Canam Group sponsors a 2010 CSCE Award for Excellence in Innovation

Canam Group is pleased to support the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) in presenting the 2010 Award for Excellence in Innovation in Civil Engineering. This award was created by the CSCE in 2009 to recognize outstanding innovations in all civil engineering disciplines.

This year’s award was bestowed on a group of four organizations for their innovation in the form of a paper entitled Guidelines for Performance-Based Seismic Assessments and Retrofits of Low-Rise British Columbia School Buildings. These organizations were the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia, the Ministry of Education of British Columbia, the Seismic Peer Review Committee as well as the Earthquake Engineering Research Facility of the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of British Columbia.

“Canam Group is proud to continue its association with the CSCE and to encourage innovation in the field of civil engineering in Canada by sponsoring this award,” stated Tony Bégin, commercial development manager for Canam Canada. “The practical and commercial application of experimental discoveries aimed at improving the design and construction techniques used in civil engineering projects is consistent with our company’s position statement: Better Building Solutions.”

The award was presented at a ceremony on June 11 during the 2010 CSCE Annual General Meeting and Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Founded in 1887 by prominent civil engineers in Canada, the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) is a learned society intended to develop and maintain high standards of civil engineering practice in Canada and to enhance the public image of the civil engineering profession.

To view the press release issued by the CSCE, please visit www.csce-iit.ca.


From left: Tony Bégin; George Akhras, chair of the CSCE Innovation and IT Committee; Doug Stewart of the Ministry of Education of British Columbia; Liam Finn, PhD, P.Eng., of the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of British Columbia; Peter R. Mitchell, P.Eng., of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia; John Sherstobitoff, M.S., P.Eng., of Ausenco Sandwell; John Wallace, P.Eng., MIStructE, Struct.Eng., of Genivar; and Graham Taylor, PhD, P.Eng., of TBG Seismic Consultants Ltd.