The Morinville Community Cultural Centre is a winner in this month's Alberta Construction Magazine's Top Projects issue! Congratulations go out to our partners PCL Construction Management Inc. who completed the project on schedule and under budget! Vivian was the event speaker at the luncheon last week in Calgary honouring the winners and runners up.

At the Pacific Northwest Regional CEFPI conference (Lake Louise, May 25–27), Manasc Isaac received the Outstanding Design Award for a school building addition/modernization. This design award was presented to Parkland School Division and our firm for Memorial Composite High School, located in Stony Plain, Alberta. We are very proud to have received this award, given that the jury was presented with a number of very strong projects from the Pacific Northwest region.

Five internationally-acclaimed Architectural teams, are in the final running for the opportunity to plan and design the Edmonton City Centre Airport Lands. This is an extrordinary opportunity to build on Edmonton's strengths, while creating a showplace for urban sustainable living in the 21st century.

Ian O'Donnell has been appointed to the City's Subdivision and Development Appeal Board [SDAB] . Ian is starting his role this month, and will be hearing development appeals, as part of the Board, starting in February. In addition to SDAB, he will also be representing the Downtown Edmonton Community League at the 'One Edmonton' forum meetings focussed on accelerating economic growth and diversity in Capital Region.

The Water Centre was recognized nationally, with an award of Merit from the Canadian Institute for Steel Construction