AAEE announces environmental engineering award winners

Washington, D.C. – Kansas City, Mo.-based Black & Veatch was the top winner in the American Academy of Environmental Engineers’ national Excellence in Environmental Engineering competition. The firm won the Superior Achievement for Excellence in Environmental Engineering for its design of the Industrial Process Water Treatment Facility in Chandler, Ariz.

Winners were judged on an array of criteria, including:

* demonstration of an integrated approach that considers all environmental media – air, water and land;

* quality as evidenced by the degree of user satisfaction and proven performance;

* the extent to which the entry contributes or offers the prospect of contributing to social and economic advancement;

* originality and innovation; and

* the complexity of the problem addressed.

Grand Prize awards went to Camp Dresser & McKee, Kansas City, Mo., for its Bioaugmentation Pilot Study in Wichita, Kan., in the research category; Vincente, Heres y Lauria with Malcolm Pirnie, Santurce, Puerto Rico, for the planning of the North Coast Superaqueduct Conceptual/Facility Plan in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico, in the planning category; Gannett Fleming, Norfolk, Va., for its design of the Norfolk 28-inch Raw Water Transmission Main in Norfolk in the design category; Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Elmwood Park, N.J., for its Scovill Brass Demolition/Remediation Project in the operations/management category; and CH2M Hill, Salt Lake City, for its Salt Lake Valley Drinking Water Source Protection Project in Salt Lake City, in the small projects category.

Honor awards went to Montgomery Watson, San Diego, for the San Diego Water Repurification project (research); New Jersey-American Water, Haddon Heights, N.J., for the Delaware River Regional Water Treatment Plant in Delran, N.J., (planning); Camp Dresser & McKee, Edison, N.J., for the New Water Treatment Plant & Intake System in Franklin Township, N.J., (design); CH2M Hill, Dayton, Ohio, for the Dayton Airport Deicing Facilities (design); and The Whitman Companies, East Brunswick, N.J., for the Remediation of a Dense Nonaqueous Phase Liquid by Combined In-Situ Treatment Technologies in Teterboro, N.J., (small projects).

Twenty-three projects were entered in the competition.