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Project Awards
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.
After severe storms hit British Columbia in November 2021, AECOM provided emergency assistance to reinstate the Trans-Canada Highway at the Tank Hill underpass where road and rail infrastructure had been destroyed. AECOM mobilized a team to reinstate…
The McLoughlin Point WWTP is providing wastewater treatment for the first time to the Capital Regional District population, using state-of-the-art tertiary treatment processes, in a highly compact facility. Marine works included a horizontally directionally drilled…
First Nations communities on Vancouver Island are vulnerable to coastal storms and tsunamis, as well as to climate-induced sea level rise. Parsons created a unique hydrodynamic model covering 2,500 km x 2,100 km of the Pacific, superimposed with detailed local models, to identify tsunami…
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action, the Associated Engineering team adopted a Community-Circle Approach for this project. Through open dialogue and idea sharing with all stakeholders and the project team…
The Maplewood Marine Restoration Project restored over 4.5 hectares of marine habitat at a site which holds cultural significance & was identified as a priority by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. The project involved more than 230,000…
The new 1,800-seat stadium at Simon Fraser University is home to the SFU Athletics Team and a new facility for community and student events. The crowning piece of the design is a striking CLT canopy which cantilevers 16 metres, providing weather protection…
Barnard substation was built in 1950/60’s and needed investment to meet energy demands of next 20 years and improve safety of workers and public. This project was more complex than normal because we encountered a number of significant challenges. Given the age of the facility…
The Church’s past was considered throughout the project, maintaining its character and fabric where practical while providing a revitalized modern-day structure. The granite and terracotta facades were repaired, restored, and seismically restrained on the exterior…
The Canal Lachine Bridge is a signature, curved, cable stayed bridge in downtown Montréal, Québec as part of the $1.5 billion Design-Build Turcot Project. The 350-m long structure uses an innovative, highly redundant composite steel grillage system…
When a new temporary marine terminal on BC’s north coast had to be designed, permitted, and installed in only ten weeks, Westmar Advisors developed a unique design that combined offshore technology with floating components to meet the fast-track schedule. The reduced…
Klohn Crippen Berger was contracted to replace critical reservoir control valves in the lower-level outlet at St Mary Dam, while maintaining water flows critical to the region’s agriculture industry and wildlife. Through innovative construction…
The Capital Regional District’s new Macaulay Point Pump Station is BC’s largest municipal sewage pump station and, with a capacity of 400MLD, it can fill an Olympic size swimming pool in 9 minutes and is still optimized for daily flows. Rather than designing and selecting…
The expanded the Building Envelope Thermal Bridging (BETB) Guide includes details applicable to all Canadian climates and energy codes. A first-of-its-kind online database, ThermalEnvelope.ca, lets users can easily search over 600 building envelope details, compare approaches to mitigate thermal….