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Awards for Engineering Excellence
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.
Binnie
The Alex Fraser Bridge (AFB) is a critical commuter and goods movement road network crossing the Fraser River. With more than 120, 000 vehicles using the bridge daily, congestion was a growing problem, where road users were experiencing excessive delays and queues more than three kilometers long during rush hour…
Stantec
The British Columbia Institute of Technology (“BCIT”) North Campus Infrastructure project initially began as an upgrade to the school’s electrical infrastructure, with key unit substations approaching the end of their expected useful life. BCIT engaged Stantec to replace the 11 substations and related infrastructure, along with…
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…
SNC-Lavalin
As part of the Evergreen Extension completed in 2016, SNC-Lavalin designed and built the existing Vehicle Storage Facility (VSF) in Coquitlam, British Columbia. To assist our client, TransLink, to meet its objectives to address the…
Klohn Crippen Berger
The Bear Creek Dam Reservoir is the upstream storage reservoir for the Jordan River Project on Vancouver Island. Constructed in the 1970s, the Bear Creek Reservoir was designed as an as-needed water supply for the downstream Jordan River Diversion Dam…
ISL Engineering
Bowker Creek is an urban creek that travels through the University of Victoria campus, Saanich and Victoria before merging with the ocean through Oak Bay. Over time, much of the creek has been hidden underground in a series of storm sewers to accommodate urban development…
AECOM
From complex structural design to being Canada’s first dual platform transit station, the Commercial-Broadway upgrade project represented a number of engineering firsts for TransLink and a significant investment in Metro Vancouver’s busiest transit hub…
Klohn Crippen Berger
In 2015, Blackbird Infrastructure 407 General Partnership signed a $1.2 billion contract with Infrastructure Ontario to design, build, finance, and maintain the Highway 407 East Phase 2 Project. The project extends Highway 407 to the east approximately 22 kilometres, from Harmony Road in Oshawa to Highway 35/115…
Klohn Crippen Berger
Lois Lake Dam is a 59 m high double curvature arch dam with a crest length of 200 m and a thrust block supporting its right abutment. A gated intake is at the base of the dam’s body and its gate hoist steel tower is supported on the crest. A structurally independent spillway with six radial gates is on the right bank…
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…
ISL Engineering
The (1.6 km) stretch of the King Boulevard between 64 Avenue and Hall Road near the Newton Town Centre is a significant north/south transportation corridor in the City of Surrey. The six-lane roadway was mainly dominated by car-centric traffic, with little pedestrian accessibility, and limited convenience of transit travel.
WSP
TransLink’s RapidBus program is delivering a package of transit enhancements and customer amenity upgrades that supports bus speed and reliability and an improved experience on TransLink’s busiest bus routes. The RapidBus project consists of more than 60 km of bus priority infrastructure and over 120 upgraded bus stops across 10 communities in the Metro Vancouver region…
Mott MacDonald
The Global Infrastructure Hub (a G20 initiative) identified an opportunity to help governments and public-sector asset managers to improve the quality of infrastructure…
Parsons
The Regina Bypass Project was developed to satisfy several strategic objectives, including supporting the sustained population and job growth within Saskatchewan in general, and the Regina area specifically…
WSP and Morrison Hershfield
The new SE3P building at Simon Fraser University welcomed its first students in September 2019. This modern and distinctive facility was purpose- built to house Western Canada’s first accredited undergraduate sustainable…
COWI
The second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) aims to provide a comprehensive set of products, procedures, and best practices to help the transportation community enhance the productivity, efficiency, safety…
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.
Stantec
What do the Metropolitan Life Tower, the Empire State Building, and the Burj Khalifa have in common? They have all been—at one point in time—the tallest tower in the world. Civilizations have long reveled at the skyline, racing up and up. Stantec Tower was a chance for our team to touch the stars. We wanted to…
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
Parsons
The objective of the Wharf/Humboldt All Ages and Abilities (AAA) Bike Lanes project was to improve safety and reduce the risks of the most vulnerable road users along the corridor with complete street enhancements to encourage more cycling, walking, and transit trips…