Congratulations to Irini Akhnoukh and Anita Kyle for receiving honours at the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers (CITE) annual meeting in Edmonton June 3 to 6 2018. Irini Akhnoukh was selected as the 2018 CITE Rising Star. The Rising Star Program recognizes members under the age of 35 who have already made an impact on…
McElhanney was presented with the 2018 Water Management Award of Excellence by the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) for our river diversion engineering work during the Salmon River Dam Decommissioning project. The Salmon River Dam, on Vancouver Island, was removed during the summer of 2017 and the site was re-naturalized. McElhanney provided design and…
McElhanney’s bridge engineering group has won an ACEC-BC Award of Merit in the Transportation & Bridges category for the Veer Kunwar Singh Bridge, which crosses the River Ganges in northern India. There were 12 entries in this category from leading consultants. At 4.35km, the Veer Kunwar Singh Bridge is the world’s longest extradosed bridge. It…
A McElhanney engineering survey project was a finalist in the 2018 David Thompson National Geomatics Awards. Vancouver Survey Branch Manager Rob Riecken, as the project’s commissioned land surveyor, was named a runner-up in the non-cadastral category for the “Engineering Survey of the Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch” project. He received the award during the National…
McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. was recognized for overall business performance and sustained growth with the prestigious Canada’s Best Managed Companies designation. The 2018 Best Managed program award winners are among the best-in-class of Canadian owned and managed companies demonstrating strategy, capability, and commitment to achieve sustainable growth. Now in its 25th year, Canada’s Best Managed…
McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd.’s bridge team won the ACEC-BC Award of Excellence in the Transportation & Bridges category for the Atal Setu bridge in Northern India on April 8. There were 10 entries in this category from leading consultants. The 592m Atal Setu Bridge, the first cable-stayed bridge in India procured under a design-build scheme,…
The BC Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure honoured McElhanney with the top award for “Design and Contract Preparation for Roads” for our work on the roundabout at Highway 97A and Main Street in Sicamous, BC. The new Sicamous roundabout provides safer and improved facilities for pedestrians and cyclists, especially for students from the…
