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WINNER
Project: Whistler Athletes' Village Low-Temperature District Energy-Sharing System
Frank Belfry, P.Eng.
-Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd. and
William Vaughan, P.Eng.
-DEC Design Mechanical Consultants Limited
FINALISTS
Project: District of West Vancouver's Eagle Lake Membrane Filtration Facility
Sean Brophy and Walt Bayless
Dayton & Knight Ltd.
Project: Ashlu Creek Hydroelectric Project
Charlie Harrison, P.Eng., Catherine Tremblay, P.Eng.
-Golder Associates Ltd. & RSW Inc.
Project: Hazard and Risk from Large Landslides from Mount Meager Volcano
Pierre Friele, P.Geo., Matthias Jakob, PhD, John Clague, P.Geo., PhD
-Cordilleran Geoscience, BGC Engineering Inc., Centre for Natural Hazard Research, Simon Fraser University
Judges
Ralph Sultan, MLA, P.Eng., PhD
Phil Sunderland, P.Eng.
Mahmoud, Mahmoud, P.Eng., PhD
MC: James Blake, P.Eng.
Purpose
The purpose of this award is to promote Engineering and Geoscience in the Sea to Sky Branch and to give recognition to exceptional projects.
Theme
The Theme of entries will be “our sustainable community”.
Qualification
There are three primary criteria: time of completion, location and APEGBC affiliation. The award will be presented to a project that has been completed between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009. The project must be within the Sea to Sky Branch area as defined by APEGBC by meeting one of the following criteria: being physically located in the Sea to Sky Branch area, or the lead design company or the design company’s project leader or designer must be located in the Sea to Sky Branch area. The project leader, lead design, or a crucial project member must be a member, limited licensee, member in training or student in good standing with APEGBC.
Nominations
Projects must be nominated by the lead design engineering or geoscience firm. Nominations should be in the form of a 3 to 5 page project description that describes how the project meets the judging criteria. The Nomination shall be submitted in PDF format by email to tverigin@apeg.bc.ca. The nomination deadline is extended from March 10 to March 30, 2010. Up to four finalists will be chosen by April 25, 2010. Award date is Thursday, May 13, 2010.The finalists will each prepare a PDF file that is suitable for public display describing and illustrating the project. The PDF file should be designed to be printed on a display board at high resolution at a size of 36 inches by 48 inches. The Sea to Sky Branch will print and mount the display boards. Submitted files may be displayed at branch or other APEGBC activities or online.
Judging
The judging of the nominations is to be based on the following criteria:
1. Promotion of Engineering and Geoscience - how well the project promotes engineering and geoscience to the public. The positive image of the engineering and geoscience aspects of the project should be described.
2. Innovation of Design - how the innovative Engineering or Geoscience design is a benefit to Society. Benefits to society can include: sustainable design initiatives, health benefits, and/or improved educational opportunities. However, depending upon the project being considered the judges may choose to consider other factors that can be considered benefits to society.
3. Compliance with the theme of “our sustainable community”.
The esteemed judges for the 2010 Peak of Excellence award are: Dr. Ralph Sultan, MLA, P.Eng. Phil Sunderland, P.Eng. FEC, Dr Mahmoud Mahmoud, P. Eng.
Award
An award suitable for display will be presented to the winner at a Sea to Sky Branch Dinner Meeting on Thursday, May 13, 2010. Honourable mentions will receive a framed certificate.
The finalist will be asked to have a representative at the awards dinner to accept the award and to give a 25 minute presentation on the project.
Contact
Electronic submissions are preferred.
Email submissions should be sent to: tverigin@apeg.bc.ca. Hard copy submissions may be sent to:
Sea to Sky Branch
Peak of Excellence Award
c/o APEGBC
Attention: Tim Verigin
200 - 4010 Regent Street
Burnaby, BC V5C 6N2
Sea to Sky Branch Dinner Meeting on Thursday, May 13, 2010
The judging for the 2009 Peak of Excellence award has been suspended until next year. Submissions are still being accepted but will be considered for the Peak of Excellence Award in 2010. Thank you!
The purpose of the recognition award is to promote engineering and geoscience in the Sea to Sky Branch and to give recognition to exceptional projects.
There are three primary criteria, time of completion, location and APEGBC affiliation.
The award will be awarded for a project that is completed between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008.
The project must be related to the Sea to Sky Branch area as defined by APEGBC by: being physically located in the Sea to Sky Branch area, or the lead design company, or the design company’s project leader or designer must be located in the Sea to Sky Branch area. The project leader or lead design person or a crucial project member must be a member, limited license practitioner, member in training or student in good standing with APEGBC
Projects must be nominated by the lead design engineering or geology firm. Nominations should be in the form of a 3 to 5 page project description that describes how the project meets the judging criteria. The Nomination shall be submitted in Adobe Acrobat by email: This must be submitted by January 28, 2009. Up to four finalists will be chosen by February 5, 2009. The finalists will each prepare an adobe Acrobat file capable of high resolution printing on display board describing and illustrating the project that is suitable for public display. The Acrobat file should be designed to be printed on a display board at high resolution to a 900mm by 1200mm size. Printing and mounting of the display boards will be paid for by the Sea to Sky Branch. Submitted files may be displayed at branch or other APEGBC activities and web sites.
The judging of the nominations is to be based on the following criteria:
- 1. Promotion of Engineering - To address how well the project promotes engineering to the public. Should be a measure of the positive image the engineering of the project has to the public.
- 2. Innovation of Design - A measure of how innovative the engineering is.
