City of Calgary Receives Award of Excellence for West LRT Project

 

The CDBI Awards of Excellence are presented annually to recognize excellence in Canada’s design-build industry and to acknowledge design-build teams whose projects contribute to the growth and stature of the design-build profession. Award recipients demonstrate the highest standards and principles in the design-build industry and the business community in pursuit of excellence.

 

The largest transportation infrastructure project undertaken by The City of Calgary, the West LRT Project integrated rail, bus routes, bike paths, pedestrian bridges, regional pathways, eight-kilometres of double-track, six passenger stations, nine traction power substations, two park-and-ride facilities, a new road interchange, a transit-oriented operations building along the route, and five signalized level crossings.

 

The CDBI acknowledged the challenges faced by the West LRT project team: “All of this work was done in a dense urban environment, which required a high degree of traffic management. Along the alignment, the team had to deal with at-grade portions, and cut and cover tunnel sections and portions of elevated guide-way.”

 

“The West LRT was delivered for Calgarians using a new design-build process. This process improved project schedule and budget adherence,” said Mac Logan, General Manager of Transportation.   “This award recognizes the success of the public-private team that made this project a reality.”

 

The design build team for the West LRT Project included SNC-Lavalin Constructors Pacific with joint venture partners and design consultants Graham Infrastructure, Cana Construction and Enmax Power Services, MMM Group, Read Jones Christoffersen, Gibbs Gage Architects, Wiebe Forest Engineering, and EBA Engineering.

 

Organized in 1998, The Canadian-Design-Build Institute was set up as a special committee of the Canadian Construction Association.  It is the national voice of Canadian design-build practitioners.  

 

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