Call for Entries

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2024 Engineering Excellence Awards

​Call for Entries

The ACEC-CT Engineering Excellence Awards program offers firms an opportunity to earn national recognition and showcase their talent and expertise.

Eligibility
The competition is open to any firm or individual engaged in the practice of consulting engineering in Connecticut, whether or not the firm or individual is an ACEC/CT member.  Eligible projects (a) must have been built in Connecticut or (b) the majority of the design work must have been performed in Connecticut, although the project may have been built anywhere.

Constructed projects must have been substantially completed and ready for use between November 1, 2021 and October 31, 2023.

Studies must have been publicly disclosed by the client between November 1, 2021 and October 31, 2023.

There is a $500 entry fee for ACEC-CT members entering the state competition; entries from nonmember firms is an  $900 entry fee. The fee for ACEC members who go on to the national competition will pay $1,200, nonmembers will pay $3,600.

How to Enter
Your entry must be submitted to ACEC-CT by October 27, 2023 via email. Do not submit hard copies. Note: the panel and notebook requirements detailed in the national ACEC application are not required for the ACEC-CT competition. Entries must include the following:

1. Completed ACEC-CT Entry Form. Click to download entry form.
2. ACEC-CT entry fee.
3. Two-page written synopsis in MS Word format describing the project, your firm's role, the role of other consultants participating in the project, your firm's contribution to the project and how your firm's contribution meets the judging criteria.
4. Three pictures or graphics of the project in electronic format such as a TIFF or JPEG. (Embedded photos in Word or PDF documents are not acceptable.)
5. Each participating firm must submit an endorsement/release letter or email from the owner granting permission to enter the project in the ACEC-CT Engineering Excellence Awards Competition.
6. Each participating firm must submit a Microsoft Excel file listing the key participants in the project. Key participants include owners, design team, contractors, construction managers, and major subcontractors. Information for each key participant should include: organization name, contact person, mailing address, email and phone number. 

Entrants are strongly encouraged to participate in a webinar briefing on submission requirements and how projects are judged to be held at 3:30 PM, Wednesday, November 1, 2023.
 
An oral presentation of not more than fifteen minutes will be made to the judges’ panel by each participating firm on Wednesday, November 8, 2023. Along with the oral presentation, firms may use a PowerPoint presentation, display boards, slides, videos or photos. 

CT Award winners will be notified by e-mail on or before November 22, 2023.

The winning firms will be honored at the ACEC-CT Engineering Excellence Awards Dinner on January 22, 2024.  Winning firms will also be eligible to enter the ACEC National Competition and must submit their entry by January 5,2024.

How Projects are Judged
Projects will be judged by the following factors: 

• Uniqueness and/or innovative applications of new or existing techniques (20%)
• Future value to the engineering professional and enhanced public awareness/enthusiasm of the role of engineering (20%)
• Social, economic, and sustainable development considerations (20%)
• Complexity (10%)
• Successful fulfillment of client/owner needs including schedule and budget (30%)

ACEC-CT Engineering Excellence Award Timetable

• Submit Entry Form Electronically– October 27, 2023
• EEA Submitters Webinar – November 1, 2023
• Oral Presentations – November 8, 2023
• Award Winners Announced By November 22, 2023
• EEA Awards Dinner – January 22, 2024

ACEC National Engineering Excellence Award Timetable

• Deadline for National ACEC Award – January 5, 2024
• ACEC National Phone Conversations – January 17, 2024
• ACEC National Judging – February 16-18, 2024
• ACEC Awards Gala, Washington, DC – May 15, 2024

We recommend that participants begin selecting their entries as soon as possible.  Our Executive Directors, Tricia Dinneen Priebe or Lisa Winkler, will be happy to answer questions about submitting your firm’s entry.  203-464-3793 or  tricia@grassrootsct.com

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Application

past winners

​“This year’s submissions demonstrated excellent engineering projects completed by your firms and reflected a diversity of project types, clients, and engineering disciplines,” said Rob Yirigian, EEA Committee Chair. “The number of Merit and Engineering Excellence Awards issued by the judges reflects this diversity,” Yirigian concluded.