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MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER

N BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF ALBERTA, I AM PLEASED TO

extend greetings to the Consulting Engineers of Alberta for the publication of the
Spring 2015 issue of Alberta Innovators magazine.
Since its founding in 1978, the Consulting Engineers of Alberta has ensured engineers and technologists meet the highest standards of their profession while remaining
at the forefront of innovation and providing high-quality engineering solutions to clients
across Alberta and Canada, and around the world.
Albertas consulting engineering industry plays an integral role in building our educated and skilled workforce, enhancing our communities and growing our economy.
My thanks to the Consulting Engineers of Alberta for sharing our Governments
commitment to building a stronger economic foundation for our province and a better
quality of life for all Albertans.
Congratulations on the latest issue of Alberta Innovators, and best wishes for your
continued success.
Jim Prentice, 2015

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MESSAGE FROM CEA

SERVING
ALBERTANS

Principled Service

S
MATT BRASSARD, P.Eng.
President, CEA

KEN PILIP, P.Eng.

CEO & Registrar, CEA

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ERVING ALBERTANS OUR THEME

is short, and the concept appears simple

on the surface. It is a reminder as professional engineers that, first and foremost, we serve
the public. This is neither simple nor easy.
In the context of our industry in 2015, 37
years after the inception of CEA, projects are
technically more complicated, social license rules
the day, funding is scarce and unpredictable,
technology moves faster than policies and regulations can react, infrastructure and assets are
not only aging but failing and firms are increasingly operated by risk managers, accountants
and investors, further distancing engineers from
those we serve.
Additionally, Alberta is facing tremendous
growth pressure in response to our strong economy and its associated employment opportunities. Government of Alberta projects will add
2.2 million people to the province by 2041 just
over 80,000 per year, the equivalent of building
enough infrastructure to support the population of
Lethbridge or Red Deer every year. Add to that
an existing infrastructure deficit and a fairly tight
labour market and it quickly becomes clear that
we, as Albertans, need to find better ways to deliver
infrastructure the backbone of our economy.
Despite these challenges, we continue to
deliver on our obligation to the public. The Gala
Awards are a testament to the capacity and capabilities of the engineering professionals in the
consulting industry and our tenacity to continuously improve the quality of life for Albertans.
We must, however, remain vigilant to forces
that negatively inf luence our ability to serve
the public.
Three years ago, we recognized the unintended consequences of the Trade, Investment
and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA),
and now we see the dangers of the New West
Partnership Trade Agreement (NWPTA).
We came together to resolve an issue that has
plagued our industry for decades the procurement of professional engineering services
through the use of price-based selection or
some modification of that same principle. We
have made significant progress by working with

our sister organizations and preferred clients to

help shift procurement policies and guidelines
towards Qualifications Based Selection (QBS).
We believe that QBS will unlock trapped
capacity in our industry, unleash innovation and
provide shared value to Albertans the intersection between society and corporate performance.
We applaud our clients shift towards this procurement best practice and look forward to the results.
As such, it is with great pleasure that we present the inaugural Presidents Award to Jennifer
Enns, P.Eng. As a client, Jennifer has had a significant influence on our industry by reinforcing
the City of Calgarys QBS procurement policy
and supporting our efforts to legislate QBS in
Alberta. Her generosity of time, insights, and
experience have helped us demonstrate the additional value that Calgarians have received over
the last 30 years by engaging professional engineers through QBS. We hope that her continued
efforts and support will lead to similar outcomes
for all Albertans and Canadians.
We would also like to recognize our Lieutenant Governor Award winners Roman Wozniak,
P.Eng., and Gary Mack, P.Eng., for their distinguished achievements in our industry. They represent ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd.
Roman founded ISL, but due to an unfortunate
medical condition had to step down as president.
Gary then stepped in as president and grew the
company to what it is today. Both Roman and
Garys leadership and contributions to our industry are appreciated. They have set the foundation
for their firm which is a perfect example of a local
consulting company with humble beginnings
dedicated to serving Albertans.
On behalf of the Consulting Engineers of
Alberta Board of Directors, I would like to thank
our member firms and their staff for the contributions we make on a daily basis to improving the
lives of all Albertans. It is a higher calling worthy
of our talent and effort. I would also like to thank
the CEA staff for their significant contribution to
our industry. Their efforts allow our organization
to operate smoothly and facilitate our member
firms to focus their skills and talents where it matters most serving Albertans.

MESSAGE FROM ACEC

Investing in Success

O NSULTI NG E NG I N E E R S O F

Alberta is playing a key role on the

national stage with its efforts to create
a business and regulatory climate that will allow
its members to provide value and quality service
to its clients. This is especially true of its
campaign to reform procurement and promote
Qualifications Based Selection (QBS) for professional engineering services.
The contribution of the consulting engineer
is an important investment in the success of any
project. Even though the planning and design of
a project represents less than two per cent of the
total life-cycle cost, decisions made during planning and design have ramifications over the entire
service life of a project. The owner will have to live
with those decisions for decades, even generations.
For much of the last century this was generally
understood by most clients. Engineering was
viewed to be an investment to be leveraged rather
than an expense to be minimized.
However, when the economic boom of the
1980s abruptly gave way to the harsh realities of
the 1990s recession, everything changed. We
stopped investing in our future. We stopped
investing in the very things that create prosperity.
Public investments in infrastructure dramatically
decreased from about six per cent of GDP to less
than two to three per cent of GDP. Similar shortterm thinking even began influencing the private
sector. Private sector clients shelved or outright
cancelled projects (or went out of business). Work
dried up.
For those projects that did proceed, value
became confused with price. Consequently,
emphasis on the lowest short-term cost replaced
long-term savings value. In this economic environment, consulting engineering companies
downsized or folded. Some dating back to the turn
of the century disappeared as the result of mergers
and acquisitions. Post-secondary enrollment in
engineering and other scientific and technological
disciplines plummeted. Many skilled professionals
and experts were lost to the sector forever.
The economic slowdown also created a shortsighted fixation on low-price over long-term value
and quality. This fixation remains entrenched in
the procurement practices in much of the public

and private sectors. Downsizing in the 1990s

and fiscal austerity have conspired to erode the
amount of experience and expertise available to
deliver infrastructure and other major projects in
both the public and private sectors.
But as of late, it is not all bad news. Public
investment in infrastructure is on the upswing.
There are potential opportunities for the
resource sector.
For the first time in decades, political leaders
have begun to acknowledge infrastructure as an
investment in prosperity. But with the ongoing
fiscal challenges facing governments, how do we
ensure that taxpayers and the public receive value?
The answer is QBS.
When selecting a consulting engineering firm
for a project, regardless of the delivery model, it is
more important and more cost effective to focus on
the qualifications of the project team and the merits of the proposal rather than on fees. An appropriate investment in professional services at the
onset of a project can potentially reduce capital,
maintenance and operating costs while improving
reliability and extending service life. This is the
essence of QBS. Conversely, price-based competition reduces the investment at the design stage
resulting in significantly higher capital, operating
and maintenance costs throughout the service life
of the project.
CEAs efforts to promote the adoption of QBS
will result in better infrastructure, significant
life-cycle savings and better value for taxpayers.
Furthermore, it is also sending a strong message
across the country. We applaud CEAs leadership.

Anne Poschmann, P.Eng.

Chair, Board of Directors

John D. Gamble, P.Eng.

President & CEO

ABOUT ACEC - CANADA

The Association of Consulting Engineering
Companies - Canada (ACEC) is a national
business association representing nearly 450
companies that offer professional engineering
and related services to a wide range of public and
private sector clients. Organizationally, ACEC
is a federation of 12 provincial and territorial
consulting engineering associations, including
Consulting Engineers of Alberta. Collectively,
ACEC member companies directly employ nearly
75,000 Canadians.
The mission of ACEC is to promote a busi-

ness and regulatory climate that recognizes

and rewards the expertise of its members
and their contribution to the quality of life in
Canada. ACEC supports this mission with
a strong advocacy program that engages with
federal government and other national stakeholders to shape public policy and to raise the
profile of the consulting engineering sector.
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Alberta Innovators conducts a

panel discussion on what it means
to innovate in the real world
BY ROBBIE JEFFREY

N N OVAT I O N WA S T H E B UZ Z WO R D

for Alberta in 2014. Our province underwent major economic, political and social
changes with each situation requiring bold solutions and creative leaders.
Calgary emerged from the f loods of 2013
with custom-made recovery plans and guides
for the future. Edmonton unveiled radical
new plans for its downtown arena district,
intent not only on joining the ranks of worldclass cities but also on impressing them. The
C.D. Howe Institute released a report titled
Measuring Innovation, claiming that Alberta
outperformed Canadas other provinces in patent applications per capita, bolstered by revolutions in the oil and gas sectors. And our new
premier took charge by, above all else, promising an out-with-the-old style of management.
Innovation doesnt create a solution out of
the blue; its the process whereby we come to
solutions through critical thinking, collaboration, ingenuity and enthusiasm. Its not always
about providing answers but rather providing
the right kinds of questions to ask. Then we
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of hoping to stumble upon them. Consulting

engineers know this better than anyone else, as
the title of this magazine suggests. But innovation is also just a concept, and while everyone
attributes our success in the future to innovative solutions, it can be difficult to understand
what that means in practical terms. Alberta
Innovators conducted a panel discussion hearing from both inside and outside the engineering industry on what innovation means in the
real world of engineers and the ways in which
it will shape our everyday lives in the future.
DON IVESON, Edmonton
Mayor, on the future of the
Capital City and the role of
consulting engineers:

The City of Edmonton has more than $40

billion worth of public infrastructure, and
the maintenance, renewal, replacement and
expansion of that infrastructure cannot happen without engineers. Consulting engineers
from industry and engineers on staff at the

City of Edmonton have worked together to

win national awards for the dry pond in the
Lendrum Place neighbourhood, and the
Kennedale wetland is an example of engineers working with biological scientists to
harness nature and treat storm water before its
released into the river. Thats also won a bunch
of awards. And were working with consulting
engineers to erect the new Walterdale Bridge,
which is going to be a breathtaking feat of
construction.
With all these phenomenal growth pressures that Edmonton and Northern Alberta
are facing, we need the help of creative engineers to figure out how to stretch our dollars
farther. We have 66 interchanges that we need
to build within the next 50 years, so were going
to require a number of different engineering
disciplines and designers and planners. Were
going to require an interdisciplinary response
involving engineers, who are going to have to
be incredibly creative to even prioritize them.
And for the projects we cant build yet, theyll
have to ask, What are the innovative solutions
that allow us to maintain the flow of goods and

labour in the fastest-growing city in the country, which is the jumping point to the North
and the engine of Canadas economy? So were
going to need all hands on deck.
Innovation has to be a community value.
Add a healthy dose of creativity and technical
acumen and youve got yourself the right ingredients to be able to do more than just think
about things but actually deliver on them. And
a lot of that innovation comes from engineers,
many of whom have the benefit of coming
out of the University of Albertas School of
Engineering, which is one of the top schools
in engineering in the whole country maybe
on the continent. So when you have that asset
of that amazing engineering school, when you
have that entrepreneurial climate in business,
when you have growth imperatives hitting
the public sector and when you have a great
cluster of engineering and design companies,
from Stantec to Williams, based right here in
Edmonton, youve got all the right ingredients not just for the public sector innovation
but for innovation in business, social enterprise
and philanthropy.

GIAN-CARLO CARRA, Ward 9,

Calgary city councillor, on the
social impact of engineering
and the floods of 2013:

In 2014, were in the process of rekindling the

understanding that the physical environment
maybe doesnt determine the social environment, but it is in constant dialogue with it. And
thats right at the level which urban designers
and planning consultants and consulting engineers work how does the physical creation of
the world that we inhabit impact the society
that we are and are constantly becoming?
Our cities are in a period of epochal shift.
Its taking shape primarily as a conversation
about the physical world we inhabit but it also
has tremendous implications in terms of our
social, political, cultural and environmental
relationship with the world. Across North
America, cities are recognizing that weve got
to build more cost-effectively, and weve got to
build cities that attract the kind of cultural and
economic activity that sustains cities over time.

Were in an interesting time. Were talking

about doing things in a much more traditional
way but also using the incredible suite of technologies available to us. Its everything from
low-impact development to using solar power
to desalinate storm water.
But it takes more than political leadership. It
takes consultants who are willing to push their
client in the right direction and it takes visionary leaders from the private sector to say, Im
going to do something differently. And its
working towards a tipping point where were
no longer fighting uphill and its getting easier
to do the right thing.
In the mid-1980s, the provincial flood maps
that are now ubiquitous first came out and
there was a possibility for flood inundation
along a very thin stretch of area in Inglewood.
A f lood-protection berm was written into
policy; the community had come together,
discussed the issues and was able to work with
the City. And in 2013, Inglewood was the only
river community that did not receive overland
inundation. It was because of physical engineering solutions that took advantage of local
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Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson is excited

to work with consulting engineers on
the new Walterdale Bridge.

context and actually protected communities.

