ACEC Awards

The Engineering Excellence Awards are presented annually by ACEC Indiana to recognize engineering achievements, which demonstrate the highest degree of merit and ingenuity, by Indiana consulting engineering firms.

• HWC was a 2006 Honor Award recipient for the Lebanon Municipal Building subterranean stormwater retention system. The City of Lebanon challenged HWC to come up with an urban stormwater retention solution to meet or exceed the emerging regulatory requirements. HWC proposed and designed a subterranean stormwater retention system which permitted the City to complete the construction of their new municipal building, meet regulatory requirements and avoid the unscheduled replacement of over a mile's worth of the 60 year storm sewer serving five acres of neighborhood around the new municipal building.
  
  
• HWC was a 2006 Merit Award Winner for our work on the Michigan Road WWTF for the Clay Township Regional Waste District. HWC worked with Clay Township to achieve a 150% capacity plant expansion utilizing Vertical Loop Reactor technology.
  
  
• HWC received an 2007 Honor Award in the Water and Wastewater category for the City of Jasonville Wastewater System Improvements. Michael Cline along with Troy Fougerousse from the City of Jasonville accept the award at the banquet held in Indianapolis in March. HWC was also a National Finalist in ACEC's 2007 Engineering Excellence Awards program. A gala dinner to honor the EEA winners was held on May 8 in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• HWC was a 2008 Merit Award for its sustainable design-build renovation of Central Indiana Power’s headquarters building and campus, located at 2243 East Main Street (US 40) in Greenfield Indiana. HWC undertook the design component of this design-build project.  Partnering with Garmong Construction Services and the Owner’s technology vendor – ESCO Communications, HWC formed a project management team that oversaw each step of the design-build project from preliminary planning and schematic design to the building’s rededication event on October 25. 2007.