Awards

Safety Award for Golder Chile Team
Safety Award for Golder Chile

Golder Associates received a safety award from Teck as part of the team working in a geotechnical field campaign, including borehole drilling, test pit excavations and surface geophysics carried out on the….

Jason Cox Award Winner
Victor Milligan Award 2016

Jason’s paper Implications of variable waste placement conditions for Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills, detailed a comprehensive field- and laboratory-scale investigation that involved studying systematic moisture….

Peter Thomson and Dennis Becker Award Winners
Victor Milligan Award 2017

Significant material saving on fit for purpose design: Peter Thomson and Dennis Becker, Principals and Senior Geotechnical Engineers form the Calgary….

Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards
Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards

Golder was recognized for engineering excellence at the 2017 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards, held in Ottawa, Canada….

Nigel Ruxton receiving award
Australian Geomechanics Society Award for Nigel Ruxton

The Australian Geomechanics Society 2016 Don Douglas Youth Fellowship Award for the most outstanding Australian paper at the 11th Australia and New Zealand Young Geotechnical Professionals Conference….

Mining Safety Award for Salt Lake City Team
Mining Safety Award for Salt Lake City Team

Kevin Anderson (left) VP, Utah Mining Association and Kent Houghton (right), Director of the Office of Coal Mine Safety at the Utah Labor Commission present safety award to….

Catharine Shaw Honored by CIM with Inaugural Award
Catharine Shaw Honored by CIM with Inaugural Award

Catharine Shaw, Mining Client Program Manager from the Toronto (Canada) Office, was the first-ever recipient of the Diversity and Inclusion Award, given by the Canadian Institute of….

Innovatio Award for Golder Canada Legal Team
Innovatio Award for Golder Canada’s Legal Team

Golder’s Canadian Legal Team was honored with the Risk Management, Small Department award in the 4th Annual Innovatio Awards. The Canadian legal team continued their internal “Making Legal Services Better” campaign with a focus on….

Client Choice Awards in Australasia
Client Choice Awards in Australasia

The Client Choice awards are organized and governed by Beaton Research and Consulting, an independent benchmarking and customized research consulting group serving organizations that provide professional, financial and member services to clients worldwide….

Potash Plant in Saskatchewan
BHP Awards Golder Team for Safety Campaign

A Golder project team working on BHP Billiton’s Jansen project finished first in the Summer Safety Campaign conducted on site. Jansen is a $14B potash mining operation, located approximately….

EHL Board Health & Safety Awards, 2016 & 2017

The EHL Health & Safety Awards recognize best practices that advance Golder’s health and safety culture. Awards are given in three categories: Proactive Measures, Reactive Measures, and Care for our Future. In 2015, a total of 24 outstanding nominations were received and four winners selected by the EHL Board; two awards were presented in the Proactive Measures category. With Golder’s focus on visible felt leadership in HSSE, the individual and team recipients represented powerful examples of this type of leadership.

Fatal Risk Controls
Proactive Measures – Andy Haynes

This award recognized an outstanding contribution in the area of proactive measures to identify and mitigate risk, resulting in preservation of the health, safety and security of our people and others….

Care for our future
Care for our Future – Heather Di Lauro

This award recognized an individual who demonstrated intentional investment in mentoring, coaching and instruction in health, safety and security, on a day-to-day basis, and was won by Heather Di Lauro from….

Reactive Measures Christchurch Ground Improvement Team
Reactive Measures – Christchurch Ground Improvement Team

This award recognized exemplary actions taken in response to unforeseen events that endangered the health, safety and security of our staff and others. The specific circumstances around this 2015 award involved a medical emergency on site experienced by a subcontractor….

Sydney Metro
Proactive Measures – The Sydney Metro City & Southwest Geotechnical Investigation Team

This award recognized a comprehensive program of proactive measures by a project team. The Sydney Metro City and Southwest Geotechnical Investigation team delivered a large, technically complex investigation….

Samarco Renova Project Team (Brazil)
Proactive Measures

The winner in the Proactive Measure category was the Samarco Renova Project Team (Brazil), recognizing their work in identify and mitigate risk, resulting in preservation of the health, safety and security of our people and others….

Yasin Akçay, from our Ankara office in Turkey
Responsive Measures

Yasin Akçay, from our Ankara office in Turkey is the 2017 winner in the Responsive Measures category recognizing exemplary actions taken in response to unforeseen events that endangered the health, safety and security of our people and others….

Bianca Vanzati - Care for our Future Award Winner
Care for our Future

Bianca Vanzati from the Brisbane (Australia) office is the 2017 Care for our Future award winner recognizing the intentional investment she has made in mentoring, coaching and instruction in health, safety and security, on a day-to-day basis….

CEO Commendations, 2017

In 2017, three CEO Commendations were awarded. This is the first time such awards have been given and stand apart from the existing award categories. The judges were so impressed by the actions of three people that special commendations to honor these examples of personal bravery and caring were made.

CEO Commendation – Greg Fleming
CEO Commendation – Greg Fleming

Whose quick actions in responding to a bicyclist hit by a truck was credited for saving the cyclist’s leg and potentially her life.

CEO Commendation – Sandy Sharp
CEO Commendation – Sandy Sharp

Whose sustained devotion and commitment to a colleague undergoing cancer treatment demonstrated our caring value.

CEO Commendation – Desmond Dean
CEO Commendation – Desmond Dean

For quick response in an automobile accident to help a fellow motorist and to secure his nuclear testing equipment.