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 March 5, 2009 --
EnSafe Inc. won its 12th Engineering Excellence award since 1999 in the American Council of Engineering Companies of Tennessee’s 2009 Engineering Excellence competition. ACEC recognized firms for projects demonstrating a high degree of achievement, value, and ingenuity on March 3, 2009, at a ceremony in Franklin, Tennessee.
EnSafe won the competition’s environmental category with its entry for the brownfields remediation of the Smarthouse Way Southern Tract, performed for Main Street Argenta, a nonprofit organization focused on revitalizing the central business district of North Little Rock, Arkansas.
EnSafe and Ops Contracting Services, LLC (OCS), teamed to expedite the remediation of the 5.8-acre Brownfield site using risk-based methods and turnkey construction services. EnSafe and OCS’ negotiations and innovations achieved project closure in record time and reduced originally estimated costs by 48%.
This expedited cleanup paves the way for meeting Main Street Argenta’s goal of enhancing economic revitalization in downtown North Little Rock by drawing residents to a prime location that formerly was an environmental liability.
Brownfields are abandoned or underused industrial and commercial facilities available for reuse but whose redevelopment may be complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. The Main Street Argenta Brownfield cleanup was conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality.
EnSafe has a history of success in the Engineering Excellence competition, including several grand award winners. Previous winning projects include:
- 2008 Engineering Excellence Top Environmental Award for Metal Management: Engineering Revitalization, Nashville, Tennessee
- 2008 Engineering Excellence Top Studies, Research, and Consulting Engineering Award for Wetlands Investigation: A Study in Cost-Avoidance, NAS Pensacola, Florida
- 2007 Engineering Excellence Grand Award for The Binagadi Challenge: Cold War Legacy Site Cleanup, Baku, Azerbaijan
- 2007 Engineering Excellence Top Small Project Award for Cost-Saving In Situ Lagoon Closure, Napoleon, Ohio
- 2006 Engineering Excellence Top Environmental Award for Innovative Remediation of Ferrochromium-Impacted Site, Charleston, South Carolina
- 2005 Engineering Excellence Top Surveying and Mapping Technology Award for GIS Mapping at NSA Mid-South, Millington, Tennessee
- 2005 Engineering Excellence Top Studies, Research and Consulting Engineering Award for Innovative ICP/SPCC Plans for MCB Camp Lejeune and MCAS New River, North Carolina
- 2003 Engineering Excellence Grand Award for 3D Imaging of Karst Bedrock beneath Engineered Structures, Dickson County, Tennessee
- 2002 Engineering Excellence Grand Award for Use of Mine Spoils as an Alternative Capping Material for Sanitary Landfill Closure, Grundy County, Tennessee
- 2000 Engineering Excellence Grand Award for Remediation of Perchlorate Contamination at NWIRP McGregor, Texas
- 1999 Engineering Excellence Top Environmental Award for Innovative Remediation of Stamina Mills NPL Site, Smithfield, Rhode Island
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