Seymour Freight Depot Preservation Award

Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana has announced that the Seymour Freight Depot will be recognized with a preservation award at their July 18, 2008 annual meeting. The freight station is now the home of the Jackson County Visitor's Center. The historic structure is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is one of the few remaining freight stations in Indiana. It was formally known as the Southern Indiana Railroad Depot, and was constructed by the Southern Indiana Railroad Company in 1890.

The City of Seymour sought HWC’s assistance to find funding to help preserve the building from impending collapse, and then find a new economically viable reuse for this structure. HWC assisted the City and the Jackson County Visitors Center conceptualize and identify funding to undertake the historically sensitive renovation of the old wood-frame structure.

STAR of the Quarter Program Award

The 2007 Third Quarter Indianapolis Department of Public Works MBE/WBE S.T.A.R of the Quarter award was presented to Mike Cline on August 8, 2007.  A firm must be nominated in order to be a candidate for the award. HWC was nominated by Richard Durham of Durham Engineering & Land Surveying.

DPW recognizes a team each quarter that includes a Prime and an MBE or WBE firm. Criteria for the award require that the firms have worked together on a project that met or exceeded the Mayor's goals for MBE/WBE participation and demonstrated the following qualities: 

• Successful completion of a project awarded to the firm(s) by the City of Indianapolis.
• Teaming between Prime, MBE and WBE firms on city projects to meet participation goals.
• Accountability to the Mayor, DPW and the public for the completion of the project.
• Responsibility for mentoring other firms and promoting the goals of the program.

Additionally, firms or teams must meet the following criteria:

Certified by the City of Indianapolis (for MBE and WBE firms)
Participate Regularly in the City's MBE/WBE Program and related activities

From left to right: Alan Bacon, Richard Durham, Michael Cline, and Carlton Ray

ACEC Indiana Engineering Excellence 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 received an 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, 2007 in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• HWC also received a Merit Award in 2008 for its sustainable design-build renovation of Central Indiana Power’s (CIP) headquarters building and campus, located at 2243 East Main Street (US 40) in Greenfield Indiana. CIP, a member of Touchstone Energy, is part of the nation’s electric cooperative family of more than 900 not-for-profit cooperatives providing electricity to over 33,000,000 families and businesses. 
  
  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.

Michael Cline and Troy Fougerousse (City of Jasonville) with their ACEC awards

Michael Cline and Thomas Seng, CEO of Central Indiana Power, with their ACEC awards