Sam Rihani, SEA-MW Chair

Peggy Van Eepoel, Awards Committee Chair

SEA-MW held its second annual awards gala in Washington, DC on Saturday, February 23, 2008. The Association recognized Excellence in Structural Engineering by awarding competing firms with eight Outstanding Project Awards and Merit Awards, and one structural engineer with the Outstanding Achievement Award. This year, the Awards Committee, chaired by Peggy Van Eepoel of Weidlinger Associates, attracted 140 individuals to the gala. As was done last year, judges were selected from a location outside the Washington, DC area to avoid any conflicts of interest during the judging process. The Judging Committee was comprised of five highly distinguished individuals. These were W. Gene Corley, lead structural investigator into the September 11, 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center’s twin towers and President of the National Council of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors (NCEES); David Hoffman, former Executive Vice President of Morse Diesel International which was instrumental in the construction of the Sears tower in Chicago; Jamshid Mohammadi, Chair of the Civil and Architectural Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology; Michael Tylk, Principal at Tylk Gustafson Reckers Wilson Andrews, and former President of the National Council of Structural Engineers Association; and John Zils, Associate Partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, LLP and Senior Structural Engineer for the 110-story Sears Tower, the King Abdul Aziz International airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. All five judges were from the Chicago area. The Outstanding Achievement Award went to Doug Elliott, former Principal at Elliott LeBoeuf & McElwain, for his significant contributions to the structural engineering profession. Outstanding Project Awards were presented in five categories, to Structuron Engineering in the New Buildings Under $10M category for the Church of the Resurrection in Montgomery County, MD; Jacobs Facilities in the New Buildings Between $10M and $25M category for the Washington Dulles Airport Traffic Control Tower in Chantilly, VA; Cagley & Associates in the New Buildings Over $25M category for the NOAA Satellite Operations Facility in Suitland, MD; Cagley & Associates in the Structural Renovation Over $1M category for the Pentagon Library Conference Center in Arlington, VA; and Thornton Tomasetti in the Transportation/Bridge Structures category for the Station Place Loading Dock Access Ramp in Washington, DC. Merit Awards were also presented to Thornton Tomasetti for the Duke Divinity School Expansion Westbrook Building; to Weidlinger Associates for the new U.S. Department of Transportation Headquarters in Washington, DC; and to Rathgeber/Goss Associates for the renovation of the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, VA.

Doug Elliott receiving Outstanding Achievement Award Structuron Engineering receiving Outstanding Project Award Jacobs Facilities receiving Outstanding Project Award Cagley & Associates receiving Outstanding Project Award Cagley & Associates receiving 2nd Outstanding Project Award Thornton Tomasetti receiving Outstanding Project Award

     
From left to right: Thornton Tomasetti, Weidlinger Associates, and Rathgeber/Goss Associates receiving the Merit Award

Platinum: Clark Construction Group, LLC
               Delon Hampton & Associates
               Weidlinger Associates, Inc.

Gold: Structural Preservation Systems

Silver: BARR Concrete
          Cagley & Associates
          ECS Corporate Services, LLC
          Hilti, Inc.
          Southland Concrete Corporation
          Thornton Tomasetti

Bronze: Miller & Long Concrete Construction





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