2005 BE Awards of Excellence Gala to Take Place Tonight at Baltimore Convention Center; Crowning Ceremony of BE Conference Will Honor Record Number of Nominees.BALTIMORE -- At this gathering of more than 2,000 attendees, Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that the 2005 BE Awards of Excellence ceremony takes place this evening at the Baltimore Convention Center The Baltimore Convention Center is a convention and exhibition hall located in downtown Baltimore, Maryland. It is managed and operated by the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors Association, a semi-private association started in 1980 by former Baltimore mayor William Donald . These awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world's infrastructure. This year's ceremony will honor a record 204 nominees for awards in 33 categories in the professional portion of the program. Each nomination highlights a project that sets a benchmark for its industry, and showcases the imagination and technical mastery of the organization that created it. An additional 20 nominees will be honored in the academic portion of the program and, all told, more than 190 organizations will be recognized at the ceremony. Final award decisions are being made by an independent jury of accomplished Bentley users and distinguished industry experts. For the first time, the jury is presiding over both the professional awards and the academic awards, which have been fully integrated into the BE Awards program. The academic awards consist of the first annual BE Award for Educator of the Year and the student design competition. The Educator of the Year is selected on the basis of the candidate's educational background, professional experience, innovative contributions to architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) curricula, involvement in and advancement of mentoring programs, professional track record as measured by student performance, research contributions, articles published in peer-reviewed journals, and other major accomplishments in the field of AEC. Alan L. Farkas of Washington-based management consulting firm Farkas Berkowitz & Company is serving as master of ceremonies for this gala evening. The event, which is co-sponsored by McGraw-Hill Construction, publisher of Engineering News-Record, includes introductory remarks by Group Publisher Jay McGraw. BE Award winners will be announced at www.be.org immediately following the ceremony. Projects from the following organizations have been nominated for a 2005 BE Award of Excellence (listed by award category): --Building - AGS Architekten & Planners B.V.; ALH Architects; Arch. Renzo Saldi; Archi + I; Burger Boat Company The Burger Boat Company, of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, is the builder of custom-designed, hand-built motor yachts. Prices of new Burger Yachts range from $3.5 million to over $10 million. The company is notable for its innovation, longevity, and international distribution. ; CAD-Phil; Capita Percy Thomas; California Department of Transportation The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is a government agency in the U.S. state of California. Its mission is to improve mobility across the state. It manages the state highway system and is actively involved with public transportation systems in California. ; CH2M Hill; Clarke Nicholls & Marcel; DaimlerChrysler AG; Design Center Co Ltd; Dimension Modelling; DP Architects Pte Ltd; Duangrit Bunnag Architect Limited; Dubai Festival City Dubai Festival City (In Arabic: دبي فستيفال سيتي) is a large residential, business and entertainment development in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. ; Fortis Bank; francisdesign ltd; General Motors/Ghafari Associates, LLC; Glaverbel; Greenwich Millennium Village The Greenwich Millennium Village (GMV) is an innovative modern housing estate on an urban village model in south-east London, and part of the Millennium Communities Programme under English Partnerships. Ltd; Gresham, Smith and Partners; Horan Keogan Ryan; Itten+Brechbuhl AG; Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates; Lionakis Beaumont Design Group Inc.; Living Tomorrow II; LJB Inc.; LMN Architects; MacCormac Jamieson Prichard; Maeda Corporation; Markland Klaschka Limited; M/E Engineering, P.C.; Morphosis morphosis /mor·pho·sis/ (mor-fo´sis) the process of formation of a part or organ.morphot´ic mor·pho·sis n. pl. Architects; NBBJ; M+W Zander; NSW Department of Commerce; NTDSTICHLER; PLH arkitekter as; Polshek Partnership Architects, LLP; RHWL Architects; Safer Hajek Architekti, s.r.o.; Sheppard Robson; Signum N.V.; SSOE, Inc.; Stanley Bragg Partnership Ltd; Taylor Dawson & Associates Architecture; Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates; U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Lab; VB Architekten; Volkswagen de Mexico; and Whitbybird --Civil - Arup; Basler & Hofmann, Consulting Engineers AG; Bechtel; B&R Engineering, Inc.; Burgess & Niple; CADE-IDEPE Consultores en Ingenieria; Carter & Burgess, Inc.; CDI Corporation; CH2M Hill; ERGA OSE OSE - Open Systems Environment S.A.; Dewberry; Greenhorne & O'Mara, Inc.; Federal Highway Administration, Virginia Divison; Grontmij The Netherlands Ltd.; Halcrow; HJ Banks & Company Ltd; Inspec; Institut Gradevinarstva Hrvatske, d.d.; Intercontinental Consultants and