Dallas Streetcar Shortlisted for ASCE's Top Civil Engineering Honor
The American Society of Civil Engineers announced Nov. 4 that the Union Station to Oak Cliff Dallas Streetcar Project will vie for the 2017 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement award. The city's first modern streetcar is one of five finalists selected for ASCE's most prestigious global honor. Among its competitors are One World Trade Center in New York and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India. The winner will be announced at ASCE's OPAL Gala, March 16, in Arlington, Vi...
Topcon Accepts Wichmann Innovations Award for Falcon 8
LIVERMORE, Calif., USA/ CAPELLE A/D IJSSEL, The Netherlands – Topcon Positioning Group announces it has won the Wichmann Innovations Award in the competition’s hardware category. Topcon representatives accepted the award for the Topcon Falcon 8 (powered by Ascending Technologies, a part of Intel®) rotary-wing UAS (unmanned aerial system). The Wichmann Award is bestowed annually at the INTERGEO trade fair in Germany. The Falcon 8 was judged the winner based on the criteria of innovation, user-fri...
Montana Department of Transportation Wins Inaugural AXIAM Award
Austin, TX – At the AgileAssets 2016 International Users Conference in Austin, Texas, Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) claimed first place honors for the new AXIAM Award, which is given to a public or private agency for demonstrating excellence in infrastructure asset management. The 2016 prize was awarded to MDT for their new safety information management system (SIMS) that was implemented to support Montana’s strategic safety program. The system is based on the AgileAsset...
Q Bridge Project Wins Top National Award
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...
AASHTO Board Elects Maine's David Bernhardt President and Tennessee’s John Schroer VP
BOSTON - The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Board of Directors today elected Maine Department of Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt, P.E., as the association’s president. Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner John Schroer was elected vice president. "It’s an honor and a privilege to be selected to serve in this important national role,” said AASHTO President Bernhardt. “I’ve spent my entire professional career in transportation, risi...
ITD Wins Pair of National President’s Transportation Awards, Plus Earns Two of Top Three Spots in Public Voting
BOISE - ITD won a pair of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) President’s awards yesterday (Monday, Nov. 14), and the agency was also recognized for earning two of the top three spots for projects in public voting across the country this fall. The awards and recognition came at the association’s annual gathering, which this year was in Boston. “These awards show that Idaho projects consistently rank among the best in the nation,” explained ITD Direct...
Hatch’s Work on Arctic Diamond Project Shines Bright, Winning 2016 Project of the Year Award
Montreal, QC — At an awards gala hosted by the Project Management Institute—Montréal Chapter on November 8, 2016, Hatch’s submission for the Gahcho Kué project took top honours in the Private Industry category. The 2016 Project of the Year Award recognized its work on the C$1-billion project at the Gahcho Kué diamond mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT). This, the world’s largest new diamond mine since 2003, moved into production earlier this year, on budget and ahead of schedule. On...
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...
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