AMEC’s McMicken Dam project won an American Council of Engineering Companies Honour Award in Arizona. Conducted by our Tempe office, the project involved the first known dam modification to defend against earth fissures, as well as a unique fissure-monitoring system.
The United Way of Calgary presented its New Donor Award to our Calgary office. The award recognises the workplace that has achieved the largest increase in number of new donors. AMEC also won a bronze award for overall campaign excellence.
Three awards were bestowed upon AMEC by CSX Transportation during the railroad company’s annual conference for contractors and consultants. They included the prestigious award for ‘Outstanding Consultant of the Year’ presented by CSXT’s Remediation Group. The other two awards were presented for outstanding service to CSXT’s Hazardous Material Systems Department and for AMEC’s management and support of a transformer programme, air emissions compliance and response to Hurricane Katrina.
Jim Friedman, a senior consultant in the Minneapolis office, was presented with the Krueger Fay Meritorious Service Award at the 55th Annual Industrial Ventilation Conference. The award was given ‘in recognition of leadership toward the advancement of the science of ventilation.’
The Sarnia-Lambton Industrial Educational Cooperative presented AMEC’s Sarnia office with a perfect score for safety. The score, according to Sarnia-Lambton’s safety specialist, ‘puts you in very rare company, with only 10 or 12 companies out of more than 170 that have achieved that 100 per cent.’
Kate Engler of the San Diego office was honored by the Salvation Army Women’s Auxiliary as one of their 2006 Women of Dedication for her many years of volunteer work.
Scott Stoodley of the Westford, Mass. office received the Alumni Award for Outstanding Environmental Achievement from Oklahoma State University. In addition to co-authoring chapters in the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension’s handbook on riparian area management, Stoodley has directed numerous riparian habitat and watershed assessments utilising remotely sensed data.
Our Portland, Oregon office won an Honourable Mention in the Canstruction® food bank competition for using the most cans. The office used 9,000 cans of donated food to recreate the Columbia River Gorge.
Kathy McGuire, senior project manager in our Plymouth Meeting, Philadelphia office, received the Air National Guard Environmental Restoration Award for Programme Excellence. McGuire developed a novel strategy that enabled expeditious closure of 41 underground storage tanks in just one year.
A plan to improve the water quality of the Fort Cobb basin watershed in Oklahoma was ranked as one of the six best plans in the nation by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The plan to reduce phosphorus runoff was created by AMEC’s Scott Stoodley, Oklahoma State University and the Oklahoma Conservation Commission.
AMEC was one of only three winners of the Environmental Business Journal’s Information Technology Merit Award. AMEC was selected for developing market leadership in the use of space-based Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) technology to locate and predict land subsidence and earth fissure threats to dams, utilities, mines, highways and other infrastructure.
AMEC won a 2006 Canadian Consulting Engineers Award of Excellence (presented by Canadian Consulting Engineering magazine and the Association of Consulting Engineers Canada) for its Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project. The Turtle Mountain project, conducted by a team of consultants, involved the creation of a high-tech rockslide monitoring and warning system for the South Peak of Turtle Mountain, site of one of Canada’s worst natural disasters, the 1903 Frank Slide, which killed 70 people.
AMEC has won two Consulting Engineers of Alberta (CEA) Showcase Awards for its Turtle Mountain Monitoring Project and its Three Dimensional Images Project:
- The Turtle Mountain project won an Award of Excellence. Conducted by a team of consultants, the project involved the creation of a high-tech rockslide monitoring and warning system for the South Peak of Turtle Mountain, site of one of Canada’s worst natural disasters, the 1903 Frank Slide, which killed 70 people.
- The Three Dimensional Images Project, which won an Award of Merit, makes use of advanced technology to produce oblique aerial photograph renderings that visually illustrate the impact of planned future developments within existing project features. This technique was of significant value to help field personnel visualize and take ownership of the project they were building. It was also valuable to support applications to the government permits relative to mine closure issues and visual environment impact of the planned developments.
AMEC won an Engineering Excellence Honour Award for a project in Oregon that may have far-reaching influence on how contaminated sediments in rivers and estuaries are cleaned up. The award was presented by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon for a challenging project to clean up a tar waste site on the north shore of Young’s Bay in Astoria, Oregon.