Its an example of why engagement and citizen
involvement is so important in any project.
JOHN CHOMIAK, president and
CEO of Hemisphere Engineering,
on going above and beyond
for clients:

When I started engineering, my first project,

which was in 1962, was a school energy plant
that used heat and electricity generated by
Caterpillar engines to heat and power and
light the school. It wasnt done anywhere else.
I learned that a good consulting firm funds
research and development and sends their
people to upgrade their technical knowledge,
because knowledge is changing rapidly. And
a good firm contributes to the initial stages of
design to provide input for the systems that will
do the best for the owners needs.
I insist that our people contribute in meetings rather than take a passive approach and
listen, because our success comes when were
contributing in the projects initial stages,
rather than coming back later when something
doesnt fit or the owner thought he was getting
one thing and ended up with another. A great
engineering company also gets involved in projects that really require brainpower to pull them
off. To be great, youve got to take that step forward and take risks and spend some money on

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With all these phenomenal growth

pressures that Edmonton and northern
Alberta are facing, we need the help of
creative engineers to figure out how to
stretch our dollars farther. Were going to
need all hands on deck.
development you may not know the answers,
but you can use the support of an owner who
will invest and find the best solutions.
A good architectural firm engages the
engineers from day one; the engineer becomes
a member of the design team as soon as the
owner says, Mr. Architect, youve got this
project! And the cross-pollination of architects and engineers has improved probably 200
per cent over the last 50 years.
JACKIE MYKYTIUK, project manager at Associated Engineering,
on collaboration as a wellspring
of innovative solutions:

In my mind, what distinguishes a good project

from a great project is collaboration. Its a bit of
a buzzword, but its about working on a project
where there are good collaborations between

clients and the engineering consultants. The

idea that innovation can come from a single
person is interesting, but usually its that individual bringing the whole team together, making them collaborate. Theres usually one point
of contact for a project, so if that one person is
collaborating with the whole team, that makes
it ultimately successful.
One example of collaboration leading to
innovation is a project were working on with
a municipality and industry for water reuse
basically, taking waste water eff luent and
using it for oilfield applications. Thats innovative from a technology standpoint, but also
from a collaborative standpoint. We had two
clients and a complex design team as well. It
was important to bring everybody to the same
table regularly and give everybody an update on
where theyre making sure were satisfied on all
the things that are needed to make the process
successful.

Our inventive and

collaborative approach
to problem solving helps
bring big ideas to life.
Design with community in mind

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How does the

physical creation
of the world
that we inhabit
impact the society
that we are and
are constantly
becoming?

Several contributors cited the MacEwan Centre

for the Arts as a particularly captivating project.

PAUL RUFFELL, president

of Tetra Tech, on exceptional
individuals:

Qualifications Based Selection (QBS),

for example, opens up a more collaborative
environment which feeds into creativity
and innovation. When youre doing a typical Request for Proposal (RFP) process,
the scope of the work is already defined
and theres really no opportunity for us as
consultants to provide input. QBS is a more
conducive environment to allowing everyone to be innovative and creative at the same
table before defining the cost of a project.
KELLY YUZDEPSKI, vice-president of transportation for
Western Canada at CIMA+,
on technological innovation:

The definition of innovation can vary from

one project to another. What one f irm
might consider standard fare might be inno-

vative in another shops organization. The

hardest part sometimes is understanding what
the technology can do and how you can incorporate it into your engineering and planning
design. Its one of those things were gradually
learning how to make work for our business.
I think were continuing to learn what these
technologies can bring forward.
For one project in Calgary, we had two
high-speed roadways that were on high-skew
angles to each other. If you were to build a traditional bridge structure out there, youd have
to look at the sorts of things you dont want
on a high-speed facility. So by constructing
trellis structures, weve got girders going perpendicular to the roadway and you can put the
deck anywhere on that structure. From that
perspective, it was a very innovative solution.
When those structures are widened in the
future, they are easy to accommodate because
the infrastructure is already built there.

Smart Solutions
for a Complex World
Tetra Tech is a leading provider of consulting,
engineering, project management, construction, and
technical services addressing the resource management,
development, and infrastructure markets.

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Sometimes you complete a project so well that

the client is delighted with the outcome. Those
are the times when someone will write you a
letter or someone will go out of his or her way
to tell you what a good job you did.
Usually, those kinds of projects come from
an individual within an organization; from
time to time, you get an individual who does
it because somehow this project aligns with
one of their values. We forget that to have an
exceptional project, the people working on it
have to get delight out of the project. Quite
frankly, innovation is hard, and it takes effort
and discretionary effort on the part of the people doing it so theyre delighted to be part of
that project. Sometimes its serendipity, when
you get an overlap of a client who wants this
stuff and an employee that wants to give it, and
the project that allows them to do it.
Years ago we did a dam in the Northwest
Territories where we brought in innovative
technology from Russia, where they looked at
the ability of freezing the core of the dam. We
brought this technology to Canada. To me, it
was one of those things where several people
in our organization took a risk and the client
took a risk, and it allowed us to build dams
rather than flood a lake. It was a win for the
client because it was a lot cheaper, it was a win
for science because now we can use these dams
elsewhere and it was a win for the environment
because we didnt flood the lake.
But the company has got to set an environment where people feel comfortable doing
these kinds of projects and arent punished
when they fail. Quite often, innovation doesnt
work, and punishment of those involved is not
setting the right environment for that.

Innovation Live at the Winspear!

Innovation is often best when you cant quite put your finger on it.
The Winspear Centre in Edmonton is one such case; though you
might not see it at play, engineers and architects have accounted
for a multitude of factors that influence your experience at the
world-renowned concert hall.
UP AND AWAY
The concert hall was built on what used to
be a service station or automotive shop,
so the ground was highly contaminated
with gases. Hemisphere engineered an
exhaust fan, or pump, to push air under the
foundation and then up through the top of
the building. Underneath the ground floor
is a piping grid that draws air from a cavity
and sends it to the fan a cost-effective
solution to a noxious problem.

COMPILED WITH HELP FROM BURNIE FOURNIER, PROJECT MANAGER AT HEMISPHERE ENGINEERING

WITHOUT A SOUND
There are no grills for air ventilation in
the concert hall. Grills create turbulence
and turbulence creates noise; the last
thing you want to hear during a flute
diminuendo is wind moving through
the air ducts. The oversized air ducts
maintain low velocities, and theres a
slot that runs along the top hat of the
concert hall to deliver the air. Hemisphere
Engineering, the company responsible
for the mechanical engineering of the
building, designed it so air adheres to the
ceiling before slowly falling down onto
the seating area. The air is then returned
behind the seats at the upper levels and
behind the stage.

PLAY IT BY EAR
The acoustic requirements of the
concert hall drive the mechanical
design. All the duct work and air
handling systems are located in a
different building, separate from
the actual hall, so no vibrations are
transferred. The concert hall is a selfsupporting structure with rubber
thresholds spanning between the
buildings.

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BY CAITLIN CRAWSHAW | ILLUSTRATION BY HEFF OREILLY

Qualifications Based Selection places a

firms capabilities above its price, raising
the bar on project quality and driving
down lifecycle costs

N ITS ANNUAL SURVEY RELEASED IN NOVEMBER 2014, THE ASSOCIATION

of Consulting Engineering Companies (ACEC) asked its members what

they considered the biggest issue facing the industry today. The answer was
nearly unanimous: 92 per cent of respondents identified procurement. You
can see that this is an issue not just in Alberta, but across the country, says Ken
Pilip, CEO and registrar of the Consulting Engineers of Alberta (CEA).
Consulting engineers have long been frustrated with the traditional Request
for Proposal (RFP) procurement method. In addition to requiring companies
to invest resources in a proposal that may not bear fruit, the RFP approach uses
selection criteria that emphasize price. In the last 20 years, weve been on a slow
incline of price becoming more dominant in the criteria for selecting consulting
engineers for a project, he says.

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Pilip says that in Alberta, this issue spiraled out of control in 2010 when the
New West Partnership Trade Agreement
(NWPTA) came into effect. The deal was
meant to facilitate trade and professional
mobility - between the three western provinces. Unfortunately, it treated engineering
more like a commodity than a professional
service, which resulted in public sector organizations procuring engineering services
in much the same way they would trucks
or paperclips. Instead of being a secondary
consideration in the evaluation of a consulting engineer, cost became the most important
consideration, he says. This is a very dangerous path.

WHY RFP DOESNT WORK

When it comes to the RFP-based procurement, there are plenty of variations on the
theme, says CEA president Matt Brassard.
Sometimes, public sector organizations use
a two-envelope system, in which applicants
are screened for qualifications with the first
envelope and for price in the second. Theres
also the design-bid-build model, in which an
engineer and contractor team up to create a
proposal. RFPs can be solicited or unsolicited, and either open to the marketplace or
by invitation only. For large projects, public
sector agencies open RFPs to the market in
order to ensure there is sufficient competition, as per the legislation concerning government procurement.
Regardless of the specific RFP process
being used, cost is always at the top of the
procurement officers selection criteria and
it really shouldnt be, says Brassard. They
dont realize that infrastructure lasts 30, 40,

In Alberta, QBS has been gaining

traction its been standard procedure
at the City of Calgary for three decades.
50 years you cant make a decision based on
price alone, he argues.
Its important to consider the costs associated with the entire life cycle of a project,
not just the engineering costs, which constitute only one or two per cent of total costs.
The right consulting engineer can work with
a client to define the scope of the project in
such a way that the long-term operational and
decommissioning costs are lower, saving taxpayers money, says Brassard. But if an engineering firm must offer a barebones proposal
in order to earn the contract, theres no room
for long-term thinking.
Nor is there room for innovation in this
model, argues Sheldon Hudson, vice-president of Al-Terra Engineering Ltd. and former
CEA president: When youre in a cost-

prohibitive model, you hold back on innovation because youre not selected on that basis.
It doesnt make sense for a firm to give away its
secrets if it wont necessarily be chosen for the
work. This is why companies are hesitant to ask
questions of procurement officers while writing their proposals; the questions and answers
are public and potentially give a competitor
a leg up.
Pilip points out that this method of bidding
can create an adversarial working relationship
between the consulting engineering firm and
the public sector client especially when the
project encounters bumps in the road. It isnt
uncommon to hear about high-profile public
projects going over-budget or falling behind
schedule. Its easy to say its the engineers
problem, but I always say it takes more than

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bottom line is that it means the project didnt
get started properly and there are unintended
consequences.
On top of these concerns, the RFP procurement model is expensive for everyone.
Procurement agencies must spend time
putting together their RFPs, soliciting
responses, and scoring proposals according
to specific criteria. From an engineering
standpoint, it takes time and, therefore,
money to put together a carefully considered proposal. CEA vice-president Deon
Wilner says his company, ISL Engineering
and Land Services Ltd., invests seven to 10
hours of direct labour costs into proposal
work. If we say $1 million is spent working for a client in terms of salary, we spend
$70,000 and $100,000 just procuring that $1
million of work, he says. Thats very normal
for our industry.

A BETTER WAY: QBS

Thankfully, theres a much better way to handle the procurement of engineering services.
Qualifications Based Selection (QBS) awards
contracts on the basis of whether or not and to
what degree a firm is qualified to execute a job.
Clients put out a Request For Qualifications
(RFQ ) and consulting engineering companies submit proof of their expertise. This could
include personnel, the companys experience
with similar projects, or knowledge of the
community where the project is being built.
Once the most qualified candidates have
been identified and ranked, the client sits
down with the top firm to hash out the fine
details: the scope, schedule, and costs. If
these negotiations fail, they go on to candi-

date number two, says Wilner. Theres no

playing one firm against another. However,
by the time the process reaches this phase, its
unlikely to fail, he says: Firms are going to
provide an honest price for an honest job at
that point.
When projects move forward, they do so
on a more positive footing than the traditional
model. Theres no push to save pennies now
at the cost of long-term project costs, says
Wilner. As a result, innovation can be
explored early on, potentially saving money
down the line: Not just for clients but for
taxpayers of Alberta, as a whole.
Research confirms this, Pilip says: Its
been shown in the U.S. that, over the lifespan of a project, you actually save five to 10
per cent of the expenditure youd get if you
used any other method. Because the design
work for a capital project is only about one or
two per cent of its long-term cost, using QBS
to find the right engineering firm pays off.
If thats the savings, you get the engineering
for nothing.

