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2024 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.
Developing a robust approach, GHD tackles GHG emissions from extensive natural domain. Their integrated approach includes conventional and novel methods, addressing challenges and uncertainties. A milestone towards sustainable electricity resources.
Imagine 70 years of isolation—that’s what happened to fish in Sumgas Creek when impassable weirs were built in the 1950s. Stantec designed a new, passable stream channel with LNG Canada. Spawning salmon were seen upstream mere weeks after completion!
Wastewater systems aren’t meant to be seen, heard or smelled. End of life municipal infrastructure in Whistler not only increased maintenance costs and public health risks, it generated unpleasant odours & noise. Upgrades at 3 stations changed that.
Morrison Hershfield developed a portfolio-scale Climate Risk Assessment Framework tool that allows BC Housing to apply a standardized approach to integrating climate risk and resilience at its assets across the province.
GHD designed a set of scenarios to understand the implications and challenges of a heavy duty fleet transition for Transport Canada.
NHC completed a multi-disciplinary flood mapping project for the Nisg̱a’a Nation, which included surveying, river and coastal monitoring, studies on climate change, hydrology, hydraulics, coastal processes, geomorphology, and community engagement.
A novel seismic assessment methodology was utilized on the New St. Paul’s Hospital providing the Owner insight into post-earthquake performance and resilience of the structure and all its equipment, including estimated repair costs and repair times.
GHD designed 830m long 2.7m diameter tunnel with a 2.4m x 2.4m box culvert supported on piles for Metro Vancouver, which addressed liquifiable soils, artesian groundwater pressures, in a dense urban setting with environmentally sensitive areas.
The 84 Ave improvement project posed a myriad of challenges from heavy traffic, environmental concerns, and community engagement, in an effort to achieve Surrey’s sustainable transportation improvement objectives for the next decade.
The new $75 M Rose Valley WTP provides the City of West Kelowna with potable water. The legacy irrigation district customers were historically burdened by seasonal water quality advisories but now receive fully compliant, safe to consume water.
The Quartz Creek Bridge is a bridge replacement project to create a reliable, high-speed route from Kamloops to the Alberta Border. Spanning 180 meters, the new four-laning, lightweight bridge provides enhanced safety and traffic capacity.
The environmentally sensitive construction of the $60M Haisla Bridge provides safe & reliable access to Kitimat’s industrial lands while protecting aquatic habitat. Collaboration and partnerships have advanced reconciliation with the Haisla Nation.
ISL and the City of North Vancouver transformed Esplanade into a vibrant destination street prioritizing safety and mobility. Design firsts for the city and region focused on traffic flow, speed management and user safety within a restricted space.
The Royal Avenue Underpass Rehabilitation pursued net zero emissions in upgrading an aging structure by salvaging abutments, using a self-propelled modular transporter, and retrofitting the structural articulation to improve seismic performance.
AtkinsRéalis provided deck renewal engineering services for the Red Lillooet River Bridge on Hwy 99 in BC. In collaboration with the owner and the project team, the project improved public safety and bridge performance with a sustainable solution.
For this intersection improvement project, AtkinsRéalis provided new regional transit stops on Highway 17 to ensure schedule and travel time reliability at Mount Newton Cross Road. The project improved driv-er visibility and bus jump queues.
The Hwy 29 Realignment involved 5 new bridge crossings & was necessary as the new Site C reservoir will inundate the current highway. WSP addressed various technical challenges & successfully delivered the project prior to filling of Site C reservoir
The Vye Road, Highway 11 transportation improvement project is a significant investment to upgrade the infrastructure in Abbotsford. This project involved significant engineering challenges that were overcome to ensure successful completion.
The Vancouver Commissioner Street and Beecher Bay satellite base projects will play an essential role in enhancing the South Coast’s ongoing spill response program. Moffatt & Nichol provided full engineering through construction phase services.
BASIS Engineering designed an innovative solution for the Kicking Horse Canyon Ph4 project requiring numerous techniques and details for the use of compact precast components to allow for rapid bridge construction of Viaducts to span unstable slopes.