Alberta consulting engineers fly high

AWARDS

Consulting Engineers of Alberta Showcase Awards were held at the Alberta Aviation Museum in Edmonton in January. Guests could put their engineering skills to the test in a paper airplane competition to raise money for the museum. Or, they could cool off at the bar, which was an airplane with a 14-foot wing span sculpted in ice.

Several projects won double honours. Techna-West Engineering won an award of excellence (international) and merit (small firm) for a fall protection safety system. Associated Engineering Industrial won an award of excellence (resource development) and merit (environmental) for the Rogers Sugar modernization in Taber.

Awards of excellence also went to: Acres International for fish screens at the Pine Coulee project, Stavely (small firm), UMA Engineering for Edmonton’s proactive combined sewer overflow long-term control plan (partnering), Stantec Consulting for the processing plant water re-use system at Lamb-Weston Potato Processing Plant, Taber (environmental), and EBA Engineering for Calgary International Airport Taxiway Juliett (infrastructure).

Merit awards went to AGRA Earth and Environmental/AGRA Monenco for the Suncor recycle water system in Fort McMurray, Keen Engineering/ Reid Crowther for Edmonton International Airport redevelopment, Techna-West Engineering for the Inland Cement plant upgrade in Edmonton, Reid Crowther for the Western Cities Partnership bridge management software, Acres International/Klohn-Crippen for the Pine Coulee offstream storage dam and diversion facilities in Stavely, SNC-Lavalin for the Athabasca terminal and pump station in Fort McMurray and for Poly Train III rail car wash in Fort Saskatchewan, AGRA Earth & Environmental for an International Training Course, integrated mine water management, and Hemisphere Engineering for the St. Joseph’s Composite High School modernization in Edmonton.