Two NJDOT projects win 2020 America’s Transportation Awards
(Trenton) – New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) Commissioner Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti today announced two NJDOT projects have been named regional winners in the 2020 America’s Transportation Awards Competition. The America’s Transportation Awards competition sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is a competition in which state DOTs compete in three categories: Quality of Life/Community...
PennDOT Earns Regional America's Transportation Awards for Operations Excellence and Best Use of Technology
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) recently received regional America's Transportation Awards for operational excellence and best use of technology. The department's operational excellence award was for the Automated Work Zone Speed Enforcement ProgramOpens In A New Window and the best use of technology award was for the Shaler Street Bridge ReplacementOpens In A New Window. "Innovation is at the heart of PennDOT initiatives across the state," said Pen...
New I-85/I-385 “Gateway” Interchange Receives Transportation Award
Gateway Recognized as #1 in “Operations Excellence” in Southeast The value Greenville area residents and businesses have gained from the new I-85/I-385 Interchange since it opened to traffic has just been affirmed with an award of excellence the project received from the Southeastern Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (SASHTO). The new interchange, known as the “Gateway” project, has received SASHTO’s top award for “Operations Excellence” among large road and highw...
DelDOT Earns Award for US 301 Mainline Project
The Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) earned regional recognition in the America's Transportation Awards for the US 301 Mainline Project which opened to traffic in January 2019. In the America's Transportation Awards competition sponsored by the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, state DOTs compete in three categories: Quality of Life/Community Development; Best Use of Technology and Innovation; and Oper...
Western State DOTs Win Awards for Transportation Projects
A batch of transportation projects across Arizona, California, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington State earned regional recognition in the 2020 America’s Transportation Awards competition for providing solutions that increase safety and save lives, make infrastructure more resilient, while improving the quality of life for their communities. [Above photo by the Hawaii DOT.] Patrick McKenna. Photo by the Missouri DOT. “The people who planned, engineered and built...
NDDOT receives Operations Excellence Award
The North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) received the Operations Excellence Award in the small project category of America’s Transportation Awards for establishing highway safety corridors in the state. NDDOT earned regional recognition in the national award program for providing solutions that increase safety and save lives, plus deliver a more reliable, well-functioning, and safer transportation system through operational solutions. The NDDOT competed in the Western Association...
Architizer A+Awards Names Vectorworks, Inc. a 2020 Jury Winner
Vectorworks Architect 2020 is the Jury Winner for the Design Tools-Software & Digital Tools category Columbia, MD (August 19, 2020)—Now in its eighth year, the Architizer A+ Awards has selected global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. as a 2020 Architizer A+ Award winner. Notably, Vectorworks Architect 2020 is this year’s Jury Winner in the Design Tools-Software & Digital Tools category. The award-winning BIM software was previously named a finalist for the second year i...
MoDOT's Champ Clark Bridge Project Wins Two Awards
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Transportation’s new Champ Clark Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 54 over the Mississippi River at Louisiana, Missouri, has won two awards for excellence – a regional award in the America’s Transportation Awards competition in the “Quality of Life/Community Development, Medium Project” category and a National Award of Merit from the Design-Build Institute of America. The $60 million project opened to traffic in August 2019. Massman Construction Comp...
National transportation group honors Winneconne bridge
The recently completed WIS 116 bridge over the Wolf River, located in Winneconne, has been selected for recognition from America’s Transportation Awards. In 2019, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) reconstructed the bridge to current design and safety standards. The new structure also provides safer accommodations for fishing, snowmobiling and river traffic. “In addition to an improvement to the region’s transportation system, the new Winneconne bridge represents a unique inv...
CFSEI Announces Winners of 2020 Design Excellence and Creative Detail Awards
The Hub State Street project by raSmith was awarded First Place in the Residential/Hospitality category of the 2020 CFSEI Design Excellence Awards. Photo by raSmith. WASHINGTON, DC—The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) has announced the winners of its 2020 CFSEI Design Excellence and Creative Detail awards. The awards are usually presented during the annual CFSEI Expo, but this year’s event, originally scheduled for May 19-20 in Tampa, Florida, was canceled due to the COVID-...