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May 15, 2015

Manitoba Congratulates East Side Road Authority for Winning National Award



A landscape project that will receive recognition with a national merit award from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects is cause for a celebration, Aboriginal and Northern Affairs minister Eric Robinson announced today.

This month, the Manitoba Floodway and East Side Road Authority will receive a national award of merit for the East Side Road Revegetation Initiative.

“The Manitoba government is proud to stand with the East Side Road Authority, which is showing the world that you can build in a sustainable manner that preserves our heritage for future generations,” Minister Robinson said.  “On behalf of Manitobans, we celebrate their commitment to environmental and social awareness.”

This year, 10 projects received national awards.  The projects are examples in Canadian landscape architecture, honouring distinctive design, ground-breaking research and sustainable landscape management.

Architectural firm Scatliff, Miller and Murray has been working with the East Side Road Authority to meet its environmentally regulated native plant revegetation objectives and helped create an industry for landscape architecture in northern areas by combining agri-business science with native plant ecology.

“We are truly honoured to be receiving this award and we are proud to work with Scatliff, Miller and Murray,” said Ernie Gilroy, CEO, East Side Road Authority.  “Their work incorporating native revegetation along the east side road is an example of our commitment to managing projects in a manner which creates economic development for the local people while protecting the environment that they live in.  It is great to have that commitment recognized.”

The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Awards of Excellence celebrate work that is inspiring, exhilarating and remarkably diverse.  The national awards will be presented on Saturday, May 23 in Mexico City.

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