Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce Selects Dewberry for Greater Washington Innovation Award, Professional Service Innovator of the Year
The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce presented Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, with the Professional Service Innovator of the Year Award at this year's Greater Washington Innovation Awards ceremony. The firm was selected based on its use of geospatial damage assessments to aid response and recovery efforts by quickly identifying the impact of severe flooding in southern Louisiana in August 2016. Geospatial damage assessments can rapidly determine damage by integrat...
The Tower Companies Receives the First Fitwel Residential Certification in the World from the Center for Active Design
Rockville, MD – Washington, D.C. based real estate developer and recognized sustainability leader, The Tower Companies, announced today that it has achieved the first-ever Fitwel certification for a multifamily residential building. This exemplary designation was awarded to The Pearl, a premier luxury apartment community in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, receiving a 2 Star Fitwel Rating from the Center for Active Design (CfAD), the operator of Fitwel. The Fitwel Certification System f...
PennDOT Announces Statewide Innovations Challenge Winner
Harrisburg PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) today announced that a team of students from The Haverford School, Montgomery County, has been selected as the statewide winner for its inaugural Innovations Challenge. "Since last fall, students have been working hard to solve this year's challenge," said PennDOT Secretary Leslie S. Richards. "My personal thanks to all who took part in the PennDOT Innovations Challenge this year. I am impressed by all of the innovative...
2018 Excellence Awards Showcase Galvanized Steel’s Durability, Longevity, and Sustainability
CENTENNIAL, CO - The American Galvanizers Association (AGA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards. More than 110 projects, representing the versatility and allure of hot-dip galvanizing, were judged online by a panel of architects and engineers and are now featured in the AGA Project Gallery. The 2018 winners showcase the durability, longevity, and sustainability of the hot-dip galvanized coating. The preeminent award, Most Distinguished, was...
SMDI Announces Steel Industry Lifetime, Leadership & Achievement Award Winners for 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Steel Market Development Institute (SMDI), a business unit of the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), recognized four outstanding individuals with awards May 1 during AISI’s General Meeting held at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. The awards were presented in three categories to recognize lifetime achievement, industry leadership and market development achievement by AISI Chairman Roger Newport, chief executive officer of AK Steel Corporation. All thr...
Thornton Tomasetti Team Wins NIST-ATC Blind Prediction Contest in the Simple Category
(New York, N.Y. – Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces that a team comprising Project Engineer JJ Tobolski, S.E., P.E., LEED AD BD+C and Senior Engineer Zachary Treece of the firm’s Chicago, Illinois, office has won the simple category submission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Applied Technology Council (ATC) -106-1 Beam Column Blind Prediction Contest. Tobolski presented the submission and accepted the award on behalf of the team at...
Burns & McDonnell's Ty McGown Earns Engineer of the Year Award in Wichita
WICHITA, Kan.- Ty McGown, a Burns & McDonnell engineer who led implementation of an advanced water-treatment process that is allowing Wichita to recharge a critical water supply aquifer and who is helping define new water supply facilities for the City, is being honored as Engineer of the Year by the Wichita Society of Professional Engineers. McGown, a project manager and associate in the firm's Wichita office, recently received the honor recognizing his engineering achievements, his work thr...
Envirosight’s Quickview airHD Awarded 2018 New Product of the Year by Environmental Protection
Randolph, NJ— Envirosight, a market-leading provider of municipal sewer inspection equipment, has received Environmental Protection’s 2018 New Product of the Year award for its Quickview airHD 2.0 zoom assessment camera. The Quickview was one of the highest scoring winners among a record-number of entries in the competition, which honors innovative organizations that have actively made environmental professionals’ jobs easier in the previous year. The upgraded Quickview airHD 2.0 prioritizes...
Steel Sculpture Winner Announced
The five finalists in AISC’s seventh annual Steel Sculpture Competition were on display at the 2018 NASCC: The Steel Conference in Baltimore last week, where attendees voted for their favorite, and the winner is: “Steel Is Only As Strong As Those Who Fabricate It,” designed and fabricated by Cody Builders Supply, Austin, Texas (an AISC member and certified fabricator). Nine sculptures were entered in the competition this year. The only rules for the competition are that entrants must be AISC...
energybank Wins Plant Engineering 'Product of the Year' Award for the Third Consecutive Year
MANITOWOC, Wisc. - For the third year in a row, energybank LED technology has won in the Lighting category at the 30th Annual Plant Engineering Awards ceremony held April 16 in Chicago. OmegaLight® LED highbay joins the lineup of the award-winning energybank product suite winning Silver Product of the Year 2017. The energybank ThinLine® Architectural LED was winner of Silver Product of the Year 2016 and the model T® exterior LED was awarded Bronze Product of the Year in 2015. According to Pla...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