CHAMPIONING QBS IN ALBERTA

While its not yet the industry standard in

Canada, QBS is well-established in the
United States. In 1972 just a few years
before CEA came into being the Brooks
Act was passed, requiring the federal government to use the QBS process to procure
engineering services. Since then, most of the
individual states have adopted the method, as
well. Beyond North America, QBS is used by
the World Bank and the Asian Development
Bank.
In Alberta, QBS has been gaining traction its been standard procedure at the City

of Calgary for three decades. However, it still

isnt commonplace across the province. CEA
has been advocating for QBS for many years,
but ramped up its efforts after NWPTA
came into effect, says Brassard: Were working at both the bureaucratic and political
level to have it legislated. By enshrining the
concept into law, the organization hopes that
the idea will survive the inevitable changes to
provincial leadership.
Education is an important piece, as well.
CEA has been working with public sector
agencies to inform them about the procurement method and encourage them to consider it. At the moment, CEA is working
with the Department of Transportation on
a pilot project that would implement QBS
for specific projects. The idea is to see if the
department gets good value in it, Brassard
says. And I think they will.
For Hudson, this is an inevitable change.
I think its key for our industry to understand that this will happen, he says. Its not
a matter of if, its when. And it is going to
be a major change in how our industry does
business in Alberta.
For one thing, consulting engineers will
need to compete a bit differently. Instead of
undercutting each others rates, theyll need
to hone their specialties and collaborate with
other firms with needed qualifications in
order to earn contracts. All of this is only a
good thing for raising the quality of engineering services in Alberta something thats
at the heart of what CEA does. We want to
raise the bar: increase value for citizens and
the province, and increase the performance
level of our industry, says Hudson. I think
QBS accomplishes that.

Engineering

THE FUTURE

A succession plan is critical

for firms struggling with an
experienced P.Eng shortage
BY JEN JANZEN | PHOTOS BY PEDERSEN

HANKS TO A BRISK OIL SANDS ECONOMY, ALBERTA HAS LONG BEEN BATTLING

a skilled tradesperson shortage. The government has been plotting for a number
of years to recruit more young people into the trades, injecting more funding
into apprenticeship programs and brainstorming ways to draw skilled workers
from other countries. But the skilled trades arent the only area struggling to find workers:
according to a report recently released by Randstad Engineering and Engineers Canada,
thanks to impending retirements and rising market demands, Alberta needs about 900 more
engineers each year than were currently able to produce.
Its a problem complicated by the fact that many companies are looking for engineers
with years of experience behind them, who can quickly get to work on complicated projects.
Contrast that with what it takes a young engineer to simply gain P.Eng status: four years of
university and then another three or four years working as an engineer-in-training (EIT).

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EXPERT OPINIONS: Jeff DiBattista, P.Eng, PhD, MBA, LEED AP, Principal
and Marc Taala, engineer-in-training, structural engineering.

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TEAM PLAYERS: Derek Ciezki, P.Eng., Partner

with William Lo, P.Eng., Electrical Engineer.
William just recently received his P.Eng. and
works closely with Derek on projects.

W he r e a s a n ap prent ic e b e c ome s a
journeyperson after four years, gaining work
experience along the way, an engineer faces
double that amount of time. For folks who
are going to do advanced engineering work,
it requires a masters degree, so thats up to
10 years, says Jeff DiBattista, principal of
DIALOG, who holds a PhD in structural
engineering.
Derek Ciezki is an electrical engineer and
a partner at SMP Engineering, which has
offices in Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge
and Vancouver. He says part of equipping
students with the skills they need is encouraging universities to explore the technical
side of engineering within the industry. I
didnt have much exposure to what the consulting industry was all about, let alone how
to navigate through an electrical code book,
before I got into the industry, he says. That
would have been a good skill to have. SMP
is also working with the Schulich School of
Engineering at the University of Calgary to
assist with teaching an electrical design course
to better prepare the students for the building
infrastructure industry.

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Though experienced engineers are often

the most sought after, Ciezki says SMP hires
between three to five new grads per year. You
need to have the right balance of junior and
senior staff members so you can provide the
proper mentoring to the younger staff and
help them develop their skills, he says, but
you need to keep adding junior and intermediate skill levels as part of your succession plan.
The company works with the University of
Albertas and Calgarys engineering program,
which sets eligible engineering students up
with four-month internships or summer work
terms.
DIALOG, which was recently named one
of the 100 Best Employers, also participates
in four- and eight-month internships and considers it an instrumental part of its recruitment
strategy. It allows us to get to know the students early on, and perhaps more importantly,
for the students, it allows them to figure out
what they enjoy.
At the University of Calgary, internships
are 12 to 16 consecutive months long. A student can participate in an internship after their
third year of engineering studies is completed.

The programs director, Jack Gray, has been at

the helm for five years and has seen a steady
increase in participants. We really promoted
the program to the students and employers
alike, he says, adding that theres been about
a 60-per cent increase in intern placements in
the last five years.
In 2008, 220 students were placed on
internships, with an average of 350 students
completing internships in the last three years.
This year, says Gray, theres been another
increase of 15 per cent over last years
application numbers. The students recognize
the value of gaining internship experience
and theres been a pretty strong pickup from
employers as well. Its a great recruitment tool
for them.
The U of C doesnt match interns with jobs:
the jobs are posted and the students themselves
once qualified and accepted into the program
are responsible for competing for opportunities that interest them. The level of competition
varies by engineering discipline, but Gray
says this past year, there were more than 800
employment opportunities for the just under
500 students approved into the program.

DiBattista says if the Alberta government people, but theres always a shortage of the engineers to be able to get on the ground
and start running projects with very little
wants to permanently address the engineer best people.
He says finding skilled workers with transition.
shortage, it needs to be prepared to invest in
Another challenge many Alberta engineerthe provinces post-secondary institutions. years of experience is much more difficult
The investments we make in young engi- and to fill those positions, well have to start ing practices face is competing with the high
neers will determine whether well have looking overseas. Two of DIALOGs senior pay of the oil sands. Every new grad wants
enough engineers working here in 10 years, engineers journeyed across the ocean to work to make a good salary coming out of school,
he says, pointing out that many skilled with DIALOG: one from Switzerland and so theyll typically move to a different city
engineers retire every year, adding to the one from Ireland. Having immigration reg- to get the best salary possible but they dont
labour shortage. We ignore the University ulations that allow talented engineers to come realize the overall compensation package and
long-term employment opportunities within
of Alberta and the University of Calgary at here is vital, he says.
The engineer shortage is something that the commercial building industry, Ciezki
our peril.
And its possible the tide is beginning to Paul Breeze, owner of PBreeze Consulting says. That means engineering firms which
turn. Enrolments in APEGA have been and former president of the CEA, has known cant compete with the strong demand of oil
and gas and related compenclimbing over the last five years,
sation need to provide new
and the provincial government has
potential candidates with a
been responding to the demand:
competitive compensation
this years budget included $32.5
which includes good benmillion earmarked for post-secefits, f lexible hours and a
ondary institutions across Alberta
work-life balance.
to increase space for high-deDiBattista says DIALOG
mand programs, including engi Ken Pilip, CEO and Registrar, Consulting Engineers of Alberta
neering. Particularly, $11.3 million
works to be an exciting place
of that went towards engineering
for young engineers. Many
programs at the Universities of Alberta, about for more than a decade. In 2006, he led of our co-op students come back year after year.
Calgary, Lethbridge, as well as Red Deer a recruiting mission to the United Kingdom. They look at our firm and say, I really want to
College, Medicine Hat College, NAIT and CH2M Hill, the company he worked for at work there because Im going to learn a ton of
SAIT. In contrast, only $900,000 went into the time, ended up hiring eight engineers stuff and work with great mentors.
apprenticeship training for tradesperson posi- from the UK. He says the federal governDIALOG also emphasizes the type of
tions. According to a press release from the ments fixation on temporary workers wont work the company is involved in. We try
government, the extra dollars allowed an extra encourage trained professionals to come here. to improve the communities we practise in,
1,200 students to take engineering training in My sense is that the Feds will change the DiBattista says, mentioning that the firm is
2014-2015. That number is expected to rise to system to allow more foreign engineers to currently involved in some of Edmontons
become permanent residents, he says.
2,700 engineering students by 2017.
most high-profile projects, such as EdmonOf course, points out Ciezki, Canadian tons Walterdale Bridge, the downtown
DiBattista says, in his opinion, the
engineer shortage isnt as dire today as it experience and an understanding of local arena, and the Valley Line LRT. When
has been in recent years. More engineers codes are definite assets to have. Local prospective employees look at our portfolio,
are graduating and more engineers are mov- experience is an asset and sometimes preferred its quite exciting to realize they could help
ing to Alberta. Its been easier to find good for us, he says. In some cases we want the build the Alberta of tomorrow.

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Excellence
by Hand
Don Chambers had an exceptional career in engineering.
Now, hes giving back to the industry in a style all his own
BY ROBBIE JEFFREY | PHOTOS BY ROMY YOUNG

ON CHAMBERS IS A PAST PRESIDENT

of the CEA and founded Walters

Chambers & Associates, but since
his retirement hes been involved in more
hands-on specialty projects, including handcrafting a Lieutenant Governors Award for
the CEA. It turns out that the physical prize
is nearly as notable as the honour it signifies.
As an award recognizing engineers community and business accomplishments, no
simple trophy or plaque would suff ice.

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Instead, Chambers builds dazzling kaleidoscopes.

When the Lieutenant Governors Award
was first introduced, the executive director
of the CEA knew Chambers liked to work
with crafty things. Indeed, Chambers
taught pottery at the Parkland Potters Guild
in Stony Plain for 25 years, and dabbled in
woodworking. When he says, Ive always
had something thats a little artistic on the
side, hes downplaying the tremendous

effort he puts into these endeavours. Each

prize is handmade, making it one of a kind.
And while Chambers tries to keep the pieces
similar, the design has changed over the
years he has been building them. Its still a
kaleidoscope, he says, but now I make them
bigger and more elaborate.
I used to source some materials out of
England, but then that place shut down,
says Chambers, describing his procurement
practice. I started scouting around and found

AWARD

a store called Nellie Bly that specializes in

kaleidoscopes. Its in a small community on
the side of a mountain in Arizona, in a little
town called Jerome. They sold me bits and
pieces, but they also put me in contact with
someone from Boston. Ive also found some
parts for special mirrors in B.C. Its a long and
involved process, he says.
The wood comes from Canadian birch,
with flourishes of walnut on the bottom of
the kaleidoscope where the barrel turns on
steel bearings. The barrel is about 10 inches
long and 2.5 inches in diameter, and sits
perfectly atop a 12-inch-wide accompanying
stand made of matching wood. The entire
construction takes place in Chambers
shop in his condominium. Chambers also
has the awards laser engraved by a retired
woodworker. If its sitting on a shelf or in the

back of a room, it stands out, he says. Who

wants another cup or plaque? People seem
to just glance at it, whereas the kaleidoscope
stands out.

Who wants another

cup or plaque?
A kaleidoscope
stands out.
Chambers originally got the idea for the
Lieutenant Governors Award after building
a kaleidoscope for his grandchildren. As a
kid, everyone thought of kaleidoscopes as
something quite cool, Chambers says. And
although he recently came back from an
artisan show in B.C. where people encouraged

him to commercialize his work, he doesnt

plan on making it a full-time endeavour. He
says he completes each award project bit by
bit. Its a relaxed hobby thing, he says. I
dont think my dollars per hour would buy
too much gas. The slow-burning approach
has certainly paid off, if not in dollars then in
artistic acumen the CEA recently asked him
to build its Presidents Award, and was blown
away by the prototype.
Chambers has done justice to this years
two award winners, Gary Mack and Roman
Wozniak. The awards are both tactile and
visual. Not only do they stand out, they
invite people to pick them up, examine their
construction and look through them, just as
the Lieutenant Governors Awards encourage
people to take a close look at the careers of the
winners and to be dazzled.
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CAREER PROFILE

Bob Gomes career has been one

great leap after another, but hes
kept both feet on the ground
BY ROBBIE JEFFREY | PHOTOS BY AMY SENECAL

HERES NO FAST TRACK TO BECOMING

the CEO of a $3-billion company, and

perhaps no one knows this as well as
Bob Gomes, president and CEO of Stantec.
Born and raised in Edmonton, in a small
house in Bonnie Doon, Gomes went through
the Catholic school system knowing that
hed go to post-secondary neither of his
parents went to university, and they made it
clear that they wanted
the best for their children. Gomes initially
studied to become a
doctor, before realizing that for everyone
else in pre-med, it was
going to be a career, he
says. For me it was just
an idea. I had a lot of
friends in engineering,
so I remember sitting around campus and
talking to them about what they were doing,
and thinking it sounded interesting. Thats
literally how the decision was made.
But Gomes needed a reason to go to university in the first place, and several summers
working at his brother-in-laws surveying
firm in the Northwest Territories did the
trick. Gomes says it was clear that the last
thing his brother-in-law wanted to do was
give him a job, but he didnt take the hint.
I remember thinking, These guys must

save the worst possible jobs for me, he says.

