Frank Calandra Jr. honored with the Erskine Ramsay Medal Award
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) is pleased to announce that Frank Calandra Jr. has received the prestigious Erskine Ramsay Medal. Established in 1948 and funded by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), the Erskine Ramsay Medal recognizes distinguished achievement in coal mining. Election to this honor is facilitated by the SME Coal & Energy Division. Calandra is recognized for distinguished achievement in coal mining and as an...
Nemetschek Group receives AxiaBest Managed Company Award for Outstandingly Managed Companies
Munich - The Nemetschek Group has been awarded with the AxiaBest Managed Companies Award 2021. The prize and quality seal are awarded annually by Deloitte Private, CreditSuisse, WirtschaftsWoche and the Federal Association of German Industry BDI to outstandingly managed companies. The international Nemetschek Group, headquartered in Munich, develops and distributes software for the entire life cycle of buildings. “We are delighted to have been named an AxiaBest Managed Company for the fourth...
National Building Museum to Award 2021 Honor Award to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
— Museum and SOM to Devote Award Programming to Climate Change Call to Action — Event Expands to Include Expert-Led Webinars Open to the Public WASHINGTON, D.C.—The National Building Museum announced today that it will present its 2021 Honor Award to global design firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). For the first time in 36 years, and inspired by this year’s honoree, the Museum will transform the annual Honor Award into a Climate Change Call to Action, including weeks of provocativ...
Jannet Walker-Ford Named Northeast Florida WTS Woman of the Year
WSP USA national transit and rail leader honored by chapter as a ‘visionary, strategic thinker and accomplished professional.’ JACKSONVILLE, Florida, April 29, 2021 — The Northeast Florida Chapter of WTS International (WTSI) presented its Woman of the Year award to Jannet Walker-Ford, national transit and rail leader for WSP USA, a leading engineering and professional services consultancy. The annual award is presented to a woman who is a member of the chapter, is recognized as an ou...
Dr. Erik C. Westman receives the prestigious 2021 Mineral Industry Education Award
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Accreditation and Curricular Issues Committee has announced that the recipient of the 2021 Mineral Industry Education Award is Dr. Erik C. Westman. Established by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) in 1950, the award is given to recognize distinguished contributions to the advancement of mineral industry education. AIME transitioned administration of this award to SME in 2011. Dr. Erik C. Westm...
Terracon Wins ACG Middle Market Growth Award for Innovation
The Association for Corporate Growth Recognizes Terracon’s Stage1 Offering CHICAGO — The Association for Corporate Growth (AGC), a global network dedicated to driving growth in middle-market companies, has honored Terracon with its first-ever Innovation award for Stage1, a collaborative, fully online offering that streamlines site selection for clients. Last fall, Middle Market Growth staff asked middle-market companies to apply for the awards by describing their achievements during t...
Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards 2021 Finalists Announced
Chicago, IL: The Structural Engineers Association of Illinois (SEAOI) is pleased to announce the projects selected as finalists in the 2021 Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards. This distinguished design competition takes place each year to recognize excellence in structural engineering. The projects selected are: 1040 W. Fulton, IMEG Corp 110 North Wacker Drive, Thornton Tomasetti, Inc. BMX Bowls Bridge, Endrestudio Chicago Union Station - Clinton Street Improvements, Kl...
Mammoet is delighted to announce it has won no more than three awards at the ESTA Awards of Excellence 2021
ESTA announced the winners on 22 April 2021 during a virtual ceremony. Mammoet won the ‘Combined Techniques’ award for a technically challenging decommissioning project at a German nuclear power plant. Mammoet then won its second award of the afternoon for the installation of a bridge in Eindhoven, the Netherlands in the ‘Cranes telescopic lifting capacity > 120t’ category. But there was more, Mammoet also won a third award in the ‘Innovation End User’ category for the development of its...
Novosound honoured in global awards ceremony for Belenus corrosion monitoring sensor
Novosound, a leading ultrasonic company based in Scotland, has overcome competition from some of the biggest organizations in the world to win its first international honor at the 2021 Materials Performance Corrosion Innovation of the Year Awards. Organized by the Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP), Novosound received the award in the Testing category for its revolutionary Belenus ultrasound sensor, which provides corrosion monitoring across a variety of structures an...
Jennica Bellanca receives the 2020 Robert Peele Memorial Award
The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) Mining & Exploration Division’s Robert Peele Memorial Award Committee has selected Jennica Bellanca as the 2020 recipient of the prestigious Robert Peele Memorial Award. The award was established in 1953 and is given for the most outstanding paper published in an SME publication on behalf of the Mining & Exploration Division by an SME member age 35 or younger. Jennica Bellanca is recognized for her paper “Developing a Virtual Reality Envi...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
TriMet’s Banfield Type 1 Substation Replacement Project
February Issue 2026
