Monday, 7 April 2008
Bentley Awards Inspire Idea for New OCEA Category
I recently received a copy of last year’s 2007 Bentley Awards of Excellence, titled “The Year in Infrastructure 2007.” Many of the awards focused on architecture and buildings, although they did have a major section devoted to civil engineering. The civil innovation winner went to HNTB Corporation for their Range and Training Land Program of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Finalists in the civil road infrastructure were the California Department of Transportation for the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Effort, the Indiana DOT for its U.S. 24/Fort to Port Project, and Michael Baker for the Ohio River Bridges project, Section 2, I-65 Bridge over the Ohio River.
The grand winner for site/civil was Vela VKE Consulting Engineers for their Zimbali civil infrastructure plan. In the site/civil design, a finalist was In-Site Engineering’s Blackhawk Estates of Alabaster, Ala.
Obviously, all of these winners used a particular Bentley product in the development of their design and contract documents. In each of Bentley’s categories, which included building, civil, geospatial, plant, academic and innovation, they had a sub-category for innovation. While ASCE doesn’t have a particular award category for innovation, CEFI offers its Charles Pankow Award for Innovation. Bentley includes sustainable design in many of its award categories. ASCE does not have a project award for sustainable design. I believe there should be a category of our Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement awards focused exclusively on sustainable design.
I would like to hear your views on having a sustainable design award.
The grand winner for site/civil was Vela VKE Consulting Engineers for their Zimbali civil infrastructure plan. In the site/civil design, a finalist was In-Site Engineering’s Blackhawk Estates of Alabaster, Ala.
Obviously, all of these winners used a particular Bentley product in the development of their design and contract documents. In each of Bentley’s categories, which included building, civil, geospatial, plant, academic and innovation, they had a sub-category for innovation. While ASCE doesn’t have a particular award category for innovation, CEFI offers its Charles Pankow Award for Innovation. Bentley includes sustainable design in many of its award categories. ASCE does not have a project award for sustainable design. I believe there should be a category of our Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement awards focused exclusively on sustainable design.
I would like to hear your views on having a sustainable design award.
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