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hoNorAwArds Lake Delton and STH A Restoration, Lake Delton, Wis. Mead & Hunt, Inc./MSA Professional Services, Inc. (Joint Venture)—Madison, Wis. Unprecedented rains in June 2008 caused Lake Delton—a 267acre man-made lake and popular Midwest tourist destination—to breach its embankment, drain into the nearby Wisconsin River, and destroy State Trunk Highway A in the process. Within only six months, the lake had been refilled, the highway was rebuilt and tourists were again pouring in. The project team upgraded the embankment to prevent further overtopping, added an 80-foot-long emergency spillway channel to double a nearby dam’s capacity, and rebuilt the vital transportation link—all in time for the 2009 tourist season. AECOM Technology Corp.—Orange, Calif. Feats of engineering design provide shoreside electrical power, or “cold ironing,” to ships at berth in the Port of Long Beach; such advances allow vessels to shut off their auxiliary engines, reducing diesel emissions that cause air pollution. Design innovations include a deep-water platform on 54-inch-diameter steel piles, a pioneering cable management system to safely speed up shore-to-ship connections and state-of-the-art integrated electrical controls. The system is the first in the world for marine oil tankers. Union Station Bicycle Transit Center, Washington, D.C. Parsons—Washington, D.C. An imaginative glass facility in the shape of a bicycle helmet represents a new multimodal safe haven for bicycles outside Washington, D.C.’s commuter-crowded Union Station. Designed to ease congestion from buses, cars, taxis, pedestrians and cyclists sharing the same road space, the 1,700-square-foot “Bikestation” houses 150 bicycle racks, personal lockers, and repair and retail shops. The glass exterior is braced by steel pipe-tied arches. Its eco-friendly design includes solar heating, passive airflow cooling and bio-retentive treatment of runoff waters. Wetland Treatment of Glycol Impaired Runoff, Cheektowaga, N.Y. >> >> 19 >> Port of Long Beach Cold Ironing Project, Long Beach, Calif. >> Urban Engineers of New York, P.C./Jacques Whitford Stantec LTD—Buffalo, N.Y. Innovative wetlands design gives the Buffalo Niagara International Airport an environmentally friendly approach to treating propylene glycol runoff from aircraft deicing. To ensure compliance with federal limits, the wetlands system uses microorganisms to break down the glycol after deicing runoff is collected in aerated gravel beds (the size of football fields) lined with high-density polyethylene and topped with mulch and plants. The system represents one of the first U.S. applications of on-site wetlands treatment of deicing fluids. MAY / JUNE 2010 ENGINEERING INC.

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Engineering Inc. - May/June 2010
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2010 Engineering Excellence Awards
Engineering America’s Recovery: Highlights from 2010 Annual Convention
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Engineering Inc. - May/June 2010