Awards
summit award® recipients
THE CENTENNIAL
LEADERSHIP AWARD
Dr. James Montgomery, P.Eng.
This award is presented to a Member of APEGGA who has attained the highest distinction relating to the science of engineering, geology or geophysics as an executive or director of an outstanding project or continuing enterprise in which the Member has conducted, guided or directed or was responsible for the practice of the specific profession. The recipient may have also attained the highest distinction because of invention, research or original work, or an outstanding or exemplary career in teaching the professions.
Dr. James Montgomery, P.Eng., has had an exemplary career that spans almost 30 years. In 1973, he graduated at the top of his class at the University of Alberta, receiving an APEGGA Gold Medal in civil engineering. After obtaining his post-graduate degrees at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Montgomery joined the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Alberta where he held positions as Assistant and Associate Professor from 1977 until 1981.
In 1981, Dr. Montgomery became a partner in the structural engineering firm of Lamb McManus Associates Ltd., where he provided construction engineering services to contractors, including the erection procedures for the Alex Fraser Bridge over the Fraser River in Vancouver. When opened in 1986, the 465-metre main span was the longest in the world.
Dr. Montgomery joined Cohos Evamy in 1988. As Chief Engineer and a senior financial partner for more than 10 years, he anchored the growth of the firm as it transitioned to a fully integrated design firm with a staff of 250 working in studios in Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto. At any given time, the firm is involved in more than $1 billion of design or construction projects.
At Cohos Evamy, Dr. Montgomery has been the structural engineering principal, leading a broad cross-section of significant building, bridge and specialty engineering projects across Canada. Projects include the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Headquarters in Ottawa, the Francis Winspear Centre for Music in Edmonton, the Markin/CNRL Natural Resources Engineering Facility and the National Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Alberta, and the North Treatment Centre/Lois Hole Hospital for Women at Edmonton’s Royal Alexandra Hospital. He is also the executive in charge of the structural engineering work on the Edmonton Clinic, which, at nearly five blocks in length, will be one of the largest buildings in Edmonton.
Professional Affiliations and Activities
APEGGA
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Member, Nominating Committee (1997-1999)
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Member, Council (1995-1998)
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Member, Practice Standards Committee (1995-1996)
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Member, Act, Regulations and Bylaws Committee (1989-1992)
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Member, Discipline Committee (1985-1988)
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Member, Edmonton District Meetings Committee (1979-1982; Chair 1980-1981)
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Member (1977-present)
Fellow, Canadian
Society for Civil Engineering (2005)
Board of Directors, Consulting Engineers of Alberta (2001-2003)
Board of
Directors, Steel Structures Education Foundation (1998-2002)
Member, Canadian
National Committee on Earthquake Engineering (1992-present; 1979-1985)
Member, Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan
(1999-present)
Member, Association
of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the Province of Manitoba (1997-present)
Member, Professional
Engineers Ontario (1997-present)
Member, Technical
Committee on Steel Structures for Buildings – CAN/CSA-S16 (1987-present)
Member, Association
of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (1985-present)
Member, American
Society of Civil Engineers (1974-present)
Member, American
Concrete Institute (1974-present)
Member, Canadian
Society for Civil Engineering (1970-present)