Sea to Sky Highway Project Team receiving award (left
to right) Kate Cockerill and Sid Siddiqui (CEBC),
David Harvey (Associated Engineering), David
Tyler (formerly with Associated Engineering),
Mark Goldbach and Brian Mylleville (Golder),
John Dyble (Ministry of Transportation), Don
Kennedy (Associated Engineering)
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Associated Engineering takes top honours
at
CEBC awards
Associated Engineering and Golder Associates received
the highest honour for consulting engineers in B.C.
at the 16th annual Awards for Engineering Excellence on
March 5, 2005. The Consulting Engineers of B.C.
awarded the Associated/Golder team with the Lieutenant-Governor’s
Award of Excellence for our design of
the “Sea to Sky Highway Test Section”. The
Lieutenant Governor’s Award is given to the team
whose
design excels in all
areas of the judging
criteria: technical
excellence, innovation,
aesthetics, and
environmental,
economic, and social
sustainability.
The Sea to Sky
Highway project
involved upgrade of a
one kilometre section of
the highway, south of
Lions Bay in B.C.
(see page 4 for story).
Innovative solutions
included unique retaining
wall systems to suit
the difficult geotechnical
conditions at the site.
The design of the
retaining wall systems eliminated the need for blasting,
thus minimizing road closures.
Yoho Bridge Project Team receiving award (left to right)
Trevor Towers
(Urban Systems), Alfred Kao (Associated Engineering),
Kate Cockerill (CEBC),
Gregg Singer (Ministry of Transportation), Tom Lowe (Urban
Systems),
Sid Siddiqui (CEBC), Tim Blackburn (Urban Systems), Mark
Goldbach (Golder),
Bruce Walsh (Northwest Hydraulics)
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The Consulting Engineers of B.C. also presented Associated
Engineering subsidiary, Brybil Projects, and
partners Urban Systems, Golder Associates, Sandwell Engineering
and Northwest Hydraulics with an
Award of Excellence for the design of the Yoho Bridge and
Approaches.
Located on the Trans-
Canada Highway in the
Kicking Horse Canyon
east of Golden, B.C.,
the project involved
realigning and widening
1.9 kilometre of highway
and replacing the old
Yoho Bridge. Project
challenges included the
rugged and unstable
terrain, the narrow
canyon, avalanche and
rockfall hazards, and the
proximity of the Kicking
Horse River and the
Canadian Pacific
Railway main line. In
addition, the design had
to facilitate maintaining
traffic during construction.
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