Review Category : Spotlight

Leslie E. Robertson Associates was an Award Winner for its Lotte World Tower project in the 2016 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Program in the Category – New Buildings over $100M.

At 1,820 feet (555 meters) tall, the 123-story Lotte World Tower stands as the first supertall building in South Korea, more than 1.8 times taller than the previous tallest building (located in the nearby city of Incheon). The building topped out in December 2015 and the tower’s mast, dubbed the “Lantern,” was complete in March 2016.

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NAST Enterprises Corp. was an Outstanding Award Winner for its Pterodactyl project in the 2016 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Program in the Category – New Buildings under $10M.

The “Pterodactyl” is a uniquely engineered office building, conceived for an advertising agency, constructed above a previously designed four-story parking garage structure in Culver City, Los Angeles.

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Performance-Based Design of the New Air Traffic Control Tower

Walter P Moore was an Outstanding Award Winner for its Air Traffic Control Tower and Integrated Facilities Building project in the 2016 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Program in the Category – New Buildings over $100M.

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HNTB Corporation was an Outstanding Award Winner for its South Park Bascule Bridge Replacement in the 2015 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards Program in the Category – New Bridges and Transportation Structures.

When HNTB designed the new first-of-its-kind South Park Bridge in Seattle, the goal was to make the structure something that would provide excellent service to area residents and make them proud.

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DeSimone Consulting Engineers was an Outstanding Award Winner for the Grove at Grand Bay project in the 2015 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards program (Category – New Buildings over $100M).

Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Grove at Grand Bay, the first truly twisting buildings in the United States, will be an iconic residential project located at the former site of the Grand Bay Hotel in Miami.

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Morabito Consultants, Inc. was an Outstanding Award Winner for Dolphin Towers Condominium – Remediation project in the 2015 NCSEA Annual Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards program (Category – Forensics/Renovation/Retrofit/Rehabilitation Structures under $20M).

On June 24, 2010, the residents of the Dolphin Towers, a 12-story residential condominium constructed over a 3-story parking garage in Sarasota, FL, heard a large BANG.

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