The UP Companies Receives 2019 AGCMO Keystone Award for Hotel St. Louis Historic Renovation Project
St. Louis, MO - The Associated General Contractors of Missouri (AGCMO) honored The UP Companies (UPCO) on Nov. 4 with a Keystone Award in the Specialty Contractor/Subcontractor Building Construction on a Project $4 million or More category for its work on the Hotel St. Louis project. Started in 1998, the Keystone Awards honor the achievements of Missouri’s construction firms and their employees in building facilities that support and enhance quality of life. Square UP Builders and Power UP Elec...
LEEA Congratulates its 2019 Awards Winners
The Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA) congratulates the winners of the 2nd Annual LEEA Awards 2019. Announced and presented with their awards during the prestigious LiftEx 2019 Awards Dinner, held on the evening of 13 November at the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Milton Keynes, the winners are as follows: A Noble & Son won the Customer Service Award, sponsored by Certex, for its Industry First Customer Promise. This award recognises organisations that are leading the way i...
Fluor’s Gordie Howe International Bridge Project Wins Gold for Project Financing in CCPPP’s 2019 National Awards for Innovation and Excellence in Public-Private Partnerships
IRVING, Texas & DETROIT & WINDSOR, Ontario – Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that Bridging North America has won gold for Project Financing in this year’s National Awards for Innovation and Excellence in Public-Private Partnerships (P3s). Bridging North America is a partnership with Fluor, ACS Infrastructure Canada and Aecon Group Inc., which is constructing the Gordie Howe International Bridge Project for Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority (WDBA). The award was presented this after...
Sherwin-Williams Announces 2019 Water & Wastewater Impact Award Winners
CLEVELAND, OHIO – The intricate, colorful restoration of a long-standing elevated water tank serving the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, earned the city and project team the 2019 Sherwin-Williams Impact Award. The award-winning team includes professional service and contracting firm SUEZ Advanced Solutions; coatings inspection provider OmniTech, LLC; engineering firm Hazen and Sawyer; and the City of Fort Lauderdale. The award honors extraordinary projects featuring coating and lining materia...
Pickard Chilton-designed 609 Main at Texas in Houston Receives Connecticut Green Building Council Award
New Haven, Conn. – Pickard Chilton, an award-winning architecture studio best known for its innovative and sophisticated design of high-performance corporate headquarters and campuses, announced that 609 Main at Texas, a 48-story, 1.85million gsf, LEED Platinum-certified office tower in Houston’s Central Business District, has received the Out-of-State Award of Merit from the Connecticut Green Building Council (CTGBC). The award was presented at a ceremony on October 3, 2019 at the Common Ground...
ASTM International Establishes Werner H. Gumpertz Award in Honor of SGH Co-Founder
WALTHAM, Massachusetts – ASTM International has established a new industry award in honor of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) co-founder Werner H. Gumpertz. The organization’s board of directors approved the Werner H. Gumpertz Award following their board meeting in Boston, MA, last month. “As a result of his exceptional work on standards over six decades, Werner Gumpertz played a major role in creating a strong technical foundation for our modern built environment,” said ASTM International Pres...
Switala Receives Coveted CIO of the Year Award
Gannett Fleming’s Chief Technology Officer Kevin Switala accepts the Philly CIO of the Year® ORBIE® Award in the corporate category for organizations with up to $500 million in annual revenue. Pictured, from left: Art Hoffmann, Gannett Fleming’s chief administrative officer, Kevin Switala, Katie Switala-Elmhurst. Harrisburg, Pa.- Mixed reality. Cybersecurity. The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Kevin Switala, Gannett Fleming’s chief technology officer (CTO), is facing the great technical chall...
Video: 2019 America's Transportation Awards Competition Winners
Following nearly eight months of intense competition and thousands of online votes cast, the final two winners in the 2019 America’s Transportation Awards competition have been decided. Sponsored by AASHTO, AAA and the US Chamber of Commerce -- the contest included four regional competitions that selected 12 outstanding projects to compete for the national Grand Prize, which was selected by a panel of experts and the People’s Choice Award—which was decided by online voting. This video captures t...
President’s Awards Presented at DFI Annual Conference
President’s Award recipients: David Paul, Karen Dawson, DFI President Matthew Janes, and Gerald Verbeek. Missing from photo Matt Conte. Hawthorne, N.J.: Matthew Janes, M.B.A., P.Eng, of Isherwood Associates and president of DFI, presented four President’s Awards at a luncheon during the DFI 44th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations in Chicago, on October 17. Established in 2016, the DFI President’s Awards are given at the discretion of the DFI president to recognize the efforts and s...
DFI Announces Winners of 2019 Student Paper Competition
Student Paper Winners: Jamie Crispin and Abigail Bateman with Tracy Brettmann (center), chair of the DFI Educational Trust Hawthorne, N.J.: Abigail H. Bateman and Jamie J. Crispin, from the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K., are the 2019 Student Paper Competition winners. Their winning paper, “Theoretical “t-z” Curves for Piles in Radially Inhomogeneous Soil,” described the development and evaluated the use of a radial inhomogeneity correction factor for selected constitutive models. ...
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