OTTAWA — Twenty projects undertaken around the world received the highest recognition for engineering excellence at the 2018 Canadian Consulting Engineering (CCE) Awards gala held in Ottawa Oct. 23.
Among the 20 projects that received awards of excellence, five were recognized with additional special achievement awards for demonstrating high levels of technical innovation, dedication to the environment, Canadian expertise abroad and engineering, explained an Association of Consulting Engineering Companies – Canada (ACEC) release.
In addition, ACEC presented three awards recognizing individuals and teams.
The 2018 Beaubien Award for lifetime achievement was presented to Chris Newcomb of McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. The Chair’s Award for exceptional contributions to the industry was given to the team at Public Services and Procurement Canada, led by assistant deputy minister Arianne Reza, for championing a qualifications-based selection pilot project. And the 2019 Allen D. Williams scholarship, recognizing a young professional’s commitment to consulting engineering, was awarded to Graham Lovely of MCW Consultants Ltd.
The top honour of the night, the Schreyer Award, went to Toronto’s HH Angus and Associates Limited for its Centre hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal (CHUM) project.
CHUM, located in downtown Montreal, is the largest hospital project in North America, indicated the release. HH Angus provided consulting engineering services for all mechanical, electrical and security systems on behalf of Construction Sante Montreal. The firm was required to adopt a multipronged approach to the design and management of the project, the awards citation noted, with a compressed timeframe where design and construction would proceed in parallel. HH Angus developed a strategy to deliver systems packages using standardized mechanical and electrical products in conjunction with sequential contracts and installation contractors.
“The Centre hospitalier de l’Universite de Montreal is a landmark project in Canadian health care, and we are extremely proud that this complex project and our innovative work there have been recognized,” said Nick Stark, principal vice-president of knowledge management for HH Angus, in the release.
The Mississauga, Ont. Hatch office earned three awards, one of which was an ambassador award for its project Enhancing Dam Safety in Nepal. Hatch and Manitoba Hydro International along with local Nepalese consultant TMS assisted the Government of Nepal in reducing the risks associated with hydroelectric power projects over the next 30 years.
Hatch and FHR Inc. also received an award of excellence for their project Reducing Life Safety Risks to the Kashechewan First Nation Community, which is located at the Lower Albany River delta in northern Ontario. The partners created two tools to assess the risk of flooding
The third award of excellence presented to Hatch’s Mississauga office was for its Chaudiere Falls Hydroelectric Redevelopment Project on the Ottawa River. Hatch was retained to conduct detailed engineering throughout the life of the project, which included the planning stage, design phase, procurement, installation, operation and commissioning of the new 29-megawatt generating station, noted the release.
Two other Ontario projects earning awards were the Area Risk Assessment for the Ship-Source Spills project undertaken by Fredericton firm Dillon Consulting Limited in Ottawa and another Ottawa area project, Bouthillette Parizeau’s Bank of Canada Head Office Renewal Project.
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