Guy’s Cancer Centre Sweeps the Board at Building Better Healthcare Awards 2017
The new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital was recognised at this year’s Building Better Healthcare Awards ceremony held on 1 November at The Brewery in central London. The Cancer Centre picked up an impressive five awards for Grand Prix Design, Acute Hospital, Internal Environment, Clinicians’ Choice and Sustainable Development. The judges said: “To have achieved a building of this scale and complexity on such a restricted site is an exercise in sustainability.” Guy’s Cancer Centre was desig...
Oro Loma Sanitary District Receives Award for Outstanding Environmental Project From Friends of the San Francisco Estuary
SAN LORENZO, Calif. - Oro Loma Sanitary District was recently honored by Friends of the San Francisco Estuary for its work with the innovative experimental horizontal levee project. The award for Outstanding Environmental Project was presented at the 13th biennial State of the San Francisco Estuary Conference held earlier this month. Oro Loma's Horizontal Levee project was also recognized earlier this year by the California Association of Sanitation Agencies (CASA) for Outstanding Capit...
National Association Honors Interstate 15 Bridge Project
PHOENIX – A national industry group has honored the Arizona Department of Transportation’s $30 million rehabilitation of an Interstate 15 bridge through the rugged Virgin River Gorge in far northwestern Arizona. The American Public Works Association selected the Virgin Bridge No. 6 improvement, completed last year, as Project of the Year among transportation projects worth between $25 million and $75 million, with ADOT as the managing agency, Pulice-Wadsworth Brothers Joint Venture as primary...
Thornton Tomasetti Awarded for Innovative Technology That Greatly Advances Testing of Navy Ship Survivability
Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, today announced that the Institute of Physics, a worldwide scientific society working to advance physics for the benefit of all, has awarded the firm the prestigious Business Innovation Award for 2017. The award, presented at the Palace of Westminster in London last evening, recognizes Thornton Tomasetti Defence Ltd.’s cutting-edge airgun testing that replaces explosives testing of military vessels. Navies typically conduct powerful explosi...
GeoDecisions Recognized for Pennsylvania Project
(Harrisburg, Pa.): The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) recently recognized the GeoDecisions-designed Maintenance-IQ application as a Distinguished System as part of the association’s Exemplary Systems in Government (ESIG) awards.GeoDecisions developed Maintenance-IQ for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), enabling the department to use geographic information system (GIS) mapping to plan and schedule maintenance activities for the 40,000 miles of ro...
Wake Technical Community College's Health Sciences Building H Wins Sir Walter Raleigh Award
Wake Technical Community College's Health Sciences Building H has been recognized with the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Community Appearance in the Public Facilities and Spaces category, which recognizes outstanding new contributions to the character, environment, and appearance of the City of Raleigh. As a subconsultant to LS3P Associates, Inc., Dewberry, a privately held professional services firm, performed mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and technology engineering services...
Bentley Systems Announces Winners of 2017 Be Inspired Awards
SINGAPORE – The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for advancing infrastructure, today announced the winners of the 2017 Be Inspired Awards. The annual awards program honors the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing the world’s infrastructure. At a ceremony and gala at their Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference, Bentley acknowledged 17 Be Inspired Awards winners and six Special Recognitio...
Climeon Receives Award at “Green Shipping Rotterdam Summit”
On the first day of “Green Shipping Rotterdam Summit” Climeon was, by audience election, awarded as "The most exceptional contribution to Green Shipping of the year". Approximately 300 people active in the maritime industry attended and voted. Nominated in the category were, besides Climeon, Espo, Rolls-Royce, Baltic Ports Organization and Terntank. “The most exceptional contribution to Green Shipping of the year” is “awarded to the company that has shown commitment to Green Shipping by inves...
Vectorworks Receives Nine Nominations in this Year’s Construction Computing Awards
Columbia, MD —Global design and BIM software developer Vectorworks, Inc. has been nominated as a finalist in nine categories in this year’s Construction Computing Awards. Known as “The Hammers,” the Construction Computing Awards showcase and reward the technology, tools and solutions for the effective design, construction, maintenance and modification of commercial buildings, residential and social housing and civil engineering projects of all sizes. The awards categories are divided into thr...
Seven Students Take Top Honors in Annual Video Contest on America’s Transportation Infrastructure
WASHINGTON - High school students from Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and undergraduates at the University of Washington, Old Dominion University and the University of North Carolina are winners of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) 7th annual “Student Transportation Video Contest.” They will each receive a $500 cash prize. The association received 40 entries this year in three categories: general transportation, safety, and a new Women Leaders catego...