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- Award of Excellence, Consulting
Engineers of British Columbia
CJI received an award of excellence from the Consulting Engineers of BC for project management on the Golden Ears Bridge.TransLink retained Collings Johnston Inc. as its Technical Manager and Associated Engineering as Technical Consultant to form the Technical Team for the new North-South connector between Langley and Maple Ridge. The team's job was to provide advice and and develop the project scope and concept. Collings Johnston assisted in developing and implementing the procurement and directed all technical, environmental and property aspects.
The team's challenges with the Golden Ears Bridge were to create a concept that would garner stakeholder support, be affordable to TransLink, promote safety and would be seen as an attractive opportunity for the private sector through responsible risk allocation and communication of bidder certainty.
TransLink has won numerous awards for the Golden Ears Bridge, including:- Global Deal of the Year. The Golden Ears Bridge project has been recognized by Infrastructure Journal in the United Kingdom as the recipient of the prestigious �Global Deal of the Year.� This is the highest award given annually by the publication, which considers projects in all sectors � not just transportation � throughout the world. It was awarded to the project in recognition of its complexity, the innovativeness of the financing and the speed with which the project reached financial close.
- North American Deal of the Year (2006). Awarded by Project Finance International Magazine.
- North American PPP Deal of the Year (2006). Awarded by Project Finance (Euromoney).
- Gold Award for Project Financing (2006) . Awarded by the Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships - National Awards for Innovation and Excellence.