Burns Cooley Dennis gets ACEC-MS award

Burns Cooley Dennis Inc. of Ridgeland, Miss., recently received the 2009 Grand Conceptor Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies-Mississippi for its work on the U.S. 90 over Bay St. Louis Bridge project.

BCD submitted with HNTB Corporation of Kansas City, Mo., and the team received the award, the highest honor given by ACEC-MS, during the annual ACEC-MS Engineering Excellence Awards Banquet held recently at the Old Capital Inn in Jackson, Miss. Since 2000, BCD has received six ACEC-MS Grand Conceptor Awards involving specialized and unique projects.

In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed the vital U.S. 90 Bridge over St. Louis Bay with pounding waves and a storm surge estimated at 28 ft above sea level. The Mississippi Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration, acted quickly to initiate a design-build procurement process for the emergency replacement of this important bridge.

In January 2006, MDOT awarded an emergency design/build contract priced at $267 million to GAW (a joint venture of Granite Construction and Archer Western Contractors) with HNTB; BCD; Reynolds, Smith and Hills, Inc. (RS&H); and CivilTech, Inc. as designers. HNTB provided bridge, geotechnical and roadway design services and construction inspection services; and BCD provided field investigation and geotechnical design assistance services, monitoring of pile driving operations and construction materials testing.

Louisville A/E firm designing hospital in Mississippi

Hart Freeland Roberts (HFR) architects and engineers, Louisville, Ky., has been awarded the contract to design a replacement, 35-bed hospital building for King’s Daughters Hospital in Yazoo City, Miss.

The new, 75,000-sq-ft critical access hospital will be built a few miles from the present facility.

Bob Harrett director of HFR’s Louisville office and architect of record for the Mississippi project, said that HFR has also teamed with the Louisville firm of BCCLT Inc. Consulting Engineers, to provide mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering services

Landscape design is also being provided by a Louisville firm, Verdant Design LLC. Civil engineering for the project will be provided by Williford, Gearhart & Knight Inc. of Clinton, Miss.