Id have the worst locations and the worst
position every year. Ten years later I talked to
my brother-in-law, and he said, You didnt
figure that out? We didnt want you at all!
But you kept coming back. It was a pivotal
experience for Gomes, one that instilled a
tough-as-nails work ethic and taught him
that to get anywhere in life, you have to work

Over the course of his career,

Gomes has worked primarily
in land development,
building the suburbs of
Edmonton.
hard for it. And he realized that surveying in
the Northwest Territories was the last thing
he wanted to do.
Gomes graduated from the University of
Alberta faculty of engineering in 1978 and
had dreams of travelling to California. He
said that if he couldnt find a job in Edmonton within one month, hed move there;
luckily, he was quickly hired by a local firm
with more than 120 employees. Then in
1981, when the National Energy Program
was instituted, the company downsized to
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Needless to say, says Gomes, the early
80s was not a nice time to be in Alberta.
He was one of the last engineers when the
owner told Gomes he was ready to sell
the company, and that Gomes should be
a part of it because the price was as low as
itd ever be. But with three kids and a big
mortgage, Gomes had to decline the invitation. He looked for another job and in 1988
was hired on at Stanley Associates, later to
become Stantec.
Over the course of his career, Gomes
has worked primarily in land development,
building the suburbs of Edmonton. I did
the engineering, planning and design for
most of the neighbourhoods you know in
Edmonton, he says. I worked on every
subdivision developed 20 years ago mainly
because at the time, Stantec was the biggest
firm doing that. And it still is. Gomes
would go on to become chair of the Urban
Design Institute, wherein he negotiated a
deal with the City of Edmonton on how to
service new land. It was very costly to put
in big pipes and big roadways, and a lot of
developers didnt want
to put that money up
front without sharing
that benefit with other
developers, he says.
We were tr ying to
get the development
industry and the City
together to figure out
how we could do this
in an economic fashion. And we came up
with an idea thats still
in place today.
As CEO of Stantec a role he took over
from his predecessor Tony Franceschini
in 2008 Gomes has seen the company
through a 4,000-person increase in staff
as well as an incredible rise in gross revenue. All this, despite a recession. Inspired
by Franceschini, whom Gomes describes as
iconic for transforming a small, regional
company into one of the largest firms in
North America in 10 years, Gomes oversaw a rebranding of Stantec. Weve bought
over 100 companies in the last 20 years,
and we are continuing to do that, he says.
But in hearing from our staff, we asked,
What does it mean? Is it just to get bigger?

It cant be growth just for growths sake.

Visiting between 30 and 50 offices per year,
he asked employees what they most enjoy
about Stantec. Invariably, theyd point to a
job in their community a project they can

Weve bought over 100

companies, says Gomes.
We asked, What does it
mean? Is it just to get bigger?
It cant be growth just for
growths sake.
show their friends and families and say, Im
working on that job, he adds.
In keeping with this sense of community,
its worth noting that Stantec later bought
the company Gomes left in 1988. So in one
way or another, hes worked with the same
people throughout his whole career.
Gomes recalls driving around Edmontons suburbs with his family, looking at the
design of the communities and thinking
about how they could be improved. I grew
up in a company really focused on improving the communities in which we serve, he
says, so to put that brand on the company
and see it as a $3-billion company, its been
an amazing journey.

MESSAGE FROM THE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

Networking for
the Future
The CEAs young professionals face limitless
opportunities. They face them with limitless ambition

O NSU LTI N G E N G I N E E R I N G IS AN

exciting and dynamic career. One

of the aspects that makes consulting engineering exciting is its fluidity to the
changes in our economy and environment;
each day of consulting is different from the
next. The dynamics of the industry are heightened in Alberta, where we work to service the
communities and industries that make our
province thrive.
Young professionals (YP) play an important role in the consulting engineering industry today theyre the future of the industry,
consulting companies and our communities.
Young professionals offer a fresh perspective
on industry norms and bring a new sense of
energy to projects they work on. I am fortunate to be a young professional in Albertas
consulting engineering industry, where it
seems opportunities are endless. The fastpace, ever-growing province has offered
outstanding experience and exposure to compelling projects to me and my colleagues.
CEA supports the development of young
professionals in the consulting engineering
industry through their YP Committee. The
main objective of the CEA YP Committee
is to enhance the growth of the industry by
promoting the participation and development of young professionals. The CEA YP
Committee encourages YPs to:
Contribute to the growth of the engineering
consulting industry within Alberta
Better understand the function, role and
business of consulting engineers

Promote, grow and understand the relationships between clients and consultants
Create a network of cross-discipline young
professionals within the engineering
consulting industry
Actively participate in the committees and
events sponsored by the CEA
Promote the benefits of and increase the
membership of the Young Professionals
Group.
One of the purposes of the formation of the
CEA YP group was development on a personal and professional level, through knowledge transfer from senior engineers, fellow
young professionals, other professionals as
well as providing an avenue for networking.
It has been evident over the last few years that
the YPs have a lot of initiative and drive to
continue the success of the consulting engineering industry. Over the last few years they
have worked to establish new YP initiatives
and connections to highlight these attributes.
The young professionals are the future of
the consulting engineering industry and it
is important to recognize and celebrate their
contributions to the industry.
The Young Professional Committee
continues to grow in size and energy. Currently there are over 40 active executive YP
members throughout the province planning
technical tours, technical talks and mixers.
In May of 2014, the CEA YP Committee hosted the first YP Conference. The YP
Conference initiative offers YPs a networking
and professional development opportunity in

JACKIE MYKYTIUK, P.Eng.

Associated Engineering
YP Director

an environment where they are confident to

express their concerns, questions and general
thoughts with their peers in the consulting
engineering industry. The 2014 event was a
huge success with more than 100 attendees.
This year the CEA YP is hosting the second
annual YP Conference with an emphasis on
leadership.
For more information, or to learn about YP
events in Alberta, visit the Young Professionals
Group website under the committees menu
at www.cea.ca.
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Brian Pearse left his small town

for the big city and kept his eyes
on the road
BY ROBBIE JEFFREY | PHOTO BY AMY SENECAL

RIAN PEARSE, PRESIDENT OF OPUS

Stewart Weir, is clearly the man

for the job. Pearse, who was already
three years into his post as CEO of
Stewart Weir, took over the blended companys top job after Stewart Weir was acquired
in 2013. In fact, Pearse joined the company
in 1986 and never left. But his career could
have taken another route; while attending
St u rgeon C omp osite
High School and living in Namao, a hamlet
north of Edmonton, he
aspired to be a physicist.
That dream came falling
back to earth, however,
when he realized there
was little demand for
physicists. He became
interested in engineering
and planted his feet firmly in the ground
the same ground on which hed spend his
career building highways.
Pearse began working with a survey crew
with Stewart Weir in 1986 and ended up
on a highway project later that year, moving from survey assistant to party chief. He
soon graduated from the field into the office,
working in water and wastewater until 1992,
before transferring into the highways engineering group. The move over to highways
was a great coming out in many ways, says
Pearse. Theres a lot of methodology to
what they do. Today, I wouldnt say Im all
about regimen, but as a learning ground,

you gain comfort and confidence in that

environment.
It was here that Pearse met someone
who became a mentor, Nester Chorney,
a former assistant deputy minister with
Alberta Transportation. He has excellent
people skills but also excellent technical
skills, says Pearse. That helped me create
a foundation and springboard. Pearse says

Before getting to know

the CEA, I felt like we were
competitors. I discovered
that we were more of a
fraternity and a community.
he appreciated the opportunity to see a project from the cradle to the grave, and that
Stewart Weirs small size forced him to see
the projects from every angle. Itd be normal to be involved right from gathering the
information to doing the design, preparing the tender document and even being
involved in the project management or the
construction management, he says. It was
unique within the industry and good for me
from a foundational point of view.
In 2001, Pearse became vice-president of
Stewart Weir, getting in tune with all the
different departments of the company and
becoming more involved with staff and the
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CAREER PROFILE

LIFE IS A HIGHWAY

somewhere else. He was interviewed for a

position as a design engineer, and when he
asked about the salary, they asked, What
are you earning now? Well give you another
dollar an hour. That mentality didnt sit
well with him, and he didnt take the job,
opting instead for a sense of community.
He has also been a board member of the
Alberta Road Builders and recently joined
Association of Professional Engineers and
Geoscientists of Albertas council, where he
is vice-president. I wouldnt have known
this early in my career, but Opus Stewart
Weir has always been a family-oriented
organization, he says. It always felt like the
right thing to do, and it still does.

clients, and he developed an appreciation for

mentoring. This aligned with his feelings
about the CEA. Before getting to know the
CEA in a deeper manner, I felt like we were
individual competitors, he says. I later discovered that we were more of a fraternity and
a community, and that we can take fate in our
own hands by developing strategies in terms of
what we want to do as an organization. Pearse
went on to serve as president of the CEA in
2008. The move to CEO at Opus Stewart
Weir in 2010 was another step in what he calls
the natural progression of his career.
There was another time when Pearses
career could have changed lanes: In 1989,
Pearse thought the grass might be greener

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Opus Stewart Weir

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Director
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AWARDS 2015

FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICE

Partners
in Success
Roman Wozniak grew up on a farm near Wanham, Alberta, in the Peace
Country. One summer during his high school years, he was working for
the town of Rycroft, hauling boulders in wheelbarrows to reinforce an
ailing wooden dam the town used for its water supply. One day, early
in his summer of strenuous manual labour, Wozniak saw someone
wearing a short-sleeve shirt and sunglasses drive up to the site in a
gleaming yellow truck. The man came once a week for about 10 minutes
to inspect the project for the town. It turns out he was an engineer for
the highways department, says Wozniak. I thought, Gee, thats the
kind of job Id like to have. So thats what started me off in engineering. Today, Wozniak and his successor at ISL Engineering and Land
Services, Gary Mack, are both receiving the Lieutenant Governors
Award for Distinguished Service from the CEA. And it turns out they
both owe a lot to that engineer in the yellow truck.
After attending Mount Royal College in Calgary for two years,
Wozniak went to Oklahoma, where he had aspirations of playing baseball. But the sport posed deep cuts to Wozniaks studying time, and
he soon focused on getting through his degree as quickly as possible.
Upon graduation, he had some job offers, but declined them to move
back to Canada. It was 1962 and the Vietnam War was starting up, he
says. I knew Id get drafted about two days after I started work!
So Wozniak took off to Toronto, where he stayed for three years working in the engineering division of several large insurance companies.
But he soon felt he wasnt being challenged enough, and when he saw an
ad in the Globe and Mail for a job in highway engineering, he jumped at
the chance. In 1963, he started with the company that would eventually
become ISL Engineering. Wozniak was the project manager for
transportation and utility corridors around Edmonton and Calgary a
gigantic project spanning decades, for which he deserves a large degree
of credit. It took 30 years before construction started, but the corridor
was there, and in Edmonton its now nearing completion, he says.
Tragically, Wozniak contracted multiple sclerosis and had to retire
prematurely, in 1998. But there was a clear successor that could carry
on his legacy. He had hired Gary Mack in 1986, and by the time Wozniak
retired, he says Mack had gained some good experience and knew
pretty much everything there was to know about consulting.
Mack, who grew up in Bonnyville, Alberta, started his career

Gary Mack, P.Eng, with Roman Wozniak, P.Eng

in engineering with the City of Edmonton after graduating from the

University of Alberta with distinction in 1973. For more than three years,
he worked in the engineering department in roadway design. It was a very
good learning environment, he says. But the focus was very specific, and
I had to decide, Am I going to spend the rest of my life focused on this one
part of engineering or is there more out there?
Eventually, Mack moved back to Edmonton. In 1979, he began his life in
consulting engineering with a job at Delcan, which later became a part of
ISL Engineering.
Mack remembers the early days of the CEA fondly. It started with a group
of 10 consultants and engineering firms that banded together to talk about
common business problems, he says. Over time, it evolved into what it is
today a very strong organization with a board and specific mandates, and
a strong business organization that tries to make the collective business of
consultants a stronger business.
Mack mentions two achievements of which hes particularly proud. One
of the things I got involved with over my career was developing design
standards for transportation engineering, and one of my highlights was
one of two principal offers for a national set of guidelines for designing
urban roads, done for the Transportation Association of Canada. Mack says
the manual of design guidelines was used across the country as an example
of how to design transportation infrastructure, province-to-province, in a
manner that promotes safety.
The other highlight for Mack was his 12 years as president and CEO of ISL
Engineering, taking the company where he started then with less than
50 employees into a company in excess of 300 employees in Western
Canada. Today, as senior project manager, he carries on in the tradition
of his long-time partner, Roman Wozniak. And it is an honour for the CEA
to present these two exceptional engineers with this years Lieutenant
Governors Awards.

