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What is Engineering Excellence?
The Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) is an annual design competition that recognizes engineering achievements which demonstrate the highest degree of merit and ingenuity. The awards competition spotlights engineers as problem-solvers. For more than 43 years, hundreds of consulting engineering firms have entered their most innovative designs in state competitions. A panel of experts judge the entries.
Entrants into the ACEC Oregon EEA competition may advance to ACEC National's design competiton in Washington, D.C. |
"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
--Aristotle
ENTER YOUR FIRM'S PROJECT FOR 2012!
Click here for the "Call for Entries" including the official entry form (on page 8) for the 2012 Engineering Excellence Awards competition.
Bring public attention to the outstanding work performed by Oregon and southwest Washington engineering and surveying firms through services to clients, state and society by entering ACEC Oregon's Engineering Excellence Awards competition.
ELIGIBILITY: Any engineering or surveying firm with an office in Oregon or southwest Washington is eligible to enter the awards program, whether or not the firm is a member of ACEC Oregon.
DATES for 2012 ENTRIES: Projects entered in the competition may have been executed anywhere in the world. Studies and Research (Category A) or Surveying and Mapping (Category D) must have been publicly disclosed by the client between November 1, 2009 and October 31, 2011. Construction of projects (Categories B through K, with the exception of D) must have been substantially completed and ready for use between November 1, 2009 and October 31, 2011.
DATES to REMEMBER for 2012 entries :
- Phase 1 "Intent to Enter" Deadline - Monday, October 24, 2011
- ACEC Oregon Phase 2 Final Deadline - Monday, November 21, 2011
- ACEC Oregon Judging of Entries - Thursday, December 1, 2011
- ACEC Oregon Awards Dinner - Wednesday, January 11, 2012
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
ACEC Oregon EEA Entries
QUESTIONS? Contact Merideth Webber at (503) 292-2348 or mwebber@acecOregon.org.
If you would like to view past entries, please call or e-mail to make an appointment.
ACEC National EEA Entries
Visit the ACEC National website: http://www.acec.org/getinvolved/eea.cfm.
From there you'll find:
Last year's ACEC National EEA Winners:
QUESTIONS? Contact Daisy Nappier at (202) 347-7474 or dnappier@acec.org.
Past Engineering Excellence Award winners
Click here for a list of past "Project of the Year" winners from 1996 - 2011. Or, see below.
2011
Congratulations to CH2M HILL for winning “Project of the Year”
for their Pelton Round Butte Selective Water Withdrawal Project
for Portland General Electric
“This project may revolutionize fish passage and water quality in high head dams;
produces positive ecological, social and economic impacts,
both upstream and downstream.”
-- Judge's comment
Click here for the full article by the Daily Journal of Commerce:
http://djcoregon.com/news/2011/01/12/65476/
This computer rendering illustrates the finished selective water withdrawal facility as it looks above and below water.
- The floating top structure has 5 feet of freeboard, and is in 270 feet of water.
- The flow conduit connects the top structure to the bottom structure with a maximum hydraulic capacity of 14,000 cubic feet per second.
- The bottom structure is anchored to the lake bottom joined to the existing powerhouse intake.
2011 Engineering Excellence Award winners
Newsletter story & photos of 2011 Engineering Excellence Award winners
PEOPLE's CHOICE AWARD
goes to David Evans and Associates, Inc. for Oneonta Gorge Tunnel Rehabilitation
The firm's board won the popular vote during the awards dinner as most favorite display panel.
Slideshow of all the entries featuring each project's photographic display panel.
(Different) Slideshow of the entries in order of awards presentation.
2010
PAE Consulting Engineers earns “Project of the Year”
for Shattuck Hall at Portland State University
“An extremely complex project that effectively utilized original features
of an old building into a modern facility; high level of ingenuity.”
-- Judge's comment
2010 Engineering Excellence Award winners
Newsletter story & photos of 2010 Engineering Excellence Award winners
Slideshow of all the entries featuring each project's photographic display panel.
(Different) Slideshow of the entries in order of awards presentation.
PEOPLE's CHOICE AWARD
goes to KPFF Consulting Engineers for Renovation of Paradise Inn
The firm's board won the popular vote during the awards dinner as most favorite display panel.
2009
Kennedy/Jenks Consultants takes "Project of the Year"
for ACWA Energy Independence Project for
Oregon Association of Clean Water Agencies
"High marks for producing tools and methodology to not only further engineering but to also promote a commitment to energy efficiency that could help Oregon in its way to establishing itself as a national player and leader in the energy efficiency scene.”
-- Judge's comment
2009 Engineering Excellence Award winners
Newsletter story & photos of 2009 Engineering Excellence Award winners
Slideshow of all 27 entries featuring each project's photographic display panel.
(different) Slideshow of the entries in order of awards presentation.
BEST BOARD award goes to Shannon & Wilson, Inc.
The “Best Board” award is given to the firm which creates the best display panel. The objective of the “Best Board” award is to promote communication of engineering excellence by creating displays that are both visually exciting and stimulating to read, as well as promoting the achievements of the engineering profession.
2008
David Evans and Associates, Inc. receives top honors with "Project of the Year"
for their Rogue River (Depot Street) Bridge Replacement for Jackson County, Oregon
2007
Interface Engineering wins "Project of the Year"
for The Center for Health & Healing at Oregon Health & Science University
2006
David Evans and Associates, Inc. wins "Project of the Year" for the
Broadway (Willamette River) Bridge Rehabilitation for Multnomah County, Oregon
2005
Parsons Brinckerhoff and David Evans and Associates, Inc. (joint entry)
wins "Project of the Year" for Interstate MAX Light Rail Extension for TriMet
2004
KPFF Consulting Engineers wins "Project of the Year" for Brewery Block 2
2003
AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc. wins "Project of the Year"
for Algae and Debris Skimmer
2002
OBEC Consulting Engineers wins "Project of the Year"
for Rogue River Pedestrian Bridge
2001
Two "Project of the Year" winners:
Degenkolb Engineers for Portland Airport Canopy Steel Erection; and
KPFF Consulting Engineers for Latter-Day Saints Conference Center
2000
Squier Associates wins "Project of the Year" for
Bonneville Dam Juvenile Fish Bypass Outfall Pier Foundations
1999
David Evans and Associates, Inc. wins "Project of the Year" for
Gould Superfund Hazardous Materials Site Hydrographic/Land Survey
1998
Squier Associates wins "Project of the Year" for
Arizona Inn Landslide Stabilization Project
1997
Cornforth Consultants, Inc. wins "Project of the Year" for
Landslide Remediation Project
1996
Kennedy Associates wins "Project of the Year" for
First Congregational Church Column Replacement
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