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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.
As the largest and oldest university in British Columbia, UBC saw a need to renew its existing pump station to serve the growing campus of nearly 60,000 people. Stantec provided multi-disciplinary services for a new pump station to supply stable water supply to the campus…
The Kanaka Creek is designated as a Major Route structure and forms part of the BCMoTI’s critical route in response to a disaster. There are five lanes of traffic, two northbound lanes to Maple Ridge and three southbound lanes to Albion…
Binnie was engaged by TransLink to manage the implementation of Compass— TransLink’s contactless fare collection system—on HandyDART. This project involved significant engagement and communications efforts, installing equipment on the buses, developing and implementing a technical solution…
In California, the transformative BART Silicon Valley Project is expanding the BART network through Santa Clara County, to “ring the Bay” with rapid transit and to reduce congestion and emissions. Mott MacDonald’s computational design approach supported the defining engineering feature…
The Capital Regional District’s largest infrastructure program saw nine major capital projects delivered in four years, on time and budget. Stantec provided planning, technical support, and Owner’s Engineer services to deliver a new 108 ML/d tertiary treatment and biosolids treatment facility…
Maps were created that show the tsunami hazards, including the extent of how flooding affects communities (Figure 3) and how fast current speeds will put mariners out on the water at risk (Figure 4). Results also include tsunami arrival times, which on the open west coast of Vancouver Island…
This UBC and Vancouver Coastal Health project installed three new electron microscopes in the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre of Brain Health’s basement. MCW designed mechanical and electrical renovations to the support control and equipment room space to accommodate the new microscopes. UBC’s research team…
Harrison River Bridge is a 2-lane, 9-span bridge, 314m long and built in 1956. A movable bridge, the swing span has 2 steel girders supported by a turntable on Pier 5. The pier is protected by a timber fender system with extensive decay. Mott MacDonald oversaw…
The H-Frame removal project consisted of BC Hydro removing over 350 H-Frame wooden poles with overhead wires and electrical equipment from Downtown Vancouver to improve reliability and safety concerns. The H-Frames are replaced with underground services in easy-access vaults…
To construct the Site C Dam, the Peace River has been diverted through two tunnels. A temporary debris boom was put in place to catch debris upstream of the diversion tunnels to prevent potential blockage. The debris boom installed is unlike a traditional debris boom because….
The original water level was maintained following the construction which allowed local use and land impoundment to be maintained. It meets the latest dam safety guidelines and is designed to safely pass water during the design flood without manual gate operation. The removal of the manual gate…
The Klohn Crippen Berger and Hatch team developed a new boom design for BC Hydro that vastly improved functionality and durability versus traditional booms. The result is…