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Feature Story - December 2006
 

ACEC-CO 2006 Engineering Excellence Awards

Eight Colorado engineering firms took top honors for local, national and international projects at the American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado's 2007 Engineering Excellence Awards program.
Twenty-nine projects were honored during the awards program, held in Denver on Nov. 1. Eighteen projects received Merit Awards and three projects received Honor Awards. The eight projects that won the top prize - the Engineering Excellence Award - will go on to represent Colorado in the national ACEC competition next February in Washington, D.C.
The winners were:

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Engineering Excellence Awards

  • Water Resources
    URS Corp.
    Dry Creek Drainage Improvement Project, Fort Collins; client, Fort Collins Utilities.

  • Building/Technology Systems
    M-E Engineers Inc.
    TSA/Arizona Cardinals Multipurpose Facility, Glendale, Ariz.; client, HOK Sport Venue Event.

  • Building/Technology Systems
    MKK Consulting Engineers Inc.
    The Sanctuary: Energy, Environment and Economics in Harmony," Snowmass; client, Aspen Skiing Co.

  • Transportation
    URS Corp.
    Powers Boulevard North, Woodmen Road to State Highway 83, Colorado Springs; client, Colorado Department of Transportation Region 2.

  • Special Projects
    Merrick & Co.
    Ethanol Plant Expansion Project, Golden; client, Coors Brewing Co.

  • Structural Systems
    Martin/Martin Inc.
    Quigg Newton Auditorium Theatre and Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver; client, City and County of Denver.

  • Survey & Mapping Technology
    Merrick & Co.
    Environmental LIDAR Applications in Columbia, South America, various Pacific and Caribbean oceans test sites; client, Ministry of Defense, Department of Navy, Division of Marine Management.

  • Water & Wastewater
    URS Corp.
    Metro Water Reclamation District South Primary Effluent Conduit (SPEC) Rehabilitation; client, Metro Wastewater Reclamation District.

    Honor Awards

  • Water Resources
    Ayres Associates
    "Holding Back the Sands: Sediment Diverted from Power Canal," Horseshoe Bend, Idaho; client, Horseshoe Bend Hydroelectric Co.-Innergex.

  • Water Resources
    Farnsworth Group Inc.
    Sulphur Gulch Improvements, Parker; client, Town of Parker.

  • Small Projects
    Applegate Group Inc.
    Windsor Lake Automated Outlet Structure, Windsor; client, New Cache La Poudre Irrigating Co.

    Merit Awards

  • Studies, Research and Consulting Engineering Services
    Ayres Associates
    "Reality Check: Modeling the Big T, Loveland; client, City of Loveland.

  • Studies, Research and Consulting Engineering Services
    CH2M Hill
    Fort Collins Water Quality Modeling, Fort Collins; client, Fort Collins Utilities.

  • Water Resources
    Kumar & Associates
    Boyd Lake Dam Spillway, Loveland; client, Greeley and Loveland Irrigation Co.

  • Water Resources
    TCB
    Pine Brook Dam and Reservoir, Boulder; client, Pine Brook Water District.

  • Building/Technology Systems
    Beaudin Ganze Consulting Engineers Inc.
    Village at Northstar, Phase II, Thermal Ice Storage, Truckee, Calif.; client, East West Partners.

  • Building/Technology Systems
    The RMH Group
    BLM Rawlins Field Office Building, Rawlins, Wyo.; client, Bureau of Land Management.

  • Transportation
    Felsburg Holt & Ullevig
    State Highway 12 Expansion, Trinidad; client, CDOT.

  • Transportation
    Nolte Associates Inc.
    Fitzsimons Parkway, Aurora; client, City of Aurora.

  • Special Projects
    Stanley Consultants
    MidAmerican Substation and Transmission Line, Grimes, Iowa; client, L.E. Myers (MYR Group Inc.).

  • Structural Systems
    DMJM Harris
    "On the Fast-Track Over the Big Thompson River," Loveland; client, CDOT.

  • Structural Systems
    FIGG Bridge Engineers Inc.
    Four Bears Bridge, New Town (Fort Berthold Indian Reservation), N.D.; client, North Dakota Department of Transportation.

  • Structural Systems
    LONCO Inc.
    29 Road Bridge Over the Colorado River, Grand Junction; client, Mesa County.

  • Structural Systems
    S.A. Miro Inc.
    Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, Denver; client, klipp/Brennan Beer Gorman Architects LLP/Joint Venture.

  • Water & Wastewater
    HDR Engineering Inc.
    "Time Critical Project Delivery - Keeps Water Flowing to Aurora," Douglas County; client, Aurora Water.

  • Water & Wastewater
    Jacobson Helgoth Consultants Inc.
    Design-Build Services for the Town of Milliken Wastewater Treatment Plant, Milliken; client, Town of Milliken.

  • Water & Wastewater
    Rothberg Tamburini & Winsor Inc.
    Copper Mountain WWTP Expansion, Copper Mountain; client, Copper Mountain Consolidates Metro District.

  • Small Projects
    Felsburg Holt & Ullevig
    Kipling Street Over Bear Creek, Lakewood; client, City of Lakewood.

    Outstanding Board Graphics

  • HDR Engineering Inc.
    "Time Critical Project Delivery - Keeps Water Flowing to Aurora."

  • Martin/Martin Inc.
    Quigg Newton Auditorium Theatre and Ellie Caulkins Opera House.


     

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