HDR to Receive 3 Top Engineering Awards at ACEC Ceremony
The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) is recognizing 26 HDR projects this year, showcasing innovative work delivered across diverse markets and regions throughout the United States.
On May 5, three projects will receive Honor Awards at ACEC’s annual Engineering Excellence Awards Gala in Washington, D.C. Selected by a panel of nearly 30 judges from more than 240 entries, these projects represent the highest-caliber achievements in the profession — often likened to the Academy Awards of engineering. An Honor Award places a project among the competition's top tier, exceeded only by the Grand Award and the ultimate Grand Conceptor Award.
HDR's Three Honor Awards
New York City Central Business District Tolling Program implements North America’s first congestion pricing program, solving a decades-old traffic burden, disincentivizing private vehicle use, and encouraging mass transit. With approximately 110 detection points integrated into existing infrastructure, the project uses innovative methods, data processing and machine learning to reduce average daily traffic by 11% while generating more than $550 million in net revenue within the first year.
San Pedro Creek Culture Park transforms a 2.2-mile former concrete channel into a gleaming linear park, seamlessly integrating flood control, water quality improvements, ecological restoration, and cultural celebration. The team overcame near-impossible challenges – constructing in a flood channel, with archaeological evidence of habitation dating back millennia, alongside historic structures, with existing infrastructure, and discovering the foundation for one of San Antonio’s historic African American churches. The $275 million project provides superior flood protection, catalyzes economic revitalization, and strengthens community connections.
SR 520 Montlake Lid and Bridges replaces the seismically vulnerable West Approach Bridge South and reconnects the Montlake community with a landscaped lid and multimodal land bridge over the highway. The team overcame a COVID shutdown, kept traffic moving, and appeased neighbors to deliver the historic project. It allows the structure to remain in service immediately following a 1,000-year earthquake. Following nearly a decade of public input, the $487 million project integrates public transit, prioritizes sustainability, reconnects historic green spaces, and showcases a new approach to transportation.
23 HDR Projects Win National Recognition Awards
- 103rd Street Progressive Design Build – De Soto, Kansas
- 124th Avenue NE Corridor Improvements – Bellevue, Washington
- 30 Crossing – Little Rock, Arkansas
- Blair Water Treatment Expansion – Blair, Nebraska
- Berlin G. Myers Parkway, Phase 3 – Dorchester County, SC
- Central Tri-State Tollway (I-294) over 87th Street/Roberts Road – Hickory Hills, Justice and Bridgeview, IL
- Green Cove Creek Fish Barrier Removal – Olympia, Washington
- Greensboro-Randolph Mega Site – Liberty, North Carolina
- Hood River Bridge Emergency Response and Repair Project – Hood River, Oregon, to White Salmon, Washington
- Kansas City Streetcar Main Street Extension – Kansas City, Missouri
- Monument Place Bridge – Wheeling, West Virginia
- North Main Street Bridge Rehabilitation – Chagrin Falls, Ohio
- Papillion Creek Interceptor Sewer Emergency Repair – Omaha, Nebraska
- Pittsburgh International Airport Terminal Modernization Program – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- PVSC Resiliency Program – Newark, New Jersey
- Rebuild Linen Blocks on Grove Street – Boise, Idaho
- Shaver Road Reconstruction – Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- St. Mary Siphon Replacement – Babb, Montana
- State Route 161 Improvements – Columbus, Ohio
- UNL College of Architecture Phase Two Expansion – Lincoln, Nebraska
- US 50-Blue Mesa Bridge Emergency Repair – Gunnison County, Colorado
- Washington Hydrogen Energy PEIS – Statewide, Washington
- Wheeling Suspension Bridge Lighting Project – Wheeling, West Virginia
About HDR
HDR is a 100% employee-owned professional services firm. Founded over a century ago to bring electricity to a changing world, we are now a global company specializing in architecture, engineering, environmental and construction services. Our success in built and natural environments continues as we collaborate to solve our clients’ and communities’ most complex challenges.
