Three BC Firms Recognized at Canadian Consulting Engineer Awards

Three BC consulting engineering companies are among the winners of the 2006 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards, announced October 26, 2006 at a gala celebration held at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. Along with the prestigious Schreyer Award, there are ten Awards of Excellence recipients. In addition to the BC firms, two of the winning consulting engineering companies are from Alberta, four from Quebec, and three from Ontario.

Held annually, the awards recognize recently completed projects by consulting engineering firms that demonstrate innovative and imaginative engineering. They are sponsored by the Association of Consulting Engineers of Canada (ACEC) and the Canadian Consulting Engineer magazine. The BC firms honoured were CH2M Hill, Stantec Consulting, and Buckland and Taylor.

In the Water Resources & Energy Protection Category, CH2M Hill was recognized for their work on the Arrow Creek Water Treatment Plant in Erickson, BC. The firm researched, developed and built Canada’s first no-chlorine water treatment plant and distribution system for the Regional District of Central Kootenay, one that meets all Canadian drinking water guidelines.

In the same category, Stantec Consulting won for the Kamloops Centre for Water Quality. This treatment plant uses membrane filtration to process water and is the largest of its kind in North America. It is designed to achieve 99% efficiency, and has a partial green roof and was designed with sustainability in mind. The facility contains classrooms, laboratories and office space.

In the Transportation category, McCormick Rankin Corporation and Vancouver-based bridge specialists Buckland and Taylor were recognized for their work on the expansion and retrofit of the Queenston-Lewiston International Bridge between Ontario’s Queen Elizabeth Way and New York State’s I-190. The consultants’ task was to strengthen and widen the bridge to meet current safety standards and to ease congestion.

More information on the Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards can be found on the Canadian Consulting Engineer website at www.canadianconsultingengineer.com/awards.

The full list of winners is as follows:

Schreyer Award

Industrial Water Reuse at Gold bar Wastewater Treatment Plant, Edmonton
Associated Engineering
Category: Natural Resources, Mining and Industry

Awards of Excellence

Canadian War Museum Structural Engineering, Ottawa
Adjeleian Allen Rubeli Ltd. (Ottawa, Ont.)
Category: Buildings

Lassonde Pavilions/Pavillons Lassonde, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal
Bouthillette Parizeau et associés, Pageau Morel et associés, and Pasquin St-Jean et associés, experts-conseils inc. (Montreal, Que.)
Category : Buildings

Marine Infrastructure at Puvirnituq/Infrastructures Maritimes à Purvirnituq, Nunavik
CIMA+ (Rivière du Loup, Que.)
Category, Transportation

Queenston-Lewiston International Bridge Fifth Lane Project, Ontario
McCormick Rankin Corporation (Toronto, Ont.)/Buckland and Taylor Ltd (Vancouver, BC)
Category: Transportation

Arrow Creek Water Treatment Plant, Erickson, BC
CH2M Hill (Burnaby, BC)
Category: Water Resources & Energy Production

Toulnustouc Dam/Barrage hydroélectrique de la Toulnustouc, Baie Comeau (Que.)
RSW Inc. (Montreal, Que.)
Category: Water Resources & Energy Production

Kamloops Centre for Water Quality, BC
Stantec Consulting (Kamloops, BC)
Category: Water Resources & Energy Production

Nitchequon Former Meteorological Station Remediation
Golder Associates Ltd. (Montreal, Que.)
Category: Environment

Turtle Mountain Monitoring, Crowsnest Pass, Alberta
AMEC Earth & Environmental (Calgary, Alta.)
Category: Studies, Software & Special Projects

Explosive Detection Systems at Canada’s Airports
Marshall Macklin Monaghan Limited (Toronto, Ont.)
Category: Project Management