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The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Missouri chapter honored GeoEngineers’ Direct Pipe® crossing of the Sabine Neches Waterway with a Grand Award in their annual Engineering Excellence Awards. This was the very first trenchless crossing of a US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)-regulated levee using Direct Pipe® methods. The 48-inch-diameter pipeline stretches for more than a half-mile under the Sabine Neches Waterway, levee and railroad tracks in Port Arthur, Texas.

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) gave GeoEngineers and our project partners a national Honor Award for engineering excellence for our work on the reconstruction of Washington State Route (SR) 530 after the Oso Landslide.

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) gave GeoEngineers and teaming partners a national Grand Award for engineering excellence for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation headquarters project in Seattle, WA. This was the first national ACEC award for GeoEngineers, but not the last. The project earned one of just eight grand awards out of 143 entries representing some of the largest and most complex engineering projects in the country.

An innovative directional microtunnel project for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company won the Grand Conceptor Award for the best overall project in the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Missouri’s 2014 Engineering Excellence Competition. The I-84 Pipeline Crossing Project included several innovative firsts in the cutting-edge field of trenchless engineering, including a unique combination of the thrusting technology of Direct Pipe with the short interlocking segments of Permalok pipe.

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration awarded the City of Bellingham a 2012 Exemplary Human Environment Initiative Award for the Inspiration Point Overlook reconstruction completed in 2011. GeoEngineers provided geotechnical engineering and a geohazards assessment for this project, which is located at Woodstock Farm Park along Chuckanut Drive (SR11) near Bellingham, Washington.

Western Washington University’s newly renovated Miller Hall was certified LEED® Gold by the US Green Building Council. GeoEngineers provided geotechnical engineering and construction monitoring services for the renovation.

The City of Redmond, Washington’s NE 36th Street/SR 520 Bridge Overpass and Roundabout Project won the National American Public Works Association (APWA) Project of the Year Award for transportation projects in the $25- to $75-million category.

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Washington selected Senior Principal Geotechnical Engineer and COO Dan Campbell as their Engineer of the Year for his outstanding contributions to the engineering industry.

GeoEngineers launched a new office in Nashville, Tennessee after the acquisition of Ardent Geotechnical Consultants, a local geotechnical engineering firm owned by Rick Heckel, who also joined GeoEngineers as a principal.

GeoEngineers USA, an affiliate of GeoEngineers Inc. that operates in Massachusetts, opened a Boston office to serve clients in the region, with an emphasis on temporary structural and geotechnical engineering along with other construction services.