Columbia Power: Arrow Lake Generating Station Receives 2003 design Build Award

The Arrow Lakes Generating Station and its contractor, Peter Kiewit Sons, have received a prestigious 2003 Excellence Award from the Design-Build Institute of America. The award was for a project over $25 million in the Industrial or Processing Sectors, and was presented at the InstituteÂ’s annual awards dinner in Orlando, Florida.

The Arrow Lakes Generating Station and its contractor, Peter Kiewit Sons, have received a prestigious 2003 Excellence Award from the Design-Build Institute of America. The award was for a project over $25 million in the Industrial or Processing Sectors, and was presented at the Institute’s annual awards dinner in Orlando, Florida. “Each year the Institute’s National Design-Build Competition recognizes outstanding design-build projects in the United States and around the world that have been realized using design-build procurement,” said Bill Freeman, Vice President of Planning and Development for Columbia Power Corporation. “We congratulate Kiewit on receiving this latest honour, and we are pleased that the success of Columbia Power Corporation and the Columbia Basin Trust’s concept for the Arrow Lakes Generating Station, and our Design-Evaluate-Build project development strategy, are being recognized as well.”

“In our submission package for the award, we had to include sections on team challenges, levels of risk, design-build solutions and team performance,” said Greg Dixon, Peter Kiewit Sons Co. Ltd. Project Manager for the Arrow Lakes Generating Station. “The Design-Build Institute of America then chose the project which best represented the successful union of all of these aspects and resulted in a project that exceeded the owner’s needs.”

This is the third award the Arrow Lakes Generating Station has received since its completion. It previously received the Lieutenant GovernorÂ’s Award for Engineering Excellence from the Consulting Engineers of British Columbia, and an Award of Excellence in the Field of Project Management from the Canadian Consulting Engineers.

For more information about the Arrow Lakes Generating Station and other Columbia Power Corporation and Columbia Basin Trust power projects, please visit the Columbia Power Corporation website at www.columbiapower.org.