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2023 CANADIAN CONSULTING ENGINEERING AWARDS / PRIX CANADIENS DU GÉNIE-CONSEIL
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his year marks the 55th annual edition of the Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards, a program produced jointly by Canadian Consulting Engineer magazine and the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies – Canada (ACEC-Canada). The awards are the longest-running and most important national mark of recognition for consulting engineers in Canada. The following pages present this year’s 20 Award of Excellence winners, selected from more than 70 qualifying entries from across the country. From these top 20 selections, the competition’s esteemed jury singled out five for Special Awards. The Schreyer Award, the top prize presented to the project that best demonstrates technical excellence and innovation, went to Hatch for the K3 expansion project’s south shaft headframe at Mosaic’s enormous potash mine in Esterhazy, Sask. The jury praised the firm for focusing heavily on health and safety and being innovative with techniques that are now being adopted elsewhere in the industry. The Engineering a Better Canada Award, which honours the project that best showcases how engineering enhances the social, economic or cultural quality of life of Canadians, was presented to Stantec for Library and Archives Canada’s (LAC’s) ambitious preservation storage facility, which stood out to the jury as the largest automated archival system in the world, built to last for “a time frame of 500 years.” The Breton Environmental Award (formerly known as the Tree for Life Award), presented to the project that ccemag.com
K3 Expansion – South Shaft Headframe
LAC Preservation Storage Facility
Standing Column Wells for Clé-des-Champs School
REFAM Argan Predictive Model
Million Meals Campaign
best demonstrates outstanding environmental stewardship, went to gbi for demonstrating the viability of a geothermal heat exchanger with permanent column wells at Clé-desChamps primary school, to reduce energy consumption and emissions. The Ambassador Award, which honours projects constructed or executed outside Canada that best showcase Canadian engineering expertise, went to WSP for developing a predictive model for argan tree production in Morocco and integrating it into a new geoportal, which aims to help promote the economic empowerment of women working in this traditional agricultural sector. Finally, the Outreach Award, which goes to the project that best demonstrates donation of a firm’s time and/or services for the benefit of a community or group, was presented to Dillon Consulting for the Million Meals Campaign to combat food insecurity across Canada. The jury praised the effort as “substantial” and for “identifying the best projects to support with a long-term commitment.” The 55th annual Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards were presented in-person at a special celebration in Ottawa on Oct. 19. Congratulations to all of our winners! CANADIAN CONSULTING ENGINEER
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