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AWARDS 2015

THE

PRESIDENTS AWARD
TO HONOUR AN INDIVIDUAL OUTSIDE THE PROFESSION

City of Calgary Trailblazer

Honoured by CEA
In 1972, Jennifer Enns emigrated from England to Canada, fell in
love with her new country and never looked back. This year she is
the second recipient of the CEA Presidents Award, given annually
to recognize and honour an individual outside of the consulting
engineering profession who has made an outstanding contribution
to the profession.
With a passionate interest in mathematics and science, Enns was
a natural fit to enrol in engineering at Carleton University in Ottawa.
She started her engineering career with Bell Canada before working
in consulting and other endeavours. In 2002 she arrived in Calgary
via Virginia, and when the opportunity arose to return to Ottawa,
the family decided to stay in the West to enjoy the mountains and
Calgarys dynamic business environment. Calgary was now home.
Joining the City of Calgary in 2006, she was thrust into the excitement of dealing with growth first in Transportation Planning and
then as Leader of Professional Practice, where she grew the Citys EIT
Rotation Program into one of the largest and best-in-class programs
in the country. Jennifer also became heavily involved with the consulting industry on issues of common interest and in supporting the
Citys prequalification of engineering and architectural consultants.
This, along with many years working both in consulting and for owners, exposed Jennifer to the need for ensuring the right people do
the right work, and the evidence that this is better facilitated using
Qualifications Based Selection (QBS).
For the last few years, Jennifer has been the Manager of the
Corporate Engineering and Energy Services team. Her team provides
engineering support to the City and civic partners, develops and
implements innovative energy and sustainability solutions, purchases all the natural gas and the 100-per-cent-green electricity for
the City, and maintains Calgarys energy contracts and its Sustainable
Building Policy. The team currently provides support for over $750
million in buildings, and recently developed Calgarys Corporate
Energy Strategy. They also maintain strong relationships with
industry, both contracting and consulting, and present the Annual
Partnering with Industry Symposium.
Jennifer is a strong proponent of working collaboratively with
industry and using QBS; the City of Calgary has used QBS since the
1970s. QBS works because it sets up a collaborative team approach

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from the outset.

Working as a team
and providing the
design consultant
with the resources
to be innovative has
positive impacts on
the construction
and life-cycle costs
of infrastructure,
she adds. Jennifer
has, over the last
few years, shared her
time and expertise
on procurement of
engineering services
and QBS in speaking
engagements and in
Jennifer Enns, P.Eng
support of a major
Ontario QBS pilot.
Jennifer is an enthusiastic judge for the annual CEA Awards of
Excellence. Every year I am impressed with the quality of the projects,
the innovation that goes into them and how they contribute to the quality
of life of Albertans, she says.
Another of Jennifers passions is encouraging young people to pursue
careers in the sciences and engineering. She is a strong proponent of
science fairs and has been both science fair chair and judge over the years.
It is amazing to see what these young people can do. When you see what
the next generation can accomplish and the passion they bring to their
projects, you know the world is in good hands.
When not at her desk, Jennifer serves on APEGAs Practice Review
Board, and she is APEGAs representative on the University of Calgarys
Schulich School of Engineering Faculty Council. She is also the public
member on the Alberta Association of Architects Practice Review Board.
Jennifer Enns has made an extra-ordinary contribution to consulting
engineering in Alberta and Canada, says Matt Brassard, P.Eng.
President, Consulting Engineers of Alberta. I am honoured to
present the Presidents Award to her.

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AWARDS 2015

Up and
Coming

HAROLD L. MORRISON

RISING YOUNG
PROFESSIONAL

AWARD

CEA 2015 SHOWCASE

YOUNG PROFESSIONAL NOMINEE JUDGES

In addition to the Lieutenant Governors Award, CEA recognizes another individual

with the Harold L. Morrison Rising Young Professional Award. Alberta Innovators
typically only prints the award winner, but this year the CEA acknowledges all the
nominees. The winner will be announced at the CEA gala event.
In no particular order, we are pleased to present the nominees for the 2015 Young
Professional Award.

Ben Novak, P.Eng., Founding Partner of DFS

Craig Clifton, P.Eng., Clifton Associates Ltd.,

Vice President

Shawn McKeown, P.Eng., Golder Associates,

Principal

Dan Dmytryshyn, B.Sc., P.Eng, Project Manager,

CIMA Canada Inc.

Owen Mierke, P.Eng, Project Manager, Northern

Infrastructure Group, Associated Engineering

Amisha Pope, P.Eng., LEED AP, Mechanical Design

Engineer, DIALOG

Dan Dmytryshyn boasts a varied and enviable list of

achievements in his relatively short career in engineering. He has worked for the City of Edmonton,
Shell Canada, OPUS Stewart Weir and Stantec, and
is currently a project manager at CIMA Canada Inc.
(CIMA+). He has been a member of the Professional Development Committee at the Centre for
Transportation Engineering and Planning (CTEP),
a volunteer teaching assistant in the University
of Albertas Special Topics in Civil Engineering,
Transportation course for the winter 2011 and 2012
terms and member of the CEAs YP group since 2006.
As a project manager at CIMA+, Dan has led
transportation planning, design and construction
projects in both Alberta and Saskatchewan. Dan
has been my go-to person for providing transportation engineering services to support my land use
planning projects, writes one of his colleagues.
Dan was also pivotal in the development of the first
rural modern roundabout within the Edmonton
Region, near Villeneuve.

Owen has extensive experience in municipal

consulting and construction, having worked in
projects like the Highway 69 water supply line, the
TaigaNova Eco-Industrial Park for the Wood Buffalo
Housing and Development Corporation and subdivision expansion for the Fort Mackay First Nations,
among many others.
Before graduating from the University of
Saskatchewan in civil engineering in 2006, Owen
spent the summers working with Associated
Engineering in construction inspection and
administration. He started full-time work with
Associated Engineering, in municipal infrastructure, immediately following his graduation.
Owen demonstrates communication and project
management skills well beyond his years of experience, said one of his colleagues. He has been
a speaker at professional conferences, a member
of professional committees, and was the winner
of the 2014 NASTT Northwest Chapter Trenchless
Project of the Year Award.

Amisha is a true leader. She has been heavily

involved with the Northern Alberta chapter of the
American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air
Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), moving from
committee work to the incoming chapter president,
as one of its youngest presidents ever. Since
graduating from the University of Alberta in 2007,
Amisha has worked on many important projects for
DIALOG, including St. Josephs Seminary/Newman
Theological College, the Kaye Edmonton Clinic and
TELUS Spark in Calgary, among many others.
Amisha has consistently demonstrated outstanding design skills and has also provided the client
with timely, accurate input throughout, writes one
of her colleagues at DIALOG.
Amisha organized DIALOGs first Toastmasters
Club in Edmonton, becoming the first member to
achieve her Toastmaster designation. She also volunteers with the Heart of the City Piano Program,
the Terra Centre and the Partnership Approach to
Literacy (PAL).

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SHOWCASE

AWARDS 2015

Calgarys Airport Trail Tunnel

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

FIRM: CH2M HILL Canada Limited.

CLIENT/OWNER: City of Calgarys Transportation
Infrastructure
LOCATION: Calgary, Alberta
SUB CONSULTANTS: Associated Engineering Alberta
Ltd., Thurber Engineering Ltd., ADP Engineering Ltd.
CONTRACTORS: PCL Construction Inc., Parsons
Corp., Dufferin Construction Joint Venture
The Airport Trail Tunnel is Calgarys first vehicle
tunnel and an integral part of the multimodal
transportation network in the citys rapidly growing
Northeast. The 620-metre-long cast-in-place concrete
structure carries six lanes of traffic under the Calgary
International Airports new runway, extends Airport
Trail and could provide future light rail transit to
the airport terminal. Opened to traffic on May 25,
2014, the project was built to a fast-track schedule
to accommodate the runway opening in June, and
balanced energy efficiency with capital costs.

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JUDGES COMMENTS:
The complexity of managing and delivering
the project on time and budget is impressive,
particularly with the need to sequence the project
with the building of the runway.

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AWARDS 2015

STUDIES, SOFTWARE AND

SPECIAL SERVICES

Clover Bar Wastewater Lagoon Risk and Operation Study

FIRM: SMA Consulting Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: EPCOR
LOCATION: Edmonton, Alberta
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Stantec (Prime Consultant)
If emptied, the Edmonton Waste Management Facility lagoons could cover 300 football
fields with metre-deep biosolids. Overflow could be an environmental disaster, but
emergency solids removal would cost millions and put tons of biosolids in a landfill. SMA
integrated advanced process simulation with full failure and risk analysis to find answers
for EPCOR, using over 75,000 lines of code to process 68 million pieces of data and project
results to 2024. The results showed that an aggressive approach and some upgrades could
keep levels safe; the new Ostara nutrient-to-fertilizer facility, sized using simulation
results, would allow easy management.

JUDGES COMMENTS:
Not only did this work help the City of Edmonton
and EPCOR optimize the lagoon infrastructure, it
also saved tax dollars.

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AWARDS 2015

Edith Lake to Sarah Lake

Transmission Line Construction
NATURAL RESOURCES,
MINING AND INDUSTRY

FIRM : Opus Stewart Weir Ltd.

CLIENT/OWNER: ATCO Electric
LOCATION: Swan Hills, Alberta
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Dean Yakimchuk
This challenging project took place approximately 10
kilometres west of Swan Hills, Alberta, originating
from the existing Edith Lake Substation and
extending southwest to the Sarah Lake Substation.
The project was constructed over terrain varying
from flat saturated muskeg and undulating hills to
steep embankments. The planned transmission line
required clearing timber, installation of pipeline and
watercourse crossings, road construction, installation
and removal of over 800 rig mats and site reclamation.
Opus Stewart Weir personnel coordinated field
operations with a local First Nations contractor while
working around identified sensitive areas.

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JUDGES COMMENTS:
A complex project with high risk.
A regional success achieved in a responsible manner.
This project combined innovation and good oldfashioned common sense. I liked the way the environmental impact was a real driver for the project.

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Edmonton International Airport Offices and Control Tower

FIRM: DIALOG
CLIENT/OWNER: Edmonton Airports
LOCATION: Edmonton, Alberta
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: EllisDon, Supreme Steel Inc.,
MMM Group

BUILDING ENGINEERING

The Edmonton International Airport Combined Office/

Control Tower project was an integral part of the airports
expansion 2012 program, responding to increasing
ridership and the pressure it had placed on the existing
infrastructure and buildings. The combined tower houses
a new cutting edge NAV Canada air traffic control tower, an
expanded retail precinct, and provides new administrative
offices. Additional functional objectives include the
provision of improved airside ground operations, the
creation of a central baggage area, and the development of
a key nodal area to improve passenger and baggage flow.
The project is targeting LEED Silver designation.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
A challenging and innovative project resulting in a
functional facility and a striking icon for the region.

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AWARDS 2015

Elbow River Traverse

FIRM: Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Calgary Municipal Land Corporation
LOCATION: Calgary, Alberta
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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Alongside Simpson Roberts Architects, SMP

Consulting Electrical Engineers, Graham Construction
and Stantec, Read Jones Christoffersen produced the
Elbow River Traverse pedestrian bridge. A new river
crossing in Calgary, it spans the Elbow River near its
confluence with the Bow River. The bridge provides
continuity to a refurbished section of pathway and a
vantage point on a site of historical importance. As
a graceful design, it doesnt compete for attention
with its surroundings; it merely adds elegance to
the area. Slender weathering steel arches offer
structural efficiency while the lighting for the bridge,
guardrails, and furniture were designed to minimize
their presence.

JUDGES COMMENTS:
Working in an urban area, great care was taken to
design the project so it fit into the urban landscape
and satisfied all the design criteria.

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AWARDS 2015

WATER RESOURCES AND

ENERGY PRODUCTION

Fort McMurray Water Treatment

Plant Upgrade
FIRM: Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
LOCATION: Fort McMurray, Alberta
SUB CONSULTANTS: Thurber Engineering Ltd.,
Schaefer D.E. Architect
CONTRACTOR: Bird Construction Inc.
Faced with exponential population growth and new
regulatory requirements, the Municipality of Wood
Buffalo engaged Associated Engineering to develop and
implement the treatment plants expansion to address the
populations urgent needs. Executing a major $160-million
tax-payer-funded construction project in the heart of the
oil sands within a tapped labour resource environment
was no easy feat. To integrate new improvements without
major disruption of water supply to the community
required maximizing existing assets performance, an
adaptive design and a carefully staged implementation
strategy. The new facilities had to be constructed on a
small footprint adjacent to the existing treatment plant.

JUDGES COMMENTS:
An outstanding project from a category of numerous excellent projects. Adaptability
over a phased program to help the municipality manage a significant capital expenditure. Well done!
All seven criteria were served well by Associated Engineerings development of the
project.
A blend of new construction with the optimization of existing infrastructure, this
project highlighted a team effort.

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AWARDS 2014

HWY 63:11 South of Athabasca River

to North of Confederation Way
TRANSPORTATION
INFRASTRUCTURE

FIRM: Stantec Consulting Ltd.

CLIENT/OWNER: Alberta Transportation
LOCATION: Fort McMurray, Alberta
SUB-CONSULTANTS: AECOM Canada Ltd., CH2M HILL
Canada Limited, Thurber Engineering Ltd.
CONTRACTORS: Graham Construction, Flatiron
Constructors, Innovative Civil Constructors, South Rock Ltd.
As the only route through Fort McMurray, Highway 63 keeps
the economic engine of Alberta connected to the rest of the
province. In the face of growing congestion, Alberta Transportation made a choice: to engage a Stantec-led team to
design a $400-million upgrade to the highways chokepoint
from the Athabasca River to the North and manage its construction. The changes included expanding the road from
six to 10 traffic lanes, improving two bridges and adding
Albertas largest bridge. Despite cramped geography, utility
corridors and a challenging climate, Stantec delivered the
project ahead of schedule and kept traffic moving throughout construction.

