Architects honored for excellence.Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers/LZA Technology's disaster response management effort in the aftermath of the World Trade Center (WTC WTC World Trade Center, see there ) terrorist attack on September 11,2001 has been recognized with four national awards for excellence in civil engineering. The World Trade Center Disaster Recovery project was recently named a Grand Award recipient during the American Council of Engineering Companies' (ACEC ACEC American Council of Engineering Companies (formerly American Consulting Engineers Council) ACEC American Consulting Engineers Council (now American Council of Engineering Companies) ) 2003 Engineering Excellence Awards held in Washington, D.C. Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers/LZA Technology was also recognized with the coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. Diamond Award from the ACEC New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (formerly New York Association of Consulting Engineers) and the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA OCEA Orange County Employees Association (Santa Ana, California) OCEA Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (ASCE award) OCEA Ormsby County Education Association ) 2003 Award of Merit. The recovery effort was also recognized with a special one-time only 2003 Special Disaster Recovery Award from OCEA, in combination with the Phoenix Project, KCE KCE Konami Computer Entertainment KCE Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre (Brussels, Belgium) KCE Kilogram of Coal Equivalent (energy intensity; also seen as KgCE) Structural Engineers' Pentagon Recovery project. The $700-million, 10-month effort involved managing the search, rescue, demolition, building assessment and structural stabilization activities at the WTC disaster site in lower Manhattan. More than 1.6 millions tons of debris were removed from the site. The recovery program was completed $1 billion under its original cost estimate and four months ahead of its originally estimated schedule. Most importantly, it was carried out safely, without a single major injury among the thousands of recovery workers at the WTC site. The New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Department of Design and Construction hired Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers/LZA Technology to manage all structural engineering operations associated with the WTC effort. Engineers from 23 ACEC New York member firms and dozens of firms from the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY), many of them ACEC New York members as well, participated in the WTC disaster response operations, with engineering crews working on a 24-hour, 7-day-a-week basis. After an initial walkthrough on the afternoon of September 11 with city officials to survey the situation and begin planning for widespread building inspections and on-site engineering operations, senior representatives from TTE/LZAT mobilized more than 30 of the firm's structural engineers by the morning of September 12 and, working with the New [TEXT INCOMPLETE IN ORIGINAL SOURCE.] |
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