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F&H Wins Grand Award for Engineering Excellence
RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 17 – Florence & Hutcheson (F&H) of Raleigh, a national engineering firm focused on designing and strengthening America’s civil infrastructure, received a Grand Award for Engineering Excellence from the American Council of Engineering Companies of North Carolina (ACEC/NC) for their work on the Bryan Boulevard Relocation at Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTIA).
According to Kevin Baker, Assistant Director of the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority (PTAA), the highly complex project was one of the most critical aspects of the airport’s overall expansion to land the giant economic catalyst for the region – the one million square foot, Mid-Atlantic, FedEx Hub.
The design approach included a new ‘Entrance Interchange’ at PTIA incorporating full access between three intersecting roadways logistically providing access for three separate interchanges at one physical location. The interchange has four bridges and 11 different ramp alignments along a new 2.7 mile stretch of Bryan Boulevard. The project took four years to bring to fruition at approximately $52 million. The new roadway will be part of the future I-73 system.
“Accommodating FedEx and overall growth in the Triad required our addition of a third 9,000 foot cargo and passenger runway,” said Baker. “It also required overall improvement of vehicular traffic to and from the airport, and the ability to connect roadways to serve the increased truck and employee traffic to the FedEx Hub.
“Florence & Hutcheson deserves top recognition for their overall design and project coordination performance,” added Baker. “They have been an effective partner on this very complex and challenging project, and an important member of a very large team dedicated to PTIA.”
“Being recognized by ACEC/NC at any level is a great honor,” said Warren Lamb, Executive Vice President and Group Leader of Raleigh Operations. “We are very privileged to be able to work so closely with Kevin Baker and his team, PTIA, and the North Carolina Department of Transportation.”
“Florence & Hutcheson successfully completed the work on an accelerated schedule to ensure that the overall airport construction program remained on schedule,” Baker said. “Their performance in coordinating every detail of the project between multiple stakeholders, particularly PTIA and the North Carolina Department of Transportation, was outstanding.
ACEC/NC annually presents the “Engineering Excellence Awards” to honor and recognize engineering and surveying firms located in North Carolina for projects that demonstrate the highest degree of achievement, value and ingenuity. The annual awards gala was held Nov. 10 at Prestonwood Country Club in Cary, North Carolina.
