Transportation Projects in Connecticut and Florida Win Top National Awards
BOSTON – The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), AAA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today announced that the Connecticut Department of Transportation has earned the Grand Prize and the Florida Department of Transportation was voted the People’s Choice Award winner in the 2016 America's Transportation Awards competition. Now in its ninth year, the competition attracted a record 84 project nominees from 39 state transportation departments plus the Dist...
IREM Headquarters Awarded Prestigious WELL Certification
CHICAGO (November 14, 2016) – The Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM®) announced today that it has been awarded WELL Certification at the Silver level for its Chicago, IL Headquarters by the International WELL Building Institute™ (IWBI™). The prestigious distinction was awarded through IWBI’s WELL Building Standard™, which is the world’s first building standard to focus on enhancing people’s health and well-being through the built environment. IREM® is the first association in the United...
O'Hare Runway Wins Project of the Year Award from CMAA
CHICAGO, IL – The Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) has named a new runway built at O’Hare International Airport as 2016 Project of the Year. The award for runway 10R-28L was presented to the Chicago Department of Aviation (CDA) and WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff on October 11 at the 2016 CMAA National Conference and Trade Show Industry Recognition Dinner in San Diego, California. The runway also received CMAA’s Project Achievement Award for infrastructure with constructed val...
Nu Skin Innovation Center in Provo, Utah, Wins National Steel Design Award
Chicago, IL – The Nu Skin Innovation Center in Provo, Utah, has earned national recognition in the 2016 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel awards program (IDEAS2). In honor of this achievement, members of the project team will be presented with awards from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) during a ceremony to take place at the facility on Thursday, November 10. The Nu Skin Innovation Center transforms Nu Skin Enterprises’ corporate campu...
Thornton Tomasetti Named Consulting Engineering Firm of the Year by AIA Miami Chapter
Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, has received the Consulting Engineering Firm of the Year Award from the American Institute of Architects Miami Chapter. The award, which recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of building engineering was presented to Thornton Tomasetti’s Miami office at the AIA Miami Design Awards gala on October 28 at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. The Miami office, which opened this past February, is led locally by Associate Princip...
SPIDERS Smart Grid Demonstration Project Wins Federal Award
PASADENA, CA – Parsons is pleased to announce that the Smart Power Infrastructure Demonstration for Energy Reliability and Security (SPIDERS) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) has received a 2016 Federal Energy and Water Management Award. SPIDERS was a collaborative effort by the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and Department of Homeland Security to develop innovative microgrid solutions to improve the energy security of critical assets at U.S. military bases. Parsons...
Ohio State University Wins National Award for Stantec-Designed Science and Technology Building
Ohio State University (OSU) has received a national industry award for its new Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry (CBEC) building designed by Stantec, with Pelli Clark Pelli. The Construction Owners Association of America (COAA) honored the university with a Silver Project Leadership Award, which recognizes owners’ excellence in project delivery. The 235,000 gross square-foot academic research building, which OSU calls a “catalyst for discovery”, is located in the heart of t...
CH2M-Designed Rockaway Boardwalk Reconstruction Honored with Waterfront Center Award
NEW YORK - The reconstruction of the iconic Queens, New York, Rockaway Boardwalk, which was destroyed during Superstorm Sandy, was honored recently in Washington D.C. with a 2016 Excellence on the Waterfront Award. The annual awards program, sponsored by the nonprofit Waterfront Center, recognizes top-quality waterfront projects from around the world for their design, economic feasibility, participatory planning, environmental sensitivity and provision of the maximum amount of public access....
Mott MacDonald Honored by New Jersey Business & Industry Association
On October 19, on behalf of Mott MacDonald, Ellen Moore received an Environmental Quality Award from the New Jersey Business & Industry Association. The award was given in recognition of Mott MacDonald’s work on Newark’s Riverfront Park project, which reclaimed contaminated land along the Passaic River and turned it into an attractive park that offers green space and river access to residents of the Ironbound neighborhood. Award winners are featured in the October issue of New Jersey Busin...
HDR’s Layman Receives 2016 Annual Merit Award from IWC
Colleen Layman, HDR's power-water management director, has received the 2016 Annual Merit Award from the International Water Conference. She received the award at the IWC's annual conference that is being held in San Antonio, Nov. 6-10. The IWC presents the award to honor outstanding individuals in the field of industrial water technology. Layman was recognized for her leadership in a water-related field of activity and for her contributions to the IWC and the industrial water industry. The...
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