Monthly Meetings
ACEC NM offers monthly meetings with interesting speakers and topics.  These meetings provide networking opportunities, key industry information, and business development opportunities.  Meetings include:

• January 26, 2010 - Announcement of ACEC New Mexico Engineering Excellence Awards Winners
• November 17, 2009 - October's Special Legislative Session - Representative Larry Larranaga
• October 27, 2009 - Quality New Mexico - Julia Gabaldon, President and CEO, Quality New Mexico
• September 29, 2009 - Legislative Issues Important to Our Industry - Representative Larry Larranaga and Sustainability Initiatives and Requirements for Funding, Richard Rose, Bureau Chief, NMED Construction Programs Bureau
• August 25, 2009 - Intel: What's Going on Locally and Internationally - Jami Grindatto, Intel
• July 28, 2009 - City of Albuquerque Stormwater Quality - Roland Penttila, City of Albuquerque
• June 23, 2009 - Tax Increment Development Districts (TIDDs) - Michael Kelly, Q10 Realty Mortgage and Investment Company, and Trent Stafford, Hunt Development Company
• May 19, 2009 - What's Going On with UNM Football - Mike Locksley, UNM Lobo Head Football Coach

Engineering Excellence Awards
The Engineering Excellence Awards (EEA) are presented annually by ACEC NM to recognize engineering achievements and demonstrate the highest degree of merit and ingenuity. The awards pay tribute to New Mexico’s most prestigious and distinguished engineering projects.

Entries are judged on:

• Original or Innovative Application of New or Existing Techniques
• Future Value to the Engineering Profession and Perception by the Public
• Social, Economic, and Sustainable Design Considerations
• Complexity
• Exceeding Client/Owner Needs

Awards include:

• Grand Conceptor
• Large Firm
• Small Firm
• Studies, Research, and Consulting (Category A)
• Building/Technology Systems (Category B)
• Structural Systems (Category C)
• Surveying and Mapping Technology (Category D)
• Environmental (Category E)
• Water and Wastewater (Category F)
• Water Resources (Category G)
• Transportation (Category H)
• Special Projects (Category I)
• Small Projects (Category J
• Energy (Category K)

Entries are judged on the basis of total engineering excellence. The judges may select as many awards as they deem appropriate. Entries will be judged on the basis of the work performed by the submitting firm alone and according to the rating guidelines listed in the Call for Entries packet. Grand Conceptor, Large Firm, Small Firm, and Category Winners will be awarded at the judges’ discretion. Honorable Mention and Special Project Awards may be presented to other selected entries of superior quality. There is no specific number of awards given.

ACEC NM member awards recognize individuals and member firms that make a difference in our community through their leadership, commitment, accomplishments, and support to ACEC NM. Member awards include:

• Professional Leadership Award – Recognizes an individual ACEC NM member for his/her accomplishments in a professional organization other than ACEC.

• Individual Community Service Award – Recognizes an individual ACEC NM member for his/her accomplishments in community service.

• Member Firm Community Service Award – Recognizes an individual ACEC NM member firm for its accomplishments in community service.

• Industry Advocate Award – Recognizes an individual for his/her accomplishments in advocating, enhancing, or promoting the engineering profession. Nominees are outstanding individuals who are perceived as leaders by our industry, the general public, the news media, the state legislature, or our educational institutions. This award is intended to recognize an individual’s actions or activities that have very positive results on our industry. These actions or activities could be legislation friendly to the business of engineering, news articles and feature stories with a positive spin on the engineering profession, new educational programs to attract young professionals to our industry, or other activities that enhance or promote our industry.

• Industry Partner Award – Recognizes an organization or company (that is not an engineering professional organization or company) for their accomplishments in partnering, working with, and supporting engineering companies and professional societies. Nominees are an outstanding organization or company who are perceived as leaders by our industry.

All awards are recognized and celebrated at the ACEC NM Annual Engineering Excellence Awards Gala in April of each year.  This year's event will be on April 16, 2010.  This annual event is attended by member firms, their staff, their clients, and peer groups. All awards are also recognized throughout the year in ACEC NM promotions and written materials. EEA project display panels will be on display during the awards banquet and displayed at other events throughout the year.  Sponsorship opportunities are now available for the 2010 Gala.  Please click here, for more information.

National EEA submittals are due by January 8, 2010.  For the national submittal packet, click here.

ACEC NM 2010 Engineering Excellence Awards winners will be announced at the ACEC NM January 26th meeting at the Courtyard Marriott in Journal Center. 

McGraw Hill Construction Southwest Contractor Magazine Best Of Awards
Each year McGraw Hill Construction Southwest Contractor holds a competition for construction projects in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. Categories include Best “Green” Project, Best Concrete, Best Engineering, etc. Winners are selected based on innovation, contribution to the community, teamwork, and overall excellence.

Winners are featured in the December issue of Southwest Contractor and are honored at awards banquets held in December. Some winners will also be eligible to compete in McGraw Hill Construction’s National Best Of Awards. The national winners are revealed early each year in Engineering News-Record (ENR), all 11 McGraw-Hill Regional Publications, and Constructor Magazine.

McGraw Hill Construction Southwest Contractor, ACEC NM, and SMPS NM co-host the annual New Mexico Best Of Awards ceremony.  This year's event was held on Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at the Marriott Pyramid in Journal Center.

For more info, call ACEC NM at (505) 888-6161 or ACECNM@ACECNM.org or Scott Blair, Regional Senior Editor of Southwest Contractor, at (480) 656-7615 or scott_blair@mcgraw-hill.com.

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