Technocrats Pvt. Ltd.; KARICO; LJB Inc.; Lone Star Infrastructure; Martens en Van Oord; MERS UK / WSR Ltd.; McCormick Taylor, Inc.; Michigan Department of Transportation The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) is a government agency in the U.S. state of Michigan. History The first State Highway Department was created on July 1, 1905. ; New York State Department of Transportation; North Carolina Department of Transportation The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is responsible for building, repairing, and operating highways, bridges, and other modes of transportation, including ferries. ; Ministere des Transports Quebec; Oklahoma Department of Transportation; Paulus, Sokolowski & Sartor, LLC; Perunding ZAR Sdn Bhd; Roads and Traffic Authority, NSW; South Carolina Department of Transportation The South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is a Government agency in the U.S. State of South Carolina. Its mission is to build and maintain roads and bridges and administer mass transit services. ; Pennsylvania Department of Transportation The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) oversees transportation issues in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The administrator of PennDOT is the Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation, currently Allen D. Biehler, P.E. ; Scetauroute; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Search Corporation; Utah Department of Transportation; VOF Grontmij De Weger; VicRoads Design; and Washington State Department of Transportation The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), led by a Secretary and overseen by the Governor, is a Washington governmental agency that constructs, maintains, and regulates the use of the state's transportation infrastructure. --Geospatial - AEM Cremona Spa; AEM net S.p.A.; Aero Asahi Corporation; Aguas Andinas S.A.; Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd; Black & Veatch Corporation; BlomInfo A/S; Chemelot B.V.; City of Austin Public Works Department; The City of Calgary; City of Toronto; Concept S.A.; COWI A/S; Gemeente Eindhoven; Gemeente Groningen; Gemeente Maastricht SBF; Guadalupe Valley Telecommunications Cooperative; Hedeselskabet Miljo og Energi A/S, DDH-data; Japan Conservation Engineers; Jesse Co; Kentucky Transportation Cabinet; KeySpan Corporation; Land Design Incorporated; Liber AB; Link America, Inc.; Maroochy Water Services; Maryland State Highway Administration; Moscow Urban Cadastre CADASTRE. A term derived from the French, which has been adopted in Louisiana, and which signifies the official statement of the quantity and value of real property in any district, made for the purpose of justly apportioning the taxes payable on such property. 3 Am. St. Pap. 679; 12 Pet. 428, n. Service; Municipality of Chatham-Kent; OG&E Electric Services; Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council; Port of Brisbane; Programa de Administracion de Tierras de Honduras (PATH); PSEG Fossil LLC; RWE Power Aktiengesellschaft; Sacramento County; Saudi Telecom Co; Slovak Telecom, a.s.; Snam Rete Gas S.p.A.; South Australian Water Corporation; Spatial Engineering, Inc.; Stockholm Vatten AB; Total E&P Nederland B.V.; Urban Planning Office Bydgoszcz; Urzad Marszalkowski Wojewodztwa Dolnoslaskiego; and U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control --Plant - Advanced Production and Loading; Bechtel; CH2M Hill; ENGEVIX Engenharia S/A; Foster Wheeler North America Corp.; Giprokauchuk; Giprotyumenneftegaz; Guangdong Electric Power Design Institute; Hatch Africa (Pty) Ltd; Jordan, Jones & Goulding, Inc.; Hatch; Intergen; Kellogg Brown and Root; KH Engineering b.v.; KOPEC; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.; Monsanto Enviro-Chem Systems, Inc.; MWH; Petrobras Petroleo S.A.; Projen; ProjEx Technologies Ltd.; The Shaw Group; Stanley Consultants, Inc.; TatNIPIneft Institute of OAO Tatneft; Tech4you AS; Total; USFilter Electrocatalytic; VECO; VECO Alaska; Wood Group; WorleyParsons Services Pty Ltd; and York Process Systems --Special - Bayer Technology Services; CDH Partners Inc; Parsons Brinckerhoff; HNTB Corporation; Indiana Department of Transportation The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Indiana charged with maintaining and regulating transportation and transportation related infrastructure such as state owned airports, state highways and state owned canals or railroads, ; Traffic Planning and Design, Inc.; UT-Batelle ORNL; Wisconsin Department of Transportation The Wisconsin Department of Transportation, abbreviated as WisDOT, is a governmental agency of the U.S. state of Wisconsin responsible for planning, building and maintaining the . ; ZENON Environmental Systems --Academic - FH Giessen-Friedberg; Faculty of Architecture, G.M.Cantacuzino; National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (Abbreviation: NUS) is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered. ; Savannah College of Art and Design SCAD enrolls more than 7,000 students from all 50 states and 100 countries. International student enrollment is 10-12 percent. Degree programs include advertising design, animation, architectural history, architecture, art history, arts administration (M.A. ; Shibaura Institute of Technology Notable alumni Others
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