Edmonton, Alberta (June 15, 2020) – We are pleased to announce that PCL Construction has received the 2019 CCA Environmental Achievement Award for Panda Passage at the Calgary Zoo. The project achieved Petal Certification as part of the International Living Future Institute’s Living Building Challenge, a green-building program that visualizes the ideal for the built environment. Panda Passage is the first project in Alberta, and the first for PCL, to achieve LBC certification.

We also won the 2019 CCA Excellence in Innovation Award for Job Site Insights™ (JSI™), PCL’s cloud-based smart construction platform that provides real-time, cost-effective monitoring of environmental and energy conditions on project sites. In the two years since JSI was conceptualized, it has been used on 30 construction projects across North America, with all major PCL buildings projects scheduled to use it going forward.

PCL’s Chief Operating Officer, Canadian Operations, Mike Wieninger said, “We would like to thank the CCA for this great recognition. Everyone learns a lot on a job like the Panda Passage, and these knowledge gains will serve us all well as sustainable building principles become more and more standard on project sites. We’re very optimistic at PCL about what Job Site Insights™ can do, and we feel that it’s making PCL a better construction partner: it saves trade contractors time and gives owners peace of mind, knowing they can keep their investment going efficiently after handover, with less worry and expense.”

Watch CCA videos about this year’s Environmental Achievement and Excellence in Innovation awards.

The full list of the 2019 award winners is listed here.

The Canadian Construction Association 

Representing more than 20,000 members, the CCA is the voice of the national nonresidential construction industry in Canada. The CCA’s National Awards Program recognizes the important contributions of individuals, organizations and projects that promote and enhance the Canadian construction industry.

About PCL Construction
PCL is a group of independent construction companies that carries out work across Canada, the United States, the Caribbean and Australia. These diverse operations in the civil infrastructure, heavy industrial and buildings markets are supported by a strategic presence in more than 30 major centers. Together, these companies have an annual construction volume of $9 billion CAD, making PCL the largest contracting organization in Canada and one of the largest in North America. Watch us build at PCL.com.