Features
Calgary Cancer Centre
Calgary, Alberta
For anyone fighting cancer, a hospital becomes more than a treatment facility. It becomes a home away from home — for patients and their families. It brings optimism with groundbreaking research and new treatments being developed just footsteps away. And when it’s done right, it provides hope, warmth, and comfort when they’re needed most.
Peace River Bridge
Peace River, Alberta
To most people, a bridge makes commuting and getting around a lot easier. In Peace River, the only bridge in town is a vital passageway across the river with schools, homes, and emergency services on one side, and the town’s only hospital on the other.
E3 Lithium
Leduc, Alberta
For the last 360 million years, a resource that could play a vital role in transitioning the entire energy industry has been buried underground in central Alberta.
Lethbridge Exhibition Agri-Food Hub and Trade Centre
Lethbridge, Alberta
There’s no business like large-scale events, conferences, and trade show business — and a new venue is coming to Lethbridge that will create an estimated $90 million per year in economic activity for the region.
Geothermal Energy Project
Swan Hills, Alberta
The future of clean energy production is waiting underground in Swan Hills, Alberta, and FutEra Power is just beginning to scratch the surface. With mounting pressure from consumers and investors for cleaner sources of energy, Lisa Mueller, President and CEO of FutEra Power, and her team are thinking inside the box. That is — they have built a completely new system that harvests geothermal energy from within the infrastructure and footprint of existing oil and gas operations.
The West Calgary Ring Road
Calgary, AB
Head west on Highway 1 through Calgary and you’ll soon find yourself amongst a high-flying scene of enormous scale. Colossal overpasses span the highway. Interchanges rise skyward. Earthworks, multiple storeys tall, tower overhead. Everywhere there are ribbons of concrete. Upwards. Outwards. This is the almost-completed West Calgary Ring Road, the whole of which will ease congestion while connecting the city to national and international trade partners as part of a larger east-west trade corridor.
Columbia Icefield Skywalk
Jasper National Park, AB
Setting foot on the Columbia Icefield Skywalk answers a simple but extraordinary question: What if you could do more than look at a landscape — what if you could become part of it? Standing on the glass walkway 280m above the Sunwapta Valley floor, the bracing winds, roaring waterfalls, and towering mountain spires grip the senses and ignite the imagination. The Skywalk pushes visitors past the edge of the expected into the sublime.
Travers Solar Project
Vulcan County, AB
If you ever happen to fly over Vulcan County, Alberta, you’ll be forgiven for having a brief, if not alarming, moment of surprise as you look down on what appears to be a yawning black patch stitched into the prairie scenery. From above, against a quilt of greens and golds, the reflective mass will seem outrageously large. And your judgement would be correct. Because you will be looking at the soon-to-be largest solar farm in Canada — the Travers Solar Project.
Roxy Theatre
Edmonton, AB
On January 13, 2015, Edmonton’s Roxy Theatre burned to the ground. The venue, built in 1938, was a cornerstone of the performing arts community and a historic city landmark — its iconic yellow sign visible for blocks down 124th Street. Almost seven years later, on the same hallowed ground, a new theatre is ready to open. This is the new Roxy.
David Hills
P.Geo.
David Hills was part of the team for one of the province’s largest carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) systems. It involves collecting the emissions from two sites and sending that CO2 underground through to the Clive oil field in Central Alberta.
Zainab Syed
P.Eng., PhD
Zainab Syed is an engineer who helped design navigation software found in thousands of automobiles around the globe. Her navigation system enables emergency services in Canada and the U.S. to track ambulances, police cars, and firetrucks.
Jim Montgomery
P.Eng., PhD
Jim was part of the team behind the new Walterdale bridge. The bridge, with its sleek lines and elegant curves, has become an iconic symbol of the city since its soaring twin arches were raised across the North Saskatchewan River five years ago.
Anastasia Elias
P.Eng., PhD
Anastasia Elias is an engineer who works with materials measured in nanometres (one-billionth of a metre). She’s focused on designing small-scale biomedical devices and other tools that improve public safety and enhance quality of life.
Ian Washbrook
P.Eng.
Ian Washbrook is the award-winning engineer behind the Calgary Public Library. His vision was to create a landmark gathering space for learning, inspiration, entertainment, and recreation, connecting the East Village community to the downtown core.