ACEC/MA Announces Gold Engineering Excellence Award Winners for 2023

The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named the 2023 Gold Engineering Excellence Award winners and is accepting entries for the 2024 awards now through October 3, 2023.

The Engineering Excellence Awards are an annual celebration of engineering excellence, honoring projects worldwide that demonstrate innovation, creative problem-solving, and engineering's unique ability to improve our world. The competition provides visibility for the firm, the design team, the client and the project. The top winners at the state level proceed to the national competition administered by the American Council of Engineering Companies in Washington, DC, where they will compete for, among other awards, the coveted national Grand Conceptor Award. For more information about entering the competition and to download the entry form: https://www.acecma.org/about/news/2024-engineering-excellence-awards-competition-5051

Gold ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence Award winners:

• Green International Affiliates for the Crescent Street over Millers River Bridge Replacement project for the MassDOT in Athol, MA. The Crescent Street Over Millers River Bridge sits within feet of the L.S. Starrett Company, the leading employer in Athol, MA. This bridge is woven into Starrett’s operation so its replacement was vital to its continued success. The project site was extremely tight leading to complex design and construction challenges. The project’s success was achieved because of Green’s design ingenuity and ability to develop a highly effective partnership among all stakeholders.
• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger for the MBTA Tunnel Investigation for the MBTA. A partial collapse at the Government Center Garage in downtown Boston, MA involved three concrete beams and a construction vehicle impacting the ground directly over the MBTA’s Green Line in the Haymarket Tunnel. With service halted, the MBTA needed to promptly understand the implications of the collapse. SGH responded quickly and creatively with a pragmatic approach, leveraging field observations, analyses of varying complexity, and proof testing to give the MBTA confidence that it was safe to resume the Green Line train service.
• TEC, Inc. for the Pavilion at Riverwalk for Lupoli Companies. The Pavilion at Riverwalk is an innovative project that solved difficult development and technical challenges. It is a one of a kind community asset that serves to “raise up” the City of Lawrence while simultaneously delivering on the development needs for more parking and amenity space and the public need for athletic fields for youth sports and access to the Merrimack River. It is a sustainable development, improving flood resilience and improving the cleanliness of stormwater.
• Weston & Sampson for the Winona Pond Water Treatment Plant Upgrades for the City of Peabody Department of Public Services. Weston & Sampson partnered with the City of Peabody to transform their 50-year-old Winona Water Treatment Plant into a contemporary facility that provides consumers with high quality water at rates among the lowest in the region. The innovative approach to retrofit the facility instead of building a new one saved the city approximately $15M in construction costs, maintained resident operator jobs, and resulted in a project with a significantly reduced carbon footprint due to the prevention of 10 million pounds of demolition waste, avoidance of onsite tree clearing, and reduction of raw materials usage to construct a new plant

About ACEC/MA

The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) is the business association of the Massachusetts engineering industry, representing over 120 independent engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, environmental, industrial, and other infrastructure. Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Boston, MA, ACEC/MA is a member organization of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) based in Washington, DC. ACEC is a national federation of 51 state and regional organizations. For more information on ACEC/MA, visit their website at www.acecma.org