ACEC/MA Announces Arup as 2016 winner of Gold Engineering Excellence Award

BOSTON - July 11, 2016 - PRLog -- The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) has named Arup as a winner of their 2016 Gold Engineering Excellence Award for their work on the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Boston.

The 2016 Engineering Excellence Awards were announced at the recent ACEC/MA Engineering Excellence and Awards Gala with emcees MA State Senator Karen Spilka and MA Secretary of Transportation Stephanie Pollack.

Arup received the award for their work on the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Boston. Cambridge MA based Arup worked in collaboration with the Sasaki/ Mecanoo design team to engineer the project. The facility is a part of former Mayor Menino's Dudley Square Vision Project, which sought to revitalize the once-thriving urban neighborhood. Dudley Square is a mass transit hub, rich with culture and history. Using the past to create the future, the facility preserves and incorporates the iconic Ferdinand Building, an emblem of the square's historic commercial vitality. The 215,000 square foot structure is the new headquarters for the Boston Public Schools. It includes a green roof, state-of-the-art office space, retail, civic spaces and community meeting space.

"The winning projects exemplify ingenuity and professionalism and represent the breadth of engineering's contribution to our everyday lives," said ACEC/MA President David Vivilecchia. "They are outstanding examples of how engineers connect communities, provide safe and reliable water and energy, and make our buildings safe and efficient. The professional engineers and their colleagues at our member firms are dedicated to working on quality infrastructure, which wouldn't otherwise exist. These outstanding projects are but a few examples of the quality work designed by Massachusetts and Rhode Island engineering firms.

About ACEC/MA
The American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts (ACEC/MA) is the business association of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island engineering industry, representing over 120 independent engineering companies engaged in the development of transportation, environmental, industrial, and other infrastructure. Founded in 1960 and headquartered in Boston, MA, ACEC/MA is a member organization of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) based in Washington, DC.  ACEC is a national federation of 51 state and regional organizations. For more information on ACEC/MA, visit their website at www.acecma.org. ACEC/MA is undertaking an awareness campaign to educate the public on the many contributions engineers make (or the engineering innovations) in everyday life through their hash tag #EngineeringGoFigure. To Follow us on Twitter:  @ACECMA

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