Alfred F. Wong Lifetime Achievement Award 

The annual Alfred F. Wong Lifetime Achievement Award honours individuals who have made significant contributions to the development and success of the Canadian steel construction industry over a sustained period of years. This award recognizes individuals participating in the structural steel design, fabrication, construction, and academic communities. 

Recipients of the Alfred F. Wong Lifetime Achievement Award will have: 

• Made a positive impact on advancing the use of structural steel gained the respect of professional peers,

• Been generally acknowledged as having reached the pinnacle of their profession or industry; and

• Demonstrated, over an extended period, exemplary leadership, mentorship, advocacy, standards development, advancement of knowledge, and/or innovation in design, fabrication, construction, or academia.

The 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award winners are: 

Andy Metten, Retired.

Over the past 40 years, Andy Metten has been the structural design engineer for many steel buildings including the Vancouver International Airport and the U.S. Terminal in Nassau, Bahamas, and TRIUMF Institute for Advanced Medical Isotopes. Andy retired in October 2024 from being a partner and structural engineer in the Vancouver structural engineering firm of Bush, Bohlman and Partners LLP. Andy Metten has practised structural engineering since graduation from the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's and master's degrees in structural engineering in 1978 and 1981. Andy was a member of the Standing Committee for Earthquake Design for the National Building Code of Canada and the S16 structural steel design committee for Canada. For the past 25 years, he has also taught an evening structural steel design course through the Structural Engineers Association of BC (SEABC) that has been well received by more than 1000 mostly practicing engineers. In 2025 Andy was awarded the CISC Alfred Wong Lifetime Achievement Award.  

Robert Tremblay

Robert Tremblay is a Professor of Structural Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal. He obtained his BSc (1978) and MSc (1988) degrees from Laval University, followed by a PhD degree from UBC in 1993. Between undertaking his PhD studies in 1989, he worked as a structural engineer for a steel building manufacturer (1979-88) and a consulting engineering firm (1988-89) in Quebec City. Prof. Tremblay’s research activities focus mainly on the seismic behaviour and design of steel building structures, and he held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in earthquake engineering (2003–2017). He has been a member of several technical code committees: the Canadian Committee on Earthquake Engineering (CANCEE; 1995– 2009); the Standing Committee on Earthquake Design (SC-ED) since 2009 for the development of the seismic provisions of the NBCC; the CSA S16 Standard for the design of steel structures (1998–2023), leading the work group on seismic design from 2002 to 2022; the CSA S6 sub-committee on the seismic design of bridge structures (2004–2019), and the AISC Task Committee 9 working on the AISC 341 Seismic Design Provisions for Structural Steel Buildings in the U.S. (2005–2021). Prof. Tremblay has authored and co-authored over 400 journal and conference articles. He and colleagues were awarded the P.L. Pratley award in 1996 and the Cazimir Gwoszki Medal in 2003 and 2006. In 2004, he received the ASCE Raymond C. Reese Research Prize for outstanding contributions to the application of structural engineering research. Prof. Tremblay was named Fellow of the CSCE in 2004 and Fellow of the Canadian Engineering Academy in 2012. In 2022, he received an AISC Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2009, he received an AISC Special Achievement Award for his research in improving the understanding and design of seismic-resistant steel braced frames. In 2024, he received the A.B. Sanderson Award from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, “in recognition of outstanding contributions by a civil engineer to the development and practice of structural engineering in Canada”. 

H.A. Krentz Research Award

This award is offered in honour of H. A. Krentz who made significant contributions to the engineering profession, the development of codes and standards, the education of engineers and to the development of the Canadian steel industry. The recipient of this award also receives a Research Grant for their proposal.

The 2025 Research Award winner is: Dr.Kyle Tousignant, Dalhousie University

Dr. Kyle Tousignant is an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS. His research interests lie primarily in the field of steel structures, including member, connection and system behaviour, design, and construction. His past research activities include the development of design rules for hollow section connections, concrete-filled members, and fillet welds, which have been incorporated into Canadian and American national steel design standards. 

Dr. Tousignant has been the recipient of the 2025 Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Young Professional Award, 2023 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Casimir Gzowski Medal, 2023 Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) H.A. Krentz Research Award, 2023 Sexton Award for Teaching Excellence, 2019 International Symposium on Tubular Structures Young Researcher Award, 2019 CISC H.A. Krentz Research Award, and 2018 International Institute of Welding Henry Granjon Prize. 

He is the Vice Chair of the CSA Technical Committee (TC) on Design and Construction of Steel Structures (S16), Associate Member of the CSA TC on Welding of Bridges, Buildings and Machinery (W59), Member of the CISC Education and Research Council, Member of the Structural Engineering Institute Committee on Structural Connections, and Former Chair of the CSCE Steel Structures Sub-Committee. 

G.J. Jackson Fellowship

The G.J. Jackson Fellowship is awarded annually in memory of the late Geoffrey Jackson. Mr. Jackson was for many years a leader in the Canadian structural steel fabrication industry and was a founding member of the Steel Structures Education Foundation (SSEF), now overseen by the CISC Education & Research Council. This prestigious award is currently valued at $25,000 over a one-year period and is presented annually to an engineering student who, in the following academic year, will be registered in the first to fourth year of full-time graduate studies in structural engineering, with a major emphasis on the study of steel structures.

 The 2025 G.J. Jackson Fellowship recipient is: Lily Wilson, PhD candidate, The University of McMaster

Lily Wilson is a PhD candidate at McMaster University under Drs. Lydell Wiebe, Cancan Yang, and Taylor Steele. Her research focuses on controlled rocking braced frames (CRBFs)—a low-damage seismic system that limits drift by allowing controlled column uplift. Lily has developed a Canadian design procedure for CRBFs that’s as straightforward as current methods while improving resilience and reducing post-earthquake damage. Her ongoing work uses machine learning to better predict drift behaviour and explores simple, practical energy dissipation devices suitable for standard steel construction. Ultimately, her research aims to enable the inclusion of CRBFs in Canadian codes and standards, helping engineers design safer, more resilient buildings.