"The winning project should demonstrate engineering, geological or geophysical skills and represent a substantial contribution to technological progress and the betterment of society. The Association will give credit to those firms and/or persons who have assumed key roles in bringing the project to completion."
Projects must
have been completed, or have reached a significant degree of completion before
or during the award year. Nominations will be restricted to projects undertaken,
and completed, with a majority of input coming from Alberta engineers, geologists
or geophysicists.
Projects located outside the province of Alberta are eligible if they have been carried to completion under the direction of APEGGA members. Nominations should be accompanied by a brief profile of the project.
EVALUATION CONSIDERATIONS
Uniqueness: unique application
of engineering, geological or geophysical principles to an unusual object (project).
Maximum 10 points.
Utilization: possibility to repeat applied engineering, geological or geophysical principles or innovations to traditional practices. Maximum 10 points.
Project Process: built or executed by Canadian and Alberta labour, local contractors, local skills, limited number of imported parts, methods or expertise. Maximum 10 points.
Project Location: higher marks for location in Alberta. Maximum 5 points.
The project will be evaluated out of a maximum of 35 points and each area for evaluation should be commented on separately.
THEME
The leading theme is a unique project improving conditions for society and substantially
conceived and executed by Albertans.
REQUIREMENTS
Complete the nomination form in full and attach documents describing the Project
and its achievements which, in the opinion of the nominator qualify the project
for the award, together with such supporting evidence as the nominator may wish
the Honours and Awards Committee to consider.
PREVIOUS RECIPIENTS
1980 City of Edmonton Light Rail Transit
1981 Sheltech Canada Doppler Satellite and Inertial Surveys
1982 Buffalo Engineering Limited Buffalo Sloped Bin Elevator
1983 Dome Petroleum Artificial Island Construction in Beaufort Sea
1984 Jan Bobrowski and Partners Ltd. Olympic Saddledome Calgary Structural
Design Concept
1985 A.G.T. Mobile Communications and NovaTel Communications Ltd. AURORA
Cellular Mobile Telephone System
1986 Western Research a division of Bow Valley Resource Services Ltd.
Sulphur Plant Instrumentation and Controls
1987 Esso Resources Canada Limited Cold Lake Production Project
1988 NOVA Corporation of Alberta NOVA Dry Seals
1989 Not awarded
1990 Alberta Special Waste Treatment Centre and the Town of Swan Hills
1991 Hysim Process Simulator by Hyprotech Ltd.
1992 A.G.T. Individual Line Service (ILS) Program
1993 CREWES Project, The Consortium for Research in Elastic Wave Exploration
Seismology – University of Calgary
1994 Revolve Technologies Inc. Digital Magnetic Bearings
1995 Simon-Stanley Joint Venture and Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc.
1996 Canadian Water Filtration Process
1997 European Technologies International Inc. Can-Balance™ Automatic Balancing
Technology for Rotation Equipment
1998 The Canadian Liquefaction Experiment (CANLEX) Project
1999 Dow Chemical Fort Saskatchewan Hydrocarbons
2000 Wabasca Horizontal Well Network Drilling Project
2001 Dynastream
2002 BWS 3500 Communications Project
2003 Mariah Energy’s Suntec Greenhouses Project
2004 TELUS Next Generation Network (NGN) Project
2005 Shawnessy LRT Station Project
2006 The Petro-Canada/City of Edmonton Membrane Technology Project
2007 The Agrium ESN-150 Project
2008 Dr. Chris Backhouse, P.Eng.
Summit Awards® nomination form for an individual in pdf format.
Individual_Nomination_Form.pdf
Summit Awards® nomination form for an individual in Word format.
Summit Awards® nomination form for a group in pdf format.
Summit Awards® nomination form for a group in Word format.