Despite the well-documented disruption to businesses along Cambie Street in Vancouver, the Canada Line rapid transit line has won another engineering award.
The Association of Consulting Engineering Companies awarded the project and its builder, SNC-Lavalin, the Schreyer Award for being the most technically innovative project.
It is the second major award granted to the project for its engineering strengths.
Earlier this year, the Consulting Engineers of B.C. awarded the project the Lieutenant Governor’s Award of Excellence, recognizing the technical and geological challenges the project had to overcome to be completed 110 days ahead of schedule.
The award also made mention of the project’s public outreach initiatives, which it said was one of the largest ever undertaken in B.C. by an integrated engineering and public communications team.
The project, however, also created a potential legal precedent when Cambie Street maternity wear merchant Susan Heyes won $600,000 in damages in B.C. Supreme Court May 27 after a multi-year battle to get compensation for lost business during Canada Line construction.
A class action lawsuit filed by other Cambie Street merchants was certified in February.