Hexagon Receives Recognition from Huawei for Safe City Solution
Hexagon AB, a leading global provider of information technologies that drive productivity and quality across geospatial and industrial enterprise applications, received the “Best Developer Partner Award” and the “Business Win-Win Award” at Huawei Connect 2017 this week. This expo and forum brings together global IT leaders with the industries Huawei serves. With most of the world’s population living in cities, Hexagon and Huawei have collaborated on the first end-to-end Safe City solution. He...
Prince Albert to Receive Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence
Avondale, PA - On the eve of Stroud Water Research Center’s 50th anniversary, the 2017 Stroud Award for Freshwater Excellence will be presented to His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco at The Water’s Edge, the Stroud Center’s premiere fundraising gala, on Sunday, September 17. Wilmington Trust is the presenting sponsor of the event, which will take place in Delaware, at Winterthur, the childhood home of collector and horticulturist Henry Francis du Pont. This 1,000-acre preserve of r...
Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute Announces 2017 PCI Journal Awards
CHICAGO – September 6, 2017 – The Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute’s (PCI’s) Journal Awards Committee has named the winners of the 2017 PCI Journal awards. This year’s Martin P. Korn Award goes to Amir Botros, Gary Klein, Gregory Lucier, Sami Rizkalla, and Paul Zia for their March–April 2017 paper, “Dapped Ends of Prestressed Concrete Thin-Stemmed Members: Part 1, Experimental Testing and Behavior.” The Martin P. Korn Award (named in honor of the first executive director of PCI) recogni...
Autodesk Highlights the Future of Making Things for AEC with Excellence Awards Finalists 2017
Co-sponsors Autodesk, HP, Construction Dive and Smart Cities Dive are proud to announce the 2017 AEC Excellence Awards finalists! Last year’s AEC Excellence Awards competition showcased stellar examples of Building Information Modeling [BIM] in action within the AEC industry. Click here to see last year’s spectacular winning projects. This year’s competition showcases global projects that have embraced connected BIM technologies in the categories of Infrastructure, Building, Construction and...
IDEC Awarded Chilewich Education Award at Metrocon
Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. - The Interior Design Educator’s Council (IDEC) received the Chilewich Education Award at Metrocon17, a design specification-focused regional expo and conference held at Dallas Market Hall in Texas in early August. This monetary award of $1,000 was presented during the keynote presentation to IDEC President-Elect Hans-Peter (Hepi) Wachter and IDEC Southwest Region Chair Kristi Gaines, both of whom were co-teaching a course during the conference. According to Wachter,...
Judges Pick ‘Top 12’ List of State DOT Projects to Compete for Best in America
A "Top 12" group of infrastructure projects that state departments of transportation completed last year are competing as finalists for two national prized in then 2017 "America's Transportation Awards." That competition – sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, the AAA motor club and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – spotlights excellence in projects that improve safety and mobility for the traveling public and improve the flow of commerce. The t...
Gannett Fleming Wins Grand Award from Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers
Gannett Fleming received the Grand Award in the water resources category for its work on the C.W. Bill Young Regional Reservoir at the Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers’ (FICE) Engineering Excellence Awards ceremony on August 4. “Our team designed a solution that requires minimal maintenance and low long-term repair or replacement costs, a benefit that will help ensure optimal performance for the more than 2.4 million customers that it serves,” said Daniel Stare, PE, geotechnical engi...
Jacobs Receives Asia Pacific Supplier Recognition Award from ConocoPhillips
Our Australia operations recently received ConocoPhillips’ Asia Pacific Supplier Recognition Award at a celebration ceremony in Brisbane. In recognition of the downstream engineering services provided by our team to support the company’s Australia East business unit, the award recognizes suppliers who have made a significant contribution to ConocoPhillips’ business through exceptional leadership which is in alignment with their SPIRIT values of Safety, People, Integrity, Responsibility, Innov...
Dewberry Wins Land Conservation Award for Innovation Center South
Dewberry has been recognized with a 2016 Land Conservation Award in the Large Commercial category from Fairfax County, Virginia, for its site/civil engineering and land planning development and design work on Innovation Center South for Rocks Engineering Company. This transit-oriented, high-density, mixed-use development aims to create a vibrant community where people can live, work, learn, and play, while leading to better connectivity between activity centers from Loudoun County, Virginia, to...
Jacobs Receives Six Awards at Canadian Safety Achievement Awards Ceremony
Our field services operations in Canada recently received six awards across three categories during the General President’s Maintenance Committee and National Maintenance Council’s Canadian Safety Achievement Awards ceremony in July. Created to promote safety as a top priority in the maintenance sector, the awards acknowledge industry leaders who work together to achieve exceptional performance. William Warchow’s Safety Leadership & Innovation Award In honor of William Warchow, one o...