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Rod Macdonald, chairman of Buro Happold, was named ACE Engineering Ambassador of the Year at ACE’s Annual Engineering Excellence Awards. The ACE Engineering Ambassador Award is given to someone who has made a significant contribution to raising the profile of consultancy and engineering and goes beyond the ordinary.
The judges’ citation said: “They were impressed with the broad scope of this person’s experience and his remarkable role in one of the industry’s major business successes over the years. He has worked around the world on major headline and groundbreaking projects. He is recognised as a leader in the consultancy and engineering field and you will all know his name.”
In a short thank you speech, Rod Macdonald told the audience of over 300 consulting engineers that there is a great opportunity ahead for the sector if they choose to seize it. He gave as an example New Orleans and the warning that engineers gave to the authorities. Those warnings were ignored and the engineers were proved correct. Rod stressed the importance of consulting engineers making a forceful case to clients and stakeholders.
Nelson Ogunshakin, ACE chief executive, said: “I was delighted to present the award to Rod. He has been a fantastic ambassador for ACE, as its chair and supporter, and to the industry in so many ways. Rod has been heavily involved in RedR, he was one of the team of eight who created an incredibly successful company, Buro Happold, and has always shown leadership on key issues.”
The awards were presented by the BBC’s Declan Curry and ACE chair Michelle McDowell gave a short opening speech.
There were eleven award categories covering small and large firms.
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Winners and Runners up List
ACE Engineering Excellence Awards 2010
Building Structures (Small firm) sponsored by Heath Lambert
WINNER - Elemental
Demountable Aluminium Dome
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Doran Consulting
The Library at Queen’s University, Belfast
COMMENDED - BAM Design
Clarion, 29 Wellington Street, Glasgow
Building Structures (Medium firm) sponsored by Heath Lambert
WINNER - BDP
BDP Manchester Studio
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Alan Baxter
St Martin in the Fields Renewal Project
COMMENDED – Cundall
240 Regent Street, London
Building Structures (Large firm) sponsored by Heath Lambert
WINNER - Mott MacDonald
Newcastle City Library
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Parsons Brinckerhoff
Monkseaton High School
COMMENDED - WSP Group
60 Threadneedle Street
Infrastructure (Small firm)
WINNER - Scott White & Hookins
The Design of Retaining Walls at Stratford
HIGHLY COMMENDED - GHA Livigunn
Hodder Service Reservoir
COMMENDED - LECS UK
Padstow Lift
Infrastructure (Medium firm)
WINNER - Hoare Lea
Cabot Circus, Bristol
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Peter Brett
Brooklands Development
COMMENDED - Pick Everard
Scunthorpe STW Sludge Treatment and Renewable Energy Generation
Infrastructure (Large firm)
WINNER - Scott Wilson
Breakwater at Energia Costa Azul LNG Terminal, Mexico
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Capita Symonds
M25 Bell Common Tunnel Refurbishment
COMMENDED - Mott MacDonald
Wing Water Supply Project
Building Services (Small firm)
WINNER - GHA Livigunn
Heysham Nuclear Power Station
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Delap & Waller
Citigroup Office, Titanic Quarter, Belfast
COMMENDED - Beattie Flanigan
Theatre Sat Craigavon Area hospital, Portadown NI
Building Services (Medium firm)
WINNER - Hoare Lea
Warwick Digital Laboratory
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Pick Everard
West Suffolk House
COMMENDED – BDP
Highbury Grove School
Building Services (Large firm)
WINNER - Mott MacDonald Fulcrum – The Darwin Centre Phase 2
HIGHLY COMMENDED – Waterman Group – Watermark Place, London
COMMENDED – AECOM – Lambeth College, London
Research, Studies and Consulting sponsored by Halcrow
WINNER – Cundall
Extending the boundaries of modelling: Impact of site-power failure on Datacentres
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Buro Happold
Vulcan Software
COMMENDED - Pell Frischmann
Dunlop Transcalm Calming Units
Engineering Ambassador of the Year sponsored by ACE
Rod Macdonald – Buro Happold
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