently Secretary-General of the Pan American Sailing Federation and a member of the Canadian delegation to World Sailing, the international governing body for the sport.