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JUDGES COMMENTS:
This project had many challenging and complex engineering issues to resolve for satisfactory completion.

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AWARDS 2015

COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND

IN-HOUSE INITIATIVES

Stantec in the Community Day

FIRM: Stantec Consulting Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Stantec Consulting Ltd.
LOCATION: Alberta
Stantec is a company of 14,000 people across 230
locations. On Stantec Community Day, held on September
15, 2014, an estimated 5,500 employees worldwide
participated in the event. Of that total, 950 staff members
were located in Alberta. Together, Stantec volunteered the
equivalent of 2,600 hours (or 104 days) in support of 33
different charities and organizations. Organizing hundreds
of people on one day poses a few challenges: finding
volunteers, assigning tasks, training, communicating and
engaging the volunteers. But the rewards were worth the
sweat. Stantec made a difference for thousands of people
across Alberta, proving its commitment to community.

JUDGES COMMENTS:
The percentage of employees participating and the
coordination in locations throughout Alberta were
impressive.

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Suncor: Construction of a No Net Loss Lake for Long-Term Sustainability

FIRM: Golder Associates Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Suncor Energy Inc.
LOCATION: North of Fort McMurray, Alberta
Golder was hired by Suncor Energy to work on the
Fort Hills oil sands project No Net Loss Lake. Golder
conducted field studies and research to develop a
conceptual plan for this challenging and unusual
situation, and then worked on-site to supervise
construction and come up with design changes when
the conditions were not as predicted. The result was an
improved and expanded fish habitat that preserves the
natural vegetation and blends with the environment
and ecosystem, and a natural-looking, long-term
sustainable lake that will cope with extreme weather
events and connects well with the Athabasca River.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
A very interesting and challenging project.

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ENVIRONMENTAL

SHOWCASE

AWARDS 2015

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

WATER RESOURCES AND

ENERGY PRODUCTION

Turner Valley and Black Diamond

Water Supply System
FIRM: MPE Engineering Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Sheep River Regional Utility Corporation
LOCATION: Turner Valley and Black Diamond, Alberta
SUB-CONSULTANT: Urban Systems Ltd.
In 2008, the communities of Black Diamond, Turner Valley,
Longview and the Municipal District of Foothills formed a
partnership to integrate their infrastructure into a regional
system by creating a 25-year plan for potable water delivery.
The partners engaged MPE Engineering and Urban Systems
to design and implement the plan; however, the focus
drastically changed with the unprecedented flood of 2013.
Essential services became the priority when major components of the existing water system were destroyed, and an
emergency fire hose transporting water to Black Diamond
from Turner Valley was the first of many emergency measures
implemented. So began a story of innovation and municipal
cooperation that exemplified true partnership.

JUDGES COMMENTS:
The flooding created additional complex issues, but the
resolve to complete this project only increased.

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AWARDS 2015

WESS Stage W13

FIRM: SMA Consulting Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: City of Edmonton
LOCATION: Edmonton, Alberta
WESS W13, a new sanitary tunnel in West Edmonton, was
designed and built to eliminate a critical bottleneck that
contributed to flooding in 2004. Sticky equipment-clogging
clay, soil voids, car-sized boulders, and an unrecorded
concrete wall could have made the project a costly headache,
but SMA and the City implemented cutting-edge planning
and project control methods to triple productivity and
solve problems by using innovative solutions like new
soil-conditioning polymers and HAZMAT scuba divers.
The completed tunnel is reducing the risk of flooding for
thousands of residents and supporting record growth in
West Edmonton.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
An outstanding project and a significant success. Excellent
project management with use of innovation, techniques and
technology.
The risk management and logistic support throughout this
project were exceptional.

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SMALL FIRM BIG IMPACT

SHOWCASE

AWARDS 2015

A Traffic Count You Can Count On

FIRM: McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.
LOCATION: Edmonton, Alberta
CONTRACTORS: JibInfo System Inc. Canada, Ben J. Cote
McElhanney has
revolutionized the
collection of traffic
data at intersections
and interchanges by
STUDIES, SOFTWARE AND
developing a new
SPECIAL SERVICES
touch-technology
application from the ground up. McElhanneys application
allows traffic counters to complete their counts using a
portable tablet while meeting Alberta Transportations
requirements for vehicle classifications. Used at more
than 500 locations and for a variety of clients since April
2014, the application has proved reliable, efficient and
user-friendly. By combining innovation, engineering
and current technology, McElhanney and its contractors,
Jibinfo System Inc. Canada and Ben J. Cote, have brought
traffic counting into the digital age and enabled traffic
counts you can count on.

Calgary International Airport - Runway

Development Project

TRANSPORTATION
INFRASTRUCTURE

JUDGES COMMENTS:
This project has demonstrated incredible excellence in
engineering with a high degree of difficulty and extremely
impressive technical acumen.

FIRM: Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd.

CLIENT/OWNER: Calgary Airport Authority
LOCATION: Calgary, Alberta
SUB CONSULTANTS: CH2M HILL Canada Limited
CONTRACTORS: PCL Construction Inc.,
Parsons Corp., Dufferin Construction
OTHER KEY PLAYERS
AECOM Canada Ltd., Hatch Mott MacDonald
The Runway Development Project improves the capacity of the Calgary International
Airport, which supports economic development in the region. This one-of-a-kind
project includes a 4,270-metre-long parallel runway, which is the longest runway in
Canada, as well as 15 taxiways, a new aircraft parking apron, 700 kilometres of airfield
cables, 40 kilometres of utilities, 5,000 sustainable LED high-intensity runway lights, 11
kilometres of roads and two new taxiway underpasses. As the prime consultant, Associated
Engineering along with subconsultant CH2M HILL collaborated with the Calgary Airport
Authority, its program manager and construction manager, to successfully deliver this
$620-million project on schedule and within budget.

A mega-project completed on schedule and on budget.

Well done!

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Canadas Oilsands Innovation Alliance (COSIA) Caribou Habitat Restoration

FIRM: Opus Stewart Weir Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Nexen Energy ULC
LOCATION: Southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta
CONTRACTOR: Auger and Sons Ltd.
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Dean Yakimchuk
Woodland caribou, or rangifer tarandus
caribou, is a threatened species in Alberta.
Opus Stewart Weir, with its First Nations
partner Eric Auger and Sons, has helped
restore habitat and decrease predation with
NATURAL RESOURCES,
the aim of restoring population numbers.
MINING AND INDUSTRY
Through Canadas Oil Sands Innovation
Alliance (COSIA) Caribou Habitat Restoration program near Algar Lake, Alberta,
Opus Stewart Weir and Eric Auger and Sons maintained approximately 88
kilometres of access road and contributed to a total 47.4 kilometres of historic
seismic line restoration. This made possible the planting of 53,620 black spruce
seedlings.

Caring for the Past at the Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park

FIRM: Golder Associates Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: University Of Calgary
LOCATION: Cluny Fortified Village, Siskita (Blackfoot)
Nation, Alberta
Golder consultants core value is caring, and during the
summer of 2014, they put that on display by bringing
together the community, science and social disciplines. By
promoting the success of the University of Calgarys public
archaeology program at Blackfoot Nation Historical Park,
Golder supported the research of a significant archaeological
site and most remarkably, a proposed World Heritage Site
application. Our consultants enhanced Golders financial
support for this program, contributing their know-how and
personal time. The result was a unique opportunity to engage
the public with First Nations culture and history through the
U of Cs archaeology research program.
JUDGES COMMENTS:
This project demonstrates a commitment to
volunteerism and Albertas history while promoting
rural Alberta tourism.

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COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND

IN-HOUSE INITIATIVES

SHOWCASE

AWARDS 2015

City of Edmonton Transit

Control Centre
FIRM: Stantec Consulting Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: The City of Edmonton
LOCATION: Edmonton, Alberta
CONTRACTOR: PEMCO Construction Ltd.

BUILDING ENGINEERING

Edmontons Transit Control Centre acts like the brain of the

Citys public transit system. Since 1977, it has kept pace
with population and ridership growth with ad hoc upgrades,
sometimes barely keeping up with the demands placed on
the system.
Stantec helped the City redesign its transit hub, upgrading
facilities and planning a more organized kind of growth.
Newly streamlined technical systems let staff keep on
top of data as it comes in and an improved user interface
and ergonomic desks make the workplace healthier and
less stressful. The new ETCC will keep Edmonton moving
smoothly for years to come.

Elkana Water Loss Reduction

Program
FIRM: MPE Engineering Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Rocky View County
LOCATION: Bragg Creek, Alberta
SUB CONSULTANTS: Corix Utilities Inc., MPE Halma Land
Surveys Ltd., Proterra Landworks Inc.
CONTRACTORS: Bragg Creek Excavating, Aquatech
Canadian Water Services Inc.
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: Elkana Residents Water Co-op

JUDGES COMMENTS:
While not as glamorous as some other projects,
this project provides safe drinking water while
reducing the environmental impacts of the older
system.
The Elkana residence had insight for the need to
invest in the worlds most valuable resource, and
by working collaboratively with various public
sectors, this private-public partnership took on
the care of water resource management in the
Rocky View County.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN

In 2011, Elkana Water Cooperative and Rocky View County

entered into a partnership to reduce potable water
losses and to connect Elkana into the Bragg Creek water
distribution system. Elkana was under a long-standing
boil-water advisory with water usage roughly five times the
design demand, exceeding Elkanas water license.
Through a leak detection and repair program, system
water losses were reduced by over 400 per cent, creating
the potential to gain additional service capacity.
In June 2014, the Elkana water system was connected
to the municipal water system and the advisory was lifted.
The project team featured Corix Utilities, Halma Land
Surveys and Proterra Land Services.

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Gateway Boulevard Berm Risk Assessment

Methodology for Developments Near Freight Rail
FIRM: SMA Consulting Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: City of Edmonton
LOCATION: Edmonton, Alberta
OTHER KEY PLAYERS: AECOM Canada Ltd. (Prime Consultant)
Cities like Edmonton are increasingly
pursuing land near working rail for infill
development as a solution to sustainable
growth. However, this requires thorough risk assessment. SMA developed
SMALL FIRM BIG IMPACT
an innovative, rigorous methodology
integrating FMEA, Monte Carlo simulation,
and catastrophic, rail and project risk analysis into one approach. The methodology
helps municipal decision-makers, urban planners, land developers and railway
organizations share ideas and information about how to use land near railways in
more creative, safe, sustainable and environmentally responsible ways.
It was implemented successfully on the Gateway Boulevard berm development
project and identified critical mitigations that are needed to improve safety before
development proceeds.

Highway 40 Emergency Flood Repairs - Kananaskis

FIRM: Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd.
CLIENT/OWNER: Alberta Transportation
LOCATION: Elbow Sheep Wildland and Peter Lougheed
Provincial Parks, Alberta
CONTRACTOR: Volker Stevin Canada
Following the devastation of the 2013 floods, Alberta
Transportation recruited Associated Engineering to
determine strategies for rehabilitating 117 damaged sites
along 55 kilometres of Highway 40. Located southwest of
Calgary in the picturesque Kananaskis Lakes region, the
repairs required in-stream work in highly sensitive fishbearing creeks and rivers. Design and construction were
fast-tracked to reopen access to national and international
travellers. Through the concerted and collaborative efforts of
the consultant team, working with the contractor and Alberta
Transportation, Highway 40 was reinstated on time, less
than five months after the flood, ready to welcome outdoor
enthusiasts from around the world.

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2014-2015 Showcase Awards Judges

Al Maurer, P.Eng.
Retired
Andre Corbould, P.Eng.
Deputy Minister, Alberta Transportation
Daryl Procinsky,
Creativity Activator
Design Revolution
David Smith,
CET President
Calgary Construction Association

Jennifer Enns, P.Eng.

Manager, Engineering & Energy Services,
City of Calgary

Tom ONeill, P. Eng.

Executive Director, Technical Services,
Alberta Infrastructure

John McNicoll,
Executive Director, Edmonton Construction
Association

William Pigden, BA, CD

Personal Programs Manager, Edmonton
Garrison, Government of Canada

Malcolm Bruce, MSM

Director Corporate Services, APEGA
Moh Lali, P.Eng.
Executive Director, Alberta Transportation

Don Mah, P.Eng.

Chair, NAIT

Paul Breeze, P. Eng., C. Eng., FACI, FCPCI

President , PBreeze Consulting Ltd.

Dorian Wandzura, P.Eng.

General Manager, Transportation Services,
City of Edmonton

Scott Matheson, R.E.T., G.S.C.

Chair, Alberta Construction Association

Douglas Wright,
LCOL (Retd) President & CEO
Delstan Innovations Group
Fred Otto, P.Eng.
Professor , University of Alberta
Graeme E. Langford, P. Eng.
Engineering & Project Management

Shane Freeson, P.Eng.

