Each year attendees at the ASCE/SEI Structures Congress recognize excellent technical session presentations and posters through the “Best of the Best” program. By casting ballots available to all attendee, a Best Presentation and Best Poster are chosen. In addition, there is a drawing to award one of these voters a Kindle Fire. The votes are collected and tallied by the SEI Public Relations Committee. The winners were announced at the Closing Plenary Session on Saturday, May 4, 2013. The lead authors of the Best Presentation and Best Poster each receive complimentary registration for Structures Congress 2014, taking place April 3-5, 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts. …
Geiger Gossen Campbell Engineers, PC was an Outstanding Award Winner for the BC Place Revitalization project in the 2012 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering awards program (Category – Forensic/Renovation/Retrofit/Rehabilitation Structures).
BC Place, the first domed stadium in Canada, opened in 1983 in Vancouver, BC. The stadium sat on the north shore of False Creek amidst stacks of lumber, with barges and log booms moored along the shore. …
Walter P Moore was an Outstanding Award Winner for the Salvador Dalí Museum project in the 2012 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering awards program (Category – New Buildings $10M to $30M).
The largest collection of Salvador Dalí’s art outside of his hometown in Spain is not in the Louvre, or a New York museum, but in St. Petersburg, Florida. …
UAE DeSimone Consulting Engineers was an Outstanding Award Winner for the Regent Emirate Pearl Hotel project in the 2012 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering awards program (Category – International Structures over $100M).
The iconic Regent Emirates Pearl development will rise and twist 255 meters (840 feet) above its calm turquoise ocean front, claiming its spot in the Abu Dhabi skyline. The mixed-use AED 1.0B ($287M) complex is located amidst palaces and high profile skyscrapers on the Corniche Street of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. …
The New Atrium Roof at the California Academy of Sciences Plays a Supporting Role to a Landmark Building
Walter P Moore was an Award Winner for the Atrium Operable Roof – California Academy of Sciences project in the 2012 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering awards program (Category – Other Structures).
When planning and designing the new operable roof at the California Academy of Sciences, the foremost concern was to allow the critically-acclaimed building to hold center stage while the new roof provided weather protection and ventilation quietly and elegantly in the background. …
Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, PC was an Outstanding Award Winner for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art project in the 2012 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering awards program (Category – New Buildings over $100 Million) …
WSP Cantor Seinuk was an Award winner for the 8 Spruce Street – Beekman Tower project in the 2012 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Program (Category – New Buildings over $100M).
When it opened in 2011, the 870-foot, 76-story iconic Beekman Tower, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, became New York City’s tallest residential tower. Located just south of the Brooklyn Bridge, the 1.1 million square feet mixed-use building is redefining the skyline of Downtown Manhattan. …
Proton Therapy Vault | New Brunswick, NJ
O’Donnell & Naccarato, Inc. was an Outstanding Award winner for the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital project in the 2012 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering awards program (Category – New Buildings under $10 Million).
Proton Therapy utilizes complex machines that deliver positively charged atomic particles focused precisely on small cancerous growths, without harming the surrounding healthy tissue. Embracing this promising technology, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has built a 4,900 square foot Proton Therapy building that houses two Proton Therapy treatment machines. …