Benefit to Society - A benefit to society can include a wide variety of things. It is foreseen that this category would include sustainable design initiatives, health benefits, improved educational opportunities. However, depending upon the project being considered the judges may choose to consider other factors that are of a benefit to society.
An award, suitable for display will be presented to the winner at a Sea to Sky Branch Dinner Meeting on February 25, 2009. The award will also be announced in an advertisement in the local newspaper(s) in the Sea to Sky Branch. Honorable mentions will receive a framed certificate.
The finalists will be asked to have a representative at the awards dinner to accept the award and to give a 10-20 minute presentation on the project. It will also be announced in an advertisement in some of the local newspapers.
Electronic submissions are preferred.
Email submissions should be sent to: james@webgeer.com
Enquiries can be e-mailed to: james@webgeer.com
Hard copy submissions may be sent to:
Sea to Sky Branch
Peak of Excellence Award
APEGBC
200 - 4010 Regent Street
Burnaby, BC
V5C 6N2
The Winner of the 2007 Peak of Excellence Award is:
Fraser River Flood Modelling
Northwest Hydraulic Consultants
In 2006, Fraser Basin Council retained northwest hydraulic consultants (nhc) to develop a state-of-the-art numerical model of the river based on detailed surveys of the channel and floodplain. The model was calibrated to known recorded floods and then used to calculate the water levels that would result from a re-occurrence of the 1894 flood of record, the adopted design flood. Results showed that there is a serious flood threat along the river, with the potential for a number of dikes to be overtopped. The direct damage from a major flood is estimated to exceed $2 billion and indirect economic losses are expected to be much higher than direct costs.
The other finalists of the Peak of Excellence award were:
Sea-to-Sky Highway Improvements DBFO Project Structure 1190
Hatch Mott MacDonald
The 65-kms of highway improvements are subdivided into design-build (DB) sections with DB4 comprising the most challenging terrain along the corridor. Through this 10-km stretch, the additional lanes are nearly all founded on either new walls or downslope structures designed to withstand seismic loads. One of the more difficult structures completed in DB4 is 1190, a continuous three span bridge built from prestressed concrete girders supported on unique concrete substructures.
.At a modest 100-m in length it would be easy to conclude that bridge 1190 was a simple feat. In fact it was quite the contrary, with an array of interesting features that allow it to span the steep mountainous topography in an efficient manner.
Whistler Sliding Centre
Stantec
The Whistler Sliding Centre (WSC) represents a collaborative effort between the Stantec consulting team and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympics Games (VANOC). The WSC is a combined bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track with 1700 l.m. of refrigerated length, numerous permanent structures including start and weigh houses, sport and track operation buildings, control tower and a maintenance facility. The WSC is located between Blackcomb and Whistler Mountains adjacent to Fitzsimmons Creek in Whistler, BC.
On February 28, 2008, the Sea to Sky Branch announced the winner of the 2007 Peak of Excellence award. This award was given for the Fraser
River Floor Modelling by northwest hydraulic consultants. The award was accepted by Monica Mannerstrom, P. Eng. of northwest hydraulic consultants.
Our panel of judges who
selected the winner includes Ralph Sultan, P.Eng. , MLA for West Vancouver-Capilano, Vivian Vaughan, P.Eng., Councilor with the District
of West Vancouver, Phil Sunderland, P.Eng.,Past President of APEGBC, and John
Robertson, P. Eng. former Chief Building Official at
the City of Vancouver, and James Blake, P. Eng. former Chair of the Sea to Sky Branch.
Ralph Sultan, MLA for West Vancouver-Capilano gave the following statement in the Legislative Assembly:
2008 Legislative Session: Fourth Session, 38th Parliament
Official Report of
DEBATES OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
(Hansard)
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008
Afternoon Sitting
Volume 28, Number 2
Ralph Sultan, MLA
West Vancouver-Capilano
ENGINEERING COMPETITION FINALISTS
IN SEA TO SKY AREA
R. Sultan: Fulfilling a secret ambition, I recently became a judge. I joined other members of the Association of Professional Engineers in evaluating projects performed by engineers of the Sea to Sky Branch.
First finalist in the competition was Fraser River flood modelling by Northwest Hydraulic Consultants and senior engineer Monica Mannerstrom. Last year very high snowpacks prompted the Ministry of Environment to ask her to move into real time. NHC predicted water levels at 70 locations from Hope all the way down to Steveston, contributing greatly to public safety.
Second finalist was Stantec's Olympic sliding centre at Whistler. You can now drive your bobsled down 1,700 metres of track at 150 kilometres an hour, experiencing five Gs on 17 hairpin turns. As you do, pray for the accuracy of the engineering calculations of the curve geometry. Laurenz Kosichek explained that tourists are now welcome, but he recommends starting halfway down the track.
Third finalist was Hatch Mott McDonald, Sea to Sky highway designs, constructed by Peter Kiewit Sons, in the riding of my colleague from West Vancouver–Garibaldi. Engineer Shaun Valdevinos explained how they attached a four-lane highway to a cliffside running all the way from West Vancouver to Squamish. With tight budgets and even tighter deadlines, unexpected faulted rocks necessitated redesign on the fly successfully.
So judges, which was it to be — Northwest, Stantec or Hatch? Any one of them could have been the winner. Please congratulate Monica Mannerstrom and Northwest Hydraulics for helping keep the Fraser Valley dry.
There was also coverage in the bright lights section of the March 12, 2008 North Shore News.
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