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ACEC Manitoba celebrates 20th Awards of Excellence
This year’s top Award, the Keystone, was presented to the team of Teshmont Consultants and Stantec for the Manitoba Hydro Bipole III High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) project.
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Latest Infrastructure Resilience Publication focuses on buildings and lifeline standards
The book zeroes in on the enhancements needed in the design and construction of buildings and lifeline systems (communications, electric power, water, transportation) to support a community’s social stability, economic vitality, and environmental sustainability.
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SNC-Lavalin joint-venture entering $1B contract to decommission U.S. nuclear plant
Entergy Corp. has agreed to sell the subsidiaries that own Indian Point Units 1, 2, and 3 sites, located in Buchanan, N.Y., to a subsidiary of SNC’s joint venture partner for decommissioning.
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Smith + Andersen’s recent personnel appointments
The national firm announces eight appointments across offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Ottawa and Toronto.
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Team selected for healthcare P3 project in Newfoundland
The Newfoundland and Labrador Healthcare Partners team was selected to design, build, finance and maintain the Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor Care Homes project.
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Newfoundland shortlists teams for new mental health facility
The successful proponent will be announced in 2020, with construction to start months later.
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ACEC-BC Celebrates 30th Annual Awards
The top prize, the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Engineering Excellence, was awarded to WSP Canada Group Ltd. for the firm’s New Solutions for Safe Water in Remote Communities project.
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Survey: Your experience in Industry
Researchers from the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University are inviting engineers working in industry to participate in an online survey about their engineering career experiences.
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Stantec appoints Crowe as regional leader for Atlantic Canada
With the firm for over 22 years, Peter Crowe previously served in a leadership position for the geotechnical engineering group in Stantec’s Canada Central and Atlantic regions.
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SNC-Lavalin sells partial stake in Hwy 407 toll road
Based on the terms of the agreement, gross proceeds to SNC-Lavalin from the sale could reach $3.25B in aggregate.
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Saskatchewan helping municipalities fund clean-up of abandoned contaminated sites
First priority will be given to sites that pose the greatest risk to human or ecological health.
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Union Bay, BC, water treatment plant moving forward
Union Bay Improvement District worked with Koers Engineering to develop and design a new treatment plant that meets provincial standards.
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Oxford Properties unveils designs for transformation of Toronto’s Park Hyatt hotel
The heritage-designated South Tower will be retained and restored, making it the first high-rise in Toronto to be totally retained in an adaptive re-use project.
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Nanticoke Solar 44 megawatt project complete
The new solar field consists of 192,431 solar panels spanning 260 acres on the shore of Lake Erie.
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SNC-Lavalin secures $663M deal for Ottawa LRT extension
When factored to include the long-term cost to maintain and rehabilitate both the existing Trillium Line and its new extension, the total project is valued at $1.6 billion.
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Investments announced for Saskatchewan water works
The governments of Canada and Saskatchewan will each provide more than $27.3 million for eight water resource infrastructure projects.
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Feds funding flood protection in Toronto and York Region
Over $150 million in funding announced for four flooding and storm mitigation projects in the T.O. and the neighbouring Regional Municipality of York
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Ontario opens up funding window for transit projects outside GTHA
This stream of funding, up to $1.62B, will provide for construction, expansion and improvement of public transit networks in 85 eligible Ontario municipalities.
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New University of Toronto building spurred on by $100M donation
The university plans to begin construction on the first phase of the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Centre in the fall of 2019.
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Feds fund flood protection project in Southern Alberta
The government of Canada has committed $168.5 million for the Springbank Off-Stream Reservoir project, a design that will protect Calgary and other downstream communities from the potential damage caused by extreme flooding.
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Energy efficiency guide for ice rinks
Vancouver-based SWICH Services Inc., a company that sources energy and emission friendly technologies from around the world, has released its Arena Guide Go Green framework for rinks, providing information for arena operators on how to improve facility performance.
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Ontario opens online channel for rural/northern infrastructure funding
The Rural and Northern stream of the Investing in Canada Infrastructure Program, open for Ontario communities with populations under 100,000, gives them eight weeks to nominate their road and bridge projects online.
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Infrastructure Ontario reaching beyond its borders
The Crown agency is known around the world for developing successful public-private partnership (P3) projects.
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Manitoba boosts infrastructure and water resources funding
An additional $10 million in unconditional operating funding to rural municipalities to support critical infrastructure needs, and a $2 million increase to the Manitoba Water Services Board capital budget.
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B.C. building code to allow 12-storey mass timber builds
B.C. has obtained permission from the National Research Council to use the encapsulated mass-timber construction provisions from the 2020 National Building Code through a jurisdiction-specific regulation.
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Flood resilience investment in Edmonton
Over $53 million in federal funding committed for several flood mitigation projects in Edmonton including the building of new dry ponds.
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Edmonton LRT extension funding confirmed
It will take about one year to select a contractor for the Valley Line West LRT extension project, and about one year to complete design and select a contractor for the Metro Line Northwest LRT extension. Construction for both is anticipated to begin as early as 2020.
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SNC-Lavalin scores three-year Australian oil & gas project
The three-year framework agreement with Chevron Australia will see the firm provide multi-disciplinary engineering and design services.
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Entuitive acquires Brown & Co. Engineering Ltd.
The addition of the structural engineering firm will add to Entuitive’s existing core services in the areas of bridge engineering, project management, and construction engineering.
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Public Services and Procurement Canada introduces Better Buying
The plan is based on three pillars: building a modern procurement foundation; delivering a simpler, responsive and accessible procurement system; and advancing socio-economic goals, increasing competition and fostering innovation.
