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honor awards AC E C 2 0 0 6 EnginEE r i n g Ex C E l l E n C E AwA r d s w
i n n E r s Beartooth Highway Emergency Repair Project, William Beaumont
Hospital South Tower Red Lodge, Mont. Addition, Royal Oak, Mich. HKM
Engineering Inc. Billings, Mont. Harley Ellis Devereaux Southfield, Mich.
s s On May 20, 2005, rain on melting snow triggered massive This project
represents a model for future health care engineer- landslides from an
11,000-foot mountain pass that swept away ing. For the 656,000-square-foot
South Tower Addition, which 13 sections of the Beartooth Highway, a
principal northern replaced Beaumont's original hospital built in 1955,
the project gateway to Yellowstone National Park and heralded by Charles
team utilized unusual fast-track design methods to expedite not Kuralt as
the nation's most beautiful highway. The project team only installation of
mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems, coordinated emergency repairs
using innovative hydraulic and but structural steel and foundation systems
while responding to geotechnical engineering, including dual-runoff
drainage/debris stricter code requirements. The addition provides 432 new
inpa- handling systems; geo-synthetic-reinforced earth walls; relocation
tient beds and features an 18,000-square-foot atrium, accented of the most
vulnerable roadway sections; restoration of a major by a 75-foot, creek;
and North America's tallest debris flow fences. With these 150-ton
skylight improvements, the Beartooth Highway is expected to be safe
ceiling. Further from landslides for the next 100 years. enhancements
include 16 state- of-the-art operat- ing rooms; 10 procedure rooms for
outpatient surgery. Gateway Distributed & Renewable Energy Center, Kona,
Hawaii Lincolne Scott, Inc. Honolulu, Hawaii Hai Van Pass Tunnel,
Hue-Danang, Vietnam s The Louis Berger Group, Inc. Washington, D.C. The
Gateway Center serves as a showcase for the Natural Energy s Laboratory of
Hawaii's 6.5-acre campus. The project team inte- grated elements abundant
at the site cold seawater and solar Vietnam's rapid economic development
created increased traffic energy in designing the facility's electrical
and mechanical sys- volume on National Highway 1, the primary north-south
artery tems. A passive ventilation system, cooled by deep-ocean seawa-
linking Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Hairpin turns, narrow ter, eliminates
the need for ventilation fans. A cold, deep seawater lanes and steep
grades along the highway's 22-kilometer route shallow-root condensation
system provides landscaping irrigation. through Hai Van Pass created an
enormous bottleneck result- And photovoltaic panels extending from the
roof generate more ing in many serious crashes. The project team designed
a new than twice the electrical power required to maintain efficient
two-lane, 6.2-kilometer tunnel with a parallel evacuation tunnel, building
operations. ventilation shaft and cross passages. The project also included
4.3 kilometers of new highway, eight bridges, two toll plazas, a facil- ity
control center and a vehicle maintenance building. 32 ENGINEERING INC. MaY
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