Site Director, Cenovus Energy
Stephen Panciuk, P.Eng.
Practice Leader Architects and Engineers
Encon Group Inc.
Tim Robbie, P.Eng.
Corporate Manager, Health, Safety & Environment,
Vermilion Energy

William A. Sorrentino, Jr., PE, PMP, DBIA

Consultant, PSMJ | Resources, Inc.

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AMEC Environment & Infrastructure
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Red Deer AB T4N 1X4
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Barr Engineering & Environmental
Science Canada
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Suite 500-808 4 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 3E8
Tel: (403) 592-8317
400 Mackenzie Boulevard
Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4

AN-GEO Environmental Consultants Ltd.

www.an-geo.com
204, 8708 - 48 Avenue
Edmonton AB T6E 5L1
Tel: (780) 450-3377

BBA Inc.
www.bba.ca
Suite 100-227, 11 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2R 1R9
Tel: (403) 770-2111

Aplin & Martin Consultants Ltd.

www.aplinmartin.com
9-2611 37 Avenue NE
Calgary AB T1Y 5V7
Tel: (403) 250-8199

BPTEC Engineering Ltd.

www.bptec.ca
200, 4220 - 98 Street
Edmonton AB T6E 6A1
Tel: (780) 436-5376

ARA Engineering Ltd.

www.araeng.com
Bisma Centre, Suite 101, 110 Country Hills
Landing NW
Calgary AB T3K 5P3
Tel: (403) 735-6030

Buckland & Taylor Ltd.

www.b-t.com
1700 College Plaza, 8215-112 Street NW
Edmonton AB T6G 2C8
Tel: (780) 432-1301

Arrow Engineering Inc.

www.arrowonline.ca
Suite 202, 13167 146 Street
Edmonton AB T5L 4S8
Tel: (780) 801-6100
Associated Engineering Alberta Ltd.
www.ae.ca
#400, 600 Crowfoot Crescent NW
Calgary AB T3G 0B4
Tel: (403) 262-4500
1000 Associated Engineering Plaza,
10909 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 2B9
Tel: (780) 451-7666
211, 9912 Franklin Avenue
Fort McMurray AB T9H 2K5
Tel: (780) 715-3850
1001, 400 - 4 Avenue South
Lethbridge AB T1J 4E1
Tel: (403) 329-1404
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Medicine Hat AB T1B 4Y2
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CH2M HILL Canada Limited

www.ch2mhillcanada.com
540 - 12 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2R 0H4
Tel: (403) 407-6000
6815 8th Street NE Suite 300
Calgary AB T2E 7H7
Tel: (403) 806-6060
Suite 800-10010 106 Street NW
Edmonton AB T5J 3L8
Tel: (780) 409-9298
CIMA+
www.cima.ca
15 Royal Vista Place NW, Suite 280
Calgary AB T3R 0P3
Tel: (403) 775-0100
10235 - 101 Street, 4th Floor
Edmonton AB T5J 3G1
Tel: (780) 297-2462
425 Gregoire Drive
Fort McMurray AB T9H 4K7
Tel: (780) 743-2038
Clifton Associates Ltd.
www.clifton.ca

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2222 - 30 Avenue NE
Calgary AB T2E 7K9
Tel: (403) 263-2556
4409 - 94 Street
Edmonton AB T6E 6T7
Tel: (780) 432-6441

Emans Smith Andersen Engineering Ltd.

www.emanssmithandersen.com
420, 840 - 6 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 3E5
Tel: (403) 261-8897

#10, 6309 - 43 Street W

Lloydminster AB T2V 2W9
Tel: (780) 872-5980

Eramosa Engineering Inc.

www.eramosa.com
600 Crowfoot Crescent NW, Suite 400
Calgary AB T3G 0B4
Tel: (403) 208-7447

Coffey Geotechnics Inc.

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Unit 21, 3030 Sunridge Way NE
Calgary AB T1Y 7K4
Tel: (403) 250-8850

ESE-LSS Life Safety Systems Technologies

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Suite 207, 11044 - 51 Avenue
Edmonton AB T6H 5B4
Tel: 1 (866) 745-2980

Conestoga-Rovers & Associates Ltd.

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205 - 3445 114 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2Z 0K6
Tel: (403) 271-2000

531, 9768 - 170 Street NW

Edmonton AB T5T 5L4
Tel: (780) 482-6050

CTM Design Services Ltd.

www.ctmdesign.ca
210, 340 Midpark Way SE
Calgary AB T2X 1P1
Tel: (403) 640-0990
D.E.S. Engineering Limited
www.deseng.ca
#201, 8403 Coronet Road NW
Edmonton AB T6E 4N7
Tel: (780) 801-2700
DCL Siemens Engineering Ltd.
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101, 10630 - 172 Street
Edmonton AB T5S 1H8
Tel: (780) 486-2000
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300, 134 - 11 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2G 0X5
Tel: (403) 245-5501
10154 - 108 Street
Edmonton AB T5J 1L3
Tel: (780) 429-1580
Dillon Consulting Limited
www.dillon.ca
#200, 334-11 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2G 0Y2
Tel: (403) 215-8880
Eagle Engineering Corp.
PO Box 208, 19 White Avenue
Bragg Creek AB T0L 0K0
Tel: (403) 949-3362

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exp Services Inc.

www.exp.com
375, 7220 Fisher Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 2H8
Tel: (403) 509-3030 Fax: (403) 509-3035
101, 8616 - 51 Avenue
Edmonton AB T6E 6E6
Tel: (780) 435-3662
FVB Energy Inc.
www.fvbenergy.com
350, 13220 St. Albert Trail
Edmonton AB T5L 4W1
Tel: (780) 453-3410
GeoMetrix Group Engineering Ltd.
www.geometrix.ca
1227 - 91 Street SW
Edmonton AB T6X 1E9
Tel: (780) 738-3303
Golder Associates Ltd.
www.golder.com
102, 2535 - 3 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2P 3T1
Tel: (403) 299-5600
16820 - 107 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5P 4C3
Tel: (780) 483-3499
340 Maclennan Crescent
Fort McMurray AB T9H 4B5
Tel: (780) 743-4040
Great Northern Engineering Consultants
Inc.
www.gnec.ca

8703 53 Avenue NW
Edmonton AB T6E 5E9
Tel: (780) 490-7141
Hatch Mott MacDonald Ltd.
www.hatchmott.com
1250 - 840 7 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 3G2
Tel: (403) 234-7978
#200, 10830 Jasper Avenue NW
Edmonton AB T5J 2B3
Tel: (780) 421-0787
HDR Corporation
www.hdrinc.com
4838 Richard Road SW, Suite 140
Calgary AB T3E 6L1
Tel: (403) 537-0250
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202, 838 - 11 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T3C-3P6
Tel: (403) 245-6446 Fax: (403) 244-0191
10950 - 119 Street
Edmonton AB T5H 3P5
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IBI Group
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Suite 400 1167 Kensington Crescent NW
Calgary AB T2N 1X7
Tel: (403) 270-5600
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Edmonton AB T5J 2B3
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Fort McMurray AB T9H 2K5
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Integral Group
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Calgary AB T2G 0T1
Tel: (587) 353-5141
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1, 6325 12 Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 2K1
Tel: (403) 254-0544
101, 621 - 10 Street
Canmore AB T1W 2A2
Tel: (403) 678-4211
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Edmonton AB T6E 5L9
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Grande Prairie AB T8V 0S3
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NACE/SSPC certified inspections

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Lethbridge AB T1J 2L2
Tel: (403) 327-3755
210, 4711 - 51 Avenue
Red Deer AB T4N 6H8
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J.R. Paine & Associates Ltd.
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Edmonton AB T5S 1E7
Tel: (780) 489-0700

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Calgary, AB T2V 1K2
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Grande Prairie AB T8V 3J8
Tel: (780) 532-1515
7710 - 102 Avenue
Peace River AB T8S 1M5
Tel: (780) 624-4966
Kerr Wood Leidal Associates Ltd.
www.kwl.ca
Suite 110, 1212 First Street SE
Calgary AB T2G 2H8
Tel: (403) 262-4241
KFR Engineering
www.kfrengineering.com
#100 11404-142 Street NW
Edmonton AB T5M 1V1
Tel: (780) 488-6008

Consulting Engineers Serving Western Canada

Khanatek Technologies Inc.

www.khanatek.com
2048 - 43 Street
Edmonton AB T6L 6L7
Tel: (780) 702-0613
Klohn Crippen Berger Ltd.
www.klohn.com
500, 2618 Hopewell Place NE
Calgary AB T1Y 7J7
Tel: (403) 274-3424
301, 2627 Ellwood Drive SW
Edmonton AB T6X 0P7
Tel: (780) 444-0706
Laviolette Engineering Ltd.
www.laveng.com
7609 - 115 Street, Unit B
Edmonton AB T6G 1N4
Tel: (780) 454-0884

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203-6919 32nd Avenue NW
Calgary AB T3B 0K6
Tel: (403) 247-1813

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8884 48 Avenue
Edmonton AB T6E 5L1
Tel: (780) 438-0844
LVM, a Division of EnGlobe Corp.
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4530 - 50 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2B 3R4
Tel: (403) 255-3273
16114 - 114 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5M 2Z5
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Magna IV Engineering
www.magnaiv.com
200, 688 Heritage Drive SE
Calgary AB T2H 1M6
Tel: (403) 723-0575
1103 Parsons Road SW
Edmonton AB T6X 0X2
Tel: (780) 462-3111
8219D Fraser Avenue
Fort McMurray AB T9H 0A2
Tel: (780) 791-3122
Maskell Plenzik & Partners Engineering
Inc.
www.mppeng.ca
Suite 206, 610 - 70 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2H 2J6
Tel: (403) 509-2005

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McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.

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Suite 500, 999 8 Street SW
Calgary AB T2R 1J5
Tel: (403) 262-5042
#203 - 502 Bow Valley Trail
Canmore AB T1W 1N9
Tel: (403) 609-3992
14904 121A Avenue
Edmonton AB T5V 1A3
Tel: (780) 809-3200
McIntosh Lalani Engineering Ltd.
www.mcintoshlalani.com
Bay 10, 4604 - 13 Street N
Calgary AB T2E 6P1
Tel: (403) 291-2345

MechWave Engineering Ltd.

www.mechwave.com
300, 1111 Olympic Way SE
Calgary AB T2G 0E6
Tel: (403) 802-1090
Metallurgical Consulting Services Ltd.
www.metallurgicalconsulting.net
#209, 5403 Crowchilde Trail NW
Calgary AB T3B 4Z1
Tel: (403) 235-5456
MMM Group Limited
www.mmm.com
5151 - 3 Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 2X6
Tel: (403) 269-7440

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Cold Lake AB T9M 0G1
Tel: (780) 594-1600
#200, 10576 - 113 Street
Edmonton AB T5H 3H5
Tel: (780) 423-4123

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Fort McMurray AB T9H 5K3
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Morrison Hershfield Limited
www.morrisonhershfield.com
300, 6807 Railway Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 2V6
Tel: (403) 246-4500
Suite 300, 1603 - 91 Street SW
Edmonton AB T6X 0W8
Tel: (780) 483-5200
Morton & Jagodich Incorporated
www.mortonjagodich.com
PO Box 78088, 383 Heritage Drive SE
Calgary AB T2H 2Y1
Tel: (403) 874-6135
PO Box 23342
Grande Prairie AB T8V 7G7
Tel: (403) 874-6135

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www.mpaeng.ca
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Grande Prairie AB T8V 0T8
Tel: (780) 814-2392
9930 - 102 Street
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#304 - 85 Cranford Way
Sherwood Park AB T8H 0H9
Tel: (780) 416-3034
MPE Engineering Ltd.
www.mpe.ca
1F, 333 2 Street W
Brooks AB T1R 1G4
Tel: (403) 362-8545
#320, 6715 - 8 Street NE
Calgary AB T2E 7H7
Tel: (403) 250-1362
#101, 10630 172 Street
Edmonton AB T5S 1H8
Tel: (780) 486-2000
300, 714 - 5 Avenue S
Lethbridge AB T1J 0V1
Tel: (403) 329-3442
40, 1825 Bomford Crescent SW
Medicine Hat AB T1A 5E8
Tel: (403) 348-2626
302, 4702 - 49 Avenue

Red Deer AB T4N 6L5

Tel: (403) 348-8340
NORR Architects Engineers Planners
www.norr.com
100, 221-10 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2G 0V9
Tel: (403) 264-4000
Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd.
www.nhcweb.com
9819 - 12 Avenue SW
Edmonton AB T6X 0E3
Tel: (780) 436-5668
Opus Stewart Weir Ltd.
www.swg.ca
4808A - 50 Avenue
Bonnyville AB T9N 2H3
Tel: (866) 812-3183
300, 926 - 5 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 0N7
Tel: (403) 264-2585
99, 11030 - 78 Avenue
Grande Prairie AB T8W 2J7
Tel: (877) 814-5880

30, 491 W.T. Hill Boulevard S.

