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Awards for Engineering Excellence

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The Awards for Engineering Excellence demonstrate the value ACEC-BC member firms offer to clients as they celebrate technical excellence and recognize innovation in consulting engineering that is simply a cut above the rest.

Dawson City Water Treatment Plant

Dawson City Water Treatment Plant

Associated Engineering

Dawson City provides residents with drinking water from four wells situated nearby the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers. The City’s aging water treatment plant did not meet the Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality for well water…

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North Thompson Emergency Water Intake

North Thompson Emergency Water Intake

WSP

Potable water supply for the entire City of Kamloops had always relied on a single raw water supply intake located in the South Thompson River. The City was extremely concerned that they were vulnerable to a city-wide loss of water supply in the…

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BCIT North Campus Infrastructure Project

BCIT North Campus Infrastructure Project

Binnie

A 2015 conditions assessment report informed the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) that the Receiving Power Substation, located on the north end of their Burnaby Campus, and its associated electrical infrastructure including unit substations were all at the end of their…

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Metro Vancouver Waste-to-Energy Facility

Metro Vancouver Waste-to-Energy Facility

HDR

Metro Vancouver is responsible for the long-term planning for sustainable waste management, including reducing waste, improving reuse and increasing recycling. Metro Vancouver is among the most successful jurisdictions in North America in reducing…

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Skins Lake Spillway Plunge Pool Remediation

Skins Lake Spillway Plunge Pool Remediation

Klohn Crippen Berger

The Nechako Reservoir was created in 1953 to supply water to the 896 MW Kemano Hydroelectric Generating Station, which provides power to Rio Tinto’s aluminum smelter at Kitimat. The Skins Lake Spillway is located approximately 200 km west of Prince George, British Columbia.

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Scour Protection at the South Surrey Interceptor

Scour Protection at the South Surrey Interceptor

Northwest Hydraulic Consultants

Metro Vancouver’s South Surrey Interceptor (SSI) sewer line crosses the navigation channel of the Fraser River immediately downstream of Alex Fraser Bridge. Over the past 35 years, a scour hole downstream of the SSI deepened

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