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GRAND AWARD: HDR | Children’s Hospital Hubbard Center for Children Client: Children’s Hospital & Medical Center HDR has been named the ACEC-Nebraska Engineering Excellence Award (EEA) Grand Award winner for 2022. The Children’s Hospital and Medical Center is a regional pediatric hospital in Omaha, NE. The new Hubbard Center for Children doubles the programmable space […]

Steve D. Kathol, president and CEO of Schemmer, is this year’s recipient of the Charles Durham Achievement Award given by ACEC Nebraska. The award honors Charles Durham’s leadership in the engineering profession and his community stewardship through civic involvement. Durham served as chairman and CEO of Henningson, Durham and Richardson (HDR), the Omaha-based international engineering […]

Erica (Sunny) Mullen, PE of Alfred Benesch & Company (Benesch), has been named the 2022 Young Professional of the Year by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Nebraska. Mullen, a professional engineer and project manager on Benesch’s engineering team, started as a student intern in 2010. She earned her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering […]

Brittni Yates, a professional engineer with Olsson, has been named the 2021 Young Professional of the Year by the American Council of Engineering Companies of Nebraska. Yates, a technical leader on Olsson’s Nebraska Water/Wastewater team, earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in environmental engineering from South Dakota State University. She […]

HDR Global Headquarters has been named the ACEC-Nebraska Engineering Excellence Award (EEA) Grand Award winner for 2020. Headquartered in Omaha since 1917, global design firm HDR sought a new headquarters building that reflected the talents and skills of its architects, engineers, and planners. HDR partnered with owner Noddle Companies to design a 10-story, 240,000-square-foot multi-use […]

The ACEC Board of Directors is honored to announce that the recipient of the Charles Durham Achievement Award this year is John S. Olsson, Executive Vice President of Olsson Inc. As EVP for consulting services, Olsson works with teams throughout the firm to identity and prioritize large public sector clients and projects, and works with […]

The ACEC Board of Directors is honored to announce two recipients of the 2020 Young Professional of the Year Award: Josh Palik and Rob Vanderveen. Rob Vanderveen Rob Vanderveen, a professional engineer with Lamp Rynearson, has been selected as the 2020 Young Professional of the Year by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC NE). […]

Below you will find the 2020 E-Week supplements available to download as a pdf file. Congratulations to all this year’s winners! Omaha World-Herald, Special Section, National Engineers Week – February 16, 2020 Midlands Business Journal, 2020 Engineering Excellence Awards – February 14, 2020    

https://ea.nebraska.gov/sites/ea.nebraska.gov/files/doc/nbea-newsletter-fall-2019.pdf

The ACEC Board of Directors is honored to present the 2019 Charles Durham Award to Dan Thiele, founder and CEO of Thiele Geotech, Inc. The Charles Durham Achievement Award was created to honor Charles Durham’s leadership in the engineering profession and his community stewardship through civic involvement. Durham served as chairman and CEO of Henningson, […]