Movers & Shakers
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Movers & Shakers
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY CHAMPION RECEIVES PREMIER SUMMIT AWARD
Every day, APEGA members apply their brainpower, knowledge, compassion, and professionalism to the myriad of challenges they face. And every year, APEGA honours a selection of these high achievers and their work by pre- senting them with Summit Awards. APEGA officially celebrated recipients before a crowd of about 400 members, dignitaries, and others at the 2018 Summit Awards Gala at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton on April 19, capping off the first day of the two-day 2018 APEGA AGM and Annual Conference. Environmental and sustainability projects, forensic engineering, geomatics, nanotechnology, housing and homelessness solutions, mentoring, teaching, leading—success in these and many other areas are represented in the Summit class of 2018. Among the recipients is Leah Lawrence, P.Eng., FEC, FGC (Hon.) , who decades ago followed her passion into technologies addressing climate change. She served as APEGA President for the 2012-2013 term a few years before heading to Ottawa to join Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) as President and CEO. In 2017, under
AMONG THE LOGOS Leah Lawrence, P.Eng., recipient of the Centennial Leadership Award, poses at an APEGA photo wall at the 2018 APEGA Summit Awards Gala.
Ms. Lawrence's stewardship, SDTC received $400 million from the federal government, the largest one-time investment in the organization's history. Now, Ms. Lawrence takes her place among APEGA's most distinguished members, having received our Centennial Leadership Award.
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