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International
Infrastructure Protection in Haiti – Ambassador Award & Award of Excellence
Jury Comments: “Winner of the special
award for international
work is this project in a
Caribbean country that is
subject to dramatic weather events. The engineers proposed all manner of civil works to help contain flooding and help to sustain the agricultural community. Perhaps as important is the transfer of knowledge to the Island residents, helping them to continue to make improvements.”Rio Abajo Footbridge – Outreach Award & Award of Excellence
Jury Comments: “Winners of the Outreach special award, COWI engineers reviewed the design for this 81-metre footbridge, provided funding and sent a team to help with the construction. The bridge crosses a fast-moving river and gives the remote community its first year-round access to schools, clinics and markets in a nearby town.
The impact of the project is truly life changing both for the community and the engineers involved.”Coastal Protection, Cotonou, Benin – Award of Excellence
Jury Comments: “This six-year program was to stop erosion of 13 kilometres of shoreline that was causing serious problems folocal residents. The construction of new breakwaters was done with environmental sensitivity and we especially liked how the engineers involved local engineers from the beginning.”
Company news round-up: Hatch in China, WSP on New Mobility, and IBI at Ryerson
Hatch has established a new joint venture with a Chinese investment company, Zhongshe Baiqi. The newly-formed Hatch Beijing Environment & Technology Co. (HBET) is intended to provide solutions to some of the most serious environmental issues facing China today. Prime…
Water supply becomes protest weapon in India
Protestors in New Delhi, India, cut off the water supply to millions of citizens for three days at the end of February. The Jats, a farming group who are upset that they are excluded from quotas for university and government…
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Award of Excellence: Improving Water Supply in Mozambique
“We liked the fact that the funding clients used Canadian engineering expertise for this project in a struggling sub-Saharan country. The engineers provided eight cities with master plans for their water needs for the next 20 years, and they oversaw construction of one system. The solutions were appropriately designed to be low-maintenance.” – Jury
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Canadian consulting engineers face game-changing world
Panelist at ACEC conference spells out impacts of globalization and environmental movements on companies and their employees.
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Canadian bridge engineers win international acclaim
Another two Canadian consulting engineering teams have won international awards. Buckland & Taylor/COWI of North Vancouver won the Honor Award at the Engineering Excellence Awards Gala in Washington, D.C. on April 21 for the Milton-Madison Bridge Replacement project. The bridge…
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Stantec redesigns Canada House in Trafalgar Square
It’s not every consultant’s project that warrants a visit from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, but last week on February 19 the monarch officially re-opened Canada House in London, U.K., a project by Stantec. Home of the Canadian High Commission, the…
Auditor General finds lack of direction in CIDA
Canada is the fourth largest exporter of engineering services in the world, and traditionally a large portion …
Impounded dam may have contributed to Wenchuan Earthquake
The American Geophysical Union has published a research paper suggesting that the construction of a reservoir …
