Industry Recognition
Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) has long been recognized in our industry for the contributions we have made to the development of infrastructure projects worldwide. The awards we have won from professional associations in the architect/engineering/construction community are a testament to our emphasis on technical excellence and commitment to not only meeting but exceeding our clients' expectations.
Throughout our history, we have received some of the industry's highest honors. PB has twice won the Grand Conceptor Award, the top honor of the American Council of Engineering Companies, and 11 PB projects have won the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
PB people, too, frequently receive recognition for their achievements from their colleagues in the infrastructure industry. A notable recent example is PB's Technical Director for Tunneling, Jim Monsees, who was named
Tunneller of the Year at the New Civil Engineer (NCE) International Tunnelling Awards 2010 in recognition of his 50-year career in underground engineering. Jim was also the recipient of the
2011 Golden Beaver Award for Engineering from The Beavers, an organization of companies and professionals in engineering and construction.
Some of the awards and honors PB has won recently include the following:
- PB was recognized as Tunnel Design Firm of the Year in the New Civil Engineer International Tunnelling Awards 2010. This award was in recognition of our work on numerous tunnel projects worldwide.
- Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport Expansion and Modernization project won the award for Best International Project at the British Construction Industry Awards.
- The U.S. Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) named PB its 2010 Corporation of the Year. PB also received the Corporate Citizen Award from COMTO in recognition of our ongoing efforts to support diversity.
- The King's Cross Underground Development in London won the Institution of Civil Engineers Major Project of the Year Award.
- PB received the Best Company of Korea award in the area of Korea construction environment technology.
- The Dalby Wastewater Recycling Plant won the Excellence Award for Innovation from the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia-Queensland.
- PB was named Employer of the Year by the Greater New York chapter and the San Diego chapter of Women's Transportation Seminar International.
- The Jacinth-Ambrosia Mineral Sands Mine project received a Program Management Excellence Award at the 2010 South Australian Engineering Excellence Awards. This project also won the Project of the Year Award and Gold Award in Project Management at the Consult Australia Awards for Excellence.
- The Los Angeles Metro Eastside Gold Line received the Underground Construction Association's Project of the Year Award.
- The Ministry of Public Works (MPW) in Kuwait presented the First Kuwait Ring Road team with an award for being the safest MPW contract. The team received this recognition for having zero serious accidents over the four years the project has been under way.
- The Croton Water Treatment Plant Water Conveyance Tunnel in The Bronx, New York, won the Platinum Award in the category of Water Resources in the ACEC-New York Chapter Engineering Excellence Awards.
- PB was ranked first in the category of bridge design firms, second in the category of top road and highway design firms, second in the category of mass transit design firms, and third in the category of storm water design firms in the annual Roads & Bridges magazine Go-To List. The rankings are based on responses from government readers who "select the firms they prefer to work with on the job site."
- Catholic Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, was lauded as one of the Top 12 Projects in South Korea by the organizers of the 2010 International Construction Management Forum.
- The CLEM7 Tunnel in Brisbane, Australia, received a Contractor Excellence Award in the National Infrastructure Awards of Infrastructure Partners Australia.
- PB was the No. 3 firm among the "Top MEP Giants" in Consulting-Specifying Engineer's rankings for 2010. Based on a survey of clients, PB ranked third overall among mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection firms based on $145 million of MEP revenue and $2.1 billion of total revenue in FY 2009.
- New Civil Engineer magazine named the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Replacement Project in Virginia and Maryland one of the Projects of the Decade.
- The Southdown Cogeneration Facility in South Auckland, New Zealand, received a Merit Award in the Innovative Awards of Excellence of the Association of Consulting Engineers New Zealand.
- The Utah Transit Authority's FrontLines program was named Project of the Year by the International Right of Way Association.
- A comprehensive long-range unified plan prepared by PB and undertaken by Gwinnett County, Georgia, received an Excellence in County Planning Award from the County Planning Division of the American Planning Association and the National Association of County Planners.
- The MCGHealth Cancer Center in Augusta, Georgia, received an Award of Merit from the American Institute of Architects, Orlando chapter, in its Awards for Design Excellence competition.
- The Hawaii Department of Transportation Statewide Storm Water Management Program received a PRIDE Award in the public-media relations category from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association.
- The Monkseaton School in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, received a Highly Commended Award in the building structures category from the Association for Consultancy and Engineering.
- The Route 35 Bridge over the Manasquan River in Manasquan, New Jersey, received the Project of the Year Award from the Central New Jersey chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
- The Tysons Corner Urban Design Project in Fairfax County, Virginia, received an Honor Award from the Oregon chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects.