Introducing the Finalists for the AEC Excellence Awards 2018
Autodesk, along with co-sponsors Construction Dive, HP, and Smart Cities Dive, is proud to announce the AEC Excellence Awards 2018 finalists! Now in its sixth year, the AEC Excellence Awards showcases global projects that have embraced Connected BIM and emerging technologies like generative design and industrialized construction. The categories of Infrastructure Design, Building Design, and Construction recognize small, medium, and large size projects. Debuting this year, the new “Innova...
Two States Earn Top Awards in National Transportation Competition
ATLANTA –An innovative fix for a congestion-plagued interchange connecting people to some of Chicago’s most popular destinations and a bikeable and walkable greenway that connects neighborhoods in Atlanta’s north side are today being honored as the winners in the 2018 America's Transportation Awards competition. The Illinois Department of Transportation's $135 million Interstate 55 and Lake Shore Drive Interchange project earned the Grand Prize, while the Georgia Department of Transportation’...
M Property Services, NorthSide Regeneration Challenge St. Louis City High School Students to Design for Autonomous Vehicle
Photo by M Property Services. Cutline: Six-time Olympic medalist and East St. Louis native Jackie Joyner-Kersee (far right) poses with the Gold Medal team from McKinley Classical Leadership Academy (O'Fallon, MO) – For the past five years, M Property Services, LLC, along with NorthSide Regeneration, has sponsored a Project Design Challenge to expose St. Louis area youth to the fields of architecture, engineering, urban planning and construction. In 2018, high school students from public, priv...
Stantec Wins Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Leadership Award
Stantec has won a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Leadership Award from the Canadian network of the United Nations Global Compact, in the Large Organizations category. Presented by the Global Compact Network Canada, the SDG Awards recognize Canadian organizations that are advancing 17 sustainable and socially responsible goals to ensure a better future. These goals focus on issues deemed critical to achieving a sustainable future, such as ending extreme poverty, fighting inequality and injus...
Profile’s Marc S. Theisen Earns Esteemed Industry Awards
Profile's Marc S. Theisen (right) receiving the 2018 IECA Technical Paper of the Year Award BUFFALO GROVE, Ill. — Profile Products is pleased to announce that Marc S. Theisen, M.Sc., CPESC, CPSWQ, CESSWI, earned two esteemed industry awards: EnviroCert International’s (ECI) “Distinguished Service Award” and the International Erosion Control Association (IECA) “2018 Technical Paper of the Year.” To win the Distinguished Service Award, recipients must have demonstrated outstanding mora...
Lenox Road Corridor Plan Wins “Outstanding Planning Document” Award From the Georgia Planning Association
Atlanta – Today the Buckhead Community Improvement District (BCID), in partnership with design and engineering firm Stantec, received the 2018 Outstanding Planning Document award for their Lenox Road Corridor Plan at the Georgia Planning Association (GPA) annual fall conference on Jekyll Island. Every year, GPA, an official chapter of the American Planning Association, hosts an annual conference where the organization recognizes local communities and regional commissions for their work to mak...
Vulcraft Announces Winners of 2018 NuHeights Design Awards
Norfolk, Neb. – Vulcraft has announced the winners of its 2018 NuHeights Design Awards. The competition is designed to acknowledge outstanding design, architecture and the diverse applications of building with steel joist and decking. The award winners were chosen because of their unique and innovative use of Vulcraft/Verco Group products to produce state-of-the-art buildings. The 5th annual 2018 NuHeights Design Awards competition was open to fabricators, erectors, architects and general co...
UC Davis Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art Receives IDEAS2 Award
The UC Davis Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in Davis, Calif., has earned national recognition in the 2018 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel awards program (IDEAS2). In honor of this achievement, members of the project team were presented with awards from AISC during a ceremony that took place at the building on Wednesday. The museum sits at the edge of a frontier of sorts--on the edge of campus and town, across a major Interstate from far...
Steel Design Student Competition Winners Announced
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) have selected the recipients of the 2018 Steel Design Student Competition. The competition recognizes sixteen exceptional projects, in two categories, that explore a variety of issues related to the use of steel in design and construction. The jury for the 2018 Steel Competition, Category I AFFORDABLE HOUSING includes: Margaret Griffin, Gri...
America’s 12 Best Transportation Projects Now Competing for Two Final Prizes
WASHINGTON — After four regional competitions, this year’s top 12 transportation projects have made it to the final phase of the 11th annual America’s Transportation Awards competition and the chance to earn $10,000 for a scholarship or non-profit in their home states. In April, 35 state DOTs nominated 79 projects for consideration in the national competition sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Socrata, AAA, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerc...