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Jacobs Engineering won ACEC Washington’s platinum award for its design of twin avalanche bridges for Interstate 90. In the photo, crews construct columns and pier caps for the westbound bridge, located along Keechelus Lake at Snoqualmie Pass.



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Jacobs Engineering wins top prize for twin bridges

Jacobs Engineering is the top winner in the American Council of Engineering Companies of Washington’s annual Engineering Excellence Awards program.


Jan. 27, 2020
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The firm took home the top honor — the Platinum Award — for its design of twin 1,200-foot-long bridges along Interstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass.

Sponsored by ACEC’s Washington state chapter, the awards program recognizes projects that represent a wide range of engineering achievements and which demonstrate the highest degree of skill and ingenuity.

Twenty-five projects were honored in this year’s program. The top national awards will go on to compete in the ACEC national competition in Washington, D.C., in April.

Project entries were evaluated by a four-judge panel: Kathy Robertson, engineer emeritus at Pickets Engineering; Ken McGowan, engineer emeritus at HDR; Steve Johnston, engineer emeritus at Landau Associates; and Benjamin Minnick, construction editor at the Daily Journal of Commerce.

ACEC Washington is a professional trade association representing consulting engineering, land surveying and affiliated scientific and planning firms statewide.



ACEC 2020 Engineering Excellence Awards

NATIONAL FINALISTS
PLATINUM AWARD
TRANSPORTATION

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP
Project: Keechelus Lake avalanche bridges
Client: Washington State Department of Transportation
GOLD AWARD
WASTE AND STORMWATER

CAROLLO ENGINEERS
Project: Oak Harbor clean water facility
Client: City of Oak Harbor
GOLD AWARD
TRANSPORTATION

GEOENGINEERS
Project: South 224th Street expansion/SR 167 bridge project
Client: City of Kent
GOLD AWARD
SPECIAL PROJECTS

HART CROWSER
Project: Rainier Square Tower shoring design
Client: University of Washington
GOLD AWARD
STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS

MAGNUSSON KLEMENCIC ASSOCIATES
Project: Amazon Urban Neighborhood
Client: Amazon/NBBJ
BEST IN STATE
Gold Awards
FUTURE VALUE TO THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION
HWA GEOSCIENCES
Project: Grand Avenue utility and pedestrian bridge
Client: City of Everett
SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
MEAD & HUNT
Project: Roslyn fish passage and culvert
Client: City of Roslyn
COMPLEXITY
OTAK
Project: Hayes Street regulator and CSO controls
Client: City of Everett
SUCCESSFUL FULFILLMENT OF CLIENT/OWNER NEEDS
OTAK
Project: Swift Green Line
Client: Community Transit
COMPLEXITY
REID MIDDLETON
Project: Paradise Inn Annex rehabilitation
Client: National Park Service
UNIQUE OR INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS
SHANNON & WILSON
Project: Baker dams landslide inventory and susceptibility mapping
Client: Puget Sound Energy
SUCCESSFUL FULFILLMENT OF CLIENT/OWNER NEEDS
STANTEC CONSULTING SERVICES
Project: Bill & Melinda Gates Center for Computer Science and Engineering
Client: University of Washington
INCLUSION AWARDS
Midsize firms: KBA, Coughlin Porter Lundeen

Large firm: HTNB (Bellevue office)

ENGINEER OF THE YEAR
DAN CAMPBELL
GeoEngineers

NATIONAL SILVER AWARDS
TRANSPORTATION
GEOENGINEERS
Project: Little Pilchuck Creek fish passage project
Client: Washington State Department of Transportation

STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS
HDR
Project: Northeast 45th Street east approach seismic retrofit
Client: Seattle Department of Transportation

SPECIAL PROJECTS
HDR, OTAK and KPFF
Project: Fish passage enhancement program
Client: Thurston County Public Works

BEST IN STATE
Silver Awards
FUTURE VALUE TO THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION
CARY KOPCZYNSKI & CO.
Project: Circa
Client: Circa 1200 LLC

SUCCESSFUL FULFILLMENT OF CLIENT/OWNER NEEDS
DOWL
Project: Runway 11/29 rehabilitation
Client: City of Arlington

UNIQUE OR INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS
HARMS ENGINEERING
Project: Alternative to IRC minimum footing size
Client: Home Builders Association of Tri-Cities

COMPLEXITY
J-U-B ENGINEERS
Project: Felts Field Fuel Facility replacement project
Client: Spokane International Airport

SUCCESSFUL FULFILLMENT OF CLIENT/OWNER NEEDS
NOTKIN MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Project: Concourse D Annex, Sea-Tac Airport
Client: Port of Seattle/HOK Architects

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
NOTKIN MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Project: Denny Substation
Client: Seattle City Light/Power Engineers

BEST IN STATE
Bronze Awards
FUTURE VALUE TO THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION
DOWL
Project: U.S. 2 roundabout
Client: Costco Wholesale

COMPLEXITY
NATURAL SYSTEMS DESIGN
Project: Clarks Creek channel and bank stabilization
Client: Puyallup Tribe of Indians

UNIQUE OR INNOVATIVE APPLICATION
RHC ENGINEERING
Project: Post Avenue Bridge removal
Client: Seattle Department of Transportation

SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
HDR
Project: McKittrick Street rebuild
Client: City of Wenatchee




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