2021 Engineering Excellence Awards
Call for Entries
The 2020 Grand Award Winner
Tighe & Bond-Great Hill Tunnel & Pipeline Restoration, New Haven, CT
ACEC-CT Engineering Excellence Awards offer firms an opportunity to earn national recognition and showcase their talent and expertise.
Benefits of Participation
The public relations and marketing value of participation in these competitions is considerable. Individual press releases are issued for each winner and national winners receive considerable media attention nationwide. Photos of entries will be displayed on the ACEC/CT web site (www.ctengineers.org).
Eligibility
The competition is open to any firm or individual engaged in the practice of consulting engineering in Connecticut, whether or not the firm or individual is an ACEC/CT member. Eligible projects (a) must have been built in Connecticut, or (b) the majority of the design work must have been performed in Connecticut, although the project may have been built anywhere.
Constructed projects must have been substantially completed and ready for use between November 1, 2018 and October 31, 2020. Studies must have been publicly disclosed by the client between November 1, 2018 and October 31, 2020.
There is a $500 entry fee for ACEC/CT members entering the state competition; entries from nonmember firms are charged a $900 entry fee. ACEC members who go on to the national competition will pay $1,200, nonmembers will pay $3,600.
How to Enter
Your entry must be submitted to ACEC/CT by November 2, 2020 via email, Dropbox. Do not submit hard copies. Note: the panel and notebook requirements detailed in the national ACEC application are not required for the ACEC/CT competition. Entries must include the following:
- A Completed ACEC/CT Entry Form.
- The ACEC/CT entry fee.
- A two-page written synopsis in MS Word describing the project, your firm’s role, the role of other consultants participating in the project, your firm’s contribution to the project and how your firm’s contribution meets the judging criteria.
- At least three pictures or graphics of the project in electronic format such as a TIFF or JPEG. (Embedded photos in Word or PDF documents are not acceptable.)
Each participating firm must submit an endorsement/release letter or email from the owner granting permission to enter the project in the ACEC/CT Engineering Excellence Awards Competition.
Each participating firm must submit a Microsoft Excel file listing the key participants in the project. Key participants include owners, design team, contractors, construction managers, and major subcontractors. Information for each key participant should include: organization name, contact person, mailing address, email and phone number.
Entrants are strongly encouraged to participate in a webinar briefing on submission requirements and how projects are judged to be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2020.
An oral presentation of not more than fifteen minutes will be made to the judges’ panel by each participating firm on December 1, 2020. Along with the oral presentation, firms may use a PowerPoint presentation, display boards, slides, videos or photos. CT Award winners will be notified by e-mail on or before December 8, 2020.
The winning firms will be honored at the ACEC/CT Engineering Excellence Awards on a date to be determined.
Winning firms will also be eligible to enter the ACEC National Competition and must submit their entry by January 8, 2021.
How Projects are Judged
Projects will be judged by the following factors: Meeting or exceeding the client’s needs (40%), Social, economic or sustainable design considerations (25%), Originality (25%) and Complexity (10%).
ACEC-CT Engineering Excellence Awards Timetable
- Submit Entry form – by November 2, 2020
- EEA Submitters Webinar – November 10, 2020
- Oral Presentations – December 1, 2020
- ACEC/CT Engineering Excellence Awards Dinner – TBD
ACEC National Engineering Excellence Awards Timetable
- Deadline to ACEC – January 8, 2021
- ACEC National Judging – February 19-21, 2021
- ACEC Awards Gala, Washington, DC – April 27, 2021
We recommend that participants begin selecting their entries as soon as possible. Our Executive Directors, Tricia Dinneen Priebe or Lisa Winkler, will be happy to answer questions about submitting your firm’s entry.
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