The Alberta Chapter of the American Concrete Institute hosts its Awards of Excellence in Concrete event on a biennial basis. The event recognizes outstanding design and construction efforts with in the Alberta concrete industry.
The Alberta Chapter proudly hosted it’s prestigious 2011 Awards of Excellence in Concrete event on Friday May 13 at the Delta Lodge in Kananaskis. Innovation, creativity and excellence in the use of concrete and concrete products was highlighted in the following categories:
- Buildings Projects
- Bridge Projects
- Civil Projects
- Restoration Projects
- “Green” Sustainable Projects
- Advanced Concrete Construction
This year twenty-five submissions were received by the end of January 2011, for concrete related projects in Alberta either completed or substantially complete in 2008, 2009 and 2010. A poster showing a selection of photos and team participants was made for each project and was displayed at the Gala Event. These can be viewed by following the links against each category in the previous paragraph.
This type of event is dependent on the support of the industry in terms of sponsorship, submission of projects and attendance at the gala event. We were successful in all three areas, having excellent support from our sponsors, a record number of entries in the six categories and a sold-out attendance of 144 people to celebrate the winning entries.
All of our judges are senior members of the engineering/design/construction industry in Alberta. They all have very busy work schedules and we thank them for taking time out of these schedules for us. Our thanks to our judging team of:
- Mr. David Woodall of David C Woodall Structural Engineering Ltd.,
representing the design side of concrete - Prof. Robert Day of the University of Calgary,
representing both the materials aspects and academia, and - Mr. Jeremy Sturgess of Sturgess Architecture,
representing the Architectural community.
The Master of Ceremonies Team of Donavan Workun and Graham Neil, both from Atomic Improv entertained the attendees with their repartee throughout the evening. They were aided by brief video clips on each project in a category, followed immediately by a live announcement of the winning category and the presentation of a trophy to each team member of the project team.
Rather than the more traditional marble trophies awarded previously, this year we are excited about our new Award Trophy – a concrete precast image of Alberta provided by armtec. A concrete award trophy for an Awards of Excellence in Concrete competition seems far more appropriate & meaningful.
Congratulations to the following Category Winners:
St Joseph Seminary
Fort Edmonton Footbridge
The Bow Raft Slab
Dunvegan Suspension Bridge Deck Replacement
Ralph Klein Park and Environmental Education Centre
Clark Builders Floating Stairs
We acknowledge the following sponsoring companies:
Gold Sponsors: Bird Construction Company; Graham Group; Inland Heidelberg Cement Group; Lafarge
Trophy Sponsor: armtec
Silver Sponsors: BASF the Chemical Company; Grace Construction Products; Northland Construction Supplies, PCL Construction Leaders, Read Jones Christoffersen Consulting Engineers and Sika
Bronze Sponsors: Burnco, Concreate USL, Concure Restoration, Dynamic Pumping and Holcim