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HDR Earns State 2025 ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards

February 14, 2025

Every year, the chapters of the American Council of Engineering Companies celebrate projects exhibiting the best of the best — the most innovative projects produced by firms in their state. Several HDR projects received 2025 Engineering Excellence Awards. Each state chapter recognizes the winning project teams and clients at local awards ceremonies throughout the fall, winter and spring.

The state-winning projects advanced to the national ACEC Engineering Excellence Awards competition, which culminates with the announcement of winners at a gala on May 20. The gala recognizes the year’s most remarkable engineering achievements and is part of the 2025 ACEC Annual Conference.

HDR's winning projects to date include:

Arizona

Pima Association of Governments Cost Estimating – Honor Award
*Virgin River Bridge No. 1 – Grand Award, Judges Choice Award

California

I-15 /Railroad Canyon Road Interchange Reconstruction – Merit Award
Sepulveda Bridge Widening Project – Merit Award
*Yerba Buena Island I-80/Southgate Road & Interchange – Honor Award

Florida

*I-75 at Colonial Boulevard Design Build – Grand Award

Illinois

*Illinois Department of Transportation Pump Station No. 4 Reconstruction – Special Recognition Award

Iowa

*Southern Iowa Rural Water Association Water Treatment Plant – Honor Award
*TPF-5(372) Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Bridges and Structures – Honor Award

Kansas

*Tomahawk Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility Improvements – Engineering Excellence Award

Massachusetts

Marion Street Pedestrian Bridge – Bronze Award
Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation – Bronze Award
*Worcester Union Station Improvements – Silver Award

Minnesota

Upper Harbor Terminal Interconnection – Honor Award
Hoot Lake Solar – Honor Award
*Mayo Clinic Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Building – Grand Award
*Abbott Northwestern Central Utility Plant – Grand Award

Montana

*I-90 Yellowstone Bridges – Grand Project Award
*Big Sky Resort’s Long Peak Tram Power Line – Honor Award

Nebraska

*Fremont Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvements and Expansion – Honor Award
*Kiewit Luminarium - Honor Award
Omaha Streetcar Utility Mapping and GIS Hub – Merit Award
*Papillion Creek WRRF Biosolids and Energy Improvements, Biogas Conditioning System – Honor Award
*Southern Sarpy Wastewater System – Honor Award
U.S. 275 Scribner to West Point Bypass – Honor Award

New Jersey

The New Valley Hospital – Distinguished Award

New York

Croton Lake Gate House Chlorine Dioxide Treatment System – Silver Award
Hunts Point Interstate Access Improvements – Contract 2 – Silver Award
*Metropolitan Transportation Authority 2025-2044 20-Year Needs Assessment – Diamond Award
Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit 207th Street Yard Flood Mitigation – Platinum Award
West Third Street Pump Station and Sanitary Sewer – Gold Award

Oregon