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The Canadian Home Builders’ Association announced its Awards in Housing Excellence in Jasper on September 22. Five-time Builder of the Year, Calgary’s Morrison Homes, took home the Ralph Scurfield Builder of the Year award.
Other award winners included:
- Innovation category: Sterling Group of Companies, Calgary
- Energy efficiency: True-Line Contracting, Red Deer
- Multi-family wood frame: Riverdale Homes, Canmore
- Multi-family concrete: Vinterra Properties, Edmonton
- Multi-family duplex, villa or townhouse, under $250,000: Pacesetter Homes, Edmonton
- Multi-family duplex, villa or townhouse, over $250,000: Genesis Marketing Group, Calgary
- Multi-family overall complex: Statesman Corporation, Calgary
- Multi-family small volume (up to 60 =homes): Cedarglen Homes, Calgary
- Multi-family large volume (more than 61 homes): Hawthorne Homes, Calgary
- Single-family small-volume (up to 30 homes): Heredity Homes, St. Albert
- Single-family mid-volume (31-150 homes): Avalon Master Builder, Red Deer
- Single-family large-volume (151-300 homes): NuVista Homes, Calgary
- Single-family extra-large volume (more than 301 homes): Morrison Homes, Calgary
- Single family under $175,000: Morrison Homes, Calgary
- Single family $175,000-$209,000: Challenger Homes, Calgary
- Single family $210,000-$249,000: Morrison Homes, Calgary
- Single family $250,000-$314,999: Albi Homes, Calgary
- Single family $315,000-$374,999: Shane Homes, Calgary
- Single family $375,000-$499,999: Diamond Key Homes, Red Deer
- Single family $500,000-$749,000: Shane Homes, Calgary
- Single family $750,000 & over: Darren’s Homes, Edmonton
The International Association of Business Communicators announced its 2006 Gold Quill winners in June. The Gold Quill is a mark of global distinction and professional acknowledgement within the business communication field.
- Communication Management: MaryAnn Kennedy, United Way of Calgary
- Customer Relations merit winner: City of Edmonton Flood Prevention Strategy, G. Huybregts, R. Kabalin, E. Trudeau, Marcomm Works, City of Edmonton
- Media Relations excellence winner: The Curious Fixation of the Rodin Chaser, Tanis Shortt, Glenbow Museum, Calgary
- Multi-audience communication excellence winner: Atco, Celebrating Alberta’s Centennial, Lisa Maragh, Atco Group, Calgary
- Employee/member communication merit award winner: Orientation to EnCana- Canada, Cate Wilkins, Liz Hannah, EnCana Corp., Calgary
- Economic, social and environmental development excellence winner: Curbside Recycling, Glenna Cross and JoAnne Kleb, Crosswise Communications Ltd. for the City of Calgary Waste and Recycling Services
- Electronic and Digital Communications Management merit winner: CPSA Intranet-Core, Kelly Eby, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta, Edmonton
- Electronic and Digital communication skills merit winner: CPSA Intranet-Core, Kelly Eby, College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta, Edmonton
- Publications excellence winner: Telus 2004 Annual Report, Miriam Trottier and Dianne Trach, Telus Corp., Edmonton
- Publications merit winner: Report card on status of Trilateral Master Agreement, Shannon Rupnarian, Alberta Medical Association, Edmonton
Edmonton’s ASTech Foundation has released its finalists for the 2006 ASTech Awards and Prizes; winners to be announced at the annual gala November 3.
• Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Science Award:
Philip Currie, Edmonton
William (Bill) Gunter, Edmonton
The Joint Function Team, Calgary
Hans J. Vogel, Calgary
• Outstanding Leadership in Alberta Technology Award:
Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine
Learning (AICML), Edmonton
Peter D. Clark, Calgary
Michal Okoniewski, Calgary
• Outstanding Commercial Achievement in Alberta Science and Technology Award
(corporations having gross sales less than $25 million per year):
CodeBaby, Edmonton
Print Audit, Calgary
Replicon Inc., Calgary
• Leaders of Tomorrow Award:
Christopher Barton, Edmonton
Emad Ghafoori, Edmonton
Sean Hum, Calgary
• Outstanding Contribution to the Alberta Science and Technology Community Award:
Cyril M. Kay, Edmonton (Recipient)
• ASTech Industrial Research Prize:
Quadrise Canada Fuel Systems,
Calgary (Recipient)
• Syncrude/ASTech Innovation in Oil Sands Research Prize:
The In Situ Combustion Research Team,
Calgary (Recipient)
• AVAC/Dow AgroSciences/ASTech Innovation in Agricultural Science Prize:
George Clayton, Lethbridge (Recipient)
• Excellence in Science and Technology Journalism Prize: General Public:
Gregory Harris, Calgary (Recipient)
• Excellence in Science and Technology Public Awareness Prize:
Kananaskis Field Stations (KFS) and G-8
Legacy Chair in Wildlife Ecology,
Kananaskis (Recipient)
• ASTech Foundation Special Award:
Alvin Libin, Calgary (Recipient)
The Woodrow Wilson International Centre’s Canada Institute recognized Harley Hotchkiss for corporate citizenship and The Right Honourable Stephen Harper for public service at the institute’s annual dinner in October in Calgary. The Woodrow Wilson award for corporate citizenship is given to an executive who has shown “a deep concern for the common good beyond the bottom line,” while the public service award goes to those who “have served with distinction in public life.”
The Yves Landry Foundation announced that the Honourable Ralph Klein has been chosen as Person of the Year, to be presented at its annual awards gala on October 26. The awards recognize those individuals and businesses that best exemplify the vision of the late Yves Landry, chairman, president and CEO of Chrysler Canada.
Appointments
Genome Alberta appointed its new president and CEO, David Bailey, in August. Bailey has a PhD in genetics and animal breeding from the University of Alberta and has managed and directed national research programs in food safety, quality and processing involving 11 federal research centres nationally with a budget of $20 million.
The Alberta Securities Commission has appointed Tamera Van Brunt as director, communications and investor education. She will be responsible for providing strategic communications counsel and support in all areas of the Commission. Prior to her appointment, Van Brunt was manager, corporate communications, for TransAlta Corporation.
Herb Der has been re-appointed to his second two-year term as the chair of the Red Deer College board of governors. He has been chair since 2004, is a past member of the Red Deer College Foundation and recently retired from his position as president and CEO of Community Credit Union Ltd.
Sandra Conn has been named vice-president of external relations by the University of Alberta. She will direct the university’s efforts in marketing and media relations, government relations, alumni relations and development. Prior to this position, Conn served as assistant vice-president for university relations at Michigan State University.
