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HONOR AWARDS
Honor Awards were presented to HDR Engineering Inc. for PAR 1088-South Platte Interceptor Project;
Farnsworth Group Inc. for South Fort Collins Sanitation District New Headworks and Dewatering Facilities;
ME Engineers for the T-Mobile Arena: A New Venue and NHL home for Las Vegas; Muller Engineering
Company Inc. for Peaks to Plains Trail: Clear Creek Canyon Segment; and Parsons Transportation Group Inc.
for Eisenhower Johnson Memorial Tunnels Fixed Fire Suppression System.
MERIT AWARDS
Merit Awards recipients were AECOM for 21st Street and Wynkoop Street Urban Design Plan; AECOM for
Public Infrastructure TOD-38th and Blake Street; Atkins for I-70 Twin Tunnels Widening Project; Burns &
McDonnell Engineering Company Inc. for Dodd Water Treatment Facility Upgrades; Burns & McDonnell
Engineering Company Inc. for 2015 Pump Station Improvements; FEI Engineers Inc. for Lyons Wastewater
Treatment Facility Improvements; Felsburg Holt & Ullevig for US 6 Design-Build; Martino and Luth Inc. for
the Art, a hotel; and MDP Engineering Group for the Art, a hotel.
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firms employing approximately 11,500 employees in the independent private practice
of consulting engineering. The organization is a primary resource for accessing
engineering information, expertise and business ethics practices.ACEC Colorado provides
leadership and direction by developing practical, feasible options and solutions based
upon technical collaboration to achieve enduring outcomes to benefit society.
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US 36 Boulder Turnpike Express Lanes, Denver to Boulder, Colo.
Engineer: HDR Engineering Inc.
The U.S. 36 Boulder Turnpike Express Lanes project completed improvements to a 16-mile corridor between
Denver and Boulder, creating Colorado’s first complete multi-modal throughway. The project added
a tolled/high-occupancy vehicle lane, bus rapid transit, new mass transit stations and electronic display
signage. Reconstruction of all existing roadways included widening the highway to accommodate 12-foot
inside and outside shoulders, adding a commuter bikeway along the entire corridor, widening several
bridges along the highway and adding a diverging diamond interchange. HDR Engineering Inc. was
responsible for overall project management, lead roadway, drainage and structural design, and signing
and striping for the project, which features multiple innovation “firsts:” allows buses to utilize the shoulder
when traffic slows below 35 miles per hour; features active traffic management systemwith lane-use signals;
buffer-separated express/toll lanes; fully dedicated commuter bikeway; and the first P3 project for the
Colorado Department of Transportation. The changes make the commute approximately 25 minutes faster
than the previous lanes during rush hour and not only do the solutions make commuting more efficient
and better for the environment, but they also offer enhanced safety for travelers.
HARBORCENTER, Buffalo, NY
Engineer: Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers
HARBORCENTER is the first major private development project completed as part of an extensive, ongoing
mission to restore the vibrant economic heritage of downtown Buffalo and embody the historical character
of Canalside, NY. The mixed-use development integrates unique structural systems for parking, retail, hotel
services, ice rinks, locker rooms, training facilities, restaurants and a meeting space. The structure features
an exposed wood roof, which is reminiscent of historical skating sheds, and is the first elevated ice rink to
span over an active roadway. Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers’ structural design for the building
transitions through three different materials: cast-in-place concrete, structural steel and wood that match
the architect’s theme and owner’s goal for a unique community structure with a signature element.
Martin/Martin Consulting Engineers performed a detailed analysis to design the exposed parking structure
levels to resist internal stresses causes by ambient temperature fluctuations. Ice sheet construction
incorporated creative steel detailing, including recessed structures at the ice sheets, a 4-foot-deep ice
clean-off pit at each rink, recessed ice header trenches and a 7,000-gallon snowmelt pit.
Antarctica in High Definition, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Engineer: Merrick & Company
At the “bottom of the earth” is a vast and frigid Antarctica, where the US and global science community
collaborate. It is also home to the McMurdo Research Station. The research station – originally built in
1956 – is the largest community on the continent and can support up to 1,250 residents. As part of a master
planning team, Merrick & Company was tasked with creating a high-definition representation of facilities
and infrastructure at the McMurdo Research Station with the objective to leverage knowledge from earlier
plans and guide future development in an orderly manner to support evolving science missions. Merrick
& Company utilized a tripod-mounted Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology produced 3-Dmodels
consisting of more than 2 billion measurements. Field crews dealt with wind-chills of minus 25 degrees F.
To accommodate the extreme freezing temperatures and high winds in the Antarctic environment, Merrick
and Company’s survey team created special field-operation strategies to ensure the safety of the field team,
protect valuable equipment and ensure overall success of the project. Using interior and exterior 3-D
models, engineers are designing long-term development and multi-phased re-construction concepts for
a more modern, energy – and operationally efficient research station for the scientific community.
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