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2025 Natural Resource & Habitat
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.
The Salton Sea Species Conservation Habitat Project, designed by the Knight Piésold-Kiewit team, revitalized over 4,000 acres of aquatic and terrestrial habitats along the shores of the Salton Sea, a below sea level saltwater lake in California.
The Klamath River Renewal Project is the largest dam removal and river restoration project in US history, involving the removal of four hydroelectric dams along the Klamath River to restore volitional fish passage to historic spawning grounds.
The Skuhun Creek and Nicola River restoration project was designed by BGC Engineering and Kerr Wood Leidal in collaboration with the Scw’exmx Tribal Council, Shackan Indian Band, Rock Solid Industries, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Guichon Creek’s transformation is a triumph of resilience and innovation. What started as a culvert failure became an opportunity to daylight a lost waterway, restore critical fish habitat, and construct a naturalized fishway.
GHD was retained by CPKC to provide environmental emergency response and consulting services associated with an incident resulting in the release of grain and diesel fuel, that occurred in February 2024, near Revelstoke, British Columbia.
As part of the largest fish habitat project undertaken by BC Hydro, NHC designed and engineered 6.5 hectares of aquatic habitat along the Peace River to benefit fish populations during the operations of the Site C Clean Energy project.
Nestled in Burnaby Lake Regional Park, the Burnaby Lake Rowing Pavilion is located in an environmentally sensitive habitat that is home to turtles, beavers, ducks, salmon, and other wildlife. The site is a bird sanctuary where blue herons, eagles, kingfishers…