Consulting Engineers of Alberta announces winners of its 2014 awards.

Consulting Engineers of Alberta gave out their annual Showcase Awards on February 6 at a gala event at the Edmonton Expo Centre.

“The winners this year are exceptional examples of what can be done by Alberta’s consulting engineering community,” said CEA President Craig Clifton, P.Eng. He noted that the winning projects are in rural and urban sites in Alberta as well as one in Nunavut and one in California.

In total 12 awards of excellence were given, including four to Stantec, and three to SMA Consulting.

The full list of Awards of Excellence winners is as follows:

Sacramento Municipal Utility District – Stantec Consulting (sustainable design and international categories);

North LRT Drainage Project, City of Edmonton — SMA Consulting (project management);

Gold Bar Thickener/Fermenter Simulator, EPCOR, Edmonton — SMA Consulting (small firm, big impact);

Glacier Skywalk, Jasper National Park — Read Jones Christoffersen (building engineering);

Shawnee Park Subdivision Land Use Re-designation and Outline Plan, Calgary — AECOM Canada (community development);

Linking Science and Community, Kugluktuk, Nunavut — Golder Associates (community outreach/in-house initiatives);

Gregoire East Sanitary Sewer Outfall, Fort McMurray — Associated Engineering Alberta (environmental);

Oil Sands Technology Deployment Roadmaps, Calgary — Golder Associates (natural resources, mining and industry);

North Highway Connector, Red Deer — Stantec Consulting (transportation infrastructure);

Earned Value Integrated Monitoring System, Edmonton — SMA Consulting (studies/software/special services);

Wandering River Pipeline and Reservoir Design Build — Stantec Consulting (water resources & energy production).

In addition, 11 awards of merit were presented. They went to SMA Consulting, MPE Engineering, Williams Engineering, MMM Group, Stantec Consulting, OPUS Stewart Weir, Golder Associates, CH2M HILL Canada, AECOM Canada, and MPE Engineering.