ACEC California Announces 2019 Engineering Excellence Awards
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Today the American Council of Engineering Companies, California (ACEC California) announced the 2019 recipients of its annual Engineering Excellence Awards. Projects were recognized for demonstrating an exceptional degree of innovation, complexity, achievement and value. Fourteen projects earned the prestigious Honor Award distinction, fifteen were recognized with Merit Awards, and eight Commendation Awards were granted. “Engineering and land surveying provide the innovati...
Council of University Transportation Centers Honors Leaders and Students for Advancing Transportation Research
WASHINGTON - Five students, four leaders in transportation academia and one long-time transportation industry advocate from both the public and private sector will be honored by the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) for outstanding contributions to transportation research and education at a Jan. 12 awards banquet in the Nation’s Capital. Nuria Fernandez, CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, is the 2018 winner of the CUTC Lifetime Achievement Award for Tran...
HDOT Awarded Gold and Silver Level Recognition by the Water Environment Federation
HONOLULU – The Water Environment Federation (WEF) awarded the State of Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) Highways Division, Oahu District with a Gold Level in Program Management and Silver Level in Innovation as part of the organization’s National Municipal Stormwater and Green Infrastructure Awards Program. The awards celebrate administrators of municipal separate storm sewer systems that perform beyond regulatory requirements. “We are honored to have received recognition for our Hi...
Whirlwind Steel Awarded 2018 Platinum Safety Partner Award for Commitment to Employee Safety
HOUSTON - Whirlwind Steel, a Houston-based metal building manufacturer, was awarded the 2018 Platinum Safety Partner Award for the second year in a row – an award that just one-third of one percent of policyholders receive. Each year, Texas Mutual Workers' Compensation Insurance – Texas' largest provider of workers' compensation – recognizes policyholders with a demonstrated commitment to employee safety through its Work Safe, Texas Program. Of the 70,000 eligible Texas Mutual policyholders,...
Highview Power’s Liquid Air Energy Storage Named Technology of the Year by BusinessGreen Magazine
LONDON – Highview Power, the global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, announced today that its proprietary liquid air energy storage technology took top honours at the 2018 BusinessGreen Technology Awards. Highview Power’s innovative long-duration energy storage system, which is installed at the Pilsworth plant in the U.K., was nominated for and selected as the Smart Grid Technology of the Year. Highview’s liquid air energy storage was later chosen over every other category awar...
Two ADOT Efforts Enhancing Highway Safety Win National Honors
PHOENIX – Arizona Department of Transportation efforts that have improved safety on a busy stretch of westbound US 60 in Tempe and advanced a first-in-the-nation system that reduces the risk from wrong-way drivers have been honored by a national organization dedicated to the management and operation of state highways. The National Operations Center of Excellence is presenting its Best Transportation Systems Management and Operations Project Award (Creative Solution) to ADOT for lane adjustmen...
Dxa Studio Wins Best Restoration & Preservation Category for 100 Barclay in 2018 Architect’s Newspaper Awards
New York – DXA studio, a New York based architecture and design firm known for a diverse range of projects primarily in Manhattan and Brooklyn, has announced that their work on one of the most majestic buildings in New York City, 100 Barclay won the best Restoration and Preservation category in the prestigious Architect’s Newspaper Awards for 2018. Formerly known as the Barclay-Vesey Building by AIA designated "Architect of the Century," Ralph Walker, 100 Barclay has undergone an extensi...
KAI Receives Design-Build Institute of America Award for Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being Project
St. Louis, MO - KAI Design & Build proudly announces that its design-build team has received a Design-Build Institute of America – Mid-America Region (DBIA-MAR) 2018 Honor Award in the Commercial-Office Buildings category for the Deaconess Center for Child Well-Being in St. Louis, Missouri. For more than 18 years, the DBIA-MAR has recognized excellence in design-build practices and informed the public of the breadth and value of design-build delivery through its annual awards program. An even...
Seeking the Best Copper Architecture Projects in North America
MCLEAN, VA ─ Entries for the 2019 North American Copper in Architecture (NACIA) Awards program are now being accepted through January 31, 2019. Architects and contractors are encouraged to submit unique and innovative projects that feature a significant amount of architectural copper and show their mastery of the metal. Architectural copper has been used for centuries for its durability and aesthetics. The Copper Development Association (CDA) and the Canadian Copper & Brass Development Assoc...
Stantec Presenting Two Projects at the 2018 World Architecture Festival
University of Lethbridge’s Science and Academic Building The 2018 World Architecture Festival (WAF) kicks off in Amsterdam today with presentations and events occurring through November 30th, during which time more than 500+ shortlisted projects will be presented to 130+ international judges, all vying to win prestigious awards in 43 categories. Two Stantec Architecture projects—Cambridge Memorial Hospital Redevelopment and the University of Lethbridge Science a...