Focus Wins 1st Place Award for Project Management and Specialized Engineering Services on Highway 15 Corridor Project
February 3, 2009

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – Focus is pleased to announce that the company was the recipient of two awards at the British Columbia Deputy Minister of Transportation & Infrastructure Awards Dinner.

Presenting the awards from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure was the Honorable Kevin Falcon, Minister; John Dyble, Deputy Minster; and Mike Proudfoot, Assistant Deputy Minister. Accepting on behalf of Focus was Randy Sawyer, P. Eng. Principal, Transportation Engineering.

Both the 1st Place Award for Project Management and Specialized Engineering Services and the Finalist Award for Design and Contract Preparation for Roads were related to Focus’s work on the Highway 15 Boarder Infrastructure Program.

About the Project

The Highway 15 corridor serves as a major north-south route in the Lower Mainland, connecting the U.S. Pacific Highway Border Crossing with two provincial east-west routes, Highway 10 and Highway 1.

Project Scope included the four laning along a 12 km section of Highway 15 which included urban and rural design, 3 major highway intersections as well as 8 additional intersection upgrades. Included in the project were 6 bridge structures between 50-65m in length. Major issues included access consolidation/closure, geotechnical design, Serpentine River dyke design modification and tidal flood plain drainage modeling. Major utilities (a high pressure natural gas main, a large capacity water main and sewer) needed relocation.

Environment management included monitoring, CEAA Approval, property acquisition, stakeholder consultation and other associated works. Document preparation covered 9 Major Works Contracts including 3 multi jurisdictional tender packages.

Focus’ Role

Focus was contracted by the Ministry of Transportation to carry out all improvement work associated with the $127 million dollar Highway 15 improvement project.

About Focus Corporation

With more than 1400 staff, Focus is one of Western Canada’s leading providers of engineering, geomatics, planning and project management services to clients involved in transportation, infrastructure, oil and gas, land development and environmental projects. To meet the needs of our clients Focus, has more than 20 offices located throughout Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

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