Lethbridge AB T1J 1Y6
Tel: (403) 320-1135
140, 2121 Premier Way
Sherwood Park AB T8H 0B8
Tel: (780) 410-2580
P. Machibroda Engineering Ltd.
www.machibroda.com
12114A - 163 Street NW
Edmonton AB T5V 1H4
Tel: (780) 733-6575
Parsons Brinckerhoff Halsall Inc
www.halsall.com
5940 Macleod Trail SW, Suite 900
Calgary AB T2H 2G4
Tel: (403) 255-7946
Parsons Inc.
www.delcan.com
Suite 100, 808 - 4 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2P 3E8
Tel: (403) 228-9450
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www.pasquini.ca

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Tel: (403) 452-7677
Patching Associates Acoustical
Engineering Ltd.
www.patchingassociates.com
9, 4825 Westwinds Drive NE
Calgary AB T3J 4L4
Tel: (403) 274-5882
Protostatix Engineering
Consultants Inc.
www.protostatix.com
1100, 10117 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 1W8
Tel: (780) 423-5855
Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd.
www.rjc.ca
Suite 500, 1816 Crowchild Trail NW
Calgary AB T2M 3Y7
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Ready Engineering Corporation
www.readyengineering.com
Suite 201A, 708 - 11 Avenue SW
Calgary AB T2R 0E4
Tel: (403) 301-5250
#10 4051 - 4 Avenue S
Lethbridge AB T1J 4B5
Tel: (403) 327-2919 Fax: (403) 327-2915
209, 215 McLeod Avenue
Spruce Grove AB T7X 0G2
Tel: (780) 960-6663
Sameng Inc.
www.sameng.com
1500 Baker Centre, 10025 - 106 Street
Edmonton AB T5J 1G4
Tel: (780) 482-2557
SarPoint Engineering
www.sarpointeng.com
#6, 3530 - 11A Street NE
Calgary AB T2E 6M7
Tel: (403) 210-0661
9763 - 62 Avenue
Edmonton AB T6E 5Y4
Tel: (780) 453-6228
SCL Engineering Ltd.
200, 7205 Roper Road
Edmonton AB T6B 3J4
Tel: (780) 440-6262

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Sereca Fire Consulting Ltd.

www.serecafire.com
106, 5855 9 Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 1Z9
Tel: (403) 984-5800
SMA Consulting Ltd.
www.smaconsulting.ca
230 Sunlife Place 10123 - 99 Street
Edmonton AB T5J 3H1
Tel: (780) 484-3313
Smith & Andersen Consulting
Engineering
www.smithandersen.com
Suite 501, 10320 - 102 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 4A1
Tel: (780) 701-0331
SMP Consulting Electrical Engineers
www.smpeng.com
403, 1240 Kensington Road NW
Calgary AB T2N 3P7
Tel: (403) 270-8833
Suite 101, 10835 - 120 Street
Edmonton AB T5H 3P9
Tel: (780) 482-5931 4
234 - 13 Street North
Lethbridge AB T1H 2R7
Tel: (403) 327-9433
Stantec Consulting Ltd.
www.stantec.com
200 - 37 Quarry Park Blvd SE
Calgary AB T2C 5H9
Tel: (403) 252-3436

212-300 MacKenzie Boulevard

Fort McMurray AB T9H 4C4
Tel: (780) 791-7117

Unit 287, 2055 Premier Way

Sherwood Park AB T8H 0G2
Tel: (780) 410-0542

290, 220 - 4 Street S

Lethbridge AB T1J 3L8
Tel: (403) 329-3344

Urban Systems Ltd.

www.urbansystems.ca
101, 2716 Sunridge Way NE
Calgary AB T1Y 0A5
Tel: (403) 291-1193

1100, 4900 - 50 Street

Red Deer AB T4N 1X7
Tel: (403) 341-3320 9
Stephenson Engineering Ltd.
www.stephenson-eng.com
608 7th Street SW, Suite 200
Calgary AB T2P 1Z2
Tel: (403) 648-0033
Tetra Tech
www.tetratech.com
115-200 Rivercrest Drive SE
Calgary AB T2C 2X5
Tel: (403) 514-6908
202 - 10310 176 Street
Edmonton AB T5S 1L3
Tel: (780) 429-5656
Tetra Tech EBA Inc.
www.eba.ca
Riverbend Atrium One 115, 200 Rivercrest
Drive SE
Calgary AB T2C 2X5
Tel: (403) 203-3355
14940 - 123 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5V 1B4
Tel: (780) 451-2121

200, 325 - 25 Street SE

Calgary AB T2A 7H8
Tel: (403) 716-8000

442 - 10 Street N
Lethbridge AB T1H 2C7
Tel: (403) 329-9009

Suite 300, 805 - 8 Avenue SW

Calgary AB T2P 1H7
Tel: (403) 269-5150

Thurber Engineering Ltd.

www.thurber.ca
180, 7330 Fisher Street SE
Calgary AB T2H 2H8
Tel: (403) 253-9217

Suite 200, 1719 - 10 Avenue SW

Calgary AB T3C 0K1
Tel: (403) 245-5661
Suite 222, 4000 - 4 Street SE
Calgary AB T2G 2W3
Tel: (403) 214-3520
Suite 340, 1200 - 59 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2H 2M4
Tel: (403) 216-2410
10160 - 112 Street
Edmonton AB T5K 2L6
Tel: (780) 917-7000

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200, 9636 - 51 Avenue

Edmonton AB T6E 6A5
Tel: (780) 438-1460
#10 - 340 MacAlpine Crescent
Fort McMurray AB T9H 4A8
Tel: (780) 743-1566
TWD Technologies Limited
Suite 750 Calgary Place 1, 330 5 Avenue SW,
Calgary AB T2P 0H9
Tel: (403) 262-3083

200-10345 105 Street NW

Edmonton AB T5J 1E8
Tel: (780) 430-4041
V3 Companies of Canada Ltd.
www.v3co.ca
300, 6940 Fisher Road SE
Calgary AB 2H 0W3
Tel: (403) 860-1262
Suite 200, 9945 - 50 Street NW
Edmonton AB T6A 0L4
Tel: (780) 945-2576
Walters Chambers & Associates Ltd.
www.walterschambers.com
501, 10709 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 3N3
Tel: (780) 428-1740
Watt Consulting Group
www.dawatt.com
310, 3016 - 5 Avenue NE
Calgary AB T2A 6K4
Tel: (403) 273-9001
Williams Engineering Canada Inc.
www.williamsengineering.com
N195 - 3015 5th Avenue NE
Calgary AB T2A 6T8
Tel: (403) 263-2393
Suite 200, 10065 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 3B1
Tel: (780) 424-2393
Bay 26, 7875 - 48 Avenue
Red Deer AB T4P 2K1
Tel: (403) 755-2395
WSP
www.wspgroup.com
305, 1331 Macleod Trail SE
Calgary AB T2G 0K3
Tel: (403) 248-9463
Suite 300, 9925-109 Street
Edmonton AB T5K 2J8
Tel: (780) 452-5453
7710 Edgar Industrial Court
Red Deer AB T4P 4E2

Tel: (403) 342-7650

132, 2693 Broadmoor Blvd
Sherwood Park AB T8H 0G1
Tel: (780) 410-6740
WSP | Focus
www.focus.ca
127, 808 42 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2G 1Y9
Tel: (403) 272-8080
135, 808 42 Avenue SE
Calgary AB T2G 1Y9
Tel: (403) 272-8080
5018 - 52 Street
Camrose AB T4V 1V7
Tel: (780) 672-2468
Suite 1000, 9225 - 109 Street

Edmonton AB T5K 2J9

Tel: (780) 466-6555
Bay 1, 118 Millennium Drive
Fort McMurray AB T9K 2S8
Tel: (780) 790-07047
10127 - 120 Avenue
Grande Prairie AB T8V 8H8
Tel: (780) 539-3222
#110, 719 - 4 Avenue S
Lethbridge AB T1J 0P1
Tel: (403) 328-8393

Tel: ( 78) 624-5631

Yellowhead Engineering Services Inc.
www.yes-group.ca
17312 - 106 Avenue
Edmonton AB T5S 1H9
Tel: (780) 444-2406
Zwierzchowski Associates Inc.
www.za-inc.com
132 Thames Close NW
Calgary AB T2K 5N3
Tel: (403) 274-1910

Suite 302, 623 4 Street SE

Medicine Hat AB T1A 0L1
Tel: (403) 527-3707
#3, 8909-96 Street
Peace River AB T8S 1G8

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Index of Advertisers
Company

Arup Canada Inc.

2 Bloor Street East
Toronto ON M4W 1A8
Tel: 416-515-0915 Fax: 416-515-1635
www.arup.com
Autodesk
Kathleen Kewley
AEC Territory Manager - Canada
Tel: 778-279-3600
kathleen.kewley@autodesk.com
www.autodesk.com
C-FER Technologies (1999) Inc.
Dawna Bergum
200 Karl Clark Road
Edmonton AB T6N 1H2
Tel: 780450-3300 Fax: 780-450-3700
d.bergum@cfertech.com
www.cfertech.com
City of Calgary
Jennifer Enns
Manager, Engineering & Energy Services
PO Box 2100, Stn M
Calgary AB T2P 2M5
Tel: 403-268-1765 Fax: 403-268-8291
jennifer.enns@calgary.ca
www.calgary.ca
City of Edmonton
Chris Ward, Branch Manager
Financial Services & Utilities
3rd Floor 9803 102A Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 3A3
Tel: 780-496-5658

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chris.ward@edmonton.ca
www.edmonton.ca

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Heavy Construction Association

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EPCOR Water Services

Susan Ancel, P.Eng.,
Manager Network Services
10065 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton AB T5J 3B1
Tel: 780-412-7633 Fax: 780-412-7679
sancel@epcor.ca
www.epcor.ca

Al-terra Engineering

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National Bank Financial

Bruno Mercier
3500 Manulife Place, 10180-101 Street
Edmonton AB T5J 3S4
Tel: 780-412-6614 Fax: 780-424-5756
bruno.mercier@nbf.ca
Spatial Technologies
Richard Andrews
#2, 21 Highfield Circle SE
Calgary AB T2G 5N6
Tel: 877-252-0070 Fax: 403-259-3992
randrews@stpg.ca

Associated Engineering - Vancouver

The Association of Professional Engineers
and Geoscientists of Alberta (APEGA)

33

Brandt Tractor

67

Clifton & Associates

33

Consulting Architects of Alberta

56

Eramosa Engineering Inc.

28

exp Services Inc.

32

Hemisphere Engineering Inc. (MCW)

61

ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd.

60

KFR Engineering

18

Klohn Crippen Berger

56

McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.

32

MPE Engineering Ltd.

59

NAIT - Corporate and International Training (CIT)

68

National Bank Financial

62

Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Ltd.

33

NWS Inspection Inc.

59
23

Opus Stewart Weir

TD Meloche Monnex Inc.

Sukjit Mahmi
10025 102A Avenue NW, 23rd Floor
Edmonton, AB T5J 2Z2
Tel: 780-409-3233 Fax: 780-420-2323
sukjit.mahmi@tdinsurance.com

2-3

PCL Constructors Inc

Sameng Inc.

61

Sereca Fire Consulting Ltd.

63

SMA Consulting Ltd.

60

Stantec Inc.

13

TD Insurance - Meloche Monnex Financial Services

36

Tetra Tech Inc (EBA Engineering)

14

Thurber Engineering Ltd

55

Urban Systems Ltd.

63

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ETHICS

CONSULTING ENGINEERS OF ALBERTA

CEA member firms impose upon themselves
a very strict Code of Ethics requiring disciplined
fulfilment of their duties with honesty, justice and
courtesy toward society, clients, other members of
CEA and employees. Ongoing regulation by peers
ensures quality management practices and the
integrity of all CEA members.
CEA membership accreditation criteria are stringent. In addition to conforming with the
standards of practice set by the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of
Alberta (APEGA) and the requirement to hold an APEGA Permit to Practice, member firms
must maintain permanent facilities with employees in Alberta; be managed by one or more
professional engineers; have at least two years operating experience as a consulting engineering business; and employ an individual in Alberta who has at least five years experience
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1. Members shall practise their profession with concern for the social
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Clients
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any matters which may place the public in jeopardy.
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Other Members
12. Members shall relate to other members of CEA with integrity and
in a manner that will enhance the professional stature of consulting
engineering.
13. Members engaged by a client to review the work of another member of
CEA shall avoid statements which may maliciously impugn the reputation or business of that member.
14. Members shall respect the clientele of other members of CEA and shall
not attempt to supplant them when definite steps, including negotiations
for an engagement, have been taken towards their engagement.
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other consulting engineering businesses, including members of CEA, shall
promote the use of a qualifications-based selection system endorsed by CEA.
Employees
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proper compensation, require that they conform to high ethical
standards in their work and fully understand this Code of Consulting
Engineering Ethics.
17. Members shall not require or permit their employees to take responsibility for work for which they are not qualified.
18. Members shall encourage their employees to enhance their professional
qualifications and development through appropriate continuing education.

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